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Published: 10 December 2025
Today Key Stage 4 hosted their Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Wow event. Students had been planning an event related to the story Alice in Wonderland and made the informed decision to hold a tea party. Students made decorations, drinks, cakes…
Published: 21 October 2025
This morning we were delighted to have the travelling theatre company - M&M Productions - who joined us in school to perform their version of the classic - Sleeping Beauty. All of the children in lower and middle school enjoyed the singing, dancing and…
Published: 01 October 2025
Today, Our Family Wellbeing Coordinators invited Meghann Ewing, Joeann Flannigan and Peter O’Malley from the Learning Disability Services into school, to deliver a Healthy Lungs Workshop to some of our older students…
Published: 15 July 2025
Today we had our 2nd annual Newfield Festival and what an amazing day! The British weather did exactly what it does for most festivals and was wild, wet and windy - but the rain couldn’t dampen our spirits. The building was decorated with bunting and festival signage so that we could navigate to…
Published: 11 July 2025
This morning it was the turn of our secondary and post 16 phase to have their moment to shine in their Celebration of Achievement Assembly. We were delighted to be joined by a huge crowd of parents and family members, as well as our governor, and manager of Appletrees, Jerry Wood. Our special guest today was Alison Ashworth-Taylor, who has worked as a partner to school and who after 30 years as a headteacher is now retiring with this being her final ever awards assembly…
Published: 10 July 2025
Today we celebrated a truly special milestone—our Explorers Graduation and Celebration of Achievement. It was a joyful occasion filled with proud moments, happy tears, and celebration as we honoured the progress of our youngest learners. Throughout the year, our Explorers have really thrived…
This morning we celebrated the achievements of our primary age phase pupils. There were a range of awards for progress & achievement, special mentions and courage. We were pleased to see parents and family members who came to see their children receive their awards from our guest of honour, Imran Akuji - Head of Young People’s Services for BwD…
Published: 09 July 2025
Phill Taylor-Fleming, a professional solo acoustic guitarist and experienced and qualified music tutor, came in for the final time this year today. He worked with 6 classes and had students and staff playing and singing songs from George Ezra’s ‘Budapest’ to…
Published: 19 June 2025
Today we have enjoyed having author Salma Zaman visit school, as part of BwD Children’s Literary Festival, in conjunction with Blackburn Central Library. Salma shared sensory stories with our pupils who also enjoyed exploring props linked to the tales. As well as founding Salma’s Bollywood Academy, Salma has completed…
Published: 01 April 2025
Today, Phillip Fleming, a musician, came into school and worked with some of our younger classes this time - he worked with our oldest students just before Christmas. Children had great fun playing along to Phil playing his guitar…
Published: 26 March 2025
This term, our explorer children have been learning about the wonderful world of amazing animals. We have been exploring animals that live in different habitats including farms, pets, wild animals and arctic animals. As we approach Easter we have started to focus on life cycles and animals that hatch from eggs. Today, for our Wow event we had Emily’s Mini Farm visit our school. This special event gave every explorer child…
Published: 10 January 2025
Dawn the Paramedic joined us in school today, she is the author of the Panda Paramedic books, which teach children and young people what to do in a medical emergency. This morning Dawn ran some first aid sessions, she was very impressed…
