Blog by Judith Bailey

Some of our leavers have been with us for 15 years and its is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye! We wish you all lots of luck.

The best day for the best people, we danced, sang and partied all day!

Massive thank you to the local business, charities and performers who all gave their time and resources completely free or paid for attractions.

Special thanks to Altrad, Bee Unique, Zoe Glen, Ged Hagan, Committed2Rock.…

Mountains 10 visited Whitehaven Civic Hall to see the junior theatre production of Moana Jnr.

Was a brilliant show and everyone was fantastic.

This morning Mountains 7 had visitors from Whitehaven, Egremont & District Credit Union, we had a great interactive session looking at the cost of food and how to budget for our meals.  We ended the session with a ‘blind taste test’ for Jaffa cakes, it was an even vote for Aldi own brand v’s…

On Monday this week Mountains 7 visited Workington Academy for the day for an excellent day of baking and making new friends!!  Next week they will visit us!

Mountains 6, 7 & 8 have had some really special visitors in class this week, coming all the way from Tanzania as part of the Cumbria Rungwe community link. They had a tour of school before joining our classes and immersing themselves in the Mayfield magic! In Mountains 8, Vero, Abigail and Saimon…

This morning we were honoured to have volunteers come into school and deliver a Skills Blox session, in partnership with Centre for Leadership Performance, about different jobs people do and what skills they need to do them!  We have a few Town Crier’s in the making!  Students were able to…

Year 10 have enjoyed a week’s work experience at The Calvert Trust stables in Keswick.  All the students have worked really hard getting stuck into various jobs around the stables and have shown fantastic listening skills when adults have been talking to them.  They especially enjoyed a visit from…

Graham and 2 former Mayfield students Abigail and Aaron were invited to Carlisle Cathedral by HRH The Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria to celebrate the crowning of King Charles on Friday the 12th of May. Both students are enjoying college and whilst sipping juice and eating canapés together that evening…

Mountains 7 held a Bake Off Competition today to raise money for their Enterprise Project.  Our Judges said all the cakes and bakes were delicious and it was very difficult choosing the best one.  Congratulations go to Mountains 10 for creating a sausage and Cranbury crown, Mountains 8 for their…

Today we celebrated the Coronation of King Charles III with lots of activities around school.

Some of our older Mountains students attended a CV building workshop hosted by West Lakes Recruit and Westinghouse (two local companies) today. Students were taught about what a CV is and how to start gathering evidence to construct one. School will be following up from the initial workshop to…