Blog by Tag: Communication Language and Literacy

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…

Well, what a busy week we have had!!!

We have had lots going on, on Wednesday in Our Creativity we made placemats ready for our Christmas lunch on Thursday. We listened to some nice calming Christmas music to get us all in the spirit of Christmas. In Food Tech we all made a sandwich ready for…

Christmas is fast approaching and everyone in 7A is getting super excited.

This week they have been doing lots of exciting things. In Music on Monday they did some excellent teamwork where one person jumped along the beat track whilst the rest played the beat to their jumps on their chosen…

Another busy week in 7A.

Our food of the week was raspberries…. Everyone really enjoyed them giving a score of 6 out of 5 upwards.

In our ‘The world around me we’ lesson we were learning about solids and liquids, all of 7A could name one of each. We also had some Vimto ice cubes that we knew…