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On Tuesday 5th May, 17 of our Year 8 students went on a bespoke work experience day to Centre Parcs Whinfell Forest.

Students were given an overview of the Centre Parcs company along with its ethos and values, then learnt about a range of different health and safety requirements before heading…

Year 9 worked on their high jump skills this morning. Some on the Fosbury Flop, others on the lesser used ‘western roll’. 

Congratulations to all of our Year 10 students who successfully completed their work experience placements across the week of 20th to 24th April 2026.    

A big thank you to the following businesses and employers for offering our students placements with them, and for supporting and guiding…

Another fantastic Forest School session today.

The children fully embraced the outdoors—building dens, exploring the woodland, and letting their imaginations run wild.

There’s something special about learning in nature—the smiles say it all

We’ve had a great computing lesson today 

We used Chrome Music Lab to compose some pieces of music using a repeating pattern

Toys, toys, toys!
We were very fortunate to beable to secure one of the very sought after artefact boxes from Cumbria library service who put together a brilliant box of old and new toys for us to use as part of our on going topic. The children loved getting hands on and playing with a range of…

Some fantastic things going on in our linked learning today! The Hama beads were a huge hit as always. It is wonderful to listen to the children playing and learning together taking their learning in their own direction- great work everyone!

Before the Easter holidays, some students in Year 7 and 8 planted seeds to begin our own kitchen garden in the Food Technology room! The seeds have started to grow and we are hoping to include them in some cooking soon.

The seeds have been a wonderful link to our 'food provenance' topic in Year…

Thank you to Paul and Hazel from Good News for Everyone for visiting our lesson and answering some of the questions we had about Christianity.

Year 7 have been developing their cooking skills using the 'rubbing in method' to create their own pizza base; which we then topped with cheese, ham and sweetcorn. Well done everyone- they looked great!

Year 8 were delighted that their practical this week was chicken nuggets! As part of their homework they researched the difference between chicken nuggets and chicken goujons, watched a live demo and voted on their favourite chicken nugget. In the lesson we practiced our knife skills, handling raw…

We’ve loved spending time in our new and improved forest school area! The children enjoyed exploring the refreshed space, noticing the changes, and making the most of the outdoors, with the sun shining too!

As part of our session, we carried out a fun worm experiment to see how healthy our soil…