The Jolly Postman Story boxes
It was so wonderful to see everyone working as a team in Literacy today making some story boxes to represent the different stops that the Jolly Postman makes on his rounds. We were really impressed with how engrossed everyone was with the task and the final boxes are amazing!
Sharing a love of reading- reading buddies in Cross Fell
In school reading has a high priority and we involve pupils from different classes by giving them responsibilities to contribute to the life of the school by becoming a reading buddy.
Our buddies are proud to be part of the scheme and help to share their skills and expertise as readers with…
Snowy Fun!
The children had a great time at lunchtime making snowmen and snow pets of all sizes- thankyou to Mrs Humphrey for sharing the picture.
It was lovely to see everyone having so much fun and the weather provided us with a great opportunity to keep revisiting our seasonal changes topic in Science…
Geography fun in Cross Fell
This afternoon we have continued our work in Geography by looking at the continents. We looked at where they are in the world, the sizes and some key features about them.
Map skills in action
We have started our new topic this afternoon - a wonderful world. We were looking at the continents and oceans using great map skills!
A very special visitor!
We were extremely excited to find that Santa and his chief Elf had dropped in to see us in Alston Primary School today! We really enjoyed spending time talking to Santa and were delighted to find that he had given us all a very special book of our own to take home and enjoy on the run up to…
House craft day fun
We are very proud of our house groups in Alston Primary School and enjoyed a thoroughly entertaining day rotating around all of the classrooms with our house groups taking part in a range of different Christmassy craft activities. It was wonderful to see everyone from Reception right up to Year 6…
The Miracle- our Christmas performance 2023
We were delighted to be able to perform on stage alongside the rest of the school for our Christmas show- 'The Miracle.'
A lot of hard work went into learning our songs and dance moves so that we could really show off all of our talents to the extremely appreciative audiences. Performing on the…
Making phonics fun- Fred turns festive!
We are working really hard to learn all of our sounds in Cross Fell and Fred is never far away to help us with those trickier words with his 'special friends, Fred talk, read the word' strategy, but we were really surprised when he turned up in a Christmas tree outfit with his friend Sparkles to…
Something strange is going on in Cross Fell!
Cross Fell were really surprised when they came into school this morning and discovered that we had been visited by some Reindeers during the night! We found that they had nibbled our carrots and left us a very cheeky elf called Sparkles who is here with us until Christmas as he has heard how…
Cross Fell's Book Advent calendar
Cross Fell are extremely excited to start opening their book advent calendar every day in school as we count down to the hoildays.
We really enjoy promoting a life long love of books and reading in Cross Fell and our book Advent calendar always add that little extra magic to our reading…
Children in Need
The school council have met together and decided to support Children In Need as one of our charities this year.
The council have decided to hold a Children in Need colouring competition if anyone would like to join in, it is 50p entry please stick your money to your sheet and put your name on…