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To bring our Food Science theory lessons to life, our Year 10 students took on the challenge of making a classic French dessert: Tarte Tatin.

This practical gave students the opportunity to see key scientific processes in action. As the apples cooked, we observed the Maillard reaction and…

The Year 10 Food Technology students have been practicing their technical skills by attempting to make viennese whirl biscuits. We developed our precision, piping skills and thought about how we could use our baking and ingredients to make a light, crumbly texture for the biscuit.  

Year 7 have blown me away today with their composition skills. We have been learning about different musical forms including binary, ternary and rondo.  Today's final task of the unit involved learning the Pentatonic Rondo (using 5 notes of the scale) and composing a section B in response to it. …

We are very excitedly counting down to World Book Day 2026 which this year is being held on Thursday 5th March.

World book day aims to inspire every child to enjoy the life-changing benefits of reading for fun and as part of this we are going to be inviting the children in Cross Fell to come to…

What a fantastic final gymnastics session, KS1! 
The children showed brilliant balance, control and confidence as they practised their rolls, jumps and sequences. We were so proud of how they listened carefully, encouraged each other and tried their best right to the end. A wonderful way to…

We're excited to announce DODGEBALL CLUB run by John French from Action Ants every Friday. Details are on class dojo.
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Our school council have met and decided that they would like to mark the end of the week with a special event where you can wear an item of yellow- see details below from the school council.

Wear an item of yellow this Friday (13th) for Children’s Mental Health Week 2026 

Thank you as…

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…

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.

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!

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…

Excellent teamwork and co-operation in PE today rom our year 9 students!