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Year 7 are making tote bags. Practicing ironing bag handles. No excuse not to iron your shirts now!

Making fabric pencil cases.

 Art mock exam progress, half way through. 

We had great fun this morning making bird feeders inspired by our Robot and Bluebird story. Great job everyone!

All students in Year 7 and 8 took part in a special STEM and careers workshop entitled 'Moo-ving through Digestion'. The workshop was delivered by Edidiong Akpan from SmartSTEMS and was supported by Digital Dairy Chain.

Students learnt all about Monogastric and Ruminant digestive systems and…

Year 7 have started using 'The Day' online newspaper during their literacy sessions. This week, they were keen to read the story of Punch, the baby macaque monkey who was abandoned by his mother at a zoo in Japan. Zookeepers gave Punch a cuddly orangutan toy to act as a substitute mother until he…

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. …

In science we have been planting seeds, we looked at some mature plants and identified the different parts and will keep tracking the growth of both the plants and seeds over the next few weeks. We will keep you updated so watch this space!

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…