On Monday morning our lovely year 6 pupils were invited to an exclusive cinema viewing of The Minions “Return of Gru” to celebrate their end of year achievements. Everyone listened and followed safety instructions when travelling on the mini bus and adhered to personal safety when in the Metro Centre, walking up to the ODEON. …
During Cookery in Enrichment on Friday afternoon the pupils followed a set of visual instructions to support them to collect all the ingredients and utensils they needed to make a cream of vegetable soup and chocolate chip cookies. The pupils adhered to health and hygiene in the kitchen and health and safety in the kitchen.…
Beech class visited the outdoor educational to enjoy some amazing stone baked pizzas, baked in our new pizza oven. Mr Harrison and his gang have done an awesome job building it. We were able to add some of our own home-grown basil or parsley, which we all agreed made it even richer and nicer!
In preparation for the football match against the Oaks on Monday night, FC Crofty Crew had their first training session last night. Mr Pearson put the staff through their paces with an outdoor gym session, then down to business. Team spirt in the camp is high after Mr Harrison, Mr Jacques, Mr Cameron, Mr Heywood,…
The first of our onion crop has been used to make our cheese and onion quiche by the kitchen cook for school dinners. It went down well with the students – just ask them!
In Maple this term we have been looking at loads of different transports. We have been comparing old transport and new transport to see the differences and how much they have changed. We then looked a the old sculptures of the vehicles we have in our class and had a Art lesson. We looked and…
Good Afternoon Everyone We have had the idea of creating a living history wall on the side of the school building and we are hoping that you will be able to help us. We have a local artist called Lewis from Durham Spray Paints who is coming into school to create the mural from photographs,…
Today we had our final day for our lovely Year 11’s. A lovely assembly where students were awarded with certificates and given their hoodies, Yearbooks and a group photo. Students then walked around school to get their Yearbook’s signed from their friends and staff – a brilliant memory to last forever. We finished off the…
During our Personal life skills this week in Birch we have been practicing how to clean and care for our hands. The pupils discussed the importance and benefits of having clean hands and the impact it has if we have dirty hands, such as using them to eat and the germs going into our body…
During PE today primary took advantage of the sunshine and went onto the big playing field where Birch joined up with Beech and a few pupils from Hazel to play Cricket. The pupils and staff were split into two team with one team practicing, turn taking, waiting, hitting the ball, running from bay to bay…