Blog Author: Bev Brown

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…

FRIDAY 20th MARCH is COMIC RELIEF DAY

The school council have met and brought together all of the children's ideas and have decided we will be doing the following to help to raise money for comic relief.

Children will be either coming home with the design a nose sheet or completing it in…

The 2026 statutory phonics screening check for Year 1 pupils in England will be administered during the week commencing Monday 8 June 2026 to Friday 12 June 2026

This means that our Year 1 learners will take the Phonics Screening Check during this week. The Phonics Screening Check is a…

Floor Surfing with the Action Ants!

Today, Action Ants showed us that you don’t need waves to go surfing—you just need a floor, some energy, and great teamwork!

Great effort from everyone today. The floor definitely turned into a surfing zone!