Key Stage 3 Learning

Our year 7/8 higher group have been doing some fantastic work on equations, inequalities and sequences. They have been able to multiply out and factorise brackets. Work on equations with the group being able to both form and solve equations and simple inequalities. As we finish off sequences…

Year 7/8 foundation have been busy developing their skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using formal methods. This has then been used in a variety of contexts including; solving problems with perimeter and area, financial problems, frequency trees and converting metric…

We have been engaging our learners at Samuel King's to think critically, participate responsibly and take ownership of their digital lives using a super unit of work from common sense education.

Students have built online resilience with our easy-to-use lessons, which have included videos,…

To conclude their Preparation for Work and GCSE Options topic, Year 9 designed their own adverts for jobs of their choice, noting some of the skills, qualities or qualifications required. 

To enhance their learning about WW1 and life in the trenches, Year 8 listened to a special presentation in their History lesson from Mr Cockle, who spoke about his career in the British army and the work he did as part of Operation Orbital in Ukraine. Students were shown photographs, video footage…

We have been exploring solos and harmonies in choir this week.  Danika has been sharing her expertise from her GCSE singing lessons with Mr Waldock.  The choir are enjoying learning some new songs in preparation for our next performance.  

Today in our lunchtime club we had some year 7s showing off their golfing abilities using the Wii!

After studying Viviene Westwood's fashion design, inspired by 17th & 18th Century fashion and the punk movement, we visited the Bowes museum to take inspiration from it portraiture exhibits. Year 8 students have created paper dresses based on their research.

Year 9 students gave been creating leaflets guiding the early settlers across the great plains and safely over the Rockies to find their fame and fortune.

A superb example here 

27^th January is Holocaust Memorial Day- the international day which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz- Birkenau, which was the largest Nazi death camp. It is a time for the world to remember the atrocities committed during WW2 and to think about the lives of those people who…

Brilliant work from Year 9 on the trampolines this morning. Some pupils perfected their somersaults with others pushing themselves to improve tuck jumps and front drops. 

The topic this half term in Y8 and Y9 German is Food. We've recently been looking at traditional German foods and also eating out. Students designed and created a menu in German