Blog Author: Bev Brown

We have started afternoon phonics booster sessions to support and fast track the learning of our sounds. It was wonderful to see how engaged everyone was and how quickly we could say the sounds.

Well done to Riley who was phonics star yesterday!

Today in maths we have been looking at numbers 16-20 and using different maths resources to help us with our learning.

Getting hands on with a range of concrete resources really helps us to see and understand what is happening and helps use to make sense of tricky maths problems quickly…

In RE we are going to be learning about the story of creation and thinking about whether we should look after the world.

We kick started our learning by making our own precious creations then thought about how we would feel if someone destroyed them or didn't look after them…

Back to Forest School!

What a fantastic first Forest School session back! The children loved getting stuck into outdoor exploring and most excitingly, discovering our brand-new Forest School cabin! 

We also enjoyed showing Anna what we had been getting up to during the holidays, using…

On Saturday 5th September it is Alston agricultural show. There are classes for the children to enter and lots of things to keep all of the family entertained. We know that lots of our families will be attending so have been asked to spread the word about this fantastic community event.

In forest school today we learned all about bees. We tasted some honey on bread and chose to make our own bees out of pine cones, wool and pipe cleaners.

Anna told us all about bees and how they pollinate the flowers for some of the fruits we eat. 

Some of us used the watercolour paints to…

We really enjoyed looking in the book swap box and choosing some new books to take home and keep :-) happy reading and happy weekend everyone!

Another fantastic PE session with Gary today! 
The children continued practising their Sports Day events - Keep up the amazing effort - we can't wait for Sports Day!

Cross Fell thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Tullie museum in Carlisle. 

We were very fortunate to beable to take part in a toy workshop where we could handle a range of different toys from the past and even have a go at making our own toy. A thoroughly brilliant day out with excellent…

Another fantastic Forest School session today.

The children fully embraced the outdoors—building dens, exploring the woodland, and letting their imaginations run wild.

There’s something special about learning in nature—the smiles say it all

We’ve had a great computing lesson today 

We used Chrome Music Lab to compose some pieces of music using a repeating pattern

Toys, toys, toys!
We were very fortunate to beable to secure one of the very sought after artefact boxes from Cumbria library service who put together a brilliant box of old and new toys for us to use as part of our on going topic. The children loved getting hands on and playing with a range of…