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6 March 2025

Safer internet day 2025

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.

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6 March 2025

Reading champions

Each week in assembly we award certificates to children who are working really hard on thier reading both in school and especially at home.

Here are Cross Fell's reading champions this week. Well done to our reading champions this week we are very proud of you!

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6 March 2025

Real life superheroes!

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…

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6 March 2025

Fostering a love of reading

We are delighted to share our recent Ofsted Inspection Report with you which judged Alston Primary School as “Good” in all categories.

The inspection team praised the inclusive nature of the school as pupils had been clear that everyone is equal, and everyone is welcome. The published report…

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7 February 2025

Waterproof materials experiment

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…

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7 February 2025

PSHE- Perseverance

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!

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7 February 2025

Maths manipulatives- arrays

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.

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7 February 2025

Superhero art

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.

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7 February 2025

Split pin puppets DT project :-)

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. 

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22 January 2025

Boot camp

Mini Boot Camp will start on Monday, please sign your child up via their iPayimpact account.
Thank you

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16 January 2025

Traction man

We are really enjoying sharing the Traction Man book by Mini Grey. We have enjoyed bringing classroom items to life and thinking about how each of the characters might act. Great discussion work Cross Fell.

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