Cross Fell's Learning

At Alston Primary School our children are listened to and we teach them the importance of listening to and respecting the views of others.

Our children know that their voice is important; there are many occasions when they are asked to express their opinions, sharing views and opinions.

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We are extremely excited to launch our after school clubs for this half term.

We have a range of clubs designed to take into account a range of interests from Science to mindfulness, reading to crafts and many more so please check ipay to book your child's place- more details are on Class…

We are extremely fortunate to continue to have access to Numbots this year and every child in Cross Fell has been issued with a log in to help to support their maths development.

So what is Numbots?

NumBots adopts the best teaching practises to take children from counting on their fingers,…

Over the summer break Cross Fell moved into their new classroom, it is looking very smart indeed and we can't wait to welcome the new cohort of children in to start their learning journey. Full details of routines and FAQs can be found on Class Dojo. As always if you have any questions please do…

Just a reminder that we have the sponsored walk on Tuesday, more details are on both our class Dojo page and school story.

⭐️ THANK YOU ⭐️
For your generous donations

We’re overwhelmed with the support we’ve received so far for the Sponsored Walk. This Tuesday children from 10 year groups…

We are very lucky to have such a supportive PTFA, they have organised a duck race to be held on the last day of term so how about getting together after school to celebrate yet another fantastic year in school. Ducks are available to purchase at the school office for £1.00

Cross Fell really enjoyed spending time on our learning bus today , sharing stories and having fun!

We really enjoyed showcasing some of our work from our music sessions this half term. We really enjoyed the experience of getting up on the big stage and performing for all of our friends and families.

Some fabulous seaside art today, talking about the artist and completing the picture using shades of blue, drawing together our learning from earlier in the year about colours and colour mixing and how to use different brush strokes.

We have been very lucky to have Daniel and Sarah from Adventures in Art & Design working with us today. We have all produced something focused on traditional image making and illustration techniques and look forward to seeing some of our work developed into North Pennines themed postcards and…

Today we have had Police Community Support Officer Joel Larmour from Cumbria's Neighbourhood  Policing Team  to talk to us about water safety.

We are always talking to our children in school about how to stay safe and it was lovely to hear Tony passing on the message about how to keep ourselves…

Reading continues to be a big focus in Cross Fell and we are really enjoying taking part in a book swap where we can bring in any books we have enjoyed at home and swap them for a new one. Sharing that love of reading with our friends has been wonderful and the scheme has proved to be very…