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Today our Digital Leaders became teachers. They delivered an online safety lesson to their class peers. 
 

The message was to disguise their identity when online by creating an avatar. They discussed what sort of information is safe to display on social media profiles and offered suggestions…

9G have been very busy today for Safer Internet Day. Our super digital leader gave us some fun tasks to complete today. First we read an adaption of Goldilocks and how she used social media, highlighting how to stay safe online. We then watched a clip that told us how using a digital avatar can…

9G have been very busy today and made our own pizzas which we enjoyed eating at snack time. We had to work in our pairs and follow the instructions to make them. First we had to spread passata over our pizza base. Then we worked together sprinkling cheese on our pizzas and chopping peppers to put…

This week Willow learnt all about how we can stay safe on different games and websites when we are on our computers and iPads! 
We discussed what information we could share on the internet (e.g. a cartoon avatar and code name on a game) and what information we only tell friends and family. We…

10G took part in lots of activities for Internet safety day. We have been looking at stranger danger and why we use avatars on social media and gaming sites. Students played a game called "Be an Internet Legend" (available on Google) to understand what an avatar is. We watched a cartoon to think…

Last Thursday was our first history day of the year and all primary phase classes learnt about the Victorians.

Willow class learnt all about what it was like to be a child in the Victorian era, looking at Victorian schools and workhouses for children. The children loved learning about all the…

Day 4! What an amazing Day!

After another lovely breakfast we met with Nick at the bus in our waterpoof gear as we were going ghyll scrambling! We drove up into Whinlatter Forest again and drove down to where the stream was. On our way we were very lucky as we saw some Alpacas! We made sure we…

Barf group woke up and had another lovely breakfast at Calvert on Day 3! 

We met with Nick and the bus and found out that we were going canoeing! We were very excited, however some of us were a little nervous. It was a great day for it as the weather was a little sunny and calm! We got all of…

What a week we had at Calvert Trust!

When we arrived at Calvert, had put our suitcases in our rooms and unpacked a bit we went and found out about our groups for the week. We were part of the Barf group which was lead by Miss Hendy, Miss Beck and Mrs Worthington. Our group leader was called…

9G had a lovely end of half term treat at ‘The Astley’ today. They did some fantastic colouring and word search's whilst we all waited for our food. We then had our delicious meals. We got to choose from mash or chips and had either pizza, sausages or chicken nuggets with vegetables and had juice.…

Year 7 and Year 10 visited Calvert trust last week for a 5 day stay. We took part in activities that developed confidence and team building skills and...what a fantastic week we all had!!!

Please have a look at the photos to see some of the amazing activities that your students took part…

8G took part in their first History themed day on Thursday, and what a fun day it was!

We put our fine motor skills to practice by covering our initials with mosaic stickers.

We used Lego to recreate the city of Pompeii that Mrs England had read us a story about on Tuesday.

We made our…