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Welcome Back After the Christmas Break!😊 We have been delighted to welcome our students back to college after the Christmas holiday. There has been a wonderful sense of excitement across the classrooms, with learners eager and ready to learn as they return to familiar routines. The transition back has been very positive, supported by smiles, enthusiasm, and a shared readiness to begin the new term together.👌🏻 Many students expressed how much they missed their friends during the holiday period. Being reunited in the classroom has been especially meaningful, as friendships and social connections are such an important part of our college community. Seeing students reconnect, communicate, and enjoy learning alongside their peers has been a joy for staff and students alike. ❤️ Since returning, students have continued to make steady and encouraging progress in English reading and writing. Learners have engaged well with literacy activities, building confidence in recognising words, forming sentences, and expressing their ideas. Alongside this academic focus, some students have particularly enjoyed returning to fine motor activities, which support hand strength, coordination, and independence. 💪 Messy Tray Activity Sessions🙌 Our messy tray activity sessions have been a real highlight since returning to college. These sensory-based activities encourage exploration, creativity, and engagement in a fun and supportive way.🤩 One activity involved ice breaking and saving toy animals. Students used tools and their hands to break the ice and rescue the animals, promoting problem-solving, patience, and teamwork. 🧊 Another popular activity explored milk and food colouring, where students used pipets to carefully squeeze food colouring into milk to change its colour. This activity supported hand control while allowing students to experiment and observe cause and effect. A further messy tray session included searching for chocolate eggs hidden in a bowl of oats, encouraging tactile exploration and sustained attention.👀 #newbridge #learningcentre #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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IB4 have settled back into school brilliantly following the Christmas holidays!👌🏻 Over the past two weeks, we have been exploring USA and France. The students created fantastic artwork inspired by both countries and had the opportunity to taste different foods, using their senses to discover new flavours and textures.🇺🇸 🇫🇷 In Learning for Life, we have been practicing and strengthening our fine motor skills.🙌 In English, the class have enjoyed a variety of mark‑making activities, and in P.E. we’ve been working on improving our balance, with lots of smiles, interaction, and determination along the way.❤️ Well done to all of the students for always trying their very best!💪 #newbridge #school #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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Well, had an absolute ball with this group this term. 😊 Jennyfer, Heather, Asma and myself have worked on some amazing projects to give the students every opportunity to showcase the abilities and talents they have already acquired and develop new ones.👌🏻 For example, only last week, we learnt how to create and fly paper planes....an essential part of school and college life in my opinion! During a test flight, Harvey managed to fly his the furthest. Unsurprisingly, Tohidul (being the aviation enthusiast), built and flew an aircraft that came a close second. Well done!✈️ Just after the holidays, the group entered the 'Grandpas Wheels' competition. Students discussed, researched and designed a wheelchair to use in a variety of settings in order to adapt to Grandpas needs and wants. Adrian, Daisy and Harvey's designs were officially submitted. Great work!👏 We are entering another competition soon based around 'Hate Crime.'❌The group has just started an intensive chess course as part of Learn for Life this term!♟️ Hopefully, the photos illustrate the fun the students had whilst in class!📸 #newbridge #learningcentre #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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This week in Living Skills in Miss Lord’s class, we had lots of fun creating our own fruits and vegetables and writing shopping lists of what we wanted to buy. 🍎🥕We then role-played our very own greengrocer and practiced our speech and language skills by asking for the different fruits and vegetables on our lists.💬 We even put our counting skills to the test by paying with the correct number of coins! 💰😊Well done, 8ELD! 🌈🍏#newbridge #school #Update ... See MoreSee Less

8SJN Weekly Round-Up!

🌟What a wonderful week we’ve had in 8SJN!📚 English - This week we explored our new book The Runaway Iceberg! To help us understand how Rossi and Gaspar the penguins felt when their iceberg began to melt, we took part in a hands-on sensory experience. Miss Parker filled our tough tray with a huge clump of ice to represent the iceberg and poured water over it.We touched the ice, felt how freezing cold it was, and watched as it slowly melted away. We didn’t have penguins… but our frogs bravely stood in for them and tumbled off the iceberg as it disappeared! ❄️🐧🐸The students loved watching the change happen right in front of them.🥕 Cooking - In the kitchen, we made our very own vegetable tray bakes! The children chopped courgette, peppers and onions, popped them into a tray, and added oil, salt, pepper and a sprinkle of cumin. Once baked, they smelled amazing! Everyone took theirs home to enjoy with their families — we hope you loved tasting them as much as we loved making them!🎨 Art - We’ve begun our brand-new art project inspired by L. S. Lowry’s Steps at Wick. This week we focused on creating the houses using coloured paper and carefully drawing windows and doors. The children worked so thoughtfully and creatively.❤️ Next week… we’ll be adding the steps! We can’t wait to see the artwork come together.👀 We have also enjoyed some quiet time reading books and talking to Mr Lowe about what we can see in them! 📖 Well done for another brilliant week, 8SJN! ⭐Have a lovely weekend, everyone!😊 #newbridge #school #update ... See MoreSee Less

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7DBN have hit the ground running since the start of Spring Term 1. 🏃 To start, we worked in pairs to uncover the title of the book we would be reading and exploring in English. We eventually discovered the book will be Fantastic Mr Fox. We then discussed the front cover of the book to gain ideas about what it could be about.📖 As a group, we have learnt about the author of Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl, and discussed/remembered the other books he has wrote. We watched trailers of the films that were created about these books to help us remember. The whole class enjoyed this lesson and remembering the books/films. 🦊 We have made predictions about what will happen and now started chapter 1.👀 This term, we have moved on to Shape in maths. We started with our knowledge and understanding of 2D shapes and recently, we have introduced 3D shapes to our learning. All students have been able to identify 2D shapes around the classroom and school, with some students being able to identify 3D shapes.📦 Miss Brown and Miss Ball are very impressed with our engagement and attitude to learning.❤️ #newbridge #school #Update ... See MoreSee Less