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Happy New Year everyone!

8A have had a fantastic start to the new year. We thought you might like to know all about our new theme, "Our Planet" and what we will be learning about this term. 

My Communication

In My Communication this half term, Mrs Crouch will be helping us to write some…

Wow we have had another fun filled day in 8A! This morning we were visited by some alpacas and then we enjoyed a festive games afternoon. We played a snowman beetle run, Christmas bingo, Christmas charades and pin the nose on Rudolph. We all took turns and had lots of fun. 

Tomorrow we have…

Friendship Fun in 10G 

Today we focused on one of our school values - Kindness.

At breaktime Miss Linde had her kindness spotters out and was looking for those learners in 10G that are kind to their friends by playing with them, including them and having fun with them. 

We played lots of…

 

What a lovely day to go down to the park. Alex and Mason had the big responsibility of getting us all to Astley Park and back safely.  They took it in turned to stop at the curb, look for traffic and then make the big desion if it was safe to cross the road. Well done, you got us all to the…

As a school community we have been examining our whole school values and deciding which we feel are most important to us. 
All stakeholders have been involved with the learners at the heart of the process.

In 10G we explored what values mean and delved deeper into understanding five values. We…

Today 11G have been learning all about what jeans for genes day is, why we celebrate it and we learnt some facts another different genetic conditions. We learnt that the money we contributed went to help support children and families with different genetic conditions. We all designed our…

The power boat was ace!!! - the students got a chance to go really fast up and down the reservoir last night, before making their lunches in readiness for the trek up to the Pike today. The students showed incredible team work to ensure that one of our number that uses a wheelchair was able to…

We were worried that the weather was going to be wet but the sun shone and the students had a fantastic time, showing their head for heights. It was great to see them putting mind over matter as they scaled the tree climb and held their nerve balancing on the crate stack. After a lovely lunch, we…

What a fantastic first day!! We arrived at the Anderton Centre at 1pm, checked in and most importantly, made up our own beds. It was great to see the students helping each other with this. Next we had a walk around the centre so we have a good idea as to where everything is; we met our visit…

11G have had a great first week back. They have all thoroughly enjoyed being back together and have enjoyed playing new games with one another. They have been on the climbing frame, been on a scavenger hunt, practised their reading skills, practised meditating, worked on their maths skills…

This week we have enjoyed our last week together.

On Wednesday we went to Astley Park and spent some time on the park equipment - Mrs Clarke went down the slide and Miss Zara had a go in the zip wire.  It was great to be out in the sunshine spending quality time with our friends.

We walked…

10G had a fantastic time on Wednesday afternoon. The instructors discussed with us how to stay safe on the water whilst canoeing and we got dressed into the safety clothes to ensure we would be okay whilst on the water. We helped one another to put the canoes in the water and got the chance to go…