Fishing Club – Enrichment

Today during Enrichment, we took our fishing group onto the school field to learn and practise different ways to cast. We also had a competition to see who could cast the furthest and land their weight into different targets. Excellent afternoon had by all, and the pupils loved every second. Mr Harrison.

REWARDS DAY!!!!

Afternoon all, Summer rewards day is fast approaching. Rewards day will take place on Monday 18th July. We have Party Time inflatables coming again with some of their amazing inflatables, most of which are new to Croft this summer. Vision and CER, supply staff agencies that we use, are providing some lovely refreshments in the…

Community Mural

The ‘Community Mural’ is finally finished and we couldn’t be happier with the result from Lewis and Jordan @durhamspraypaints. Below the images show the progress and finished wall which was created within a week. We absolutely love it!!!!

Mural – Creating the Design

Last week pupils from primary and secondary shared their work, on the local community, with Lewis creating the mural on the top yard. Parents, carers and people from the community also came into school and shared information, knowledge and images with pupils and Lewis to support with creating the ‘Community Mural’. The pupils created some…

Community Morning

Good Afternoon everyone, Today we held a community morning in the school garden and it was a huge success. We showed parents, carers, Stoneleigh residents and friends within the community the updates of the Mural which Lewis and Jordan have been working hard on all week. We opened up the Garden and the PTA had…

Vocational Studies Fishing Trip

As part of the Vocational studies qualification, some of our year 11s had to demonstrate their new skills of being able to assemble fishing equipment safely, cast correctly & land a fish. This was our second visit to Derwent Reservoir and just like last week, we all had a reel-y good time. All of the…

Pizza Oven in the making.

The pupils have been working extremely hard designing and creating a pizza oven this term for the whole school to use, the vision being to start a small enterprise in the vocational department. Pupils have used their knowledge and applied their new skills acquired from their bricklaying course and applying them into constructing and making…

Vocational Classroom

As a school we are continuing to develop and improve the Vocational Department. Below is the vocational classroom, which has been wrapped in cartoon images of some of the courses we now offer. This is with the intention to grab pupils’ imaginations and inspire them when they come to learn in the vocational areas around…

9R Fractions

In maths this week we focussed on fractions having equal parts. We cut up pancakes into 1/2 (half) and 1/4 (quarter). We used the segments of an orange and put them into thirds, and for a challenge we succeeded to cut a cupcake into sixths. The children recognised that when they halved, quartered and cut the…