Blog Author: Bev Brown

We were very impressed by the quality of homework that we had sent into us over the past half term. Our home- school partnership is extremely important to us and we love it when we can work together on projects deepening our understanding and helping us to take our learning in our own direction.…

In Cross Fell we develop a range of strategies to support us in our maths learning and today's session was a big hit! We moved form using our concrete resources to record our work pictorially on the tables. We loved learning the draw it to prove it strategy and talking to our table partners about…

We had the privilege of having a special guest in school today!

Miss B came to spend the day with us discussing routes into STEM jobs, the important work currently being undertaken by Scientists and to offer us an insight into life as a woman in STEM. We made sure that time was also made to…

Today is mental health awareness day. We spoke about feelings and emotions, did some team building activities and spoke about why everyone was special to us

Many people think they “can’t do maths”, but with exciting new teaching approaches, we’re proving day by day in Cross Fell that every child really can love and succeed in maths!

We want to make it as easy as possible for parents to support their child’s learning at home and in addition to the…

In our maths sessions both Year 1 and Year 2 have been learning about place value and it has been lovely to see everyone using a range of concrete resources to display their understanding and explaining their reasoning to their partners.

In DT we have been designing and making fruit salads. We started by tasting a range of fruits then experimented with tools to see how we could prepare each fruit before designing then making our delicious fruit salads.

It was brilliant to see everyone working so hard making their way through…

We continued our work on the senses in science today looking at how we use our sense of taste.

We carried out an experiment to determine whether we can tell the flavour of crisp from taste alone.

We tested 3 different flavours, thinking about how the crisps tasted and talked to our…

This half term we have been learning about animals including humans in our science lessons.

After looking at how we have grown and changed over time we looked at, identified and labelled the basic parts of the human body having fun matching the labels to our fantastic model! 

Our next steps…

Park Fell have been really enjoying their forest school sessions where they can really get hands on with their understanding the world area of learning. It is lovely to see everyone so engaged and enjoying their learning.

This term we took part in an Action Ants activity afternoon where we travelled to Newton Rigg to enjoy a fun filled afternoon with a host of other local schools, learning new skills and enjoying competing against each other to complete a range of challenges. It was fantastic to see everyone having…