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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!

Some fantastic work on arrays this morning in maths, we loved using all of the different resources to show our understanding. Great work everyone!

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 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.

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 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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