We have welcomed back Lewis @durhamspraypaints to create another masterpiece for the outdoor gym. Lewis has turned some weathered panels and a wall into an inspiring, motivating and uplifting sport silhouettes whilst incorporating the Croft logo colours. Pupils say……… “I think it looks futuristic” “It looks very retro” “I like the colours and the detail”…
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The Vocational group have been working extremely hard during the spring and summer term germinating seeds indoors, planting, creating raised / planting areas whilst preparing the soil before sowing the potatoes. Hopefully, we will have some tasty crops growing soon. Mr. Harrison
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More links within the local community. Another huge thank you to Harelaw Sawmill LTD for supplying the school with some extremely useful timber to enrich the whole school curriculum. Mr. Harrison
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Recently, we have had a relaunch of the Croft Garden where parents, carers, family and people from the local community came into school to help pupils work in the garden. Secondary Vocational pupils helped with the relaunch by designing and creating 6 bird tables for the garden. I would personally like to thank everyone that…
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Our Vocational pupils have been very busy! They have measured, marked and cut the sleepers into position and bolted them together to make 3 raised beds. In the images below, you will see the pupils preparing the beds ready for crops to be planted. More to follow with exciting developments happening in Vocational. Mr. Harrison.…
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Updates and further developments from the Vocational Department. A HUGE thank must go to Bridie and Travis Perkins who have kindly gifted the school and Vocational over £1500 pounds worth of equipment which included sleepers, 600 bricks, hose, water butt, gravel and building sand to support the development and enrich the learning opportunities for the…
DetailsTravis Perkins
Updates and further developments from the Vocational Department. A HUGE thank must go to Bridie and Travis Perkins who have kindly gifted the school and Vocational Studies over £1500 pounds worth of equipment which included a shed, sleepers, hose, 600 bricks, gravel, sand and a water butt to support the development and enrich the…
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Today the Animal Care group had a visit from the wonderful veterinary nurses from Vets On The Meowve. They demonstrated how to do a health check on an animal and how to restrain them in a way that keeps you and the animal safe. The children were even able to ask questions about getting into…
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In Maple class we absolutely love PE. On Monday 23/05/2022 we have been working on our balancing and using equipment that they may have not used before. We began by balancing a ball on the tennis racket to see if we could do this while walking slowly. We then tried to control the ball…
DetailsFun and Food May Half Term 2022
We are super excited about the Fun and Food Platinum Jubilee Celebrations. There are lots of fabulous Fun and Food projects taking place over May half Term! We are still adding activities to our webpage so please keep checking to see what’s on over the holidays www.durham.gov.uk/funandfood Also remember to join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/funandfoodcountydurham
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