Blog Author: Bev Brown

We are very proud of our house groups in Alston Primary School and enjoyed a thoroughly entertaining day rotating around all of the classrooms with our house groups taking part in a range of different Christmassy craft activities. It was wonderful to see everyone from Reception right up to Year 6…

We were delighted to be able to perform on stage alongside the rest of the school for our Christmas show- 'The Miracle.'

A lot of hard work went into learning our songs and dance moves so that we could really show off all of our talents to the extremely appreciative audiences. Performing on the…

We are working really hard to learn all of our sounds in Cross Fell and Fred is never far away to help us with those trickier words with his 'special friends, Fred talk, read the word' strategy, but we were really surprised when he turned up in a Christmas tree outfit with his friend Sparkles to…

Cross Fell were really surprised when they came into school this morning and discovered that we had been visited by some Reindeers during the night! We found that they had nibbled our carrots and left us a very cheeky elf called Sparkles who is here with us until Christmas as he has heard how…

Cross Fell are extremely excited to start opening their book advent calendar every day in school as we count down to the hoildays.

We really enjoy promoting a life long love of books and reading in Cross Fell and our book Advent calendar always add that little extra magic to our reading…

Cross Fell can't wait to get started on their book Advent calendar!

We love to share our love of reading and the excitement we have each day when we unwrap a new book to share makes our daily reading session even more magical :-)

Middle Fell have had a marvellous time hunting for and classifying invertebrates in our local area today 

We were really surprised to see Fred’s new clothes when he challenged us with some new sounds each afternoon this week!

We are trying really hard to learn our sounds and are noticing an improvement so please do keep up the good work at home and Fred will keep challenging us in school.

It is world Science day today and so to mark the occasion each of the classes really enjoyed taking part in some experiments to get us excited about our Science learning in school.

Cross Fell were really excited by their experiment as you can see!

The school council have met together and decided to support Children In Need as one of our charities this year.

The council have decided to hold a Children in Need colouring competition if anyone would like to join in, it is 50p entry please stick your money to your sheet and put your name on…

We work hard to inspire the children to really enjoy reading and build a life long passion for books and at APS we do this in a variety of ways.

Today Cross Fell enjoyed a virtual author visit and joined Nicola Kinnear for a fun session inspired by her latest picture book, Ready, Steady…

We joined Nicola Kinnear for a fun session inspired by her latest picture book, Ready, Steady Squirrel! We enjoyed a story session with Nicola and heard all about Evie, a very determined little squirrel, we even learnt how to draw our own squirrel!