Blog by Judith Bailey

Lakes 5 and 6 had a shared Chinese New Year themed afternoon. Activities included making marks and tracking the falling red rice to reveal Chinese lettering, painting our own fans, roaring like dragons using the mic, eating prawn crackers (a huge hit!), developing our fine motor skills with…

Lakes 6 have been trying really hard in their phonics this week. They have been using Fred Talk to blend the sounds to read words!

Lakes 5’s current key story event is going through the swishy, swishy grass. They have finished off this section of the story by going up to the Immersive Room and making the meadows move on the interactive walls and floor as well as activating some animal sounds.

Lakes 8 and 9 current topic is Animals and Animal Care. Estelle and Carolyn were kind enough to bring in Bella and Marley to talk about the various things pets require. Afterwards they all took Bella for a walk outside.

Mountains 11 have worked really hard over the past few weeks on an environmental project in partnership with Centre for Leadership Performance. The project is called ‘Leading Change’ and involves students identifying a project where they could help improve the environment in the local area.…

Many thanks to everyone who has kindly donated to our North Lakes Foodbank appeal – as can be seen from the photo (taken with Head Girl and Head Boy – Jessica and Darren) we have collected a huge range of items that will benefit members of our community over the Christmas period. The donations are…

The Sixth Form went to Lakes College for Christmas Dinner. Dinner was cooked by Lakes College Catering students (assisted by College tutors). Our students had a fantastic time eating the lovely food and socalising with each other. The visit also offered the opportunity to see what Lakes College is…

Lots of fun activities in and around school for Children in Need today.

Lakes 2 focused on kind hands and how to use their hands in kind and caring ways! They then created a kind hands tree, by painting their hands and making a tree trunk out of a range of materials and now have this on display in class to remind them that we use kind hands in Lakes 2! 

Lakes 13…

Lakes 5 had a fantastic trip to Hayes Garden World, it was a total immersive grotto experience. There was lots of sensory elements such as activating falling snow, interacting with the lights, listening for singing reindeers and of course, meeting Santa.

Mountains 6 have been experiencing life as an evacuee and had an experience in the Anderson Shelter.

Today we held a cake sale in support of Macmillian, each class baked cakes to sell.  We raised an amazing £268.73, well done to everyone involved.