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9 March 2026

The book fair is coming - save the date!

We have to book fair in school from Tuesday 17th March - Thursday 19th March

It will be open to families after school from 3.30pm-4.00pm

World Book Day vouchers will be handed out next week. Please keep these safe as these can be spent at the book fair the following week.

We hope to see…

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6 March 2026

Action Ants fun for Cross Fell

We’re excited to announce that Action Ants are coming to deliver Multi-Sports sessions with Cross Fell on a Friday.

The team from Action Ants will be joining us to run fun, high-energy sessions designed to build confidence, coordination and teamwork through a variety of sports. This is a…

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6 March 2026

Tasty treats at forest school

Today at Forest School we tried something new and very exciting… edible paint on bread! 

Once everyone had finished decorating, we carefully toasted the bread over the fire. Watching the pictures slowly toast was fascinating, and the smell of warm bread around the fire made it even better. 

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5 March 2026

World Book Day in Cross Fell

Cross Fell really enjoyed dressing up as characters from our class book for world book day. As part of the celebrations we enjoyed sharing books with a tasty biscuit treat, sharing our favourite reads, enjoying a live lesson and most excitingly sharing the book that has just arrived that our…

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27 February 2026

Stick man oh stick man beware of Cross Fell....

There’s something magical about watching imagination come to life in the great outdoors 

At Forest School this week, we made our very own Stick Men!
The children searched the forest floor for the perfect sticks. Each one was carefully chosen — tall, twisty, smooth, knobbly — because no two…

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26 February 2026

Caring for our feathered friends- making bird feeders

We had great fun this morning making bird feeders inspired by our Robot and Bluebird story. Great job everyone!

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24 February 2026

Planting in Cross Fell

In science we have been planting seeds, we looked at some mature plants and identified the different parts and will keep tracking the growth of both the plants and seeds over the next few weeks. We will keep you updated so watch this space!

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20 February 2026

World book day is coming to Cross Fell

We are very excitedly counting down to World Book Day 2026 which this year is being held on Thursday 5th March.

World book day aims to inspire every child to enjoy the life-changing benefits of reading for fun and as part of this we are going to be inviting the children in Cross Fell to come to…

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13 February 2026

Saving the best till last- gymnastics with Carlisle United

What a fantastic final gymnastics session, KS1! 
The children showed brilliant balance, control and confidence as they practised their rolls, jumps and sequences. We were so proud of how they listened carefully, encouraged each other and tried their best right to the end. A wonderful way to…

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11 February 2026

Dodgeball club- coming soon!

We're excited to announce DODGEBALL CLUB run by John French from Action Ants every Friday. Details are on class dojo.
Year 1 - Year 6

Book via ipayimpact to reserve your space.

£3 per week
 

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10 February 2026

Wear yellow for mental health week

Our school council have met and decided that they would like to mark the end of the week with a special event where you can wear an item of yellow- see details below from the school council.

 

Wear an item of yellow this Friday (13th) for Children’s Mental Health Week 2026 

Thank you as…

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10 February 2026

Which material is best?

In science we have continued our work on materials and today had the task of picking the right material to make a pair of curtains. We loved testing each material describing it's properties with our key vocabulary.

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