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5 December 2025

Marshmallows!

Forest School Friday! Today Anna talked to us about campfire safety in our session before we toasted marshmallows. We got to eat them with biscuits. We also got to meet our two new resident chickens!

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2 December 2025

The book bus visits Cross Fell

Today we visited the book bus and each got a book to take back to share in class, we absolutely love it when they visit us and get so excited to see which new books we can enjoy.

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1 December 2025

Cross Fell computing- digital photography

Computing last week and Cross Fell continued with digital photography. We looked at framing and where to place the thing we want to take a photo of.

Challenged to take a poorly framed photo and then a well framed photo, the children took some fantastic photographs.

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1 December 2025

The book advent calendar returns

Our much loved book Advent calndar is back! Today we opened to first book in the pile and we can’t wait to see which story we get tomorrow!

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26 November 2025

Maths in Cross Fell

Yesterday in maths we worked in groups using base 10 to show greater than and less than. It was fantastic to beable to use a range of resources to demonstrate our understanding and then work with a partner to share our understanding.

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26 November 2025

Christmas decorations

This week in art we continued making Christmas decorations and got to see how the laser cutter worked. Thankyou so much to Mrs Wheatley for sharing your expertise with us :-)

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14 November 2025

Cross Fell historians

History

What will the plotters do next?

We have so far learnt about who some of the plotters are from The Gunpowder Plot, we know reason why they were not happy and where and how they hid the gunpowder!

Today, we revealed a warning letter, letting the plotters know that someone knew about…

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14 November 2025

Christmas Market

If anyone is having a clear out in readiness for Christmas and has any bits that would be good for a tombola, teddy tombola, raffle or just any toys and books that are no longer required we would love to have any donations as we look ahead to our Christmas fair on the 3rd of December.
Thankyou in…

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14 November 2025

Save the date! Fireside Nativity coming soon

We are very much looking forward to welcoming families to school for our APS Christmas production on Wednesday 10th December

✨Fireside Nativity✨

There will be 2 performances one at 2.15pm and another at 6pm 

Do save the date our rehearsals are in full swing and we are sure your children…

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12 November 2025

Anti- bullying week - odd socks day

Anti-Bullying Week - odd sock day / wear your jumper backwards

Wednesday 12th November

The School Council have organised Odd Socks Day which is a light-hearted but powerful way for pupils and staff to mark Anti‑Bullying Week by wearing odd socks. It’s a simple, fun way to celebrate what…

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11 November 2025

Seasonal changes

We had a really super afternoon learning all about seasonal changes and painted our own seasonal trees. Great work everyone!

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11 November 2025

A moment of remembrance

Today Cross Fell took part in some activities to mark remembrance day

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