Cromwell Community College

Today we welcomed the amazing Jim Roberson to Cromwell to deliver motivational talks and mountains of inspiration to our Year 11 students in readiness for the upcoming GCSE exam season! ⬇

Year 9 pupils have been working hard on their project "Our Town". They have demonstrated pride in their school and town using perspective drawing skills to draw local buildings and the College ✏️

Year 11 Revision Sessions for the Easter break are now live on the Parent Arbor App under 'Activities'.
Please sign up by Wednesday 2 April.
There will also be a desk set up in the Sports Hall during the Parents' Evening today for support with signing up your child for the sessions.

Primary phase celebrated World Maths Day yesterday!
Activities included: combining PE with Maths; playing counting/number games; making different 2D shapes; playing partner games such as snakes and ladders and shut the box. Year 1 even did various number-based activities at Forest School! ➕➖➗✖️

Today Year 2 set off on a 'Traction Man' adventure through Chatteris. We followed his picture clues to the library where we learnt lots about the library and noisily joined in with the popular book Shark in the Park! Before leaving, we enjoyed a new 'Traction Man' story from the series! 📖

Thank you to all the local companies and colleges who have joined us today for our Cromwell Community College Careers Fair! 🤝 This is an important component of our Careers programme, where our pupils from Primary through to Sixth Form are able gather information about various career pathways.

Our Primary Phase children have received their new OPAL Bingo cards today!
Which class will be our winners this time?
Well done to Year 1 who were our last Bingo winners, they collect over 100 items! 🎉

Pupils and staff have been wearing red today to raise funds for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day! 🔴
Secondary pupils have also been invited to take part in a Comic Relief Treasure Hunt across the College, hunting for the punchlines to incomplete jokes to be in with a chance of winning a prize! 🔴

🔴👇 Friday 21 March is a non-uniform day to raise funds for Red Nose Day, with the Year 11 donations going towards the Year 11 Prom. Wear something red! 👇🔴

It's World Book Day 2025!! 📚Our Primary phase children and staff, along with the Secondary phase English staff, have embraced the day by dressing as their favourite book characters! 📚

Thank you to the parents and grandparents who came in this morning to talk to Year 2 pupils about their favourite childhood toys today. Although horrified to hear about the lack of TVs, they thoroughly enjoyed learning about different toys and making comparisons with their own toys!

Mr Oliver's Year 10 Catering students have been busy creating their pancake masterpieces this morning for Shrove Tuesday! 👩‍🍳

⬇ Take a look at the Cromwell Learning Hub's 'Book of the Week' ⬇

Mrs Stevenson's Year 13 Biologists took their learning outside yesterday - drawing the heart and tracking the electrical impulse that causes the heart muscles to contract. They were then able to link this to their understanding of the cardiac cycle from Year 12 👇

Mr Oliver's Year 7 Art class have been making some fantastic clay skulls for their 3D project based on the 'Day of the Dead'! 💀

Mr Freemantle took a group of pupils to Wembley Stadium yesterday to experience international women's football ⚽️ England Lionesses triumphed with a hard-earned 1-0 victory over Spain in the UEFA Women’s Nations League! ⚽️

📣REMINDER!!
Our PTA Bag2School collection is tomorrow, Friday 28 February! Donated bags of clothing and linen can be dropped off at either the Main Office or the Bike Shed next to the all-weather pitch tomorrow morning 👕👖🧤👗

Year 7 pupils had a fantastic, informative day at the National Space Centre today and were brilliant ambassadors for Cromwell! They were even given a demonstration by an old Cromwellian from many moons ago who now works at the centre! 🚀

Eat Them To Defeat Them Find out more about Eat Them To Defeat Them, the multi-award-winning ad campaign and schools' programme proven to get kids eating more veg!

Starting Monday 10 March, our Primary Phase will be taking part in the #EatThemtoDefeatThem campaign to encourage children to eat more vegetables. Get your children ready to munch, crunch and
chomp those veggies! For top tips, fun and prizes go to www.Eatthemtodefeatthem.com

The Cromwell PTA have organised another Bag2School collection! Donated bags of clothing and linen will be weighed and monies will go toward PTA funding. Unwanted clothing or household linen can be dropped off at either the Main Office or the Astro Bike Shed on the morning of Friday 28 February 👕👖👚👗

A huge THANK YOU to Party Sweet Cones for donating these amazing sweet bags to sell at the Cromwell Community College PTA Valentine's Day Bake Sale on Friday! ❤️ They will be available to purchase from the Bus Bay at the end of the school on Friday with the proceeds going towards the Year 11 Prom ❤️

Head to the Chatteris Parish Church on Thursday 6 March to enjoy stunning light art projections, including art created by Cromwell pupils! ⬇

Congratulations to 33 Year 7 and 32 Year 9 pupils who have had their work selected to be published in a Young Writers competition! 🖋 We are proud of you all! 🎉

What an incredible experience in College last week for some lucky art students who took part in a workshop with the talented SDNA artists, working on the "Light Up The Town" project! 🎨 They created colourful artwork that will be projected onto the church on Thursday 6 March 6-8pm 🌟

Take a look at this week's Book of the Week in the Cromwell Learning Hub ⬇📚

Well done to our Year 3 pupils, who have been working super hard on the Century learning platform at home again this week! A particular shoutout to this week's star, Phoebe👇