Year 10 & 11 visit to Think Dairy Careers Expo
On Tuesday 30th September, Year 10 and 11 visited the Think Dairy Careers Expo at Borderway Mart in Carlisle.
The interactive event was organised by The Digital Dairy Chain in partnership with SmartSTEMS and H&H Land Estates, with the aim of showcasing some of the many different careers…
Kandinsky lesson
Year 7 have been drawing to different styles of music. Just like the artist, Kandinsky.
Year 9 cheese and onion triangles
Well done Year 9 on making some delicious cheese and onion pastry triangles.
Year 7 chopping challenge
Year 7 have been practicing their knife skills by completing the chopping challenge!
Gustav Klimt dress
Cross Fell have printed and constructed this dress inspired by Gustav Klimt.
Year 9 Girls Football
Year 9 Core PE: The pupils are enjoying developing their football skills, especially in the autumn sun.
New KS1 book recommendations for September 2025
New children's books we love
Every month, Book Trust review dozens of books for children and teenagers. Here are the ones they like best in September: guaranteed to get your child reading…
1 minute maths!
Designed for use both in class and at home, White Rose's 1-minute maths app helps children build greater number confidence and fluency. It’s all about targeted practice in engaging, one-minute chunks!
It comes highly recommended from both the Cross Fell team and also the children who have…
Extra phonics support for our families
In school we are lucky enough to have access to a fantastic resource that allows us to share clips with our families that can be used to back up the learning that we are doing in school by providing extra practise in the form of fun videos that can be used at home.
Keep and eye out for links…
Making predictions
In English today, we challenged the children to make predictions about what happens next in our class story.
We learnt that a prediction is a clever guess or idea.
Here are some of our fantastic predictions, let’s see if any were correct on Monday.
RWI- a guide for parents
Read Write Inc. – A guide for parents
In APS we follow the RWI scheme for teaching phonics. We would love to signpost you to the following website that has a handy guie for parents. As ever if anyone has any questions please just get in touch with one of the team.
Great North Air Ambulance fundraising superstars
Great North Air Ambulance Service Assembly
We were very grateful to have two visitors from GNAAS join us in school today, to talk about their vital work in our communities, as well as receiving the £1000.24 donation from us here at Alston Moor Federation from our recent sponsored walk
We…