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This week started with Picture News, where we saw images and videos of a church in Sweden being moved 5km down the road on wheels! We discussed why they had chosen to move it, rather than just knock it down and rebuild, which got us thinking about whether we would like to 'move our house' when we…

Welcome back to 8A.

What a very exciting week it has been. On Tuesday everyone came back into school very excited to start a new academic year.

8A started off their week with Picture news, this talked about different flags.  Everybody had to design a flag to represent themselves, their…

Well our last week in 7A!!!!

This week 7A have been reminiscing about their year.

They have all remembered some fantastic things they have done during the year, especially Residential at Bendrigg Lodge! 

This week 7A have throughly enjoyed making a memory book of all the things they did,…

7A have had a busy time in the run up to Easter.

We have continued to practice our music skills in My Creativity, playing along to Three little birds’ on the xylophone and recorders. We have really enjoyed this and have mastered playing and singing all together.

Mr Welsh joined us for lunch…

It’s Careers week In KS4! The learners have lots to look forward to and lots of different people coming into speak to them about their next steps. 

On Monday, a lady from Runshaw College visited our school to provide us with  information about the college experience. She spoke in detail…

Welcome back!

7A have settled back into school life exceptionally well after the holidays.

On Monday, they got back into their swimming lessons at Hindley swimming pool. 

In music, in the afternoon, Miss Troughton introduced us to a new song, ‘Three little birds’ by Bob Marley.…

On Monday Miss Troughton delivered Our Creativity lesson with the theme ‘Seaside’. This week we copied a picture by drawing it, then colouring it in. After this we got different materials and used glue to stick it to our pictures.

This week is Children’s Mental Health week.

Children's Mental…

On Monday in Our creativity we made colourful jellyfish which we got to take home. We enjoyed cutting tissue paper and sticking it all together then making the dangly tentacles. They looked great.

In PHSE this week we looked at how we look after ourselves. An in depth conversation began about…

The last couple of weeks have been go, go, go! 

Picture news last week was about  that UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stated that building new homes is a 'top priority' and the government has announced changes to planning rules, to make housebuilding in the countryside easier.
We discussed…

Happy New Year and welcome back.

7A have settled back into school life very well this week and what a cold week it has been. 7A have been wrapped up this week enjoying playing in the snow.

During our Nuture Time everyone showed fantastic school values using Teamwork to work together on…

Today 11A have been exploring picture news. Today’s story was about Karis Musongole a 10year old girl from Manchester who has been starring in the new film Wicked. We watched a news reel showing interviews with the stars of the film and we discussed can everyone be a star.

We discussed what…

That’s it folks, last week of school in 2024 and boy has it been busy!!!

On Monday our learners performed twice in our Astley Park’s got Talent show. Everyone had a great time and we hope you agree that they all did an amazing job!!!! Well done 7A.

On Tuesday we had our community visit to…