Blog Author: Bev Brown

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…

We  have continued our work on 'How to find Gold' today and have been working in groups today to look deeper into the pages from our story- as you can see from our faces we love to work together and the discussion work really helps to enhance everyone's learning.

We have been talking about what…

It is lovely to see how much our children enjoy reading and we were delighted to see one of our children enjoying reading a story to her friend in our linked learning time recently. It really is fabulous to see that love of reading being shared independently. I think we have a mini teacher in the…

Save the date! 09/07/2024

The school council have chosen Grisedale Croft as their local charity and would like to invite you to a garden party to raise funds for them.
More details nearer to the date

Park Fell let their butterflies go today. The didn’t want to leave at first! Just goes to show how well Park Fell must have cared for them