Child Friendly Westmorland and Furness Commitment
On Tuesday during their Citizenship lesson, our KS4 students took part in an active workshop led by Emma Banks- Participation and Engagement Officer with Children’s Services at Westmorland and Furness Council
Emma informed students about the new 'Child Friendly Westmorland and Furness (CFWF)…
Racing To School with Year 9
Year 9 had a fantastic visit to Hexham Racecourse today which was organised by the charity Racing To School.
Carrie and Gareth from Racing to School shared their expertise and knowledge of the racing industry to deliver a bespoke STEM and careers active learning event. Students were given…
KS3 Pupils Get First Aid Training
All of Key Stage 3 took part in basic First Aid training today, with a focus on life-saving skills. The pupils all had a two-hour workshop across the day, with the vital skills being practised by everyone in Year 7 to Year 9. Thanks to Action Ants for running the sessions.
Instruments of the orchestra
Year 7 have been learning to identify instruments of the orchestra. They used images of instruments around the music room to help them, and they came up with this way of working in the process! Well done year 7!
Berlin collage
Year 8 have been collaging memories from their visit to Berlin.
Tote bags
Year 7 finished their first sewing machine project. They have made tote bags, and will print images onto these next week.
M.C.Escher
Flinty have been looking at Islamic art. We took this further by looking at MC Eschers art. He gained repeat pattern inspiration from Islamic art.
The Easter story
In our RE learning we are really enjoying learning all about the Easter story and have been acting it out and enjoying tasting some hot cross buns.
We are also learning some songs that we can't wait to share with you at our Easter service- more details to follow soon!
Can you help?
After Easter Cross Fell are going to learning all about toys past and present.
As part of this topic we are going to be sharing the story 'The Story Machine' which features a typewriter, does anyone have an old typewriter that they no longer need lurking in the attic that they would like to…
RWI boosters
Cross Fell are working hard on learning all of their sounds and speeding up their word reading.
Each afternoon since Christmas we have had an additional phonics session to help us to recap some of our trickier sounds and really boost our reading skills.
Look out for updated clips in each of…
Measuring fun!
In maths this week we are learning all about measuring. We have enjoyed learning some new vocabulary relating to length and enjoyed using non standard measures to measure a range of things both inside and outside of the classroom even ourselves! Well done Cross Fell!
Challenge!
Can you see…