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Welcome to South Craven School
South Craven is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive school, situated in Cross Hills, which is in North Yorkshire between Skipton and Keighley.
There are currently over 1700 students on roll and the school is very popular due to its success.

Learning is placed firmly at the heart of the South Craven School community. We recognise that education is the most important experience of your child's life and our main priority is to develop and stimulate an enthusiasm for - and a commitment to - learning which will last a lifetime.

Our own passion for learning is best appreciated by visiting the school and meeting the teams who make it a success, our students, staff and Governors. We welcome your interest and invite you to come and see the school for yourselves.

Dr Andrew J Cummings (Ed D FRSA)
Headteacher 
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What's happening at school

August

24

Wow! Best ever GCSE results!
South Craven is delighted to announce their best ever GCSE results.
 
98% of the students in Year 11 gained five or more A*- C grades – a 10% improvement over the last two years and 2% above the 2009 figures! With results well above the national average, the Cross Hills school has seen the headline figure of five or more A*- C grades improve by 48% over the last five years - a sustained year-on-year improvement that has put them amongst the national ‘most improved’ schools as acknowledged by the SSAT (The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust).
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August

19

Excellent A Level Results!
Congratulations to South Craven's A Level students on another outstanding set of A Level results which once again have broken records!
 
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July

15

Textiles Students Trip to London
On the hottest day of the year, nine Sixth Form Textiles students accompanied by two textiles teachers took a trip to London. Everyone had a great time, got a lot out of the trip and visited the V&A fashion collection, an exhibition of Horrockses Fashions at the Fashion and Textiles Museum, as well as seeing the cutting edge of fashion at the Dover Street Market and Libertys.

July

14

Primary Schools Athletics Festival
On Wednesday 30th June saw over 160 pupils attend years 3/4 & 5/6 Athletics festival at South Craven School. The festival included pupils taking part in the following events: Javelin, Chest Pass, Speed Bounce, Long Jump, Triple Jump and various short and long distance track events.
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July

14

National School Sports Week
During National School Sports Week, the Year 8 leaders at South Craven School organised and ran the following events at lunch time: a 5-a side World Cup Football tournament and a 'Dance-a-thon' for year 7 pupils. All pupils rose to the challenge and both events were very successful!
 
Football results: Winners - Italy & Runners up - Ivory Coast
 
Well done to the Year 8 leaders!
 

July

12

My Money Week
 Unless you have been asleep these past few months, you cannot have missed the news, that along with practically every other country, this one is experiencing a recession. Balancing the country’s books, trying to save money and budgeting has become the order of the day for governments.
 
Here in school, the PSHEE department are trying to get students to look closely at their attitude to money
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July

9th

The Solar Powered Challenge Competition
The Solar Powered Challenge is a competition for KS3 that takes place annually during the NYBEP Engineering Inspirations event at Elvington Air Museum. Teams from Year 7 and 8 were entered into two categories, "Freeform" where anything goes and "Scirocco" based on a standard kit.
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July

5

Scuba Diving and Camels!
Having at last, just finished taking the last exam of her 4 A Levels, Emily Yates is now looking forward to going to Egypt with the Yorkshire Schools Exploration Society for a month at the end of July.   She will be the first wheelchair bound person to go on such a trip with the Society in its 30 year history and has had to raise £2000.00 to claim her place.
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July

2

Student departing for six week stay in Ghana
After leaving school on the 30th June, Lucy Yates from Year 13, will be flying to Ghana tomorrow for a six week stay where she will be working in the OSU children's home, near Accra. She is not going with any organised group , having arranged it all independently and will be staying with friends of her grandparents. (Her grandfather, Mike Yates worked here for many years as head of RE.) While there, Lucy hopes to be able to do some art and craft work with the children and once home, is looking forward to going to Nottingham Trent University to study decorative art.
 
 

June

25

Student speaks to Lord Coe and Olympic Committee
On Tuesday 15th June Simone Santabarbara from South Craven School presented at the National Inspire Mark networking day at Leeds University.
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South Craven School, Holme Lane, Cross Hills
Keighley, Yorkshire, BD20 7RL
T:  01535 632861

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