Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

11A had a brilliant time on Tuesday this week. We were only a very small group as 5 young people were off on transition days to college. We arrived and headed straight over to the splash park where the lady was waiting for us to open up. The weather was dry (not the warmest) which was all we could…

On Monday in maths we worked really hard and did some great problem solving. We also had a look at picture news and talked about the pros and cons of self driving taxis. Not many of us were keen on the idea of getting into a taxi without a driver. In the afternoon we practiced more computer skills…

What a great week in 8P, this week!!
 

What a lovely start to the week, hearing about all of our friends and staff members busy weekends. Looking through the photos and seeing what everyone has been up to. The learners have explained to their friends what they have been up to, and who with.…

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…