Vamos Theatre Project
Published 29/09/23
Vamos Theatre visited Braidwood School for a week's project. The Project worked with 20 learners for one week. The learners developed their drama, confidence and performance skills.
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Read MoreDrama at The Rep
Published 21/09/23Drama students visit The Rep
Read MoreA new school year!
Published 13/09/23As we begin a new school year it has been wonderful to see so many learners happy
to be back in school. They have arrived with broad smiles and enthusiasm for being
together again in our school community.
Year 7 has made a great start to their time with us. They are a very cheery bunch
and ready for learning every day.
Read MoreSkills Day - World Pizzas
Published 18/07/23As part of a Skills Day learners were, in groups, required to make a pizza representing a country from around the world. The groups then researched the flavours / foods from a given country, prepared a presentation of their findings. Created a pizza that showcased the flavours / foods from their selected country. Designed a pizza box for the pizza. Delivered the pizza and presented their findings. All students were involved in a very busy day especially in the food technology room.
Read MoreWagamama visit
Published 06/07/23As part of our Life and Living Skills course we visited a Wagamama restaurant in Birmingham to learn how to behave appropriately in a public place. We learnt how there are challenges we may face in the ‘real’ world in terms of communication and problem solving skills. This trip allowed the learners to experience ordering their own food in the restaurant and how to follow the chef’s instructions to cook a dish themselves as well making their own freshly squeezed juices. They also learnt about different jobs roles within a restaurant and navigated how they can solve barriers encountered.
Read MoreTamworth Castle
Published 21/06/23Year 7 had a wonderful time visiting Tamworth Castle. They enjoyed exploring, starting in the Great Hall and armoury. They even got to hold replica items of armoury and feel just how heavy a helmet with chain mail was. Some of the Staffordshire Hoard was on display, and we were wowed by learning that the value of the whole hoard, found in a field by a metal detectorist, was over 3 million pounds!. As it was such a beautiful day the learners enjoyed running off a bit of energy in the park outside the castle afterwards and some got to practice their independence skills by buying themselves an ice-cream in the park café.
Read MoreNational Deaf Schools Football
Published 21/06/23On June 20th a selection of our pupils competed in the National Deaf Schools Five-aside tournament. This annual event was being held for the first time at the amazing St George’s Park, the home of the National team. Braidwood had five different teams competing, with the Senior Boys A team and Junior Boys A team coming extremely close to competing in the final.
The weather on the day was awful, with torrential rain making playing conditions very tricky. All of the players from Braidwood tried their hardest and made us proud. Well done everyone.
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Published 24/05/23Please complete the recruitment pack and submit.
More details on the vacancies section of this website.
Read MoreGartmore Riding School
Published 19/05/23Yet more of our learners have enjoyed the opportunity to learn how to ride at Gartmore Riding School. Many thanks to Tracy and her team of volunteers.
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Read MoreYear 7 Challenge Day
Published 09/05/23Once again Year 7 enjoyed a day of maths challenges and problem-solving exercises. First there was a competition to open an escape box by solving a series of maths challenges. The rest of the day was on the field rescuing "ducks", walking on "Skis", lowering hoops and making fire! Every one enjoyed the challenges and showed good communication and teamwork skills.
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Read MoreFarm Visit
Published 27/04/23All Key Stage Three learners enjoyed a visit to Mt Pleasant School Farm, Wythall. The school farm is on a working dairy farm run by the Charles family. Many thanks to Nina Hatch, the centre manager, for an interesting and informative visit.
Read MoreOur new Mural
Published 21/04/23This week we had the amazing Rebecca Vaughan, who is a Deaf Artist, in school to create a mural in our well-being room.
Our learners were asked what images, colours and phrases would be most helpful to create a calm, relaxing and safe environment.
Rebecca spent four days working really hard to transform the plain white wall into an amazing, immersive space for our young people to use when they are feeling overwhelmed.
We thank Rebecca, who was inspired to explore her artistic talents because of struggles with her own mental health, for creating such a beautiful, calming atmosphere for everyone at Braidwood School to enjoy.
Thank you