9R

We had a lovely afternoon celebrating the Jewish festival of Passover- we watched a power point about this important event in the Jewish Faith.
We learned that the Jewish people had a party which lasted 7 or 8 days.

We learned lots of new words- and were all very interested in the Seder…

9R have spent time this week with their new class team and in their new classroom. All students took it in their stride as they took part in team challenges and games to help them settle in. These included watering the KS4 garden which is no mean feet!!! Students had to problem solve moving water…

9R had a wonderful time at their end of year party today! We had a lovely buffet of crisps and cakes that the learners purchased themselves at ASDA and followed it up with some dancing and some party games like musical statues and musical chairs. After a little boogie we headed outside for some…

Today 9R had their class trip to Blackpool Zoo!

We started our day off bright and early, driving in the mini bus to the zoo and dropping our lunches off in the Darwin Centre. We saw lots of amazing animals as we began to explore the zoo, including lots of different exotic birds and monkeys and…

What a wonderfully time 9R have had this week…

Yesterday we travelled on the mini bus to The Fylde rugby club to take part in a Tag Rugby inter schools competition alongside nine other schools.

What a fabulous fun and very active time we had, the pupils played so well and it was heartwarming…

As part of Personal, Social Development and Life Skills, 9R spent a lesson learning about First Aid and in particular how to place a casualty in the correct recovery position.

Mrs Lea showed the class her First Aid uniform that she wears when doing voluntary work outside of school and then she…

In order to celebrate International Epilepsy Day 9R decided to take part in the 50 million steps challenge by walking around the track on our school field ten times which added up to one full mile. 
 

We all managed to complete the challenge and we all enjoyed the exercise in the fresh air…

This half term 9R have done lots of interesting work looking at the theme of Our World and other cultures.

In particular we have been learning more about the devastation surrounding deforestation and the impact that it is having on animals and other wildlife. We also learnt about palm oil and…

9R had a brilliant  Christmas party day with lots of music, dancing, videos and party games not to mention the yummy food that was provided.

We began by watching  part of the first Harry Potter video with the lights off and the Christmas tree twinkling in the darkness. Popcorn and chocolates…

What a fun and busy week 9R have had during the week, researching facts of interest about the festival of light which is celebrated by Hindus world wide , creating and building bridges and also some pupils got the opportunity to sew beautiful craft squares with a renowned artist, Victoria…

At the start of last week we were told that all the classes would be having a pumpkin competition which caused great excitement amongst the pupils and staff of 9R.

We went outside to choose our very own, extremely large pumpkin, from our Astley Park pumpkin patch and then we spent time…

Last week was a very arty week in 9R as we looked at the seasons and in particular Autumn and all of the beautiful Autumnal colours that we are beginning to see on the trees and bushes around school. 
 

We made some really lovely stained glass backgrounds using coloured paper of various hues…