Blog by Tag: 10R Class

Today we had a very special visitor in class as part of our ASDAN unit, Parenting Awareness! Mrs Melling came in with her little baby Frankie so we could ask her lots of questions about what being a parent is like and what kind of demands there are when you have a baby. Everyone did some brilliant…

On Monday we looked at Chinese New Year in 10R! We had lots of fun learning about the story of the Jade Emperor and the animals that make up the Chinese zodiac, and we found that in our class we had a mixture of rats and pigs in our class due to the 07/08 birth years. We all had a try of a fortune…

As religious Studies is part of our collapsed options choices, 10R have had lots of fun looking at Judaism this week as part of World Religion Week.  We learnt about the story of Passover; when Moses led the Jewish slaves to freedom from the Egyptians. We looked at how families celebrate this…

It’s Christmas time in 10R and we’ve had a very busy week! This week we’ve been doing lots of different Christmas crafts, including making our own snowman out of pom-poms and making different ornaments for our Christmas trees. We also had our secondary Christmas spectacular that we have been doing…

What a Performance we had on Tuesday! 

The secondary department would like to thank all the parents, family, carers and family friends who came to see our show and also those of you who joined from home via video link. It was a wonderful turn out. 

I am sure you will all join me in…

Today in 10R we were looking at how to stay safe online by keeping ourselves anonymous when we are on the internet. Yesterday we learnt what it meant to copy, modify and alter photos online and how this can affect us, especially when it is done to our photos without our consent. We learnt never to…

Today, 10R had their first Sharing our Learning session! We had the parents come in and we talked all about our trip to Calvert Trust last week. We looked at pictures and explained what we did on each day and about every activity. Everyone said what their favourite activity of the week was and…

10R had a wonderful day at Haydock Races today; but don't worry, there was no gambling involved. 

This was a first for all of our learners, as none of them had ever been to the races before, with not many of them ever seeing a race at all, even on TV. We started our day meeting Toby, an…

Barf group had a very busy first day at Calvert!

We started the morning off with a big cooked breakfast before heading off in the mini van to see some lovely views from the top of a mountain! We then wen5into the forest and learnt some bush craft; we learnt how to light a fire and toasted some…

10R have had a jam packed friendship week this week!

On Monday we went swimming, where we all supported each other and, at the end of the lesson, had a bit of fun swim time where we got to play a splash each other. On Tuesday we started our new topic in maths of time and in the afternoon we…

Today the 'R' classes in KS4 took part in their My Choices Day.  This is a collapsed curriculum day where option subjects are chosen by the pupils and they study their choices based on the theme. This term it is Remembrance Day and the option choices were: History, Geography, Art, Modern Foreign…

10R have a had a busy last week before half-term! We had our food tech lesson on Monday where we learnt to make savoury rice and in our PE lesson on Wednesday we continued our netball lessons and played a big game with the whole class. On Thursday we celebrated Give Racism the Red Card and we…