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6th October 2025

Geography field trip - Lake Idwal

Our Year 9 geography students followed a 3 km circular walking route around Lake Idwal in the Snowdonia National Park.

6th October 2025

Geography field trip - River Alyn

Year 11 students visited the River Alyn in North Wales.

3rd October 2025

Year 6 open evening

On Thursday 25 September, we were delighted to welcome Year 5 and 6 families from our local primary schools into Dixons Croxteth for our Open Evening.

2nd October 2025

Architectural drawing day

As part of our Art GCSE our students had the opportunity to visit our city and take part in an architectural drawing day taking in history, culture and religion.

23rd September 2025

Empowered: pages of imagination - celebrating our young poets

We are incredibly proud to share that several of our students have been recognised in a national writing competition titled “Empowered."

19th September 2025

Revitalising our heartspace: A student-led transformation

During the final term of 2024–25, students at Dixons Croxteth shared their thoughts with me about the heartspace — our central area within the school. They asked, “What’s the point of the heartspace?” and commented on how plain and uneventful it felt. More importantly, they asked if they could make it their own.

9th September 2025

Reading mastery

Reading Mastery is our exciting new reading initiative.

8th September 2025

Results day 2025

On Thursday 21 August, we proudly welcomed back our year 11 cohort from the 2024–25 academic year to celebrate their GCSE results—and what a celebration it was.

25th July 2025

Our annual awards evening

On Wednesday 16 July 2025, we held our first awards evening.

17th July 2025

Duke of edinburgh

On Thursday 10 July and Friday 11 July, our year 9 students completed their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh award.

11th July 2025

Sports day 2025

On Wednesday 9 July, we held our first sports day as Dixons Croxteth Academy.