Cross Fell's Learning

Cross Fell have printed and constructed this dress inspired by Gustav Klimt.

Designed for use both in class and at home, White Rose's  1-minute maths app helps children build greater number confidence and fluency. It’s all about targeted practice in engaging, one-minute chunks!

It comes highly recommended from both the Cross Fell team and also the children who have…

In school we are lucky enough to have access to a fantastic resource that allows us to share clips with our families that can be used to back up the learning that we are doing in school by providing extra practise in the form of fun videos that can be used at home. 

Keep and eye out for links…

In English today, we challenged the children to make predictions about what happens next in our class story.

We learnt that a prediction is a clever guess or idea.

Here are some of our fantastic predictions, let’s see if any were correct on Monday.

Great North Air Ambulance Service Assembly

We were very grateful to have two visitors from GNAAS join us in school today, to talk about their vital work in our communities, as well as receiving the £1000.24 donation from us here at Alston Moor Federation from our recent sponsored walk 

We…

In Science we are learning about animals including humans and really enjoyed getting out into our outdoor area to look for evidence of different animals that might be living there. Super observing everyone! :-)

 FOREST SCHOOL  

Just a reminder that we will be taking part in our forest school sessions every Friday and will need

Long sleeved tops to cover arms
Full length trousers
Old shoes/boots/wellies
Coat and waterproofs if you have them

We absolutely love our sessions and are so fortunate…

We have really enjoyed starting to read the book Mini Rabbit Not Lost by John Bond. We love to share a range of books in Cross Fell and enjoy sharing different elements of the story to really immerse ourselves in the books we read. Today we looked at where the story was set and started to get to…

In Cross Fell we teach the children to read using the Read, Write Inc scheme. We would like to signpost all of our parents to the following website that has a range of extremely helpful guides that explain the process and how important it is to read and start to foster a love of reading at an…

What a brilliant first day we have had in Cross Fell! We’ve been so busy having fun and making lots of new friendships and exploring each of our linked learning areas. Go Cross Fell!

Cross Fell were really excited to take part in some activities for safer internet day learning how to stay safe online and who to ask if they were unsure of something they encountered online.

A huge thankyou to PC Joel who came into talk to us about his role and show off his police car. It was a pleasure to have such an enthusiastic visitor who was so wonderful with the children taking time to listen to their questions and talk about his role which linked into our superheroes topic…