Day 2 Residential for Y9/10/11
Had another adventure packed day of rock climbing followed by rafting on the River Tyne. Still enough energy for a Just Dance dance-off!
Trip to Discovery Museum: P4, 13.6.19
The children explored North East inventors and their inventions – Swan’s light bulb took a lot more time and hard work to perfect than you might think!
We particularly enjoyed the Science Maze though. Air hockey is amazingly good fun and Que was a bit of a pro! Luke investigated each science activity to the full, working out the theory behind it. Oliver did some great problem solving with the gravity ball spiral, working out how to get the ball back when it got stuck.
Day 1 Y9/10/11 residential
We have had an amazing first day at Allenheads, settling in at the lodge, enjoying team building games and a brilliant night walk. We are so proud of our students’ attitudes and behaviour; they are role models for Croft. More updates tomorrow! We we have some very tired students tonight!
P3 Sensory story
P3 are doing a poets study on Michael Rosen. This morning we listened to the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. Miss Robson made it into a sensory story.
One pupil said “we used green paper for the grass, swishy swashy.”
Another said “Miss Robson sprayed at us, splash, splosh.”
P3 enjoyed the sensory story.
P3 special chocolates!
P3 enjoyed making special chocolates today. They had to follow instructions to make the chocolates. Once they were finished they then had to order the instructions for the next person.
Then as part of Maths P3 had to answer questions and follow instructions on fractions. Working out what 1/2 or 1/4 of the chocolate was and what fraction of blue or pink smarties were in the box.
The day P3 became board game reviewers!
As part of our Design Technology work we have to design our own board games. In order to design their own games we felt it was important to test and review other board games, to help with ideas.
We then completed reviews of the games and gathered the data to see which was the best and why.
According to the data collected P3 all agreed that ‘Pie Face’ was the best game.
We are very excited to design and create our own games now!
Day 1 Y8 and Y9 Residential
All staff and students had a brilliant first day yesterday at Allenheads. After arriving and settling into their rooms, we participated in team building activities before a yummy spag bol followed by a night time walk and chocolate bananas and marshmallows on the fire!! Photos of today’s adventures to follow later!!
Residential
Just a few photos from the residential last week, all the students were extremely well behaved and we all had a great time. We all learnt lots of new skills and took part in a range of different activities. It was great to see .students try new things and watch as the days went by their confidence grow. We went rafting, climbing, weaselling, gorge walking and took part in a nightline walk, roasting bananas and chocolate over a fire. Somehow, after all that many of the students said the best bit was the spaghetti bolognaise cooked with Quorn! We are going to send a photo montage home and will give out a few certificates when all the residentials are completed in the next couple of weeks.
Dates for your diary
Evening Everybody
Just some dates for your diaries. We have the Year 9 Options Evening on Monday 10th June from 3.15 to enable you to come and discuss your child’s Key Stage 4 Options.
During our Coffee Morning on the 18th June Julie Temple (MCT Rep, Making Changes together) will attend.
Elaine Chandler (SENDIASS) will attend on the 9th July.
Performance Poetry
P2 have been studying the brilliant work by Michael Rosen. We have learnt about his life and written a mini biography. This week we have performed one of his poems which has inspired us to write our own. Here is a snippet of our performance