We've had a very eventful couple of weeks around the centre with Halloween and Bonfire Night only a few days apart. Office staff set the tone for a very spooky and fun filled Halloween by dressing up in scary fancy dress. The centre was decorated with spiders webs rotten legs and ghostly signs, the lights went out and eerie background music filled up the corridors. A few screams were heard as a ghost ran round the corridors and popped it's head into classroom windows. 
After a day of lessons students enjoyed a Halloween party where they carved traditional Halloween pumpkins, got dressed up in face paint and Halloween costumes and ate their fair share of sweet things.
Some students took part in an apple bobbing competition and Kamil Abubakar took the prize for the most apples rescued from the water. Afterwards students settled down to watch horror film House on the Hill, a very exciting Thursday!
Only a few days later the UK celebrated Bonfire Night in rememberance of Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 in the failed Gunpowder Plot. Nowadays people light bonfires and fireworks and some make a Guy Fawkes doll to burn on the fire. A group of our students went to Leyland, a nearby town, to see one of the biggest bonfires in the North West and to watch a firework dispay. There were also fairground rides and food stalls to keep people warm and busy on a cold November night.
Now that these holidays are done we are officially on the countdown to Christmas and have only 4 weeks till the end of term and break for Christmas holidays.
Our next stop on the festive theme; tomorrow students will head back to Manchester for the world famous German Christmas Markets which open today.
