Ready Steady Bake!
Key Stage 4 and Year 9 Food Technology students have been given free-reign in the kitchens this week to make any dish they wanted, either by bringing ingredients in from home or by using whatever they can find in the Food pantry.
One particular Year 9 group showed fantastic creativity; thinking…
Philosophy for Children (P4C)
Year 8 have been attempting to answer some philosophical questions in Religious Education. Developing transferable skills such as critical thinking, reasoning and communication.
Building our love of reading - unwrapping one book at a time!
Our Advent calendar is nearing it's end and we have loved hearing a different Christmassy themed story each day, it really has helped to spread a little joy and helped to continue to build our love of reading.
KS4 Edinburgh Trip
City residential to Edinburgh is underway. Sightseeing on day one.
Charity leaflets
As part of our study of Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’, we have been exploring the idea of charity and what that means, particularly around Christmas time. The year 8s have produced some splendid charity leaflets using their best persuasive skills. Well done year 8, Mrs Hinkley is very proud of…
Interhouse Blooket Competitions
This week we had two inter house competitions held in the ICT room, where students from KS3 and KS4 competed against each other on the website Blooket. It's always been a favourite for language learning (currently used for KS3 German homework) but there so many more quizzes on every topic you can…
'GCHQ' Code Breaking in Maths
KS4 pupils were using their problem-solving and teamwork skills in Maths this week to break codes as part of a GCHQ session.
He's behind you! Cross Fell visit the pantomime
What a fantastic morning we have had at Hexham! We really enjoyed watching the pantomime Red Riding Hood and loved our snack bags in the interval. A huge thankyou to everyone on the PTA and Alston and Garrigill charity for their kind donations to make our trip happen and Ms Reed who organised…
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Carol Singing at The Day Centre, Alston
Today our choir performed Christmas carols and songs at the local Day Centre. They put a smile on everyone’s faces and even received some chocolate treats as a thank you. Well done singers and thank you to the Day Centre for having us.
Anderson Shelters
We've been waiting for this with bated breath.
And it was worth the wait, and outstanding piece of work from my year 9 history group.
Cross Fell computing- digital photography
Computing
Wow, we can alter photographs!
Children independently changed their photograph to black and white.
We discussed that images that we see in different places can be altered as well.
Marshmallows!
Forest School Friday! Today Anna talked to us about campfire safety in our session before we toasted marshmallows. We got to eat them with biscuits. We also got to meet our two new resident chickens!