Bonding Through Bushcraft Skills

Our Services Families students enjoyed a day learning bushcraft skills on Wednesday, building on the camaraderie and teamwork that was established last month during their raft building day. Experienced instructor, Des Bradder, come in to teach them various survival skills including 4 elements of bushcraft: cord, cutting, canvas, and container. They discovered what do you…

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Dancing With Distinction

In Year 9 Dance, students have been developing their contemporary dance skills alongside their performance skills. The students completed a practical assessment in line with their KLIs (Key Learning Indicators) 6,7,8. They were given the option to take this to the next level and sit a formal exam – IKDANCE Contemporary Standard 3. These 4…

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Inclusive Sports Team and Their Coach Celebrated

The Lord’s Taverners youth cricket and disability sports charity has just released a very moving video featuring two of our wonderful table cricket team members, Sarah and Summer. The video highlights the positive benefits that the inclusive sport has in breaking down barriers and empowering disadvantaged and disabled young people to fulfil their potential and…

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Headteacher’s Award for Hardworking Historian

Year 12 student Furkan Yildiz received the Headteacher’s Award this week, having been nominated by his history teachers who were impressed with the way he approaches his studies in A Level History. With English as his second language, studying complex Early Modern and American History is a greater challenge, but they have been amazed by…

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Following the Herd!

Year 9 Agriculture students visited Dobcross Hall Farm, a local dairy farm in Gaitsgill near Dalston, last week. The visit helped to illustrate the skill and care that goes into raising and maintaining a dairy herd. Their topic ‘Field to bottle’ allowed the students to get firsthand practical experience of a typical day on a dairy…

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Super Sports Leadership Day

Nine of our students from Year 8 and 9 headed to Hoops Basketball Centre in Barrow-in-Furness on Thursday 2nd May, to take part in an Inclusive Sports Leadership Day with students from four South Cumbrian Schools. Most of the students attending had special educational needs and the day was about how to include everyone in…

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Down Right Worthy Fundraising

Susan and Louise from Down Right Worthy came in to school last week to collect the money raised for the local charity on World Down Syndrome Day. A huge thank you to everyone who helped us raise £62 for the charity which works hard to organise events and days out for children with Down Syndrome…

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Headteacher’s Award for Student With Multi-Interests

Year 8 student Max Trager was presented with this week’s Headteacher’s award. Teachers describe Max as very hard working, and he always displays good manners with an exceptional attitude towards his learning. Max strives to ‘be the best he can be’ by attending a range of extra-curricular activities such as the Science Club, Chess Club,…

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Student Recieves Scottish Rugby Award

Year 10 student Anna Canning was very surprised but excited to have recently received an award from the U16 Scottish Rugby Team she plays for. The award was presented at the end of a six-week training programme which took place on Saturdays. Anna continues to train on Tuesday evenings in Edinburgh. Anna’s place as a…

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First Round of Rounders

The weather was perfect yesterday for the first Rounders games this year for our Year 8 and Year 10 teams at Caldew School. Year 8 Match The girls had only had one rounders practice since Easter so were not as ready as they would have liked but they had a fabulous game and played some…

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