Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

This week we have continued out Horrible Histories topic. Some of us visited the library to see what information we could find about the Iron Age. We looked at the different foods they ate, the clothes they wore and what sort of houses they lived in. It was very different to the way we live now.…

This week we re-visited one of our favourite trips ‘Boulder UK’ 

We were re-united with our instructors Megan and Josh and it was amazing how much of the rules we had remembered. In no time at all we were off up the walls, we all had a great time and we spent much of the day reminiscing our…

WOW, what a busy week this week has been…

Our learners have done some great work this week, and have tried their best in all they have done! 
We have spoken about our weekend news, looking at what each of our friends and staff have been up to over the weekend. Followed by picture news.
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Day three at Bendrigg

Well, it’s our last day of making amazing memories at Bendrigg and what a fantastic time we have had. 

Another yummy breakfast of cereal, fruit, toast, croissants and pancakes.

For a lot of our Year 7s it’s been their first time away from people they…

As we have been doing all our couch to 5k training and finding some days really difficult we thought we could all do with a reminder and some inspiration to keep our training going.

Today we learnt about what is Cancer, how this affects peoples lives and then we watched a video all about…

After a comfortable first night away, 7A were up and dressed before 7am and ready for our first breakfast of the day! We helped ourselves to toast and cereal to start our day. Then we were treated to cooked items later on in the morning to give us plenty of energy for the day’s…

Day two at Bendrigg.

The day started for some of us at 6 am and others a little earlier !

We then all went for a lovely breakfast of toast, cereal, fruit, cups of tea, hash browns and pork or vegetarian sausages. 

After this we got ready for our first activity of the day,…

Year 7 have had a fantastic start to our stay at Bendrigg. The fun began back in sunny Chorley when we realised that our coach had rows of 3 seats together, like a plane! We had a smooth journey up to Bendrigg, and there was lots of excited chatter on the coach. When we arrived we were…

Day one at Bendrigg.

Wednesday morning, the learners came in very very excited. We tried to keep it as normal as possible. We had lots of visitors coming in , wishes us all a good time. Mr Welsh even came onto our coach and gave us all a high five. 

They were amazing in the coach and we…

What a fantastic sporty week we’ve had in Oak Class!

During the week we have had lots of fun enjoying a variety of different sports and activities.

Oak class have enjoyed bikes, cosmic kids yoga, dance, bowling, sensory circuits, boccia, balloon tennis, bouncy castles, soft play,…

Monday morning started with our usual maths and picture news. The learners had to write a diary entry about a shipwreck that they had survived. They had to describe what had happened and also how they might have felt. In the afternoon we had the class computers and learnt how to log on, sign in…

9A have been learning all about the Egyptians in ‘The World About Me’ lessons. To help with our learning we visited The World Museum in Liverpool. There we learned all about life in ancient Egypt. We saw lots of different things from ancient Egyptian including some mummies.

Whilst there we had…