Cross Fell's Learning

As part of our literacy work we have been reading a story called Pattan’s pumpkin. It has been lovely to share a story from another culture and expand our understanding.

Today we enjoyed exploring some pumpkins building some lovely vocabulary to use in our next writing task- it was such good…

Cross Fell were really fortunate to have Mrs Tuffin today sharing a range of instruments with us, it is such a treat to be able to listen to talented musicians playing a range of instruments and inspiring our own musical journeys. Thankyou Mrs Tuffin.

We caught the robber! Today in the next part of our story Claude the dog helped the police to catch the robber, we learned all about questions and used them to find out what had happened. We love it when we can use drama to bring our learning to life and help us to expand our ever growing…

We have had a wonderful couple of afternoons working with Mr Bailey to develop our technology skills. We took part in an immersive activity with wireless headphones, created some green screen photos and recorded some footage all about pirates

We love to get hands on with our maths learning and this week we have done some fantastic work on capacity, next week we move onto looking at temperature and building on our work this week transferring the skill of being able to read scales in divisions of 1,2,5 and 10.

Just a reminder that we have some World Book Day books for anyone struggling to swap their tokens, I didn’t want anyone to miss out if they couldn't make it to the shops so have swapped some to make it easier. If you would like one please bring in your token and choose a book then I will keep…

Cross Fell have had a road safety session with Sarah from Pyjama Drama today. We listened to some true and some made up stories about staying safe while near the road. We learnt that we should ALWAYS wear our helmet when riding any wheels such as bikes, scooters, hoverboards and heelys.
We also…

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week (7-13 February 2022). This year's theme is Growing Together.

We’re encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown and how they can help others to grow.

This morning we have read All Are Welcome and thought about how we can be…

We had a great day meeting Alasdair, Simone & Rory from Cumbria Fire and Rescue service and PC Chris yesterday in school. We saw lots of equipment and asked questions about their roles and how to stay safe in the community.

We were extremely fortunate to be able to go and watch the Tour of Britain passing through Alston today, it was a real treat to be able to witness first hand a professional race of this scale and we really enjoyed making flags to cheer the riders on. We especially loved it when all of the support…

We have had a super day in school today, we have had great fun making houses based on the book 'What we'll build' by Oliver Jeffers.

It was lovely to see the children getting creative and working together to create a range of houses using a range of resources from large scale boxes to Lego :-)…