World Book Day 2024

Yesterday the staff and pupils had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day. This year we have linked it to our careers week and ...

Little City

As one of our final events for Careers Week Wrens, Bramblings and Nuthatches enjoyed a visit from Little City.  The students enjoyed exploring a variety ...

Careers week

As part of careers week students from Finches Class enjoyed running the staff tuck shop. They enjoyed practicing their retail skills. They loved welcoming staff ...

Little Bulb Theatre

A huge thank you to Little Bulb Theatre for yesterday's performance of Four Seasons. Four Seasons is a ...

Christmas Panto 2023

The children had a lovely morning watching a performance from > Read More

Friends of Critchill Halloween Workshop

 

Thank you to everyone who attend the Halloween Workshop and to all the staff who came to help. We raised £262 which will ...

Halloween event and AGM October 2023

Please find details below of our upcoming Halloween event and AGM
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Graduation 2023

We recently held our graduation at Frome Rugby Club. It was a lovely evening celebrating all the achievements ...

Sports Day

Sports Day was a huge success , a few shout outs. Thank you to Garrie for painting the lines, Connor from IG Sports and to ...

First Bus

Thank you to Jason and Scott from First Bus who kindly brought two double decker buses to school! The students enjoyed learning about the different ...

Sally Smiles, Working Futures, Careers Leader at Critchill School has recently won Somerset Education Business Awards ‘Careers Leader of the Year Award 2023.’

Sally Smiles, Working Futures, Careers Leader at Critchill School has recently won Somerset Education Business Awards ‘Careers Leader ...

Shelter for Forest School

Starlings class were delighted to receive this letter from Corporal W. Newing. Thank you for donating the covers to our school.

 

 

 

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***Eel release***

Finches class said goodbye to their new friends this week. We were one of three schools in Frome ...

Frome Street Bandits

Thank you to Frome Street Bandits who visited Wrens Class this week as part of their Beat and Boogie theme. Frome Street Bandits also played ...

Margaret is a guide dog puppy raiser

Post 16 enjoyed welcoming Margaret and Joey to school on Monday. The students learnt about the benefits of volunteering. Margaret is a guide dog puppy ...

Sing-a-ling

A big thank you to Willow from Sing-a-ling who came to Wrens class yesterday morning. This term Wrens class have been exploring their theme of ...

The eels have arrived

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Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

Today staff are receiving Forest School training from Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. We are looking forward to cascading this across our pupils curriculum.

 

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Friends of Critchill School Family Fun Day 2023

Friends of Critchill School are excited to announce our annual family fun day - Sunday 9th July. Everyone is welcome, we cant wait to see you.

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Friends of Critchill School Easter Workshop

Thanks to everyone who came to our Easter Workshop. We hope you had a great time and enjoyed ...

Great Western Railway trip

Thanks to Coral from Great Western Railway.
As part of our Preparation for Adulthood, careers programme and Critchill Code
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Careers Week March 2023

This morning we had a visit from Little City to start Careers week.
 
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World Book Day March 2023

World Book Day - As you can see the staff have enjoyed dressing up to celebrate.

 

 

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Ancient Greece WOW activity for Starlings and Finches

Starlings and Finches Class kicked off their new theme with our WOW activity - a Greek Feast. Children enjoyed experiencing life in Ancient Greece by ...

PSCO's visit

Wrens' class loved having the local PSCO's visit yesterday - Shelley and Chris read the class a story, let the children try on their uniform ...

Christmas fair 2022

A big thank you to all that came and supported the Christmas fair we made a whopping £450.

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Postscript visit

As part of a small enterprise project 6 pupils took part in designing a Christmas card. A massive thank you to > Read More

Finches class enjoyed creating their festive gnomes for the Christmas Fayre.

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GoFundMe - We are seeking to raise 30k for a new mini van

We are seeking to raise 30k for a new mini van. We hope you can support our project.

Art Attack for Starlings and Finches class

Starlings and Finches Class have been learning about all things Art this term in their theme Art Attack! Starlings enjoyed welcoming Jesse, a local tattoo ...

Our brand new Outdoor Learning Area

Wrens class loved exploring our brand new Outdoor Learning Area this afternoon as part of their theme 'New Beginnings'. Students and staff all enjoyed ...

Special Educational Needs.Somerset Expertise

Three students joined the (Special Educational Needs.Somerset Expertise) SEN.se Headteacher conference yesterday at Dillington House, Ilminster. The students spoke about their work experience at Critchill ...

Sports Week

As part of Sports week, the middle nest enjoyed outdoor activities provided by Wiltshire Outdoor Learning Team. The children had the opportunity to participate in ...

The Quality in Careers Standard

Critchill School is very pleased to announce  that we have successfully achieved the Quality in Careers Standard, through Investor in Careers and are now full holders of ...

Somerset Education Business Partnership Awards 2022

We are pleased to announce that Sally Smiles has been selected as a finalist in the 'Continuing through ...

Center Parcs informative talk

Thank you to Patrick and Eli from Center Parcs, Longleat Forest who recently gave a very informative talk to Hawks and Post 16 about ...

Mental health awareness week

As part of mental health awareness week, we held an Art Enrichment Day to promote wellbeing through the therapeutic value of art. Children's mental health ...

Friends of Critchill School Family Fun Day

Friends of Critchill School are excited to announce our annual family fun day - Sunday 12th June.Everyone is welcome, we cant wait to see you.

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Tortoise visit for Kestrels and Owls class

Learning in Kestrels and Owls Classes was brought to life this week with a visit from a friendly, old tortoise called Shelby! The classes have ...

Careers week - March 7th 2022

To start careers week we had a visit from Little City - North Somerset . The lower nest enjoyed engaging in role play ...

World book Day at Critchill - March 3rd 2022

Children and staff celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite character to mark the event.

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Catering Van - BBC Radio Somerset

BBC Radio Somerset recently visited our Catering Van.  Please click here to listen to the podcast.

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Critchill achieves perfect score in Gadsby Benchmarks for Career Education

Critchill School in Somerset were recently assessed as achieving 100% in all Gatsby Benchmarks for career education.

I had the pleasure of presenting Sally Smiles, Career ...

Please donate to our new sensory garden

To donate to out new sensory garden, please click here.

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New Playground

In 2019 pupils won a national competition with Kompan. Pupils visited various different playgrounds and parks to help them decide what they wanted included in ...

Home School Support & General Information

Please see ideas for working with your child at home, social stories and useful links here: http://www.critchill.somerset.sch.uk/home-school-support/

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