New children's books we love

Every month, Book Trust review dozens of books for children and teenagers. Here are the ones they like best in September: guaranteed to get your child reading…

New children's books we love | BookTrust

Read Write Inc. – A guide for parents

In APS we follow the RWI scheme for teaching phonics. We would love to signpost you to the following website that has a handy guie for parents. As ever if anyone has any questions please just get in touch with one of the team.

Parent guide to Read Write…

The Hedgehog Bookshop in Penrith is welcoming Julia Donaldson to a special event on Thursday 11th September to launch her new book. Anyone who has been in Cross Fell will beable to tell you that Julia Donaldson is my absolute favourite author so I am very excited to hear she is visiting Penrith…

Each week in assembly we award certificates to children who are working really hard on thier reading both in school and especially at home.

Here are Cross Fell's reading champions this week. Well done to our reading champions this week we are very proud of you!

We are delighted to share our recent Ofsted Inspection Report with you which judged Alston Primary School as “Good” in all categories.

The inspection team praised the inclusive nature of the school as pupils had been clear that everyone is equal, and everyone is welcome. The published report…

If you are looking for some super book recommendations for Christmas we would like to sign post you to this website that can offer lots of suggestions that you may find useful. There are a range of themes for a variety of ages so there is something for everyone! Lets keep celebrating our love for…

The school library service has just been in touch to highlight the following Winter reading challenge for anyone who would be interested. It sounds great :-)

'Hi all,

I am just highlighting the fact for everyone that there is a winter mini challenge for children. This is just a smaller…

We love reading in Cross Fell! It is lovely to see our reading corner and school library being so well used by the children, our passion for reading is evident.

Mrs Paisley's box of books.
Last week I asked each child in Cross Fell to give me 1 word and I would see if I could find a book with that place, animal or object in it.
I am happy to say I managed and I am looking forward to sharing these books with the children at story time.

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.

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.

The children in Cross Fell are really enjoying their weekly reading buddies session with the children from Flinty Fell and it has really inspired them to read. Feedback from the children was that they would love even more things to read including comics and magazines so we are putting out a plea…