Year 1 Phonics Screening check
Phonics screening check - information for parents
The phonics screening check has 40 words. 40 real word and 40 nonsense words it will happen during the week of the 10th June 2024
These are words that are phonically decodable but are not actual words with an associated meaning e.g. brip,…
Which house is the strongest?
Today in Science we have been making houses for The Three Little Pigs from sticks, straw and Lego to see which is the strongest material so that the Big Bad Wolf cannot blow them down!
Internet Safety Day 2024
As part of safer internet day, KS1 and Reception looked at different scenarios and offered solutions.
Should we watch things on YouTube before asking a grown up? No, but a few children were honest and admitted to not always asking. So we talked about what could go wrong if they watched something…
Spring Term recommended read
Our recommended book this half term is The day the crayons quit –
The day the crayons quit a fun and unique story of a box of crayons who write letters to Duncan as they are fed up with how they are being treated. It comes highly recommended as it is a firm favourite with our children who love…
Materials and their uses
We continued our work on materials in our Science sessions this week.
Unfortunately Cross Fell were not impressed by Mrs Brown's new inventions and were very quick to point out why they thought that a glass hammer, chocolate tea pot and cardboard shoes were not going to make her rich and famous…
Cross Fell's DT project
We have been making vehicles in our DT sessions this half term, we are extremely proud of how hard everyone has worked on this project- from our research looking at a range of vehicles to our designing and testing phase before the final big make, making sure that we had wheels and axles that we…
Mr Dawson shares his love of reading!
It was fantastic to welcome Mr Dawson into Cross Fell this morning to read us one of his favourite books. We were really enthralled as we listened to the story of Emily Brown and the Thing and really appreciated Mr Dawson coming to share our story time with us- again sharing and promoting that…
The Jolly Postman
We have really enjoyed sharing the book ‘The Jolly Postman’ during our Literacy sessions over the past couple of weeks.
The book ties in beautifully with our journeys topic and has allowed us to explore familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and stories, perform rhymes and poems, take part in some…
Programming fun!
In our computing sessions we have been learning all about programmable toys. We focussed on sequences and considered the importance of the order of instructions within a sequence.
We investigated creating sequences using the same instructions in different orders and tested these sequences to…
Materials fun in Cross Fell
Cross Fell are really enjoying their new topic- materials. We have been adding to our working wall each lesson building our knowledge and understanding of the topic. It has been wonderful to see everyone getting to grips with our key vocabulary that we are adding each session and accessing the…
The Jolly Postman Story boxes
It was so wonderful to see everyone working as a team in Literacy today making some story boxes to represent the different stops that the Jolly Postman makes on his rounds. We were really impressed with how engrossed everyone was with the task and the final boxes are amazing!
Middle Fell fantastic skeletons
Middle Fell have been busy making some fantastic skeleton puppets to explore the bones in the body.
Everyone was in the zone for this one! Well done Middle Fell ☺️
