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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! 

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!

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…

Year 7/8 foundation have been busy developing their skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using formal methods. This has then been used in a variety of contexts including; solving problems with perimeter and area, financial problems, frequency trees and converting metric…

We have been engaging our learners at Samuel King's to think critically, participate responsibly and take ownership of their digital lives using a super unit of work from common sense education.

Students have built online resilience with our easy-to-use lessons, which have included videos,…

Just a reminder that we will be collecting reading diaries in the morning to tick off and move cars along the reading race track.

We move the cars for every 1 read per day so please keep writing in those reading diaries. It can be stories shared or stories that the children have read to you.
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To conclude their Preparation for Work and GCSE Options topic, Year 9 designed their own adverts for jobs of their choice, noting some of the skills, qualities or qualifications required. 

To enhance their learning about WW1 and life in the trenches, Year 8 listened to a special presentation in their History lesson from Mr Cockle, who spoke about his career in the British army and the work he did as part of Operation Orbital in Ukraine. Students were shown photographs, video footage…

Year 10 have blown me away with their GCSE poetry analysis this week.  They have been comparing Percy Shelley's 'Ozymandias' with William Blake's 'London'; both Romantic poets, and both giving strong messages about the abuse of power.  Keep up the great work year…

We have been exploring solos and harmonies in choir this week.  Danika has been sharing her expertise from her GCSE singing lessons with Mr Waldock.  The choir are enjoying learning some new songs in preparation for our next performance.  

 Forest School Fire Strikers 

Today at Forest School, the children had the exciting opportunity to use fire strikers as part of their outdoor learning. This activity was carefully supervised and focused on teaching fire safety, control, and respect for nature.

Gymnastics with Carlisle United 

Another fantastic session Cross Fell!
You were engaged, positive, resilient and growing in confidence each week!

Well done!