Blog Author: Bev Brown

Another fantastic Forest School session today.

The children fully embraced the outdoors—building dens, exploring the woodland, and letting their imaginations run wild.

There’s something special about learning in nature—the smiles say it all

We’ve had a great computing lesson today 

We used Chrome Music Lab to compose some pieces of music using a repeating pattern

Toys, toys, toys!
We were very fortunate to beable to secure one of the very sought after artefact boxes from Cumbria library service who put together a brilliant box of old and new toys for us to use as part of our on going topic. The children loved getting hands on and playing with a range of…

Some fantastic things going on in our linked learning today! The Hama beads were a huge hit as always. It is wonderful to listen to the children playing and learning together taking their learning in their own direction- great work everyone!

We’ve loved spending time in our new and improved forest school area! The children enjoyed exploring the refreshed space, noticing the changes, and making the most of the outdoors, with the sun shining too!

As part of our session, we carried out a fun worm experiment to see how healthy our soil…

Another fantastic football skills session today with Carlisle United

The sunshine was out and so were the smiles! The players brought great energy, focus, and enthusiasm from start to finish. We worked on ball control, quick passing, and confidence on the ball — and it was brilliant to see…

We have loved looking at some toys from Mrs Brown's house comparing toys old and new and thinking about how toys have changed over time.

Great observations Cross Fell

Thankyou to everyone who brought in toys to share to help to launch our toys topic, it was brilliant to see such a range of different toys. Next step comparing old and new toys- we are hooked already!

In our RE learning we are really enjoying learning all about the Easter story and have been acting it out and enjoying tasting some hot cross buns.

We are also learning some songs that we can't wait to share with you at our Easter service- more details to follow soon!

After Easter Cross Fell are going to learning all about toys past and present.

As part of this topic we are going to be sharing the story 'The Story Machine' which features a typewriter, does anyone have an old typewriter that they no longer need lurking in the attic that they would like to…

Cross Fell are working hard on learning all of their sounds and speeding up their word reading.

Each afternoon since Christmas we have had an additional phonics session to help us to recap some of our trickier sounds and really boost our reading skills.

Look out for updated clips in each of…

In maths this week we are learning all about measuring. We have enjoyed learning some new vocabulary relating to length and enjoyed using non standard measures to measure a range of things both inside and outside of the classroom even ourselves! Well done Cross Fell!

Challenge! 

Can you see…