To help our learners to concentrate and reduce school based anxiety, our learners at the Acorn Centre have been learning about coping strategies and how to best use fidget toys and sensory toys to support them in lessons.

This week in our Monday school assembly, we discussed both the advantages and disadvantages of our online world. We talked about how we use and conduct ourselves online and the concerns and issues that it can cause. Learners were able to give good insights into the world of social media and mad...

For reward activities this week, our learners were spoilt for choice with some fantastic experiences and activities to be a part of! Learners had the opportunity to take part in a football event, an engineering experience, a visit to the Winter Gardens, bushcraft and then there was also time to...

We are incredibly proud of one of our year 11 learners who, after a very impressive interview, has been accepted onto a course focussing on skills required to work on a fishing trawler.

In English lessons, teachers will often model a writing task using the acronym WAGOLL = what a good one looks like! This helps learners to see detailed, quality examples of writing.

Group 4 have been working hard all week to edit and perfect their entries to this years Sunderland Spooky Stories competition. The Halloween themed competition, is part of the city’s third annual Lights Out festival, which will run from 22 to 31 October.