National Apprenticeship Week
The 9th to 15th February 2026 is National Apprenticeships Week.
Students watched a whole school assembly all about Apprenticeships and have been completing short activities and tasks within their Citizenship lessons to learn more.
Did you know there are 700 different apprenticeship…
Which material is best?
In science we have continued our work on materials and today had the task of picking the right material to make a pair of curtains. We loved testing each material describing it's properties with our key vocabulary.
PC Tony visits to help us to stay safe on safer internet day
As part of internet safety day today we enjoyed a visit from PC Tony and PC Fox who talked to us about staying safe when we are using our devices and also brought big Bertha to show us! It was a huge hit!
Employability Skills - developing your own personal 'Brand'
Year 10 and 11 took part in an employability skills and personal branding session in their Citizenship lesson today. This was led by our school enterprise advisor, Sharon Brook, who is also Head of Sales at the North Lakes Hotel and Spa in Penrith.
Students learnt that personal branding is the…
Year 9 PE
Excellent teamwork and co-operation in PE today rom our year 9 students!
Getting hands on with arrays
Some fantastic work on arrays this morning in maths, we loved using all of the different resources to show our understanding. Great work everyone!
Talking about mental health in Cross Fell
As part of children's mental health week we have been talking about our sense of belonging. We talked about how we can look after our mental health and support each other. The children designed their own special places where they felt like they belong.
Year 9 Composing
Year 9 have been working on their free music compositions and many students have chosen to use Band Lab to produce their music. There has been everything from video game music, to science fiction film music. Keep up the creative work year 9.
National Storytelling Week
Wow! What a creative week we have had in the English department! As part of National Storytelling Week, our Key Stage 3 students have been writing their own lyrics and songs about issues that are important to them. The work they have produced has been phenomenal and Miss Sutterby and I are very…
National storytelling week meets forest school!
National Storytelling Week at Forest School
This week at Forest School we’ve been celebrating National Storytelling Week, letting stories come alive in the great outdoors
Well done Cross Fell!
Cross fell scientists
We loved our science session this week investigating which materials were absorbent. We got to use timers, pipettes and magnifying glasses to conduct our experiment and were brilliant at using a range of key vocabulary to explain our learning. Great job everyone!
7/8 Higher maths
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…