Key Stage 3 Learning

Year 9 have been demonstrating their skills of teamwork, planning, adapting. leadership, problem solving, creativity, listening and speaking to create their music festival pitches.  I have been really impressed with their focus and engagement.  Perhaps some ideas for future careers will also…

Year 7 and Year 8 are doing Pickleball and Cricket now the summer term is here. Some great efforts today. 

An excellent effort from Year 9 in athletics this morning. They worked hard to improve their technique in Discus. 

In preparation for their end of unit assessment in German later this week, Year 7 were playing a speaking vocabulary in today's lesson. We made it even more fun by using a random name picker to choose their partners! They then used a dice to choose a square, and whatever word they landed on they…

Part of our literacy sessions at SKS involve learning and revising subject-specific spellings.  This week the focus was DT and year 9 worked in teams to compete for the most correct spellings.  Well done year 9.

Year 8 have been busy translating a scene from Romeo and Juliet between Capulet (Juliet's father) and Juliet.  Translating Shakespearean language is a challenging skill, but the students were able to give it a good go and they hopefully now understand the relationship between these characters…

Students in year 8 had an assembly today led by the School nurse team.

This was very informative and explained to them the reasons behind the HPV vaccine which is happening in school in 4 weeks time.

The assembly was very informative and students asked some excellent questions.

The students have returned ready for the summer term with blue skies and sunshine!

We have began our athletics with Discus lessons which the students have enjoyed trying to improve there personal best.

Year 9 had a fantastic visit to Hexham Racecourse today which was organised by the charity Racing To School.  

Carrie and Gareth from Racing to School shared their expertise and knowledge of the racing industry to deliver a bespoke STEM and careers active learning event. Students were given…

All of Key Stage 3 took part in basic First Aid training today, with a focus on life-saving skills. The pupils all had a two-hour workshop across the day, with the vital skills being practised by everyone in Year 7 to Year 9. Thanks to Action Ants for running the sessions. 

Year 7 have been learning to identify instruments of the orchestra. They used images of instruments around the music room to help them, and they came up with this way of working in the process! Well done year 7!

Year 8 have been collaging memories from their visit to Berlin.