Cross Fell's Learning

We have been very busy preparing for Chinese New Year tomorrow

This term we are learning about real life superheroes. Today we found out about Florence Nightingale and the amazing work she did in hospitals and colleges over the years.

We know that she helped injured soldiers, cleaned up hospitals, trained new nurses, and dedicated her life to helping…

In Computing we have been learning about digital painting and have been learning to use a range of tools to help us to create self-portraits and artwork inspired by famous artists.

As Christmas is approaching and many of us have tablets on our Christmas lists we also took part in some…

Some excellent work in computing today using a painting package to create our own artwork in the style of Kandinsky. Great work everyone

In Art we have enjoyed learning a new skill- weaving. We firstly mastered the technique by using paper before moving on to using a loom and wool to create fire of London inspired weavings using hot colours to represent the fire. It was not an easy skill to master and we had to show perseverance…

We continue to be blown away by the quality of long term homework that is being produced, we are so grateful to everyone for their ongoing support from home- the partnership is so important to us and we are so grateful for all of your input from home.

Mrs Brown

As part of our literacy work we have been reading a story called Pattan’s pumpkin. It has been lovely to share a story from another culture and expand our understanding.

Today we enjoyed exploring some pumpkins building some lovely vocabulary to use in our next writing task- it was such good…

Cross Fell were really fortunate to have Mrs Tuffin today sharing a range of instruments with us, it is such a treat to be able to listen to talented musicians playing a range of instruments and inspiring our own musical journeys. Thankyou Mrs Tuffin.

We caught the robber! Today in the next part of our story Claude the dog helped the police to catch the robber, we learned all about questions and used them to find out what had happened. We love it when we can use drama to bring our learning to life and help us to expand our ever growing…

We have had a wonderful couple of afternoons working with Mr Bailey to develop our technology skills. We took part in an immersive activity with wireless headphones, created some green screen photos and recorded some footage all about pirates

We love to get hands on with our maths learning and this week we have done some fantastic work on capacity, next week we move onto looking at temperature and building on our work this week transferring the skill of being able to read scales in divisions of 1,2,5 and 10.

Just a reminder that we have some World Book Day books for anyone struggling to swap their tokens, I didn’t want anyone to miss out if they couldn't make it to the shops so have swapped some to make it easier. If you would like one please bring in your token and choose a book then I will keep…