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

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 gave up time to come and support the pupils and share their expertise and knowledge with the pupils.

Mr. Harrison

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.

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 pupils at Croft.

Thinking of any DIY, home improvements or looking for any tools/equipment. Fear not, we have something that might interest you.

As part of the deal we have been provided with Trade Cards available to all staff, parents and carers.

Everyone is welcome to access the TP Trade Cards, these can be opened and registered via Travis Perkins website – this gives a minimum of 10% and up to 25% discount on certain products.

https://www.travisperkins.co.uk/create-account/cash

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 learning opportunities for the pupils at Croft.

We have been provided with Trade Cards available to all staff, parents and carers.

Everyone is welcome to access the TP Trade Cards, these can be opened and registered via Travis Perkins website – this gives a minimum of 10% and up to 25% discount on certain products.

https://www.travisperkins.co.uk/create-account/cash

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 the veterinary profession. It was a wonderful visit and we look forward to seeing them again.

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 and making it fall into the hoops. Working on our hand and eye coordination.

We then used our bats the see how far we could hit our tennis balls. This was a little tricky.

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

A big congratulations to Craig (Year 4) for his amazing writing during Read Write Inc. Over the last few weeks Craig has listened to instructions about figurative writing and what elements are needed to improve his writing. This is what he has produced.

Students in Year 7 to Year 10 have been loving Football Enrichment on a Friday afternoon, especially when we can go out into the sunshine and have a kick about. Today we went through some football drills and then played a full match. Well done to Callum for securing the weekly Man of the Match trophy too!🌟⚽️