Bringing books to life- our author visit
We joined Nicola Kinnear for a fun session inspired by her latest picture book, Ready, Steady Squirrel! We enjoyed a story session with Nicola and heard all about Evie, a very determined little squirrel, we even learnt how to draw our own squirrel!
Wheelchair basket ball fun
Cross Fell really enjoyed travelling to Nenthead Village hall to take part in a wheelchair basket ball session. It was lovely to see everyone so engaged and the session promoted so much discussion work about trying new things and persevering even when things were challenging. Well done Cross Fell.
Cross Fell's Pumpkin workshop
We really enjoyed taking part in a NFU workshop today.
Every Thursday at 2pm, Becca and Lizzie from NFU introduce a different inspirational role model from the world of agriculture and engineering and today we joined the pumpkin workshop and enjoyed learning about all things food, farming,…
Harvest celebrations at St Augustine's Church
Cross Fell have been learning all about Harvest and learning some special songs to sing in church. It was lovely to be able to share such a special celebration with our local community and draw together all of our learning. Well done everyone for singing so beautifully - you all worked really hard…
Long term homework presentation
We were very impressed by the quality of homework that we had sent into us over the past half term. Our home- school partnership is extremely important to us and we love it when we can work together on projects deepening our understanding and helping us to take our learning in our own direction.…
Draw it to prove it! More maths strategies in action!
In Cross Fell we develop a range of strategies to support us in our maths learning and today's session was a big hit! We moved form using our concrete resources to record our work pictorially on the tables. We loved learning the draw it to prove it strategy and talking to our table partners about…
Home -school partnership - promoting maths learning
Many people think they “can’t do maths”, but with exciting new teaching approaches, we’re proving day by day in Cross Fell that every child really can love and succeed in maths!
We want to make it as easy as possible for parents to support their child’s learning at home and in addition to the…
Maths learning in Cross Fell
In our maths sessions both Year 1 and Year 2 have been learning about place value and it has been lovely to see everyone using a range of concrete resources to display their understanding and explaining their reasoning to their partners.
Cross Fell's Fruit Salad Delight
In DT we have been designing and making fruit salads. We started by tasting a range of fruits then experimented with tools to see how we could prepare each fruit before designing then making our delicious fruit salads.
It was brilliant to see everyone working so hard making their way through…
Cross Fell's Teambuilding Fun
This term we took part in an Action Ants activity afternoon where we travelled to Newton Rigg to enjoy a fun filled afternoon with a host of other local schools, learning new skills and enjoying competing against each other to complete a range of challenges. It was fantastic to see everyone having…
Colour mixing fun
Cross Fell have been learning about colour mixing. We started out with red, yellow and blue and were challenged to make green, orange and purple.
We dipped our fingers in the paint and mixed them together to see what colours we could create- we were amazed to see that we had magic colour mixing…
Sharing our love of reading in Cross Fell
We really enjoy spending time in our reading nook, cuddling up to a reading bear and sharing books with our friends.
We are lucky to have a range of books in our classroom and love to have visits to the library van to regularly top up our reading stock so that we can keep sharing our love of…