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 ☺️
Flinty's Space Exploration!
This afternoon, Flinty Fell took part in The Spaceship Earth Primary Show in association with the Stem Hub.
It was great fun! Flinty got to join Mission Control on our exciting Earth observation to view our beautiful planet from space. They also got to virtually visit the orbiting satellites…
Sharing a love of reading- reading buddies in Cross Fell
In school reading has a high priority and we involve pupils from different classes by giving them responsibilities to contribute to the life of the school by becoming a reading buddy.
Our buddies are proud to be part of the scheme and help to share their skills and expertise as readers with…
Snowy Fun!
The children had a great time at lunchtime making snowmen and snow pets of all sizes- thankyou to Mrs Humphrey for sharing the picture.
It was lovely to see everyone having so much fun and the weather provided us with a great opportunity to keep revisiting our seasonal changes topic in Science…
Geography fun in Cross Fell
This afternoon we have continued our work in Geography by looking at the continents. We looked at where they are in the world, the sizes and some key features about them.