Blog Author: Bev Brown

PC Joel made the very special effort to come and talk to us all about fireworks and bonfire safety. Remember: have fun, but be safe!

Cross Fell were super stars during the Harvest Festival on Friday. Everyone has been working so hard each week learning new songs. We all enjoyed listening to the readings, poems and prayers to celebrate the importance of giving to those in need at harvest.

So far nearly 2000 wildflower plugs have been planted at Fairhill, they are planning on planting the final ones this Saturday if anyone wants to go along and be involved................Celebration cake too when its all done!

We are continuing to work hard on learning our sounds in our daily Read, Write, Inc phonics sessions.

We are often asked about what parents can do to support at home- the key thing that we can advise is to read with your child as often as you can.

However we also wanted to share some short…

 Introducing Ted’s Tales

This is Flinty Fell’s class bear Ted.

When it is your turn, Ted will be coming to stay over with you to read.

Ted will visit a different person from Flinty each night of the week, and the aim is to read something to him of your choice.

It could be the current…

Middle Fell had great fun exploring Nenthead Mines today as part of their Science learning! We managed to find a tonne of gallium, calcite, quartz and many incredible formations of different minerals and sedimentary rocks. Our pupils also managed to find some impeccable fossils of pre-historic…

We loved getting these pictures from Teddy! Fredwina had the best time, reading stories, feeding the ducks, getting a ride on Norman the tortoise and meeting the stick insects. Thankyou for taking such good care of Fredwina Teddy and sharing your skills to help her to get so much better at her…

Our new reading mascots really are firing up our love of reading and we are really enjoying seeing all of the things that both Fred and Fredwina are getting up to. Thankyou so much to everyone who has hosted Fred or Fredwina and we are really loving how excited the children are about sharing their…

Wheelchair Basketball at Nenthead

Nat Pattinson of Team GB fame, gave us all an awesome morning up at Nenthead, as we took part in an amazing wheelchair basketball session.

All the children were superb and gave it 100% effort!

Fredwina had a great visit to Jai's house on Thursday. It was Jai's Birthday so Fredwina enjoyed Birthday cake and then Jai helped her to learn lots of speedy sounds and read his book before being fortunate enough to witness the Northern lights! What an incredible adventure!

Middle Fell's Science lesson on Tuesday looking at how soil is formed and how it sustains life. They also conducted an experiment to assess the different properties of different soil samples!

Today we introduced our new class story' Pattan's Pumpkin'.
We enjoyed getting hands on with a range of pumpkins of different colours, shapes and sizes and talked about what we already know about pumpkins and what we would like to learn.
We now can't wait to get started with our story and see…