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Over the Spring term, Espresso Yourself has taken a huge leap and opened up as a café to outside visitors! 🤩 We have invited parents from two classes to join us and the reviews have been fantastic. Pupils greet customers at reception and walk them to the café. We then ask them to choose a table. When the customers have looked at the menus a member of staff takes their order and passes it to the drinks and food teams. Customers are then served with a smile. 😊 The café has been extremely popular and we can’t wait to open again! 👀 We have also been trialling salad boxes which we will launch after the easter holidays. Our cups now have our official logo on, just like a real coffee shop! 🤩 #samuellaycock #newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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Final Call for Sponsors!📣This is it – our final push for sponsors! On Tuesday, a group of us teachers from Samuel Laycock School will tackle the mighty Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge. 🏔️🏔️🏔️We've been training hard over the past few months, going on weekly hikes around the stunning Peak District. Now, we're all set and eager to embrace this demanding adventure! It's an incredible fundraising event for the New Bridge Multi Academy Trust, and we couldn't be more excited.🤩 For those unfamiliar with the challenge, it’s a tough 24-mile (38.6 km) round trip with an ascent of 1,585 metres (5,200 feet). Our route will take us over the three magnificent peaks: Pen-y-Ghent (694 metres), Whernside (736 metres), and Ingleborough (723 metres).We're raising money to support our young people in gaining invaluable experiences. All funds raised will contribute towards sending our Year 8 pupils on their annual life-changing residential trip to Disneyland Paris. This trip promises not only a moment of joy and excitement but also personal development and unforgettable memories.❤️ We would greatly appreciate any support you can provide. Every penny counts! Thank you!🔗www.gofundme.com/f/the-3yp-to-help-send-newbridge-pupils-to-euro-disney?attribution_id=sl:5ea8c29...#samuellaycock #threepeaks #fundraiser ... See MoreSee Less

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I spent a lovely afternoon yesterday in the company of the amazing young people that had received a Headteacher’s Award throughout the term.⭐️ Mrs Myers had invested in a new tea set and the pupils enjoyed their cups of tea and cakes whilst telling me what their plans were for the Easter holidays.😊 As always, their politeness shone through. I feel so privileged to work with such wonderful children. They are a credit to their families.❤️ Happy Easter and keep safe everyone.😊 #samuellaycock #newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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On our last gardening session of this half term, we all finally put up our shell wind chime in our new sensory garden. I think you will agree it looks lovely. We were also very busy sowing seeds such as marigolds, cotton grass, poppies and some seeds that Miss Limb found on a walk. We have no idea what they are, so we planted them to see what wonders will grow. And as always, we enjoyed a nice cold drink and biscuit. Have a wonderful Easter break everyone. 🐣#teamgardening #samuellaycock #newbridge ... See MoreSee Less

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Yesterday, our drama room was taken over by Dinosaurs!! 🤩 KS4 communications and KS3 sensory have been working on the Jurassic World so we wanted to bring that into drama lessons. 🎭 Some of us performed a drama piece with dinosaur eggs showing how careful we could be with something so precious. 🥚 Others were adventurers exploring and finding new dinosaurs to spot. 👀 Lastly, we sang and danced all together to our new favourite song… Dinosaur’s have great big feet that stomp, stomp, stomp. 🎶 All of the children did so well to remember our parts, smile wide and most importantly HAVE FUN! 🤩 #samuellaycock #newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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On Friday our Y10 Duke of Edinburgh Bronze pupils ventured out to Wythenshawe Park to complete their final preparations for the DofE Bronze expedition on the 29th April. Pupils were split into teams of 4 & 5 and were given orienteering maps that covered the whole of Wythenshawe Park, which is 270 acres of land. Obviously we didn’t have time to cover the whole park, however pupils were set challenges in their groups to find certain points on the map. 🗺️ The Year 10’S have done exceptionally well with their map reading skills and this week our KS4 communication class joined us as part of their personalised DofE Bronze award. It turned out to be a fantastic day with lots of progress being made and the pupils also managed to see the local farm animals, which also made Miss Limb very happy! Well done, everyone, time to prepare now for the expedition! 👀 #samuellaycock #newbridge #Update ... See MoreSee Less

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With the weather brightening up this week, it’s given our pupils the chance to get on to the field and develop their rugby skills. 🏉Some of our year 9 classes have been learning and perfecting their tackling techniques. Other year 8 and 9 classes have completed their fundamental fitness circuits and we’ve been evaluating the data we have collected over the past 4 weeks; we discussed why our performance can increase some weeks and why it can decrease in others. 💬 Our sensory and communication classes have continued with their sensory circuits, this week’s alerting activities included boxing pads and the climbing frame. Our organising tasks were developing our hand eye coordination through hockey dribbling and basketball shooting. Finally, we finished with yoga to calm the senses and make sure our pupils were focused and ready for the remainder of the day.🧘‍♀️ Our year 10 and 11’s have been focusing on their analysis of performance for their OCR entry level qualification, some groups have played basketball and others have played boccia, both groups have ensured they followed the rules, implementing the strategies and skills they have learnt so far. ✅ #samuellaycock #newbridge #update ... See MoreSee Less

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Pupils from across school entered the Greater Manchester Indoor Rowing Event, organised by GM Moving. The event was a huge success and in true Samuel Laycock style, our pupils rose to the challenge, returning with a total medal count of ………… 28!! 🤩 Our pupils entered individual and team races across Years 7-11. We had to mix some pupils from Year 7 into a Year 9 team race and yes….. we still won!! With 22 of our medals being GOLD. 🥇There were so many outstanding performances from all pupils and we are extremely proud of the effort, resilience, determination and teamwork on display! Well done, everyone!👏 #samuellaycock #rowing #newbridge ... See MoreSee Less