Blog Author: Mrs Devlin

Today 8R looked at internet safety. Our class digital leader lead a session about creating our own avatar. This was to show how easy it was to pretend to be someone else on the internet. I wonder who can guess who's avatar belongs to who in our class? We looked at how we can keep ourselves safe on…

Today, as part of Children's Mental Health we, we decided to go to the park and release some endorphins. We had lots of fun and all came away happy, laughing and feeling so much better. Some of us weren't too keen on the walk there but once there everybody has lots of fun. Even Mrs Devlin braved…

Today in class we discussed World Mental Health week. We talked about the things we do to keep ourselves calm and happy. We all had lots of different things that we did to help us. We then used the i pads to draw some artwork to show this. See the link attached to see our fantastic pieces of…

Today Lewis turned 13. He brought in a Nuzzle and Scratch cake to share with his friends. The all sang happy birthday to him and enjoyed watching the sparkling candles. Then they all enjoyed a piece of the delicious cake. Happy birthday Lewis.

In class yesterday we had a story all about "Getting On and Falling Out" Some of us were able to role play the characters. We had great fun but also listened to some great advice on how to be a good and kind friend to each other. We have been given an envelope each with friendship tokens in them…

In class last week we have been looking at Christianity. Miss Heaton has been teaching us all about what happens at a baptism and awedding in a church. We were able to role play a wedding out wearing Mrs Devlin's very old wedding dress and veil. We completed some worksheets to show how much we had…

On Friday in class we celebrated Sam's 13th birthday. We sang to him and gave him a card before we all enjoyed some of the caterpillar cake. He took the leftover cake home to share with his mum. He has invited us to a party at Energi Trampoline centre in Preston on Saturday.

Today 8R have been learning about Harvest Festival during World Religion Week. Mrs Clarke hid lots of food around the class and we had to find it and build our own Harvest Basket. Some of us got to taste different foods and say what we thought of them. Some of us worked on our fine motor skills…

This week in school we are celebrating World Religion Week. 8R have been asked to learn about Christianity so today we talked about different churches and the stained glass windows. We then spent the afternoon making our own stained glass windows. Some of us followed a template and some of us…

Today was Tyler's 13th birthday, we put some banners up in class to surprise him. This afternoon we had birthday cake and sang Happy birthday to him. Tyler took the leftover cake home to share with his family.

Today we have been busy creating some artwork to enter a competition at The Chorley Surgery. We had previously worked on a plan but today was the final product. The artwork has to be based around Positive Health and Wellbeing. Some of us made adjustments to our original plans and added lots more…

On Wednesday we were going to go to Asda to drop  the food bank donation hamper but due to unforeseen circumstances we weren't able to go. We sorted through all the donations to check that all the sell by dates were ok. We were treated to some snacks and drinks in class as we missed the cafe…