Blog Author: Jessica Walker

KS4W enjoyed their first RE and MFL lesson with Miss Rees today. For RE we learnt about different festivals and what foods are enjoyed within different celebrations. Students discussed some of the foods they liked and disliked, and then shared with classmates the work they produced. 

KS4W students became detectives for the day and had to solve a murder crime in the school! Students took part in different activities looking at our own fingerprints and how they are all different. They collected clues and evidence, and interrogated the suspects. The whole class had a great day…

KS4W enjoyed a trip to West Lancs Diner & Sandy Lane park to celebrate a fantastic year in Key Stage 4. All students chose and paid for their own items and waited to collect their change. Students also got to enjoy some time in the arcades and chose a game each to play on. Afterwards, we made the…

KS4W have been baking some homemade ‘Millies Cookies’ this week in their DT lesson. Students measured out all of the ingredients and followed a visual recipe to make their cookies. They turned out delicious! Well done KS4W.

KS4W have been learning outside of the classroom this week. They went on a walk in the community to visit the park. All students thoroughly enjoyed the trip to the park and showed great use of their Skillsbuilder knowledge using great communication and teamwork skills. Students also showed a great…

KS4 students spent some time caring for the small animals during transition weeks. Students discussed their favourite animals and talked about how we care for them. Matilda, our school therapy dog even got to show off some tricks to earn her treats!

KS4w tested out different ways to make paper aeroplanes to see which ones flew the furthest. All of the students enjoyed flying their planes across the yard.

KS4W have been learning about Eid and how fireworks are used to celebrate the end of Ramadan. We used the Boomwhackers to play along to the song ‘Firework’ and watched some videos before choosing a song each to play along to.

Students in KS4 had a maths lesson all about graphs today. We used the space in the hall to create graphs using our bodies to indicate how many votes different categories got! We voted on lots of different things such as sports, colours, food and different careers!

KS4W have been working on ‘Peggy Problems’ this week in Science. The students had to choose whether they thought a plastic peg or a wooden peg was stronger to hold their socks up on the washing line. Each student had to fill their socks with rice to see how strong their pegs were. As a class, we…

KS4W have been working on ‘Peggy Problems’ this week in Science. The students had to choose whether they thought a plastic peg or a wooden peg was stronger to hold their socks up on the washing line. Each student had to fill their socks with rice to see how strong their pegs were. As a class, we…

This term we have been working on length and capacity. In today’s lesson, students drew around their hands and feet and cut them out. They then used their cutouts to measure how many hands/feet different objects were around school.