Cross Fell's Learning

We were extremely excited to find that Santa and his chief Elf had dropped in to see us in Alston Primary School today! We really enjoyed spending time talking to Santa and were delighted to find that he had given us all a very special book of our own to take home and enjoy on the run up to…

We are very proud of our house groups in Alston Primary School and enjoyed a thoroughly entertaining day rotating around all of the classrooms with our house groups taking part in a range of different Christmassy craft activities. It was wonderful to see everyone from Reception right up to Year 6…

We were delighted to be able to perform on stage alongside the rest of the school for our Christmas show- 'The Miracle.'

A lot of hard work went into learning our songs and dance moves so that we could really show off all of our talents to the extremely appreciative audiences. Performing on the…

We are working really hard to learn all of our sounds in Cross Fell and Fred is never far away to help us with those trickier words with his 'special friends, Fred talk, read the word' strategy, but we were really surprised when he turned up in a Christmas tree outfit with his friend Sparkles to…

Cross Fell were really surprised when they came into school this morning and discovered that we had been visited by some Reindeers during the night! We found that they had nibbled our carrots and left us a very cheeky elf called Sparkles who is here with us until Christmas as he has heard how…

Cross Fell are extremely excited to start opening their book advent calendar every day in school as we count down to the hoildays.

We really enjoy promoting a life long love of books and reading in Cross Fell and our book Advent calendar always add that little extra magic to our reading…

We were really surprised to see Fred’s new clothes when he challenged us with some new sounds each afternoon this week!

We are trying really hard to learn our sounds and are noticing an improvement so please do keep up the good work at home and Fred will keep challenging us in school.

The school council have met together and decided to support Children In Need as one of our charities this year.

The council have decided to hold a Children in Need colouring competition if anyone would like to join in, it is 50p entry please stick your money to your sheet and put your name on…

We joined Nicola Kinnear for a fun session inspired by her latest picture book, Ready, Steady Squirrel! We enjoyed a story session with Nicola and heard all about Evie, a very determined little squirrel, we even learnt how to draw our own squirrel!

Cross Fell really enjoyed travelling to Nenthead Village hall to take part in a wheelchair basket ball session. It was lovely to see everyone so engaged and the session promoted so much discussion work about trying new things and persevering even when things were challenging. Well done Cross Fell.

We were very lucky to welcome Miss Bradley into school yesterday to talk about her job as a scientist. The children were delighted to hear all about her job and asked some fantastic questions to learn more. We are very fortunate to have such inspiring visitors offering an insight into the life of…

We really enjoyed taking part in a NFU workshop today.
Every Thursday at 2pm, Becca and Lizzie from NFU introduce a different inspirational role model from the world of agriculture and engineering and today we joined the pumpkin workshop and enjoyed learning about all things food, farming,…