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CAFT Residential day 2

CAFT Residential day 2

Published: 22 May 2025

Our Secondary residential students and staff report that they’ve had another brilliant day! Here is the update from AHT Lois who is leading the visit…
CAFT - part 2 - day trip

CAFT - part 2 - day trip

Published: 22 May 2025

Today, some of our other secondary students went on a day trip to join day 2 of our residential at the CAFT - Children’s Activity Farm Trust, in Cheshire. Everyone had a lovely day, setting off bright and early to join in the fun…
Secondary Residential - CAFT 2025

Secondary Residential - CAFT 2025

Published: 21 May 2025

Today our students from our secondary department went on their residential trip to the Children’s Activity Farm Trust in Cheshire. They boarded the coach and went off with their luggage, staff and lots of excitement. They will be there for the rest of this week and will be sleeping over - a new experience for many…
Allotment

Allotment

Published: 15 May 2025

S2 have been soaking up the wonderful sunshine when they have been up to Teak St Allotments on St. James Road in Blackburn. The students have been digging up the weeds in the flower beds. They really got stuck into the task. They cleared lots of the weeds from quite a few of beds…
Bikeability with YPS @ Newfield

Bikeability with YPS @ Newfield

Published: 12 May 2025

Today some of our Post 16 students took part in Bikeability, working with staff from BwD YPS (Young People’s Services). They learnt to control a bike and…
Meaningful May

Meaningful May

Published: 05 May 2025

We take wellbeing really seriously in school, and enjoy reflecting on our calendars, to think of ways to make sure we take time to look after our mental health. This month - Meaningful May - has started with lots of lovely weather. Classes have had a joint fun paddling pool session with water fights and lots of splashing. The children had lots of fun and played nicely together…
Science in the Sun

Science in the Sun

Published: 29 April 2025

Today S2 have been learning about science and carrying out science experiments and investigating properties and reactions. They are currently reading George’s Marvellous Medicine in English and their theme is Science Fair so they were mixing the 2 together…
Post 16 Street Food Festival

Post 16 Street Food Festival

Published: 24 April 2025

Today our students in post 16 took part in a street food festival, it was part of their ASDAN qualification. All four classes have spent time learning about different countries in the spring term and they then had to choose a country and make typical food…
Secondary WoW - Branching Out

Secondary WoW - Branching Out

Published: 27 March 2025

The beautiful sunshine saw lots of us venturing out today. as we welcomed Branching Out to school for the Secondary department WOW event. There were lots of activities set up outside from our provider and students had a fantastic time. As you can see from the map, activities were all around the school grounds, ranging from working on a fire pit and…
Exploring Amazing Animals

Exploring Amazing Animals

Published: 26 March 2025

This term, our explorer children have been learning about the wonderful world of amazing animals. We have been exploring animals that live in different habitats including farms, pets, wild animals and arctic animals. As we approach Easter we have started to focus on life cycles and animals that hatch from eggs. Today, for our Wow event we had Emily’s Mini Farm visit our school. This special event gave every explorer child…
Mad Science

Mad Science

Published: 21 March 2025

Today our Primary classes had the opportunity to meet a Scientist and experience some fun experiments up close. Our first sessions focused on energy and motion and lots of fun was had with snakes in a can, pecking woodpeckers and peddling to make the plasma light come on. The children loved…
Life skills in and out of School

Life skills in and out of School

Published: 18 March 2025

Students in TG3 have had another busy week getting up to lots of exciting adventures, working to develop their confidence, independence and lifeskills. They have been out in the sunshine, working on gardening skills and creating ‘fairy houses’ out of natural materials to decorate our trees and provide shelter for insects! They used physical skills and collaboration skills working together to make them, and hang them…
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