The pupils in Birch today were learning about Consent and different scenarios they may be in to give their consent or not and what would be the best action to enable them to feel safe. Dylan and Brady are demonstrating when someone does not want to play with the other but they insist and continue…
During Math’s today Birch class worked outside in the sunshine and done some active learning using positional vocabulary up on the MUGA. The pupils were in small groups and decided between them who was an instructor and the others had to listen and follow the instructions to navigate around the area avoiding any obstacles using …
As part of the Vocational studies qualification, some of our year 11s had to demonstrate their new skills of being able to assemble fishing equipment safely, cast correctly & land a fish. This was our second visit to Derwent Reservoir and just like last week, we all had a reel-y good time. All of the…
Beech class visited Tesco as part of some amazing maths work to calculate quantities needed to make cupcakes. The children walked all the way there on a very hot morning, showing brilliant road safety. Once inside Tesco, they worked as a team to use the shopping list and to use the self checkout at the…
The pupils have been working extremely hard designing and creating a pizza oven this term for the whole school to use, the vision being to start a small enterprise in the vocational department. Pupils have used their knowledge and applied their new skills acquired from their bricklaying course and applying them into constructing and making…
Year 10 art students used online software ‘Photopea’ to create reflection patterns as a response to the famous artist and pattern designer William Morris. Each pattern is based on a natural image, see if you can spot the animal, bird or plant. They are absolutely amazing!
Year 11 had a fantastic day at the beach for their leaver’s trip! We explored the arcade and one student was very happy with their Baby Yoda stuffed toy! We enjoyed fish and chips in the park, played football and had ice creams/slushes. Year 11 were a credit to our school today and we are…
Today the Children in Rowan class made a very special phone call to a land far far away. They were very lucky to be able to speak to Jack from Jack in the Beanstalk. Jack very kindly slotted us into his busy schedule and spent time answering our questions about the Giant he encountered…
7V have been learning about different types of sculpture including abstract, figurative, relief, kinetic and today land art. They learned about the artist Andy Goldsworthy and created their own circular responses using found materials in our outdoor area. It was fantastic to see their designs evolving and growing as they made their own creative decisions…