A specialist provision for 11-19 year olds in Knowsley. We believe in celebrating neurodiversity and we are passionate about philosophical enquiry in education!
Our students have been baking with finalist Lizzie Aker from the Great British Bake Off today as part of our neurodiversity celebration week
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🏆WELL-BEING AWARD ACHIEVED!!! 🏆 So proud to have achieved the wellbeing award today!Our whole school community worked together to raise the profile of mental health and wellbeing throughout the school and develop exceptional provision
#togetherWeCan
@EducateAwards
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Students will be able to socially distance in our classrooms and have their own lidded box for all their own items. We are providing them each with a pencil case with their own set of stationary
#noneed2share
Staff and students have enjoyed World Book Day. We’ve listened to the wonderful
@AminaAtiqpoetry
over Zoom, enjoyed quizzes and activities in class, watched a video of stories told by members of staff and even a forest school camp fire book discussion with a hot chocolate!
We are delighted to announce that after a thorough assessment, we have achieved National Autistic Society Accreditation!! "Within all observations, both planned and incidental, autistic pupils were treated with dignity, status and respect"
@Autism
@CAHKnowsley
@OSSME_AI
So excited to be able to share the news that Alt Bridge School has achieved the Bronze Young Carers award in recognition of the work we do to support our students and their families. So proud of our Young Carers and our school
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@CarersTrust
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An absolutely amazing evening
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for the
@KnowsleyCouncil
Education Awards 2022. Not one but two awards for Alt Bridge School!! School of the Year in our category and Post-16 Provider of the Year. Also, truly delighted for the recognition given to our wonderful Liam!
Blown away by the fantastic achievements of our students! A special share for Matthew for achieving level 8 in his English Literature GCSE! Absolutely amazing news and he made Alt Bridge history!
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@KnowsleyCouncil
Fabulous first day back for our students. So proud of how well they adapted to the changes. It’s been a great day and wonderful to see them all
#happy2beback
#BackToSchool
Today marks the first day of Neurodiversity celebration week! A fantastic opportunity to learn about what it means to be neurodiverse and how we can show respect and support for each other. There are no limits on what we can achieve
#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
@NCWeek
We have students on site, we have students at home, we have a bespoke remote learning offer, we are offering paper-based packs as well as online learning, our therapeutic interventions will continue, we have staff on on rota, we have food parcels to deliver.....(1/2)
Today we said farewell to our fantastic year 11s! We hope you liked your deliveries today. All year 11s received a gift bag. Award winners were presented with a favourite book by the author of 2020!
@charliemackesy
congratulations to our nominated students
#time2fly
#Classof2020
Alt Bridge were delighted to receive this award this evening at the Knowsley Education Awards in
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. It means a lot to our school community and particularly our students who were there to enjoy the evening. Thank you
@KnowsleyCouncil
Our Special School of the Year is
@AltBridgeSchool
,
#Huyton
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The school has undergone major enhancements recently to create a calm & sensory friendly learning environment, where students are flourishing.
#KnowsleyEducationAwards
A very inspirational and informative event
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Our student reps came away with great ideas from this Climate Change Summit to get started on action at Alt Bridge
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Really looking forward to giving out special awards for students who uphold our school values of Care, Courtesy, Resilience and Determination in our special assemblies next week!
#positivity
#valuesforlife
Our staff and students enjoyed giving our visitors a tour this evening during our open event! Huge thanks to.
@carers_voice
and
@ShineTherapyLtd
for also being on hand to meet prospective students and their families 😊
As we prepare for Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2020 our display is a good reminder to all that being neurodiverse won't hold you back in life
#challengingstigma
@NCWeek
It has been wonderful to welcome all our fantastic pupils back to school today for the first day of term! We have a new Head teacher Mrs Menagh who thoroughly enjoyed talking to many pupils about their Alt Bridge experience
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#FirstDayOfTerm
Results Day 2023 and we are super proud of our students who achieved entry levels, functional skills and GCSE qualifications across a range of subjects. Great to see so many happy faces!
#AB2023resultsday
We are delighted to announce that Alt Bridge has been awarded the Philosophy for Children award! We will be continuing our work to teach philosophical enquiry skills across the curriculum
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We are saddened by the death of Queen Elizabeth II. A constant and reassuring presence for us. Our thoughts are with the royal family. Rest In Peace ma’am
Some fantastic work has been going on this week on the topic of anti-bullying. Our students have engaged brilliantly with the Random Acts of Kindness board
#PSHE
#Antibullyingweek2020
Delighted with our pod signs made by our technician Mr Collins. Staff will send students over to staff holding up the colour-coded pod sign and then students will be taken to their pod entrance
At Alt Bridge, staff and students have gone all out to celebrate World Book Day 2020! Well done to Mrs Rodgers our fabulous Head of English for organising! The students enjoyed many exciting activities today and through the week!
Our pupils have written a simple heart shaped message in support of refugees for refugee week. This theme is "compassion". The messages will go on display in Huyton Library and libraries across the borough from Monday along with messages from other Schools
#RefugeeWeek2023
Our scarecrow festival has been spectacular and students have really engaged with their designs. What do you think Twitter? This is the first group
#rebuildingrelationships
#outdoorlearning
Congratulations to our teams who represented the school at this week's Merseyside Boccia Champions! Our KS3 team finished runners-up and the KS4 finished in 3rd place. Alt Bridge will now represent Merseyside in the North-West Finals in January!
#PhysicalDevelopment
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Great evening with lots of support to raise funds for an important charity
@Make2ndsCount
thanks for the hospitality
@meadowparkscho
both teams were brilliant! Hope to see you again soon!
Parents/carers should not feel any pressure to complete the home learning activities we provide. It’s important they maintain good mental health and well-being. For some students the home learning activities will help with this but for others it will do the opposite
#keepsafe
Our kindness voting boxes continue to be filled this year with votes for peers. A reminder to our students that a little bit of kindness goes a long way and we are able to help each other
#positivity
#Wellbeing
#ChooseKindness
Congratulations to our year 11
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achievers this year for bronze and silver awards across performing arts, art and photography! Our students submitted work which was described by the moderator as “wonderfully creative”
#creativeambition
And the winner of the Great Alt Bridge staff bake-off was......Miss Hughes! 👏👏👏
Meanwhile our students have been having their baking workshops with Lizzie. Some fab photos to follow!
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@CAHKnowsley
We are looking forward to seeing our year 11 and post-16 leavers back for results day tomorrow 10am-12pm! GCSE, functional skills and entry level results available 😊
So proud the achieved the Sports Games Platinum Award!! A fantastic achievement after achieving the gold standard three times consecutively!
@YourSchoolGames
Our brand new creative enterprise cafe enjoyed it's first visitors this evening during our open event. Students are looking forward to inviting their parents and carers for our special coffee mornings coming soon!!
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OPEN EVENT! We warmly welcome prospective parents/carers and students to our open event coming soon! Please book your place by contacting Alt Bridge 👍👍
Thank you
@Seesaw
for this info graphic highlighting the engagement of our families, staff and students with one part of our remote learning offer
#remotelearning
we have delivered laptops, we are open, we are doing our absolute best and we are a team! Thnks to our staff team. Thanks to our parents & carers for their patience and care and for being part of our team
#BestPossibleOutcomes
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So looking forward to next week! We have lots planned! It takes all kinds of different minds to make this world a better place!
#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
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Brilliant news! So proud of our students who have worked so hard using our online learning platform from home and in school and of our staff who have made this possible !! 🏆🏆🏆
#blendedlearning
#accesingeducation
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So this week, my Alfie discovered he is to join 191 other brave inspirational children on the holiday of a lifetime to Orlando Florida!
@Dreamflight
my Alfie is coming for you 💙
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Congratulations to our year 11 students who have received their GCSE results this week. We are proud of how far you have come and wish you the best of luck in the future
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Such an honour to be invited to join our former Alt Bridge students at Buckingham Palace yesterday, as they collected their Gold DofE Awards achieved in 2020 from HRH Prince Edward. A fantastic achievement! Well done all!
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#Achievement
#WeDoDofE
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Our 'Grown-up of the Week' award this week goes to Mr Reddin who has been voted by the students for supporting their well-being. Well done Mr Reddin!
#wellbeingaward
From tomorrow parents/carers and visitors to our site will be expected to wear face coverings. This includes all outdoors areas. Our students and staff (unless exempt) will be required to wear face coverings in corridors and shared areas
#keepingsafe
#Covid_19
Great start to our leavers' week! Sunshine, ice cream and lots of laughs at Blackpool... well done to those that were brave enough to try The Pepsi Max 🎢 ! Year 11 and 13, we will miss you!
#ABschoolleavers2023
Fantastic support from our parents and carers with our planning for external work experience opportunities for post-16 students. Great opportunities are coming their way! What absolute assets they will be to the world of work
#preparation4adulthood
#thrivingatAltBridge
LIBRARY NAMING COMPETITION!
And our winning library name is ‘Shakespeare’s Corner’ suggested by one of our fabulous year 7 girls! We all hope she enjoys her Kindle and cosy hamper prize. Thought we would share a celebration of all things Shakespeare
@Shakespeare_N
@KnowsleyCS
A specialist school in Knowsley is celebrating after taking delivery of the 90th
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Smiley Bus.
@altbridgeschool
is a specialist provision school for pupils aged 11-19 and has been rated as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.
#ChangingLivesForEver
Thank you to Natalie and the staff team from Alt Bridge School in Knowsley for their participation this afternoon in the session on ‘Understanding and Supporting Neurodiverse Learners with ADHD.’
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Our students had an absolutely fabulous time at their five day PGL visit last week. Staff and students returned happy, tired and also filled with fabulous stories to tell. We look forward to sharing more photos with parents and carers soon!
#Thrivingcurriculum
@PGLTravel
Alt Bridge School are proud to have achieved the Rights Respecting Schools Silver award! This award recognises our continued commitment to the Rights of the Child and ensuring that children's rights are learned, understood and lived in our school!
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@UNICEF
Students and staff have been busy nominating random acts of kindness for our kindness display. Our kindness project is well underway this term
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@actionhappiness
Getting reading for Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024 at Alt Bridge School!! Our students have produced some amazing art work. Here is a little preview....
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@ADHDFoundation
We hope our students will engage with our new library naming competition for a chance to win this lovely gift including a kindle and other reading for pleasure goodies! Our students can log onto SeeSaw to get involved
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