NEW: Daily Tuck Shop

Our Tasty Treats Tuck Shop enterprise scheme has stepped up its operations to include daily trips around Chadsgrove School selling a smaller range of produce. Using a custom built usherette tray, made from a recycled tray and straps, staff and students are hoping to increase profits by meeting the increasing demands of their customers.

Tuck Shop

Tasty Treats Tuck Shop, the student ran tuck shop service that sells tasty treats within Chadsgrove school is still going strong. Each week students are involved in preparing the treats, getting the trolley ready and selling the produce in school. All the profits go towards funding more fantastic activities within our college. Items on sale include: Soup and a Roll Homemade Biscuits Cheese Savories Juice Tea Coffee Hot Choc Crisps We’re hoping to branch out… Continue Reading Tuck Shop

Bromsgrove Library – Books Beyond Words Sessions

Our first term of running a Books Beyond Words club at Bromsgrove Library has been a great success! Students have been on weekly outings to the library where they are working in a small group reading the popular series of books. Books Beyond Words are picture based stories with important messages about all of life’s difficult subjects. This first term has covered making friends and what is classed as appropriate behavior with those friends. We’re… Continue Reading Bromsgrove Library – Books Beyond Words Sessions

Eyegaze

Another massive thanks to the Tim Henman Foundation for our new Eyegaze system! Eyegaze is critical to providing a method of communication to people that otherwise may not have one. Using only eye movement to enable selection of words, phrases & icons, Eyegaze is a fantastic way for some of our young people to interact with the world.

Medi-Motion

The biggest of thanks goes to the Tim Henman Foundation for our new Medi-Motion bike! Exercise and activity is critical to everyone’s well-being, so we strive to include some in our lessons every single day. The Medi-Motion bike lets our students exercise in complete safety and at a level appropriate to their own specific requirements.

Merry Christmas!

The most wonderful time of the year approaches and we’re in full Christmas swing already! We held our annual Christmas Market in Bromsgrove on Friday 16th November and just like previous years it was a resounding success. We sold hand made gifts that were crafted by our talented students and staff. A grand total profit of around £300 was raised on the day!

Summer Fete

On Tuesday the 10th of July we held our first ever Chadsgrove College Summer Fete! College/school staff, pupils, parents and friends were invited to come along and try their luck at some games or buy some of the many craft items that our talented students and staff have recently created. Among the games were a jungle tombola, traffic light ping pong and a true test of throwing skill – Mogg’s Bog! We even had a… Continue Reading Summer Fete

Project Treasure Tree

Creating collage responses to a University suffrage archive of photographs and posters. Our students work was featured in a gallery for part of ‘Project Treasure Tree’ which links the suffrage movement, with the right to vote and work, through a project on the women’s land army during WW1. Inspiring future generations to learn about the importance of equality from history and its relevance to us all today. [Read More]