Cross Fell's Learning

Cross Fell have been learning all about Harvest and learning some special songs to sing in church. It was lovely to be able to share such a special celebration with our local community and draw together all of our learning. Well done everyone for singing so beautifully - you all worked really hard…

We were very impressed by the quality of homework that we had sent into us over the past half term. Our home- school partnership is extremely important to us and we love it when we can work together on projects deepening our understanding and helping us to take our learning in our own direction.…

In Cross Fell we develop a range of strategies to support us in our maths learning and today's session was a big hit! We moved form using our concrete resources to record our work pictorially on the tables. We loved learning the draw it to prove it strategy and talking to our table partners about…

Today is mental health awareness day. We spoke about feelings and emotions, did some team building activities and spoke about why everyone was special to us

Many people think they “can’t do maths”, but with exciting new teaching approaches, we’re proving day by day in Cross Fell that every child really can love and succeed in maths!

We want to make it as easy as possible for parents to support their child’s learning at home and in addition to the…

In our maths sessions both Year 1 and Year 2 have been learning about place value and it has been lovely to see everyone using a range of concrete resources to display their understanding and explaining their reasoning to their partners.

In DT we have been designing and making fruit salads. We started by tasting a range of fruits then experimented with tools to see how we could prepare each fruit before designing then making our delicious fruit salads.

It was brilliant to see everyone working so hard making their way through…

This term we took part in an Action Ants activity afternoon where we travelled to Newton Rigg to enjoy a fun filled afternoon with a host of other local schools, learning new skills and enjoying competing against each other to complete a range of challenges. It was fantastic to see everyone having…

Cross Fell have been learning about colour mixing. We started out with red, yellow and blue and were challenged to make green, orange and purple.

We dipped our fingers in the paint and mixed them together to see what colours we could create- we were amazed to see that we had magic colour mixing…

We really enjoy spending time in our reading nook, cuddling up to a reading bear and sharing books with our friends. 

We are lucky to have a range of books in our classroom and love to have visits to the library van to regularly top up our reading stock so that we can keep sharing our love of…

At APS we offer a range of exciting clubs that the children are welcome to attend free of charge. These clubs will vary each term to try to take into account the children's different interests. This half term's clubs start next week, please send in any slips by Friday and we can allocate places-…

We were delighted to start our year receiving the Royal seal of approval for our writing.

We received a very exciting letter and card from King Charles, direct from Buckingham Palace, thanking us for letters that we sent to the palace at the end of the Summer term.

The children were amazed…