Allie Mason is an autistic author and today she visited The Rise School. Her book is 'The Autistic Guide to Adventure' and Allie held an adventurous sensory reading workshop with our primary learners making a seascape with sand and shells alongside her storytelling. Allie Mason

An excellent piece of perspective drawing by one of our Year 8 students, well done! 🎨

Well done to all our learners who completed their #DofE expeditions last week 👏🏕️ we are so proud of their achievements and determination. Also, a massive thank you to all of our staff who supported in making this opportunity possible.

A ray of 🌈sunshine at The Rise today 😊

Year 9,10 and 11 pupils will be heading off soon to complete their bronze and silver DofE expedition. Good luck everyone ⛺️🚶‍♂️🌲

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Here is Red Nose day 👃at The Rise!

Planetarium Day at The Rise to celebrate #ScienceWeek what a great opportunity for our community 🪐⚡️🌕ImmersiveExperiences

This week, Spruce class have been learning how to use tools safely and have made these mini robots to show off their skills.

Check out our Ambitious Youth Network. One young autistic person, who is part of the network, said:

💬 “Before I joined, I struggled to take part in group activities. Now I feel much more confident in a range of different situations.”

Join now 👉 bit.ly/3MzZN3a

Massive thanks to Elevated Minds CIC for hosting two fun and informative anti-bullying workshops for our pupils last week 🙏✨

Ash class have been entered into an english competition where they have to write a persuasive piece about helping the planet. To help hook them in, Sam has been busy littering their classroom with as much plastic as possible. #settingthescene

The WHOLE of year 10 joined together to play Volleyball on the last day just before the recent half term break. It was such a great game and moment for all the pupils to be engaged in sport together. 🏐🏐🏐👏👏👏

It’s table tennis Thursday at The Rise 🏓pupils enjoyed learning how to play and improve, great rainy day activity.

It's all Orange at the Rise today! in support of 'Mind' and Children's Mental Health Week. Staff and Pupils were asked to wear something Orange by a year 11 pupil for such a worthy cause. 🧡📷<🍊

Yr9 pupils enjoyed a quintessential 'afternoon tea' yesterday, it was jolly good! 🍰🧁🥞🫖

We are so proud of these two pupils!! They have both had their work published in ‘This Is Me’ ⭐️ Young Writers

As part of his Citizenshop project, this Yr11 pupil did a foodbank appeal. He has been absolutely thrilled with the result and was so proud of himself when he saw how much he had raised. Well done!! 🙌⭐️

So proud of Zenon @ TR6, winner of the West Thames Jack Petchey Award for January. Zenon was recognised for his contributions in organising a fund raising assembly for Remembrance Day. Well done Zenon!

Yr7 pupils enjoyed Skiing last week and some independently tackled the small slope! ⛷️Snowbility