Blog Author: Jessica Walker

Every Wednesday, a group of students take part in their Preston North End program which consists of theory work followed by sports. This week they visited a local gym to complete fitness circuits as part of their accreditations.

KS4W’s English topic this term is the Wizard of Oz. The students enjoy a sensory story before watching some clips of the film. In today’s lesson, we all went to Oz and followed the yellow brick road!

The MOVE Programme is an activity-based framework that enables disabled young people to gain independent sitting, standing, walking and transferring skills. Every Friday morning, a small group of students take part in our MOVE intervention completing different activities and circuits to help them…

KS4W have been learning all about Diwali, the festival of light. The students measured out the correct amounts of flour, salt and water needed to make salt dough and moulded them into candle holders to create their own Diwali lamps.

The topic for English during our first term has been Myths and Legends in KS4W. We have read the story of ‘Romulus & Remus’, and even acted it out with props. Our students also enjoyed a really tasty Roman feast, using our senses to smell and taste different foods.

Students from KS4 have been working on numbers in their numeral and word form. KS4W set up some different activities in the school hall to match up the numerals to the correct word.

Mrs Gibbons and Mrs Walker had the pleasure of visiting a student at home and tasting some delicious baking he had done to complete an ASDAN challenge.