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SEND Green Paper Published At Last The eagerly awaited SEND Green Paper (Right support, right place, right time) was finally published at the end of last week. For this blog I have published an abridged article written by the journalist Sam Booth and featured in...

Chicago 2022 Of all our New Bridge Adventures, this year's groundbreaking trip to Chicago has to rank as the most ambitious yet. The students and staff were welcomed by our hosts, Ridgewood High, and in some style... We balanced our exciting work with Apple, with some...

Chicago Day 14 & 15 Well it finally arrived - our very last full day in Chicago and we were determined to fit in as much as possible! We were joined by Gilbert for Breakfast and then we headed over to the Field Museum - Chicago’s natural history museum! We had a...

Chicago Day 13 Day 13 in Chicago and as our trip comes to an end, our students had a full day at Gurnee Mall! They went off in groups to do a few hours shopping to pick up gifts and souvenirs to take home. We then all went off for lunch together in the food court...

Chicago Day 12 Wow! Today has been the most incredible day and the culmination of a lot of hard work in Chicago. Today was the final App Showcase at the Apple HQ in Chicago city centre and boy did it live up to all our expectations! We arrived at 401 Michigan Avenue,...

Chicago Day 11 Today was our last day at Ridgewood High School, and our last day for the students to finish their prototypes and the final day to rehearse their pitch to Apple tomorrow. This morning we started by breaking off into pods where teams took turns to...

Day 10 in Chicago Well today in Chicago we have turned into our very own business hub, with students working in their teams to prepare for our big presentation at Apple HQ on Friday. Students have to prepare a ‘pitch’ for their app idea, demonstrating a prototype and...

Chicago Day 9 Today at Ridgewood the students have been developing their app prototypes within their teams. This session was led by the Apple Campus leaders and some really interesting ideas are starting to take shape. Designing the app layout, adding logos,...