Blog Author: Lyndsey White

KS5C had a day of taking part in problem solving activities from making the tallest down using dry spaghetti and marshmallows, making a marble run, tallest paper tower from paper and sellotape and working as a team to get the marble from one end to the other using tubes. 

All of the students…

Students from KS5 have been learning valuable counting skills by counting the stock of the KS5 tuck shop. Each day different students from alternative classes will have the opportunity to count the stock and sell it to their peers during break time.  This allows the students to learn communication…

KS5W have been earning money through doing class jobs. On a Friday the students are able to visit the shop to spend their wages. Students can choose from sweets, pens, pencils and books. This enables to teach students about working to earn and using money.

Students from KS5W enjoyed starting their day with a Friday dance. This helps the students to wake up and get ready for the day. 

Students from KS3 enjoyed making rockets continuing with their topic of space. Students chose to work independently or as part of a team. They chose their own materials and designs.

Students from KS5W and KS5S had a lovely day at our homemade beach area. Students enjoyed playing with the water, making bubbles, feeling sand and firing water guns. In the afternoon they enjoyed making sand and glitter pictures of a beach scene. 

KS5L made hot dogs and homemade chips with apple crumble and custard for desert. Student had enjoyed peeling and chopping apples which is something that they have not done before. They learned a valuable new skill.

Students from KS5 have been practicing their counting and documenting skills for their very own tuck shop. Students take part in conducting a stock take before selling the tuck shop to their fellow peers at break time. This teaches them valuable skills of working within a shop environment and also…

Students from KS5S & KS5W visited the library and enjoyed listening and joining in with the sensory story Handa’s Surprise. Students got to feel, smell and hold different kinds of fruits, they also got to wear different animal masks. Students had a conversation about what their favourite animal…

Students from KS5S & KS5W enjoyed working together in a team to complete some problem solving activities with some staff support. All students were involved in a game of noughts and crosses and some students had a go at making the gap bigger. This allowed students to develop communication skills…

Some students from KS5 had the opportunity to go to the Liverpool Empire Theatre to watch the stage show of David Walliam’s book “Awful Auntie”. The students travelled to Liverpool via train leaving Ormskirk train station and getting to Liverpool Central before walking through the town centre to…

Students from KS5L had the opportunity to make a vegetarians meal as part of one of their ASDAN modules. The students chose to make a broccoli and pea pasta with a homemade cheese sauce. The students made their own garlic butter for their garlic bread followed by a homemade cornflake tart with…