An Olympic Gold Medallist!

This week, we were lucky enough to have Nicola Minichiello (an Olympic Bobsleigh athlete) come into school and work alongside a group of Mentors who are working with Miss Herkes to use sport as a way of increasing physical activity, promoting positive mental health and well-being and running sessions for a group of mentees. They…

Mrs Convery Cookery Enrichment

On a Friday afternoon Mrs Convery runs a cookery enrichment group.   In these groups pupils learn a number of different skills, some being turn taking, weighing of ingredients, following instructions and communication and listening. Pupils learn to use different equipment and try to complete the task independently. This week the group made chocolate crispies.…

Science Forces in Hazel

Today in Hazel class we have been talking about forces and how different forces can move objects.   Today we focused on the push and pull force and experimented using a balloon and cup shooter and marshmallows. The class had to predict which marshmallow would go the furthest the big marshmallow or the little one.…

Croft is an Eco- School.

Great news, we are now officially registered as an eco-school, which is a step forward in empowering our pupils to help the environment. Since we began our paper recycling programme approximately one month ago we have more than doubled our weekly output. The last collection was 8 1/2 bin liners of scrap paper. We have…