The hunting of the snarks by Lewis Carroll
Today in Forest School, Anna told us all about ‘snarks’ and the story behind them. An elusive creature created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem in 1876! We got the chance to forage for sticks, stones and other natural materials and use feathers and clay to make our own version of a snark.…
PE with CUFC
Another high-energy PE session with Carlisle United! The children had a fantastic time getting active, developing their skills and showing great teamwork and enthusiasm. Well done, everyone!
Exciting news for our Young Writers
We were excited to learn that 38 of our students across Years 8, 9 and 10 have had their short story submissions accepted by Young Writers. These will be printed in a book and distributed to participating schools across the UK.
The 100 word short stories had to cover the theme of 'Wanted' and…
Join the Roman Army!
Year 7 students are working through their first topic in history- Roman Britain.
After learning about the extent of the Roman Empire, students moved on to exploring the composition of the Roman army and the day-to-day work, training and equipment of legionary soldiers.
Class 7B thought about…
Claude and the city
In Literacy today, we acted out a scene from our class story ‘Claude in the City’ to help us to understand the events and build our vocabulary for writing. It was lots of fun and we can’t wait to find out what happens next!
Phonics boosters, fast tracking our learning!
We have started afternoon phonics booster sessions to support and fast track the learning of our sounds. It was wonderful to see how engaged everyone was and how quickly we could say the sounds.
Well done to Riley who was phonics star yesterday!
Maths in Cross Fell
Today in maths we have been looking at numbers 16-20 and using different maths resources to help us with our learning.
Getting hands on with a range of concrete resources really helps us to see and understand what is happening and helps use to make sense of tricky maths problems quickly…
Year 11 Study skills with a focus on 9/11
After completing a VAK quiz last week in Citizenship to identify their preferred learning style- Audio, Visual or Kinaesthetic, Year 11 students learnt how to create mind-maps and other visual aids as a revision resource.
They were first given some information about the 9/11 terrorist attacks…
Exploring key themes in Macbeth
As part of their introduction to William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Year 10 have been learning about the core themes of the play.
After matching up key words and their definitions, students were put into small groups to explore questions relating to the themes of Ambition and the Supernatural in…
The creation story
In RE we are going to be learning about the story of creation and thinking about whether we should look after the world.
We kick started our learning by making our own precious creations then thought about how we would feel if someone destroyed them or didn't look after them…
The cabin!
Back to Forest School!
What a fantastic first Forest School session back! The children loved getting stuck into outdoor exploring and most excitingly, discovering our brand-new Forest School cabin!
We also enjoyed showing Anna what we had been getting up to during the holidays, using…
Year 7 -Transition to secondary school & managing change
On their very first day at SKS, our new Year 7 students took part in an active Citizenship lesson where they learnt all about life transitions and strategies they could utilise to help them manage change.
Students discussed the similarities and differences between primary and secondary…