PE - Ball skills
In PE, we are focussing on ball skills. We have been practicing passing, bouncing the balls, and moving them around in different ways.
Comparing transport - present and past
We have been looking at transport, comparing different types from the past and present.
Advent Calendar
Everyday in Park Fell we have got a Christmas book to open and share with the class and a nativity advent calendar where we find a new person or animal from the Nativity Story.
Christmas book suggestions
If you are looking for some super book recommendations for Christmas we would like to sign post you to this website that can offer lots of suggestions that you may find useful. There are a range of themes for a variety of ages so there is something for everyone! Lets keep celebrating our love for…
Phonics screening support and advice
Cross Fell have been working really hard this term to learn all of their sounds during our RWI sessions. We have assessed how the children are getting on and individual checks will be in book bags this week to celebrate how we are getting on and to identify any sounds that we can continue to work…
Winter mini challenge
The school library service has just been in touch to highlight the following Winter reading challenge for anyone who would be interested. It sounds great :-)
'Hi all,
I am just highlighting the fact for everyone that there is a winter mini challenge for children. This is just a smaller…
Book Bus
The book bus came to visit us. We got to listen and join in with a story and then we all got to pick 1 book each to bring back to our classroom to enjoy.
The Christmas Story
In RE this half term we are learning about 'The Christmas Story'. We have been listening to the story and using pictures to stick and cut them in the correct order.
Art
In Art, we have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh. We used his painting of 'Starry Night' to identify the patterns, shapes and colours we can see. We then used watercolours to recreate our own version.
The dark!
In Science we have been learning about seasonal changes and as part of this have been learning about light and dark.
We worked in the blackout tent to investigate what we could see with different amounts of light and dispelled some misconceptions about light sources. It was all great fun and had…
We love reading!
We love reading in Cross Fell! It is lovely to see our reading corner and school library being so well used by the children, our passion for reading is evident.