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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…

There’s something magical about watching imagination come to life in the great outdoors 

At Forest School this week, we made our very own Stick Men!
The children searched the forest floor for the perfect sticks. Each one was carefully chosen — tall, twisty, smooth, knobbly — because no two…

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

Making fabric pencil cases.

 Art mock exam progress, half way through. 

We had great fun this morning making bird feeders inspired by our Robot and Bluebird story. Great job everyone!

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…

To bring our Food Science theory lessons to life, our Year 10 students took on the challenge of making a classic French dessert: Tarte Tatin.

This practical gave students the opportunity to see key scientific processes in action. As the apples cooked, we observed the Maillard reaction and…

The Year 10 Food Technology students have been practicing their technical skills by attempting to make viennese whirl biscuits. We developed our precision, piping skills and thought about how we could use our baking and ingredients to make a light, crumbly texture for the biscuit.  

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. …