Blog Author: Bev Brown

We really enjoyed showcasing some of our work from our music sessions this half term. We really enjoyed the experience of getting up on the big stage and performing for all of our friends and families.

Some fabulous seaside art today, talking about the artist and completing the picture using shades of blue, drawing together our learning from earlier in the year about colours and colour mixing and how to use different brush strokes.

We have been very lucky to have Daniel and Sarah from Adventures in Art & Design working with us today. We have all produced something focused on traditional image making and illustration techniques and look forward to seeing some of our work developed into North Pennines themed postcards and…

Today we have had Police Community Support Officer Joel Larmour from Cumbria's Neighbourhood  Policing Team  to talk to us about water safety.

We are always talking to our children in school about how to stay safe and it was lovely to hear Tony passing on the message about how to keep ourselves…

The Summer Reading challenge is coming! 2 weeks to go! What a great way to keep up with your reading over the Summer holidays and find some new favourite books in the process.

How to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge at your local library

Children can join the Challenge at the…

This half term the Cross Fell team can recommend reading the Lighthouse Keeper’s lunch.

A fantastic story that links to our Seaside topic beautifully- why not look out for it on your next visit to either the school or local library?

On Friday we are excited to be taking part in a zoom author visit where we will lean more about what it takes to write exciting stories and enjoy listening to the author  Lanisha Butterfield sharing one of the books she has written. Experiences like this really help to build our love of reading…

Reading continues to be a big focus in Cross Fell and we are really enjoying taking part in a book swap where we can bring in any books we have enjoyed at home and swap them for a new one. Sharing that love of reading with our friends has been wonderful and the scheme has proved to be very…

Reading continues to be a big focus in Cross Fell and we are really enjoying taking part in a book swap where we can bring in any books we have enjoyed at home and swap them for a new one. Sharing that love of reading with our friends has been wonderful and the scheme has proved to be very…

We have had a great time at bikeability today. We have practiced moving in and out of cones, turning, ducking under poles and also going over a ramp! Everyone has done an amazing job showing such good listening and teamwork. Well done Cross Fell you can all put your new found skills into practice…

Everyone in Cross Fell knows that Mrs Brown LOVES reading and her favourite author is Julia Donaldson. Thanks to everyone's purchases at the Scholastic book fair each class was given some funds to buy some new and exciting books for their class reading areas and we jumped at the chance to purchase…

Tom Palmer - Author visit ✍️

We were so lucky to have the wonderful writer and author Tom Palmer visit KS2 this afternoon. Tom gave us tips for own own writing, as well as giving us amazing insights as to where his fascinating stories on Cumbria, the wars and football came from.

We will be…