Cross Fell's Learning

Cross Fell were super stars during the Harvest Festival on Friday. Everyone has been working so hard each week learning new songs. We all enjoyed listening to the readings, poems and prayers to celebrate the importance of giving to those in need at harvest.

We are continuing to work hard on learning our sounds in our daily Read, Write, Inc phonics sessions.

We are often asked about what parents can do to support at home- the key thing that we can advise is to read with your child as often as you can.

However we also wanted to share some short…

Wheelchair Basketball at Nenthead

Nat Pattinson of Team GB fame, gave us all an awesome morning up at Nenthead, as we took part in an amazing wheelchair basketball session.

All the children were superb and gave it 100% effort!

Today we introduced our new class story' Pattan's Pumpkin'.
We enjoyed getting hands on with a range of pumpkins of different colours, shapes and sizes and talked about what we already know about pumpkins and what we would like to learn.
We now can't wait to get started with our story and see…

We would like to recommend Super movers- a fun way of learning your key maths facts. Each clip features a fun mascot and catchy song to help the children to remember their number facts in a different way. Why not give it a go?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/topics/cnep90jwjj7t

Cross Fell are extremely fortunate to beable to work with Mrs Wheatley every week during their art sessions. Mrs Wheatley is an art specialist teacher and is amazing at sharing her passion for art inspiring our own learning as artists. This week we have been creating watercolour paintings.

Cross Fell celebrated National Poetry Day on Thursday by learning a poem all about The Great Fire of London. This Year's theme was counting and we have been looking at the date of the fire and how many days it raged through the streets of London. National poetry day fitted beautifully with all of…

Cross Fell really enjoyed getting their Great Fire of London topic off to a flying start by becoming bakers for the day. We talked about the events of the fire and how the fire started and our baking experiences really helped us to get our learning off to a memorable start. We can't wait to find…

We are extremely fortunate to have Mrs Wheatley working with us in our art lessons, Mrs Wheatley is an art specialist and she will be working with us every Friday to develop our skills as an artist. We are so lucky to be working with skilled specialists and can't wait to see how our skills…

At Alston Primary School our children are listened to and we teach them the importance of listening to and respecting the views of others.

Our children know that their voice is important; there are many occasions when they are asked to express their opinions, sharing views and opinions.

In…

We are extremely excited to launch our after school clubs for this half term.

We have a range of clubs designed to take into account a range of interests from Science to mindfulness, reading to crafts and many more so please check ipay to book your child's place- more details are on Class…

We are extremely fortunate to continue to have access to Numbots this year and every child in Cross Fell has been issued with a log in to help to support their maths development.

So what is Numbots?

NumBots adopts the best teaching practises to take children from counting on their fingers,…