Blog Author: Bev Brown

We are very fortunate to have access to the Read, write Inc virtual classroom and share clips with families to support children's reading at home. 

In addition to sending the clips home we also use them in class to provide extra booster sessions and 1:1 bespoke teaching, helping every child on…

At Alston Primary School we work hard to foster a life long love of reading and have our RWI mascots Fred and Fredwina to help us with this mission. Over the past half term Fred and Fredwina have been extremely busy visiting a range of children and have really enjoyed sharing cosy story times and…

At Alston Primary School early reading is taught through our school's chosen programme, Read Write Inc.

The children are grouped according to their current level of development and are regularly assessed and re-grouped to ensure that they are taught at their individual challenge point.

Our…

We love writing in Cross Fell and it is great to see our learners taking charge of their writing and self assessing it to make sure they have all of their must haves!

A did a fantastic job of being a mini teacher and using her checklist to mark her own work before sharing it with us.

We loved getting hands on with pumpkins today hooking us into our new story Pattan's Pumpkin. There was lots of discussion work about how the pumpkins felt and what they were like inside, experiences like this really help us to build our vocabulary and will help us later on in our work when we…

National Forest School Week!

We’ve had a fantastic time at Forest School celebrating National Forest School Week! We learned lots of interesting facts about badgers and then got creative by designing our very own badger necklaces. 

What a lovely time of outdoor learning, exploring and…

Today the children took part in a virtual visit with the National archives direct from London!

It was fantastic to hear from a range of experts and learn more about the events that took place during the great fire of London.

It was wonderful to also add to this virtual visit by being able to…

Cross Fell have been working hard with Mrs Wheatley in our art sessions to produce some amazing work linked to the great fire of London- top work everyone!

Well done to everyone in Cross Fell who was so amazing on our sponsored walk today. Everyone showed great enthusiasm and determination to complete the walk along the railway line to Slaggyford to help to raise money for our school community and our chosen charity- the great North air…

Today in Forest School, Anna told us all about ‘snarks’ and the story behind them. An elusive creature created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem in 1876! We got the chance to forage for sticks, stones and other natural materials and use feathers and clay to make our own version of a snark.…

Another high-energy PE session with Carlisle United! The children had a fantastic time getting active, developing their skills and showing great teamwork and enthusiasm. Well done, everyone!

In Literacy today, we acted out a scene from our class story ‘Claude in the City’ to help us to understand the events and build our vocabulary for writing. It was lots of fun and we can’t wait to find out what happens next!