Pancake fun!
In our next RE topic we are going to be learning all about Easter and talking about why Jesus was welcomed like a King on Palm Sunday.
To kick start our new topic we have really enjoying learning all about Shrove Tuesday and enjoying some pancakes to celebrate. We can't wait ot get started on…
RWI support for families
Early reading and phonics has a high priority in APS and Miss Hill has kindly uploaded a helpful clip to our class Dojo page to offer some extra support with phonics at home, please visit our class Dojo page to have a look. If anyone would like any further support on how best to support at home…
Chinese New Year celebrations
We have been very busy preparing for Chinese New Year tomorrow
Superheroes from the past
This term we are learning about real life superheroes. Today we found out about Florence Nightingale and the amazing work she did in hospitals and colleges over the years.
We know that she helped injured soldiers, cleaned up hospitals, trained new nurses, and dedicated her life to helping…
Computing- staying safe online handy tips
In Computing we have been learning about digital painting and have been learning to use a range of tools to help us to create self-portraits and artwork inspired by famous artists.
As Christmas is approaching and many of us have tablets on our Christmas lists we also took part in some…
Kandinsky
Some excellent work in computing today using a painting package to create our own artwork in the style of Kandinsky. Great work everyone
Weaving
In Art we have enjoyed learning a new skill- weaving. We firstly mastered the technique by using paper before moving on to using a loom and wool to create fire of London inspired weavings using hot colours to represent the fire. It was not an easy skill to master and we had to show perseverance…
Home school partnership
We continue to be blown away by the quality of long term homework that is being produced, we are so grateful to everyone for their ongoing support from home- the partnership is so important to us and we are so grateful for all of your input from home.
Mrs Brown
Celebrating stories from other cultures-Pattan's Pumpkin
As part of our literacy work we have been reading a story called Pattan’s pumpkin. It has been lovely to share a story from another culture and expand our understanding.
Today we enjoyed exploring some pumpkins building some lovely vocabulary to use in our next writing task- it was such good…
Live music inspiration
Cross Fell were really fortunate to have Mrs Tuffin today sharing a range of instruments with us, it is such a treat to be able to listen to talented musicians playing a range of instruments and inspiring our own musical journeys. Thankyou Mrs Tuffin.
Claude in the City
We caught the robber! Today in the next part of our story Claude the dog helped the police to catch the robber, we learned all about questions and used them to find out what had happened. We love it when we can use drama to bring our learning to life and help us to expand our ever growing…
ICT day
We have had a wonderful couple of afternoons working with Mr Bailey to develop our technology skills. We took part in an immersive activity with wireless headphones, created some green screen photos and recorded some footage all about pirates