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Christmas Tree Festival

This week saw our pupil head over to Lichfield for the annual Christmas Tree Festival. Pupils admired beautifully laid site and age of the building. 

Category: Residential

The Frank Chapman Centre - SEMH offer

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Category: Secondary

Bike Safety

Following on from our road safety awareness, this week we focused solely on safety with bicycles. As many accidents involving cyclist are around them not being seen, we explored right and left arm signalling as indication for turning, then explored reflectors through the designing of a helmet. We…

Category: Residential

Brades FM - TBL Football Review

Category: Secondary

World Skills Show UK - 2018

All Key Stage 4 pupils had the opportunity to attend the World Skills Show UK to interact with a vast array of employers, employees, colleges, and training providers to ensure they are Next Step Ready. The students scored it 5.5 for usefulness and 6.2 for recommending it to others. All the…

Category: Secondary

Road Safety.

Stop (at the roadside), Look (both ways), Listen (for traffic) and Think (is it safe to cross?). This has been the message to the kids this week being Road Safety week. Repeat this message at home, be safe. 

Category: Residential

Halesowen College Visit

The year 11 pupils had the opportunity to taste life at Halesowen College should they chose to attend there. The students were given a tour of the college with particular attention being shown to the areas that interested the pupils the most. Following this they had a 1 hour Media lesson that…

Category: Secondary

Night Fever

The weather has been on our side this week, staying pretty crisp and clear; archery, football, bikes & scooters have got the kids up and about. As we've hit darkness around 5-ish, we've also explored the environment in a different way...heading out wrapped up with a torch in hand...playing in the…

Category: Residential

Atlas Forklift Experience

As our school is part of the Careers and Enterprise Company Network, we have been assigned and Enterprise Advisor- Adam Harris Director at Atlas Forklift. All pupils in Key stage 4 were given the opportunity to visit Atlas and were able to speak to the employees who gave a fascinating insight to…

Category: Secondary

Happy Diwali

This week has seen the Monday night crew head to Clubs for the first time. Although initially nervous, it didn't take long before they were joining in as if they have been members for years! We've also explored Diwali through crafts; making clay oil lamps and Rangoli patterns, and toasted…

Category: Primary

Have a nice break!

Wow! What a quick half-term! Our week in residence has passed with the usual excitement and activity; from Halloween discos, to badmi-tennis (new sport we discovered). We also went down the road into Lichfield to try a new dessert shop as an end-of-half-term treat! Mmmmmm!  

Category: Primary

Mini Olympics

What does it take to beat your personal best? Determination? Perseverance? A motivation to do better? Our Mini Olympics (with a very creative twist) brought out the best in the pupils, challenging themselves to be better versions of themselves.

Category: Residential