Blog Author: Bev Brown

Our ever popular book swap is returning for 2024/25 by popular request. Last year it was so lovely to see the children choosing and donating books to our book swap box and we will be continuing this scheme this academic year to continue to promote a love of reading and removing barriers to reading by providing access to free high quality books.

If you would like to donate any books please send them into school or pop them into the box. The book swap box will be out every Wednesday near the Cross Fell entrance for you to choose a book (weather dependent- if it rains and you would like to choose a book please let us know as we will have the books under cover). 

Let's keep that love of reading growing!

Over the summer break Cross Fell moved into their new classroom, it is looking very smart indeed and we can't wait to welcome the new cohort of children in to start their learning journey. Full details of routines and FAQs can be found on Class Dojo. As always if you have any questions please do…

Just a reminder that we have the sponsored walk on Tuesday, more details are on both our class Dojo page and school story.

⭐️ THANK YOU ⭐️
For your generous donations

We’re overwhelmed with the support we’ve received so far for the Sponsored Walk. This Tuesday children from 10 year groups…

We are very lucky to have such a supportive PTFA, they have organised a duck race to be held on the last day of term so how about getting together after school to celebrate yet another fantastic year in school. Ducks are available to purchase at the school office for £1.00

We really enjoyed having a stall at the garden party today, we have been working hard in gardening club to grow a range of plants to sell alongside seeds and plant markers. It was lovely to see our gardening club members selling things on the stall putting our learning about money into action…

Gardening club are all set up and ready to welcome you to the garden party

Today in our Science learning Mrs Brown had planned for us to investigate spiders but as we are so fascinated by worms we changed our plans to go with our new found interest in all things wriggly to look at toy worms and compare them to some actual worms.

We thought about how we knew if each…

Cross Fell really enjoyed spending time on our learning bus today , sharing stories and having fun!

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…