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鈥�
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鈥�
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.
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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鈥�
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鈥�
Madame Tussauds Careers Event.
We were very lucky to have been invited to Madame Tussaud’s in Blackpool to learn about the job of wax modelling and jobs within the tourism industry.
We were able to ask lots of questions and were shown the studio where they model the waxworks and add the paint and hair etc.
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Music at Blackpool the and Fylde College
In our music lessons at college today we learnt about the beat, rhythm and groove of the music.
We then made a PowerPoint with different job roles and information on them, we then finished working on our music tracks on Logic Pro.
Well done KS5