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• Friday 7 November 2025 Breakfast Club - 7.11.25 We're thrilled to welcome everyone back to breakfast club after the half term break!
• Friday 7 November 2025 9C Update - 7.11.25 A Fantastic First Week Back for 9C!
• Friday 7 November 2025 Medlock Gym Our sessions at Medlock Gym are back in full swing this half term for our Sports Pathway students. During this next block they'll be looking to improve their fitness, strength and confidence. It was fantastic to see so much enthusiasm and determination during their first session.
• Friday 7 November 2025 Horticulture - 7.11.25 This week we have been very busy in horticulture.
• Friday 7 November 2025 National Videogame Museum The Digital Pathway visited the National Videogame Museum.
• Friday 7 November 2025 Work Experience Thursdays Pupils from Sports Pathway had their first shift at Debdale Water Sports Centre.
• Thursday 6 November 2025 Dystopian Worlds This week core group 1 started their new English topic ‘Dystopian World'. We are basing our work on The Hunger Games. We have watched clips from the film and talked about what it must be like to live under a dictatorship.
• Thursday 6 November 2025 Sensory 1 - Baking Pupils in Sensory 1 practised their baking and decorating skills making toadstools fairy cakes linking in with our magical mystical theme.
• Thursday 6 November 2025 Kayaking What a fantastic end to our kayaking programme at Debdale Water Centre! Over the last 7 weeks, our students have developed their paddling skills, water confidence and teamwork, all while having plenty of fun on the water. They've also all secured their Start Award from Go Paddling which is a great achievement.
• Friday 24 October 2025 Headteacher's Blog - October Half Term 7F Food Technology
• Monday 20 October 2025 Super Learning Day - Hinduism Our Super Learning Day on Wednesday 15th October was a wonderful opportunity for the children to explore and celebrate the rich traditions of Hinduism.
• Monday 13 October 2025 World Mental Health Day 2025 - Hello Yellow What a wonderful day celebrating World Mental Health Day! Our whole school community came together wearing yellow to show our commitment to mental health and wellbeing.
• Friday 10 October 2025 Harry Potter Day Pupils at Samuel Laycock School experienced a truly magical day as they celebrated Harry Potter Day 2025! The school was transformed into a world of wizardry and wonder, with activities including potion-making, crest-designing, face-painting, baking, herbology, and even a thrilling game of Quidditch!
• Monday 21 July 2025 Samuel Laycock Summer Newsletter - July 2025 Please take some time to look at the final newsletter of the 2024/ 2025 academic year from Samuel Laycock!
• Thursday 10 April 2025 Yorkshire Three Peaks! We Did It!
• Friday 4 April 2025 Samuel Laycock - Spring Newsletter (April 2025)
• Friday 7 March 2025 7B's World Book Day 2025 7B showed up this morning to the news that our beloved Mrs Wilson had disappeared!
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Super Learning Day Tuesday 4th March was Super Learning Day at school. This time the pupils learned about Islam. We learned about the 5 Pillars of Islam, Shahada, Salah (Prayer), Zakat, Sawm (Fasting) and Hajj (Pilgrimage).
• Friday 14 February 2025 Bowling Blog! Our Key Stage 4 communication pupils ventured to Hollywood Bowl, Middlebrook in Bolton for the Greater Manchester Bowling Finals, after qualifying in December in the Tameside District competition. Seven of our amazing pupils Faris, Savannah, Steven, Deacon, Lewis, Ellis and Ellie took to the lanes for a very competitive event against 6 other schools from across Greater Manchester. Representing Tameside, Samuel Laycock pupils were raring to go with Deacon stating “We are going to win it Sir” on the way to the event.
• Friday 7 February 2025 Chill Factore! It was our 4th week on the slopes at Chill Factore, and due to lots of sickness bugs around school only 5 pupils managed to ski this week, however this didn’t stop our pupils making amazing progress throughout the lesson.
• Friday 17 January 2025 Living Skills - Self Care Today was all about self-care in Living Skills.
• Friday 20 December 2024 Samuel Laycock - Autumn Newsletter (December 2024) Please take a moment to read the latest newsletter from Samuel Laycock.
• Friday 13 December 2024 Mission Christmas This week, pupils from from KS4 Comms and KS4 Sensory pathways completed their fundraising activities following the £400 they have raised.
• Monday 9 December 2024 Careers Newsletter - Issue 2
• Tuesday 3 December 2024 KS4 Sensory - 3.12.24 Yesterday in PSHE, pupils form the KS4 Sensory pathway focussed on recognising our energy levels and exploring some of the strategies we could use to help us to focus in our lessons.
• Friday 29 November 2024 Horticulture Update - 29.11.24 Pupils from the Horticulture pathway went to Cockfields Farm for their last week of work experience, 2 members from the digital pathway joined us to make a short film for the school website.
• Thursday 21 November 2024 KS4 Comms Blog Pupils from KS4 Comms braved the freezing temperatures to take a trip to Manchester yesterday. We travelled by bus, then tram with pupils being able to buy their own tram tickets.
• Monday 18 November 2024 Super Learning Day - Judaism
• Monday 18 November 2024 Sport Pathway Goes Boxing On Friday, some of our year 10 sports pathway pupils attended their first boxing provision with Sporting Chance Group and head coach Eamonn Muldoon.
• Monday 18 November 2024 Anti Bullying Week Drama Workshops Last week, all pupils in KS3 took part in Anti-bullying drama workshops.

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