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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…

Another fantastic football skills session today with Carlisle United

The sunshine was out and so were the smiles! The players brought great energy, focus, and enthusiasm from start to finish. We worked on ball control, quick passing, and confidence on the ball — and it was brilliant to see…

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…

We have loved looking at some toys from Mrs Brown's house comparing toys old and new and thinking about how toys have changed over time.

Great observations Cross Fell

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…

Thankyou to everyone who brought in toys to share to help to launch our toys topic, it was brilliant to see such a range of different toys. Next step comparing old and new toys- we are hooked already!

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.