5I Gardening
This week, 5I students from The Oracle took a trip to the local garden centre as part of their gardening project. They explored tools, plants, and accessories—making thoughtful choices to enhance their raised beds back at The Oracle.
The outing wasn’t just about gardening—it also supported…
Card making spring fair.
Spring Fair Crafting in Full Swing!
With the Spring Fair just around the corner, our creative crew has been hard at work making beautiful handmade cards to sell at the event. The room has been buzzing with energy as everyone got stuck into glitter, glue, stickers, and lots of colorful…
5J Enterprise
5J have been making Fairtrade Cornflake Cakes to sell at the coffee morning this Thursday.
National Citizens Service with Blackpool Football Club Community Trust
In our NCS session with BFCCT this week we looked at employability ad what employers would be looking for in potential employees (such as punctuality, looking smart, following instructions and good team work etc.
We wrote these on large sheets of paper in a mind map. We then discussed the…
NCS
Yesterday we had a visit from Blackpool Football Club’s Community Group. Year 12’s have been given the opportunity to do NCS in a six week programme. Yesterday they played some team games and battled it out be win the overall session! There were many competitive students who loved challenging each…
Big Schools Bird Watch
Our students have been taking part in the RSPB's Bird Watch, collecting data on the different types of Birds living in the local area. We will upload the data onto the RSPB's website which contributes to the Big Bird Watch UK census.
Buying supplies from the Range for our volunteering work.
5M and 5I have visited the Range shopping centre to collect supplies for enterprise and volunteering activities. We practiced looking for items we needed and asking the shop assistants for help.
Well done
Everyone!
Christmas tree building
This morning during maths, Aaron had independently put the Christmas tree together. He has had to consider the order of the branches, different sizes, symmetry and space in order to put the tree together. Aaron has shown resilience and determination, well done!
Myerscough group
Students have been handling the Bearded dragon and the Geko today at Myerscough. They have worked in groups to bath both reptiles in preparation for them shedding their skin.
Students also cleaned out the Gerbil cages and make the rodents some enrichment of their enclosures.
well done…
Myerscough College
As part of the students external college placements, we will be visiting Myerscough College on a Tuesday.
Today students have had a health and safety talk and groomed the Guinea Pigs. We have talked about the health benefits of keeping the Guinea Pigs well groomed and how to look out for…
Hygiene Stop Shop
5J have set up their free Hygiene Shop for our students at lunch. All the products have been donated through our local community groups and businesses. Students are excited to be running the stop shop over lunch.
Well done 5J
Photography
In photography we looked at depth of field. This is the distance between two objects and where the focus will be on. This allowed us to create some interesting photos using toys and action figures.
We used the different functions on the camera to make the correct settings to allow different…