Here are our news articles. We hope that you enjoy reading them.
We are always happy to publish articles about our current and former students.
Please contact Mrs Coles (a.coles@balshaws.org.uk) if you would be interested in having an article on our website.
Thank you.
Superb Swimming!
On the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd November, 2024, two of our fantastic students competed at the Swim England North West Winter Regional Championships. To get to compete at this event is an achievement in itself as the age category is U16 and requires swimmers to achieve extremely quick qualifying times!
Year 10 & 11 Girls' Football Team Success!
Our Year 10 and 11 girls' football team were in 7-a-side action on Monday 4th November at Leyland St.Mary's.
Great Start for our Year 7 Girls' Football Team
Our Year 7 girls had their first football fixture on Thursday 31st November.
Panathlon Multi Sports Challenge
We hosted a Panathlon Multi Sports Challenge on Wednesday 9th October.
Geography Trip to Bowness – October 2024
On Wednesday 9th October, there was a Geography Field Trip to Bowness-on-Windermere for our Year 9 students.
Year 9 Fabulous Football
Our Year 9 boys' football team have had back to back games recently!
World Mental Health Day 2024!
We supported World Mental Health Day in school on Thursday 10th October.
Bedrock Achievements - September 2024
Congratulations to Miss Dudley and Mr Duckworth’s English group 8ST who are this month’s Bedrock Achievement Champions!
Amazing Athletics
A big well done to our U16 athletes who travelled to UCLAN sports arena to compete in the South Ribble Schools competition.
First Fixture for New Year 7 Football Squad
We had almost 80 Year 7 students turn up to our trials for our Year 7 football team, which was amazing, but also very difficult to select an initial squad from! After three weeks of successive trials a squad of 13 was selected for our first fixture against Leyland St Marys in the South Ribble Schools League.
MFL Languages Week
During the week 23rd to 27th September 2024, our MFL Department held their annual Languages Week, that also celebrated the European Day of Languages.
