Blog

Skills Show

The Key Stage 4 pupils had the opportunity to visit the NEC for the country’s biggest careers fair. 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 immaculately behaved and…

Category: Secondary

SEN League Result

The Brades Lodge football team kicked off the SEN League with a 13- 2 win against Chorley from Coventry. A very good start from our boys and we will compete again away at Elmwood on 25^th November.

Category: Secondary

CHOIR CLUB

Students at the Shenstone Lodge site have been using their break times to attend a weekly choir session. The group, consisting of children from all classes, has been learning a great mix of modern and ‘old school’ songs in preparation for a grand performance. On January 24th 2017 they will be…

Category: Primary

Extra Curriculum Clubs

“Each half-term we will be producing an extra-curricular sports club timetable so that students can see what sports they can try out over the coming weeks. We will be trying to make the most out of the facilities and grounds that we have. Already last half term, football and basketball were really…

Category: Primary

Project Yawenta

These are young people who attend Yawenta Children’s Centre in Shashamane, Ethiopia. The centre currently provides nutritional, medical, educational and psychological support to 120 orphans and/or extremely vulnerable children, the majority of them (60%) being infected with HIV/AIDS. 

Last year…

Category: Secondary

Forest School

Every Wednesday morning our children here at Shenstone Lodge have been getting ‘wellied up’ and stuck into lots of fun and games in Forest Schools, an outdoor education program which promotes learning through stimulating play in woodland areas, to encourage our children's curiosity in the world…

Category: Primary

Trip to Plas Gwynant

On the 4th July, children from Years 6 and 7 at Shenstone Lodge went for a week long residential trip to Plas Gwynant in Wales. Whilst there, the children took part in activities such as Mountain Walking, Canoeing, Gorge Walking and Mining. A fabulous time was had by everyone involved, and the…

Category: Primary

The Annual Brades Lodge Soap Box Derby

This year we held our second Annual Soap Box Derby at Warley Woods in Bearwood. We had teams come from as far away as Oxford to participate. Each team/school attended with their own Soap Box. It was fantastic to see the weird and wonderful designs rocketing down the hill competing for the coveted…

Category: Secondary

Midlands SEN Football League Table

Category: Secondary

Judo Competition

The residential children took part in their very first Judo competition. They fought really well and showed respect to everyone there. They won gold, silver and bronze medals. Well done Shenstone Lodge Judo club.

Category: Residential

Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural

At The Brades Lodge we link positive behaviours to SMSC and Fundamental British Values.  All positive behaviours are rewarded using a tiered system so that the more positive days a student has, the bigger the reward.  This video explains the opportunities that our students can expect.

…

Category: Secondary

Staffordshire Regiment Museum

On Tuesday 21st June Pegasus class went to 'The Staffordshire regiment Museum' at Whittington. We had a super morning with a guide, who certainly knew his stuff, telling us all about the WW1 trenches. As we entered the trench, bombs and gun fire started and we all ducked, thinking it was real! We…

Category: Primary