Cross Fell's Learning

 FOREST SCHOOL  

Just a reminder that we will be taking part in our forest school sessions every Friday and will need

Long sleeved tops to cover arms
Full length trousers
Old shoes/boots/wellies
Coat and waterproofs if you have them

We absolutely love our sessions and are so fortunate…

We have really enjoyed starting to read the book Mini Rabbit Not Lost by John Bond. We love to share a range of books in Cross Fell and enjoy sharing different elements of the story to really immerse ourselves in the books we read. Today we looked at where the story was set and started to get to…

In Cross Fell we teach the children to read using the Read, Write Inc scheme. We would like to signpost all of our parents to the following website that has a range of extremely helpful guides that explain the process and how important it is to read and start to foster a love of reading at an…

What a brilliant first day we have had in Cross Fell! We’ve been so busy having fun and making lots of new friendships and exploring each of our linked learning areas. Go Cross Fell!

Cross Fell were really excited to take part in some activities for safer internet day learning how to stay safe online and who to ask if they were unsure of something they encountered online.

A huge thankyou to PC Joel who came into talk to us about his role and show off his police car. It was a pleasure to have such an enthusiastic visitor who was so wonderful with the children taking time to listen to their questions and talk about his role which linked into our superheroes topic…

Mrs Brown set us a problem to solve in Science today- Spiderman had ripped his suit and we had to select the best materials to fix it. The material had to be flexible and waterproof so we tested a range of materials to see which would be more suitable thinking about the properties of each…

In our PSHE sessions we have been thinking all about setting goals. Today we talked about persevering to reach our goals listening to the story of a penguin who just couldn't give up!

In maths the children are using concrete resources to help with their multiplication skills. Today we learned about arrays and really enjoyed using playdough, pom poms, stickers and counters to show our learning.

In our art session the children made their own versions of superheroes, we were very impressed by the level of detail and the imaginative and bold use of colour to convey each superhero's unique talents.

This afternoon in DT the children have finished their split pin puppets and we now have them on display in the classroom. We were very impressed with the designing, making and evaluating that the children all took part in.