Cross Fell's Learning

We were really excited to take part in the Library Services for Schools KS1 reading for pleasure challenge “Reading is Super Cool”.

The library service told us that the aim of their challenge was to-

• Motivate us to read regularly and encourage reading for pleasure

• Give us the…

Cross Fell really enjoyed travelling to Culgaith to compete in a junior olympics festival. We competed against teams from a number of local schools and were delighted to be awarded with 11 medals! A great day was had by all and the competition was conducted in such good spirit with everyone's…

Cross Fell enjoyed a fantastic trip out to Carlisle castle on Thursday to enhance their history learning. We were really excited to have a tour of the castle with our guide Matthew and enjoy some dressing up fun. Our trip really inspired us, bringing what we had learnt in the classroom to life and…

Cross Fell love to get out and about and we have again been lucky enough to be involved in an Action Ants festival where we got to learn a range of new skills learning alongside children from other schools. The fencing in particular was a huge hit and something we haven’t had the chance to try…

We have been reading the book 'Rapunzel' by Bethan Woolvin and as part of this we were set the challenge of either persuading Rapunzel to escape the tower or on the other hand for her to stay in the tower.

We used the technique of conscience alley- conscience alley is a useful technique for…

We really enjoy it when Gordon brings the library van to visit us! Today we enjoyed getting onto the bus, listening to a story read by Gordon and then choosing some new books to enjoy in the classroom.

Promoting our British values, each day we vote on the story we would like to listen to at…

I have had a few children asking if we are still swapping books and the answer is yes definitely!
We have a lovely selection of books ready to be swapped so if anyone would like to bring a book in to trade please bring it in anytime.
Weather dependant I will also put a table out with all of the…

Cross Fell were delighted to receive a level 2 award from the Royal Horticultural Society for school gardening. The garden in the Cross Fell outdoor area was created in response to pupil voice and the children have been active in caring for and nurturing the plants and are now busy working on…

We really enjoyed having PC Tony in school talking to us about stranger danger. We are very grateful to him for giving up his time to get across this very important message.

We are so excited to have received our RHS plaque, we were really pleased to see that they have also sent us some seeds and gardening guides to help to support us on our growing journey.

We have had such a lovely afternoon working with clay to make pots for a royal banquet, it was impressive to see how carefully everyone used the range of tools and how absorbed they were in their work.

We have been having a go with the new White Rose 1 minute maths app in school. Its a great way to practice maths skills at home and it can be downloaded for FREE! If any one needs any support with the app please just pop in and speak to one of the team.