Blog by Tag: KS3

Key Stage 3L ventured out into the community to visit the local shops and purchase an ice-cream as the weather was very warm.  The students had to locate the items, work out the cost and pay for everything at the tills.  As always the class were brilliant and represented the school wonderfully in…

In our English lesson, Key Stage 3L have been reading The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo.  In this activity the students had imagine they were the character 'Bertie' from the story.  They had to imagine his thoughts and feelings about a situation that happened in the book and write a diary…

Students in KS3 enjoyed a sensory communication session in the immersive room and used their AAC devices and core word board to communicate their requests, thoughts and feelings.

Mrs Seery’s reading intervention group enjoyed visiting the school library today to choose a book. They discussed the title, author, illustrator and blurb and identified whether the book was fiction or non-fiction. 

Miss Chisnall's Maths group took advantage of the amazing sunny weather and headed out into the community.  Along the way, the students found the park and enjoyed some quality friendship time together.

On Monday this week, our students took part in a range of challenges as part of our regular School Games events.  All of the students in the department took part and enjoyed all of the activities.  The students all tried their very best.  Well done to them all.

In Key Stage 3L the students were exploring their musical creativity. The students were unleashing their inner 'Mozart' through playing notes and making musical compositions.  Great work 3L.

KS3H&S enjoyed a Victorian afternoon experiencing Victorian games, food, crafts and clothing. They began the afternoon with hand washing and a hand inspection from Mr Balson! Students then took part in a range of activities and some students talked about what is different between then and…

Students across school have been enjoying weekly visits from the North West Ambulance service. This week, along with other classes, KS3S enjoyed dressing up as paramedics and exploring the ambulance as part of their Careers program. 

Students in 3S enjoyed asking spiders out of cocktail sticks, raisins and grapes! 

Students in KS3S enjoyed dancing to ‘I’m your man’ by Wham! for their ‘Squiggle while you wiggle’ session that helped them to build the gross motor skills needed to refine their mark making. Students then did some dough disco exercises followed by mark making and letter formation practice. We had…

Miss Scott’s / Mr Machaj’s maths groups have been using Kapla blocks to measure real world objects in Maths today. They worked really hard with staff and counted the blocks to estimate the lengths and widths.