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Dinner party @ school

7 April 2017

On Wednesday 29th March students at The Brades Lodge site prepared, cooked and hosted a dinner party for an exclusive family clientele, as part of the Jamie Oliver National School Food Competition. The students had to design and deliver a high quality three course menu. After much thought the boys…

Category: Secondary

Planting

7 April 2017

We love growing our own fruit and veg, working together as a team and even the worms were helping us dig!

Dragons had a good chance to look at things very closely and we water our plants every day and see how they grow.

Natalie, in the kitchen, helped us to clean the vegetables we dug…

Category: Primary

Bird Nests

7 April 2017

Searching for nests in the trees, we had a chance to discuss why building a nest in a tree is such a good idea and how it kept the eggs and chicks safe and healthy. After looking in the trees, we had a go at building our own nest. Then we tested it out with our egg rocks. It was quite tricky and…

Category: Primary

Easter Egg Competition

7 April 2017

We are working hard on our physical development while we decorate our eggs for a competition. Art outside in the forest school!

There was also the chance to develop our maths vocabulary as we talked about straight and curved lines and thought about the colours we wanted to use.

Category: Primary

The Little Red Hen

7 April 2017

In the story 'The Little Red Hen', no one wants to help but everyone wants to try the bread. We had the chance to try some different breads from around the world and decide which we liked the most. As we tried the bread we came up with some great adjectives to describe its look, smell and taste.…

Category: Primary

Working For Marcus

5 April 2017

All the pupils from the Brades Lodge had the opportunity to watch a Loudmouth production call ‘Working for Marcus’. Working for Marcus is a powerful theatre in education programme on child sexual exploitation (CSE) including online sexual exploitation and abuse by individuals, organised groups or…

Category: Secondary

Strongest Student Competition

17 February 2017

The Brades Lodge held the first annual ‘ Strongest Student’ contest which was attended by four schools from around the country. There were seven events in two competitions for Key Stages 3 and 4 which compromised of:

Bench Press

Deadlift

Yolk

Loading Race

Minibus Pull

Log…

Category: Secondary

Chinese New Year

16 February 2017

Unicorn Class Cook up a Storm for Chinese New Year !

During R.E. lessons Unicorn Class learnt that Chinese New Year has been celebrated for thousands of Years have been celebrated for thousands of years. The holiday has been celebrated for thousands of years. The holiday, which focuses on home…

Category: Primary

Brades Basketball

15 February 2017

The Brades Lodge Lions recently had their second fixture against Sandwell Community School. The game was very competitive and played in an excellent spirit but SCS came out winners in the 4^th quarter 28-20. An excellent display by all involved and well done The Lions.

Category: Secondary

Voices In My Head

6 February 2017

Shenstone Lodge School – The Brades Lodge, under the Executive Headteacher Neil Toplass, is a secondary special school based in Oldbury that caters for students who experience Social Emotional and Mental Heath difficulties. Generally the students have been disengaged from education and lack the…

Category: Secondary

Key Stage 2 at Redhill

2 February 2017

On Friday 27th February our KS2 footballers travelled over to Redhill Primary School in Hednesford for a football fixture. Redhill were very organised and more experienced than our players but this didn't stop us having a great game.

Excellent goalkeeping, defence and midfielding as these were…

Category: Primary

Breakfast

1 February 2017

Cosy, chaotic breakfast in residence - lovely.

Category: Residential