Blog Author: Bev Brown

We were delighted to be awarded not only a level 2 but also a level 3 RHS gardening award. The award is testament to the hard work the children have put in from our initial request that came from the children themselves to do more gardening in school after they were so enthused with our plants topic to the resilience they showed when some of our plants did not thrive and problem solving to make our outside area look better and better each year. We can’t wait to carry on our gardening journey and now that we have a gardening club up and running we are sure that our growing efforts will go from strength to strength.

A huge thankyou to everyone who has donated plants and seeds for us to use – our school community is always such a great support and we are extremely grateful!

We love it when we get to put on our sport’s top ready to compete against other schools.

Our Action Ants trips inspire us to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities.  We take part in our Action Ants festivals regularly throughout the year which gives us…

Today in gardening club we have worked together to write some letters to garden centres in the local community to ask if they would consider donating some resources to our newly formed gardening club. We have our fingers crossed that they may beable to assist us and also have some fundraising…

The children really enjoyed our growing topic last half term and so to keep the enthusiasm going and in response to requests from the children I am going to be running a Year 1/2 gardening club every other Wednesday during lunchtime.

I will ask the children tomorrow if anyone is interested in…

Our gardening club is now up and running!

The children in Cross Fell really enjoyed their growing topic, so much so that they requested more opportunities to learn about plants and get out into our outdoor classroom to do more gardening- in response to this our gardening club was created!

We…

In our Science lessons we have been learning that there are many different ways in which living things can be classified, including their habitat, their diet, or how they raise their young.

We started our session today by classifying animals based on the type of animal, such as fish, birds,…

We strive to share our love of reading in all different  formats and wanted to give a little reminder to all of our families about this fantastic resource for free e- books that the children can access to keep them excited and inspired with reading.
It might be the perfect thing to curl up and…

We strive to share our love of reading in all different  formats and wanted to give a little reminder to all of our families about this fantastic resource for free e- books that the children can access to keep them excited and inspired with reading.
It might be the perfect thing to curl up and…

Cross Fell really enjoyed visiting St Augustine's Church to take part in our annual Easter service.

It was lovely to be part of a whole federation service with Cross Fell taking the bread, 'wine' and crown of thorns up to the front as some of the older children delivered readings from the…

We are extremely fortunate to have a fantastic PTFA who run a range of activities and competitions for us over the course of the school year and for Easter they are running a decorated egg competition for anyone who would like to join in.
Please bring in your fully decorated egg into class on…

In Science Cross Fell have been thinking about whether plants need soil to grow- well here is the answer so far! The beans have started to grow, we continue to observe their growth over time to see how they change and compare with the ones we planted in soil. Which will give us the healthiest…