The Sallygate School

Amy delivered another wonderful session for our pupils in the leafy surroundings of our forest school this week 🍃🍃

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What a fantastic day of creativity and expression!
Our students immersed themselves in a range of exciting workshops, showcasing imagination, resilience, and artistic talent throughout the day.

3D Sea Life Creations
Students designed and built incredible underwater creatures and plants, transforming simple materials into colourful sculptures before bringing them to life with paint, markers, and glitter. Some even created stunning ocean backdrops to display their work!
Graffiti Art Workshop
Using spray guns and stencils, students explored the techniques used by street artists, experimenting with bold colours, layering, and creative lettering to produce unique pieces that reflected their personalities.
Doodle Lettering
Creativity flowed as students transformed words and names into detailed works of art, filling each letter with imaginative patterns, illustrations, and designs to create eye-catching personalised pieces.
Drama Workshop
The day also included energetic warm-up games, character challenges, superhero and villain performances, vocal exercises, and collaborative scene work. Students developed confidence, communication skills, and creativity while having plenty of fun!

It has been wonderful to see our young people stepping outside their comfort zones, supporting one another, and producing work they can be proud of. We can't wait to see what they create next!

🌸☀️ The flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, and we can’t wait to welcome our wonderful children back to The Sallygate School tomorrow for the start of the Summer Term!
We hope everyone has enjoyed a restful break and is ready for a term filled with learning, laughter, friendship, and new adventures. We look forward to seeing all your smiling faces in the morning. 🌼

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🚴‍♀️ Happy World Bicycle Day! 🚴‍♂️
Today, we're excited to launch the Government Cycle to Work Scheme for all employees, making it easier and more affordable to choose a healthier, greener way to commute.
Whether you're a seasoned cyclist or thinking about getting on two wheels for the first time, this scheme can help you save money on a new bike and cycling equipment while supporting your wellbeing and reducing your environmental impact.
Let's celebrate World Bicycle Day by taking a step towards a more sustainable future - one pedal at a time. 🌍💚
Visit our careers page to find out about more of our employee benefits.
https://channelsandchoices.co.uk/careers/

We celebrated Beltane by making flower crowns and wreaths, we also enjoyed making sensory potions.

We also have two new mascots at forest school who are going to join us on our adventures!
We asked all at Sallygate to vote for names and we are happy to announce they are Named Elaine & Kerrin after our wonderful ladies in the office 🐻🐻 Some of their activities with the children involve bubble making
Wood chopping
Making fruit kebabs
Trying out our bug tepee
Wearing flower crowns and enjoying our new swings ☀️🌳

A huge thank you to all the families who joined us for our school open day last week – it was wonderful to meet so many of you and share what makes our school so special ✨
Watch this space for details of our next open day… we’d love to see even more of you there!