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On Friday, Phoenix, our performing arts pathway, attended the Manchester Literature Festival at Central Library. 📚 We had been invited to watch an inter schools music show, where disabled and non-disabled pupils came together to create music over a week with professional musicians. 🎶 We travelled on the tram and had a chance to explore some of the library beforehand. Some of our pupils wanted to meet the librarian and explore some of the books available too, while the performers were warming up. There were lots of interesting exhibits and film clips to watch too. 👀 During the show, our pupils were an excellent audience, joining in with the singing and signing part when invited and showing encouragement and appreciation for all the musicians with their applause and standing ovation at the end! Well done team! 👏 #samuellaycock #Newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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To finish off our learning in Humanities pupils from 7B visited Cedar park which is in our local area. 🗺️ We left school and walked sensibly to the park, navigating crossing busy roads using the pedestrian crossings along the way. 🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♂️ We explored the park by using the equipment and having a game of football. ⚽️ We came back to school and evaluated our trip saying what we liked or disliked (the rain!) 🌧️ We can’t wait for our next class trip!👀 Also, during art this term we have tied it in with celebrating Black History month and Mental Health day. 🗓️ We learnt about different artists and how they express themselves through colour in art. 🖼️ We learnt about Jean-Michel Basquiat who was a black artist and how he used art to display self-portraits wearing a crown which showed things he enjoyed and made him happy. 👑 First, we created a solid background using colours that made us happy, we also included positive words. 😊 Then we added to a crown template things that make us happy, such as being with friends, WWE and our pets. 🐶 Next, we took a self-portrait. 📸 Finally, using Picollage on our iPads we merged all of these things together to create a piece of art work Jean-Michel Basquiat would love! ❤️ #samuellaycock #Newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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Phoenix (performing arts pathway) played host to the National Youth Theatre again last week to kick off the second year of their “Assemble” project with us. ✅ The team from NYT are also working with New Bridge College on this project. 🧡Janine, Joe, and India were reunited with our Year 11s and met our new pathway members, and we all got to know new member, Dalu. The pupils worked really hard, showing off their creativity with different exercises. 🤩 Well done to all of our pupils who made the practitioners from the National Youth Theatre very welcome. 😊 We had lots of fun trying out some different drama games and techniques. 🙌 As usual, the pupils supported and encouraged one another with lots of positive praise for people’s different ideas. ❤️ #samuellaycock #Newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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During PE this term pupils in 7B have been working on our teamwork skills. 🤝 First, we start every lesson doing a circuit to warm our bodies up, this includes running on the spot, jumping jacks and doing the plank! 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ We have enjoyed playing team games such has rock, paper, scissors and trying to get our team to the other side of the hall by beating our opponents in rock, paper, scissors. ✂️ We also enjoyed beating the teacher! Miss Bottomley had a pile of ‘Treasure’ and when she had her back turned we worked as a class to sneak up and steal the treasure! But when Miss Bottomley turned around everyone had to FREEZE! 🥶 Finally, we have been practicing our archery skills and working as teams to score the most points, this does get very competitive! 🎯 #samuellaycock #Newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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Last week pupils from the Horticulture pathway went out to Sale Water Park and Wythenshawe Park looking for wildlife and animals. 🐿️ We have also been working hard on our wild garden in front of our classroom. We have planted some bulbs and a new plant that we bought on a previous visit to Daisy Nook. Everyone has worked super hard. We had a lot of tired faces at the end of today. Fab team effort!👏 #samuellaycock #Newbridge #horticulture ... See MoreSee Less

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Last Friday, the Year 11 pupils from the Sports & Outdoors Pathway embarked on their first walk for their Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award.🤩 We ventured to the Pots and Pans monument in Oldham. The group found the walk quite challenging as it involved a steep incline, but all did extremely well and completed the walk quite quickly.💪 The views along the way were simply stunning, the walk overlooked Dovestone’s Reservoir, we even managed to point out Hartshead Pike and Manchester City Centre once we reached the top! 🤩 We enjoyed having our lunch upon the rocks and taking in the scenery but had to be careful we didn’t get blown away due to it being very windy!🌬️ On our descent from the monument, we explored some rocky area as we were told that owls were present amongst the rocks, unfortunately we didn’t get chance to see any!🦉 #samuellaycock #Newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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Last week, pupils from the Food Tech pathway presented the assembly on World Food Day, specifically highlighting food wastage.⚠️ The UK throws away 9 million tons of food a year, even through there is approximately 4 million children in the UK with food insecurity.Thanks to the pupils for highlighting these shocking facts and entertaining everyone with their uplifting song track.😮 #samuellaycock #Newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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Today, pupils from year 10 on the Sports & Outdoor pathway attended the North west UK Athletics schools disability event held at the Manchester Athletics Arena. 🏟️13 pupils took part in a multi athletic event involving running, throwing and jumping events. All pupils completed a 60m sprint, standing long jump and shot put throw, as well as some pupils doing a 200m race and a running long jump. 🤩 We had some outstanding performances from Luca, Charlie and Lyndon in the running and Mason and Thomas in the shot put. All pupils did amazingly well and displayed great enthusiasm throughout the event, meeting pupils from other schools and sharing fantastic sportsmanship skills.👏 Well done to all Year 10 pupils today, we are really pleased with the progress our new Year 10 cohort are making in the Sports & Pathway this year.😊 #samuellaycock #Newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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This week, pupils in the Food Tech pathway have made Karipap (a spiced chicken and potato fried pastry pasties).😋 They also made Jamaican chicken curry and tropical fruit cheesecake.😋 They looked and tasted as good as any food you can get from a restaurant.🤩 Well done, everyone!👏 #samuellaycock #Newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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In Food Technology today 7W carved pumpkins! 🎃We drew our designs out first on paper and then we sketched our designs onto our pumpkins. ✍️We got messy scraping all of the inside of the pumpkins out then it was time to get carving. 🙌 We made some fantastic pumpkin carvings and it was lovely to see them all lit up! 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃#samuellaycock #Newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less