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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…

Our GCSE French students enjoyed a game of battleships today on the topic of Illness. Battleships can be used as a speaking task in languages, and is a great way to practise pronunciation whilst having fun!

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.

Great to see so many students engaging with lunch time clubs.

The new timetable for clubs is up outside pastoral office. 

Sign up and get involved there is something for everyone!

As the exam season draws closer, students are working hard in and out of lesson using a variety of methods to help them study for there upcoming exams.

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.

On Tuesday during their Citizenship lesson, our KS4 students took part in an active workshop led by Emma Banks- Participation and Engagement Officer with Children’s Services at Westmorland and Furness Council

Emma informed students about the new 'Child Friendly Westmorland and Furness (CFWF)…