Key Stage 3 Learning

Our topic this half term in Year 8 and 9 is 'A School Trip', which is perfect timing for the Berlin Trip! Last week students were thinking about what phrases they would need in they went to Germany, and creating a phrasebook to take with them

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, some students in Year 8 listened to an online webinar from the writer Tom Palmer. 

Students learnt all about Tom's creative process when developing a story for publication and listened with interest when he talked about the need for the design of a…

Year 7 kicked- off National Careers Week in style with a special careers day at the North Lakes Hotel and Spa, Penrith.

The bespoke event was organised by Sharon Brook, our school Enterprise Advisor and Head of Sales at the hotel. 

Along with being taken on a tour of the hotel and…

Year 7 are making tote bags. Practicing ironing bag handles. No excuse not to iron your shirts now!

All students in Year 7 and 8 took part in a special STEM and careers workshop entitled 'Moo-ving through Digestion'. The workshop was delivered by Edidiong Akpan from SmartSTEMS and was supported by Digital Dairy Chain.

Students learnt all about Monogastric and Ruminant digestive systems and…

Year 7 have started using 'The Day' online newspaper during their literacy sessions. This week, they were keen to read the story of Punch, the baby macaque monkey who was abandoned by his mother at a zoo in Japan. Zookeepers gave Punch a cuddly orangutan toy to act as a substitute mother until he…

Year 7 have blown me away today with their composition skills. We have been learning about different musical forms including binary, ternary and rondo.  Today's final task of the unit involved learning the Pentatonic Rondo (using 5 notes of the scale) and composing a section B in response to it. …

The 9th to 15th February 2026 is National Apprenticeships Week.

Students watched a whole school assembly all about Apprenticeships and have been completing short activities and tasks within their Citizenship lessons to learn more. 

Did you know there are 700 different apprenticeship…

Year 9 have been working on their free music compositions and many students have chosen to use Band Lab to produce their music.  There has been everything from video game music, to science fiction film music.  Keep up the creative work year 9.

Wow! What a creative week we have had in the English department! As part of National Storytelling Week, our Key Stage 3 students have been writing their own lyrics and songs about issues that are important to them.  The work they have produced has been phenomenal and Miss Sutterby and I are very…

Our year 7/8 higher group have been doing some fantastic work on equations, inequalities and sequences. They have been able to multiply out and factorise brackets. Work on equations with the group being able to both form and solve equations and simple inequalities. As we finish off sequences…

Year 7/8 foundation have been busy developing their skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using formal methods. This has then been used in a variety of contexts including; solving problems with perimeter and area, financial problems, frequency trees and converting metric…