Cross Fell's Learning

We were delighted to start our year receiving the Royal seal of approval for our writing.

We received a very exciting letter and card from King Charles, direct from Buckingham Palace, thanking us for letters that we sent to the palace at the end of the Summer term.

The children were amazed…

Cross Fell have really enjoyed working with Mrs Harding this year in their music sessions to learn to play not only the recorder but also a range of percussion instruments.

We have enjoyed expanding our music vocabulary and using our voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and…

We have really enjoyed our recent DT project, from researching different puppets to looking at ways of joining fabric to then cutting and sewing our own puppets. It was lovely to see the care and attention to detail that went into our designs and the quality of the finishing was particularly…

We really enjoyed our visit from Mieke and Miles the Bear from the Great North Air Ambulance today.

Mieke talked to us about what the air ambulance does and how we can help to support this amazing charity.

It is lovely for our school to  be building connections within the community to …

We were really excited to take part in the Library Services for Schools KS1 reading for pleasure challenge “Reading is Super Cool”.

The library service told us that the aim of their challenge was to-

• Motivate us to read regularly and encourage reading for pleasure

• Give us the…

Cross Fell really enjoyed travelling to Culgaith to compete in a junior olympics festival. We competed against teams from a number of local schools and were delighted to be awarded with 11 medals! A great day was had by all and the competition was conducted in such good spirit with everyone's…

Cross Fell enjoyed a fantastic trip out to Carlisle castle on Thursday to enhance their history learning. We were really excited to have a tour of the castle with our guide Matthew and enjoy some dressing up fun. Our trip really inspired us, bringing what we had learnt in the classroom to life and…

We have been reading the book 'Rapunzel' by Bethan Woolvin and as part of this we were set the challenge of either persuading Rapunzel to escape the tower or on the other hand for her to stay in the tower.

We used the technique of conscience alley- conscience alley is a useful technique for…

We really enjoy it when Gordon brings the library van to visit us! Today we enjoyed getting onto the bus, listening to a story read by Gordon and then choosing some new books to enjoy in the classroom.

Promoting our British values, each day we vote on the story we would like to listen to at…

I have had a few children asking if we are still swapping books and the answer is yes definitely!
We have a lovely selection of books ready to be swapped so if anyone would like to bring a book in to trade please bring it in anytime.
Weather dependant I will also put a table out with all of the…

Cross Fell were delighted to receive a level 2 award from the Royal Horticultural Society for school gardening. The garden in the Cross Fell outdoor area was created in response to pupil voice and the children have been active in caring for and nurturing the plants and are now busy working on…

We really enjoyed having PC Tony in school talking to us about stranger danger. We are very grateful to him for giving up his time to get across this very important message.