We are writers
We love writing in Cross Fell and it is great to see our learners taking charge of their writing and self assessing it to make sure they have all of their must haves!
A did a fantastic job of being a mini teacher and using her checklist to mark her own work before sharing it with us.
Pattan's Pumpkin
We loved getting hands on with pumpkins today hooking us into our new story Pattan's Pumpkin. There was lots of discussion work about how the pumpkins felt and what they were like inside, experiences like this really help us to build our vocabulary and will help us later on in our work when we…
Celebrating National Forest School week
National Forest School Week!
We’ve had a fantastic time at Forest School celebrating National Forest School Week! We learned lots of interesting facts about badgers and then got creative by designing our very own badger necklaces.
What a lovely time of outdoor learning, exploring and…
The Great Fire of London - Virtual visit
Today the children took part in a virtual visit with the National archives direct from London!
It was fantastic to hear from a range of experts and learn more about the events that took place during the great fire of London.
It was wonderful to also add to this virtual visit by being able to…
Cross Fell. Fire of London
Cross fell are working on their great fire of London display.
The great fire of London art work
Cross Fell have been working hard with Mrs Wheatley in our art sessions to produce some amazing work linked to the great fire of London- top work everyone!
Sponsored walk
Well done to everyone in Cross Fell who was so amazing on our sponsored walk today. Everyone showed great enthusiasm and determination to complete the walk along the railway line to Slaggyford to help to raise money for our school community and our chosen charity- the great North air…
The hunting of the snarks by Lewis Carroll
Today in Forest School, Anna told us all about ‘snarks’ and the story behind them. An elusive creature created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem in 1876! We got the chance to forage for sticks, stones and other natural materials and use feathers and clay to make our own version of a snark.…
PE with CUFC
Another high-energy PE session with Carlisle United! The children had a fantastic time getting active, developing their skills and showing great teamwork and enthusiasm. Well done, everyone!
Claude and the city
In Literacy today, we acted out a scene from our class story ‘Claude in the City’ to help us to understand the events and build our vocabulary for writing. It was lots of fun and we can’t wait to find out what happens next!
Phonics boosters, fast tracking our learning!
We have started afternoon phonics booster sessions to support and fast track the learning of our sounds. It was wonderful to see how engaged everyone was and how quickly we could say the sounds.
Well done to Riley who was phonics star yesterday!
Maths in Cross Fell
Today in maths we have been looking at numbers 16-20 and using different maths resources to help us with our learning.
Getting hands on with a range of concrete resources really helps us to see and understand what is happening and helps use to make sense of tricky maths problems quickly…