Blog Author: Bev Brown

Today in our literacy we made story boxes based on some of the scenes in our story Orion and the Dark.
It was lovely to see the children working together and discussing different ideas and problem solving using different materials. Well done.

Today in our computing session we were learning to make marks with the square and line tool. We used the fill function to colour our shapes and made some artwork in the style of Piet Mondrian.

It is anti bullying week in school this week and we have been sharing stories and discussing what bullying looks and feels like and what we should do if we are feeling worried. We have also carried on this work in our Jigsaw sessions so that we all know what to do if we are feeling worried in…

Some super work in RWI today in Cross Fell, we have been learning the sound oi in purple group today. Keep looking out for it in your sounds books and check Dojo for some personalised links to the sounds we have been learning this week.

Some excellent use of concrete resources helping us with our work on addition and subtraction today.

Each day in Cross Fell we enjoy sharing a story at snack time. Each day the children have the opportunity to vote for the story that they would like to hear - democracy and pupil voice in action.

Today in our Geography session we learned all about different types of housing in our local area and had a go at making our own versions using junk modelling materials. We can’t wait to go out into Alston for a walk to see everything we have learned about first hand. Great job everyone!

It was fantastic to catch some of our children independently choosing to read their RWI books during linked learning today, the confidence in reading is really shining through as is the determination to keep on getting better. Keep up the great work!

As part of our Science topic this half term we are looking at seasonal changes and dark nights have formed part of this discussion. Today we were extremely fortunate to welcome PC Joel and PC Ian into class to talk to us about the importance and being bright and being seen when out and about and…

In our Geography topic this half term we are looking at our local area and as part of this we are going to be making some model houses on Tuesday so if you have any junk modelling boxes, shoe boxes, tubes, pots etc that you would beable to send in to help us with our crafting that would be…

For the children in Mrs Liverick's Blue group you have now learned all of your sounds so your aim is to speed up your word reading when reading longer words. These clips will be perfect to help you :-) we hope you find them useful.

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IypG0sbw/AAVcWTNI
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We are continuing to work hard on learning our sounds and personalised updates on the sounds we are still finding tricky and need to recap will be in our book bags tomorrow so you can see how your child is getting on and which sounds we are working on recapping in school that you may also be able…