1 May

11A look at social interactions

Following on from last week’s session bullying, today we have been looking at “banter” what is it?, Is it socially acceptable? When is “banter” not acceptable?

We discussed as a group what experiences we have of “banter” who do we have “banter” with. We then looked at different scenarios and we…

23 Apr

Our Health Assesment in 11A

Year 11 were visited by Crystal and Julie to tell us all about our annual health check and what we might expect when we go. Firstly they talked to us about what a health check is, who would be there, and that we are ok to say if we don’t understand something that a nurse or doctor asks us or tells…

4 Apr

Visit to Bosch

BOSCH Workplace Visit

 

Last week 6 of our key stage 4 children went to visit the BOSCH facilities in Liverpool at their offices in The Plaza in central Liverpool. All the young people were introduced to lots of people who work there. BOSCH have lots of different departments in the…

27 Mar

11A Picture News

Todays Picture News was all about the coalition movement to help with the war in the Ukraine.

We looked at photographs of our Prime Minister Keir Starmer meeting with President Zelenskyy and we talked about how all 20 countries are coming together to help with the war and hopefully bring…

26 Mar

Sycamore talk about our families

Today we learnt all about each other’s families and houses that we live in. We took turns to talk about our houses and who lives in them. We all enjoyed learning about each other’s families and answering questions about our families. 
Well done Sycamore! 

 

14 Mar

Picture News in 11A

This weeks picture News “Girls can have short hair get over it” 

This week we watched a news video about girls being asked to leave a girls football match because they were accused of being boys because they had short hair. They have started a campaign with the slogan “Girls can have short hair…

28 Feb

7A enjoy their first week back.

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.…

27 Feb

Picture News 11A

In picture News today we were discussing climate change, we looked at a news reel where they were interviewing a lady from the government about what climate change means and how we can help.

We looked at what the impact of climate change is on the weather around the world, watching videos and…

26 Feb

Wonderful Willow have a great week back!!

Willow have had a great first week back and have been super busy!! The learner’s really enjoy our sensory story of ‘The Hungry Catepillar’ pretending to be caterpillar’s then to transform into butterflies. They have completed really good maths work and shown good engagement and their work has…

10 Feb

11A visit Lancaster Castle

On Tuesday we were very excited to go on a visit to Lancaster Castle which concludes our learning of the Pendle Witch trials.

We were very lucky to have a guided tour of the castle, this included the men’s prison and the women’s prison. We had a look inside some of the cells and the guide…

27 Jan

10A - Spring 1 Week 4 - W/B 27.01.25

This week in maths we have continued with working on the four operations, focusing on division Some of us have learnt what sharing is, how to use physical resources to help us share and also how to use factors to divide large numbers by 2-digit numbers! 

In Picture News on Monday, the question…

16 Jan

Picture News in 11A

This week in picture news 11A looked at the wildfires in America, specifically in Los Angeles.

We watched a news reel and some interviews with people who had been evacuated from their homes. We then discussed about what has caused the fires, what help was in place for both the people and the…