Key Stage 3 Learning

Cricket and Pickleball continue in games on Tuesdays. The wind required the children to do some ‘problem solving’ this afternoon. Great resilience by all. 

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’. 

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…

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.