Skills Show 17
The Key Stage 4 pupils had the opportunity to visit the NEC for the country’s biggest careers fair called the Skills Show. The pupils were able to speak and interact with a vast array of providers and gain more information regarding their next step after leaving The Brades. The pupils were…
Category: Secondary
Ski Trip 2018 Photo Gallery
Day 1: Travel from School to Le Corbier.
The morning meeting in 2018 was at a much more reasonable time at 9:00am, this meant that the children and parents arrived fresh faced and eager. After a quick run back to home for one student to collect his gloves and goggles we boarded the minibus…
Category: Ski Trip
Weekly Wonder
This week in residence has flown by, with the children participating in tons of wonderfully creative activities. For instance, the children have been hard working at perfecting there swimming skills (diving mainly), whilst our Fusion Dance cohort (and the whole universe) have been ‘busting a move’…
Category: Residential
Weekly Wonder
Another fab week has passed in residence, with the children embarking on some brilliant activties and trips, like our in house homemade slime making night (watch out the ghost-busters) and our life skills trip to Poundland. This proved very valuable for the children as they were given their own…
Category: Residential
Weekly Wonder
Wow, what a brilliant start to the new term it’s been, with the children taking part in some fun-filled trips and activities. Like the trip to the skate park, where the children tried their best Tony Hawk impressions. We also resumed our weekly swimming sessions at Oak Park leisure centre where…
Category: Residential
Weekly Wonder
Despite the snow’s best effort, here in residence we were able to still offer some exciting activties. So with Christmas looming and the weather still not great, we had a real big push on Christmas crafts, with the children taking great pride in producing something nice for their parents and…
Category: Residential
Weekly Wonder
This week in residence we’ve again participated in some exciting and varied activities. For instance our weekly offsite swimming group are continuing to “make a splash” over in Walsall Wood and with Christmas fast approaching we visited the beautiful Lichfield Cathedral to see their Christmas tree…
Category: Residential
Weekly Wonder
Another great week in residence has passed with some wonderful highlights to reflect on, like our soft-play visit’s that are becoming epic team building trips out. We’ve also had a real push on cooking this week, with our resident (self-proclaimed) chef Ijah helping the children whip homemade…
Category: Residential
Weekly Wonder
This week in residence we celebrated Bon Fire week, with a real emphasis on safety (when using fireworks) the real message. As we wanted the children to not only understand the fun aspect of Bon-fire night but how we should try and keep each other safe too. As well as this we had two great nights…
Category: Residential
Weekly Wonder
There’s been a lot of spooky and strange things going on in residence this week…. Like Mr Hart finally changing his socks… As well as influx of (even more) scary pupils sighted around residence… This had nothing to do with the fact we celebrated Halloween this week!!! With fun parties and games…
Category: Residential
Weekly Wonder
This week in residence, we had a slight change in our usual programme, with most of our usual cohort going to France and Wales for the school residential trip. So the residential team welcomed some of our newer kids in, for the chance to participate in some great outdoor activities for the week.…
Category: Residential
Weekly Wonder
Hey all!! We had another fantastic week in residence, with loads of fun activities taking place, like our trip to Lichfield Cathedral. This was a real eye-opener for the children and staff alike, with the beautiful and grand scenery the perfect back drop for an awesome day out. The children were…
Category: Residential