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Last week in English, Year 8 and 9 students had a special focus on character design and creative writing.

The first part of the process was to look at existing comic book and graphic novel characters. Staff and students then had a go at sketching 'Unicorn Boy' by Dave Roman using a step by step…

Floor Surfing with the Action Ants!

Today, Action Ants showed us that you don’t need waves to go surfing—you just need a floor, some energy, and great teamwork!

Great effort from everyone today. The floor definitely turned into a surfing zone!

Students enjoyed learning about Apprenticeships and also renewable energies from Adam at  Teesdale Renewables. They learnt about routes into apprenticeships, pay, work expectations and more. Students were also taught about solar, wind and ground source heating and asked some excellent…

We have to book fair in school from Tuesday 17th March - Thursday 19th March

It will be open to families after school from 3.30pm-4.00pm

World Book Day vouchers will be handed out next week. Please keep these safe as these can be spent at the book fair the following week.

We hope to see…

We’re excited to announce that Action Ants are coming to deliver Multi-Sports sessions with Cross Fell on a Friday.

The team from Action Ants will be joining us to run fun, high-energy sessions designed to build confidence, coordination and teamwork through a variety of sports. This is a…

Today at Forest School we tried something new and very exciting… edible paint on bread! 

Once everyone had finished decorating, we carefully toasted the bread over the fire. Watching the pictures slowly toast was fascinating, and the smell of warm bread around the fire made it even better. 

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Year 9 students have been playing badminton after school on a Monday working towards their Duke of Edinburgh Award.

They have been, mostly, enjoying the experience and some have been, slightly, improving their skills.

It's good to see such dedication towards their achievement.

Thank you to year 7 for helping Middle Fell print space-themed t-shirts for the U Dance festival. Great job today.

Ash has created this beautiful drawing, which shows her skills in texture and tone.

Well done to our Year 10 and 11 students for taking part in a mock interview competition on Friday 6^th March to mark the end of a busy National Careers Week here at SKS. All students who were present on the day actively engaged with the event by meeting an employer or representative from the local…

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

Cross Fell really enjoyed dressing up as characters from our class book for world book day. As part of the celebrations we enjoyed sharing books with a tasty biscuit treat, sharing our favourite reads, enjoying a live lesson and most excitingly sharing the book that has just arrived that our…