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We are extremely pleased to say that the ever popular book buddies scheme is back for this academic year!

Last year it was a delight to witness how much the children enjoyed sharing their favourite books together, spending time sharing their skills and growing their love of reading within…

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!

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…

Congratulations to our KS2 Superstar readers! These 8 students have been doing lots of reading at home recently and we are so impressed! Reading is a superpower!

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…

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…

We strive to share our love of reading in all different  formats and wanted to give a little reminder to all of our families about this fantastic resource for free e- books that the children can access to keep them excited and inspired with reading.
It might be the perfect thing to curl up and…

We really enjoyed our visit to the book fair today! It was lovely to see the children carefully handling the books and talking to their friends about books that they would like to read and ones they could recommend. Our passion for reading continues to grow!

The book fair is open after school…