Cross Fell's Learning

Easter celebrations in Cross Fell!

We have enjoyed an egg hunt, pin the tail on the bunny and taken part in a church celebration.

What a busy day we have had bringing together all that we have learned about Easter in our RE topic- visiting the church and listening to Rev Mark Nash Williams…

What an amazing show the children from the Federation enjoyed this morning with Professor Pumpernickel. It had the children enthralled from start to finish and really boosted and inspired their learning in Science.  We are so lucky to have such fantastic experiences for the children to enjoy, huge…

We really enjoyed our virtual author visit with Rachel Morrisroe this morning and were extremely lucky to be chosen by the author to have a shout out for Cross Fell and for her to answer one of the questions that we submitted- a huge honour to be chosen from the many, many schools taking part.
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Cross Fell had a wonderful time at the U Dance Festival in Carlisle dancing alongside a host of other schools. What a fantastic experience for all the children to dance on a professional stage in front of a very appreciative audience.

World Book Day celebrations, thankyou to Claire from Cogito Books for visiting us today to share a story and let us pick a free World Book Day book. We love reading in Cross fell and our celebrations today really underlined how important reading is and how much joy it can bring- check our class…

What do I value about my friends? Today we made a web of friendship where a ball of wool was passed around the circle, with each child holding their part.  Each person took part saying  ‘I find it easy to be friends with you because...’. At the end of the circle time, a visual web…

In our next RE topic we are going to be learning all about Easter and talking about why Jesus was welcomed like a King on Palm Sunday. 

To kick start our new topic we have really enjoying learning all about Shrove Tuesday and enjoying some pancakes to celebrate. We can't wait ot get started on…

Early reading and phonics has a high priority in APS and Miss Hill has kindly uploaded a helpful clip to our class Dojo page to offer some extra support with phonics at home, please visit our class Dojo page to have a look. If anyone would like any further support on how best to support at home…

We have been very busy preparing for Chinese New Year tomorrow

This term we are learning about real life superheroes. Today we found out about Florence Nightingale and the amazing work she did in hospitals and colleges over the years.

We know that she helped injured soldiers, cleaned up hospitals, trained new nurses, and dedicated her life to helping…

Some excellent work in computing today using a painting package to create our own artwork in the style of Kandinsky. Great work everyone

We continue to be blown away by the quality of long term homework that is being produced, we are so grateful to everyone for their ongoing support from home- the partnership is so important to us and we are so grateful for all of your input from home.

Mrs Brown