Blog Author: Bev Brown

In our Geography topic this half term we are looking at our local area and as part of this we are going to be making some model houses on Tuesday so if you have any junk modelling boxes, shoe boxes, tubes, pots etc that you would beable to send in to help us with our crafting that would be…

For the children in Mrs Liverick's Blue group you have now learned all of your sounds so your aim is to speed up your word reading when reading longer words. These clips will be perfect to help you :-) we hope you find them useful.

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IypG0sbw/AAVcWTNI
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We are continuing to work hard on learning our sounds and personalised updates on the sounds we are still finding tricky and need to recap will be in our book bags tomorrow so you can see how your child is getting on and which sounds we are working on recapping in school that you may also be able…

In Cross Fell we use White Rose Maths to support our children's maths development.

We wanted to draw your attention to another great way to enjoy maths at home that complements what we are doing in school.

White Rose's FREE workbooks for Years 1 - 6 give children and parents/ carers an extra…

Children in Need 2024

08:40 - 15:35This year, Alston Primary School Council has come up with plenty of ideas to help raise money for Children in Need 2024!

On the actual day of Children in Need (15th November 2024), we will be wearing spotty clothing (voluntary monetary donations to be…

The children in Cross Fell are really enjoying their weekly reading buddies session with the children from Flinty Fell and it has really inspired them to read. Feedback from the children was that they would love even more things to read including comics and magazines so we are putting out a plea…

We would like to signpost you to this helpful resource which comes from Oxford Owl. We use Read Write Inc to teach phonics at Alston Primary School and this page has a range of helpful tips and information about phonics and reading.  We hope you find it useful.

‘We’ll do whatever it takes…

We love reading at Alston Primary School and are pleased to say that we awarded over 200 Dojos for reading in Cross Fell alone for our reading efforts last half term- can we beat it next half term? We think so!

We can't wait to continue with our reading journey this half term and have amongst…

We have been learning all about animals and their habitats in Science and as part of this have had great fun designing and making our own rock pets creating instructions for our friends about how to keep them happy and healthy. We think that they look amazing!

We have been working really hard in our computing sessions this half term. We have thought about what technology is and explored the tablets looking at improving our mouse control skills. We used paintz.app to paint a self portrait adding a label and learning to save a copy of our work.
Today we…

We really enjoyed rounding off our learning about the Great Fire of London by making some bread just like Thomas Farriner the baker, it was lovely to talk about each of the key events that we had learned about as we got busy imagining what life might have been like during the great fire.

We would like to welcome all of our families, friends and the community to our Christmas Market on Thursday 5th December ❄