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We celebrated Red Nose Day with a casual clothes day and some Easter activities. Mrs North kindly made some cherry cupcakes for all to enjoy. Pupils enjoyed their attempts at pinning the tail on the bunny, guess the number of mini eggs and guess the name of the teddy....

March 5th was World Book Day and Mrs Ford was determined it was going to be a fun day. She encouraged most of the staff to get dressed up as their favourite characters for “World Book Day” and was really pleased to see so many staff get involved. In tutor time tutors...

On Monday 9th December, one of our pupils committed herself to a sponsored silence! Now this may sound easy to some, however this particular pupil LOVES to talk and self admittedly, doesn’t ever stop. Miss Oldham organised the silence and staff & the pupils’...

New for the 2024-2025 academic year we bring to you, GYM CLUB! Kindly hosted weekly, after school by Mrs Ford and Mr Tostevin at a local gym. Mrs Ford & Mr T are very proud of those pupils committing to extracurricular activities after school! It’s very easy to...

During the last academic year and continuing into this year, we have made huge improvements to our reading programme and encouragement of ‘Reading for Pleasure’ across the school. D.E.A.R time aka ‘Drop Everything and Read’. Pupils have been reading a “Class reading”...

And we are back! A brand new school year! It is lovely to see so many of you happy to be back with us. We have said goodbye to some of our pupils that are ready to move on after a successful placement, with more pupils ready to start their transition back to...

We’ve had some great visits recently, exploring new places and learning new things. Here are some photos from our visits to Eden Camp and Sewerby Park. The pupils were fantastic at Eden Camp, they all really engaged with the worksheets and tasks that they had been...

This week some of our pupils visited our local Fire Station for a careers visit. They found out lots of handy information such as: shift patterns, wage, day in the life, qualifications needed etc. One of our pupils also asked the biggest question on her mind… “If I...

Every Wednesday our wonderful cook Miss North gives us all a taste from a different part of the world, so far we have had cuisines from France, China, Poland, Mexico and Italy and they have been a huge hit with the pupils and staff! We can’t wait to try other lovely...

This term we have continued with our collaboration between Arcade Arts and North Yorkshire Moors National Parks. The focus this term was utilising arts and the outdoors for mental well-being. Our aim was to merge the two with the theme of mythological creatures; these...