Croft Community School

Beamish Wild Habitat Hunt!

By l.robson February 26, 2020

P3 have been on another adventure to Beamish Wild. We went on a walk looking for different animals and possible habitats.

Today we saw lots of birds in the trees and insects hiding in the mud.

We decided to use modelling clay to make our own animals that we thought might be living in Beamish Wild woods.

We made a fox, snail, worm, bird, squirrel and a rabbit.

We then went into the adventure area and moved like different animals.

Swinging across the tyres like “monkeys”, crawling through tunnels like “spiders”,

climbing like “gorillas” and balancing like “birds” on a branch.

We are excited to go back next month to see what types of animals we might find in the spring months.

Year 11 College Taster and Transition Visit to East Durham College Houghall

By r.davison February 26, 2020

On Tuesday some Year 11 students visited East Durham College at Houghall campus to have a taster day and look at the courses and facilities they offer. Pupils heard about foundation, animal care, equine, dog grooming and farming courses that the college has for young people.

Pancake Day

By l.robson February 25, 2020

P3 enjoyed learning about Shrove Tuesday.

Mrs Convery explained about why we make pancakes today and discussed the meaning of Lent.

We took it in turns to measure the ingredients and mix them together.

We then went to the cookery room to cook our pancakes.

Mrs Convery made us all laugh when she started to flip them. Thankfully Mrs Convery has very good hand eye co-ordination and the pancakes landed back in the frying pan.

We then chose a filling and enjoyed eating them.

Happy Pancake Day Everyone!

Family Centre Information

By l.davis February 24, 2020

The County Council have asked us to share information about services that are available at local family centres. Please see the link below for more information.

http://www.durham.gov.uk/familycentres

School Closure

By l.davis February 24, 2020

Morning and Apologies to everyone.
Due to the inclement weather and the road situation for many of our staff we are going to have to close the school. We will update the Facebook and website page regarding tomorrow.

Parent Survey results

By l.davis February 19, 2020

Evening Everybody
Just a quick note that a summary of the parental survey results have been compiled and put on the school website. These can be found under the Parent Tab on the website, there are also some other documents related to questions and suggestions that came back from the surveys. These are in the form of a ‘You Said, We did’ document. Hope you find them useful and if there is any other information you need please don’t hesitate to contact the school.

Youth Parliament Election

By r.davison February 14, 2020

Today at Croft Community School secondary pupils all voted in the Youth Parliament election. 11 representatives from each secondary pastoral class were entered into a vote where all students voted for two pupils to become our Youth Parliament members from school. Head people Logan and Orhan helped man the polling station as each pupil had their stay. Many came close to winning the prestigious posts but in the end Adam in Year 7 and Callum in Year 9 came out on top.

British Values Day

By l.oliver February 14, 2020

What an amazing day we have had across school today. Every class was busy creating artwork based around the British Values in each curriculum area. We have lots more photos to upload but here is a mosaic of our pupils wearing the colours of the Union Jack flag.

Hunting for Stomata

By s.levee February 13, 2020

Today P2 were wondering how can plants breath when they don’t have a mouth like us… or so we thought.

We used a microscope and found that they DO! They have tiny holes in the leaves called Stomata which they use to take in Carbon Dioxide and release Oxygen for us to breath.

We all though that microscopes were amazing pieces of equipment.

Bubble fun

By s.levee February 13, 2020

Today the children in primary had a fun filled visit from Crazy Colin the Bubbleologist. We had an amazing time watching the wonderful variety of bubbles he was able to create. Our favourite was the millions of bubbles Crazy Colin used to give Jane a new hairdo. The white bubble bombs were magical, we all wondered how he managed to do it.

Thank you to the FOCCs for organising this for us.