Cross Fell's Learning

We have been making vehicles in our DT sessions this half term, we are extremely proud of how hard everyone has worked on this project- from our research looking at a range of vehicles to our designing and testing phase before the final big make, making sure that we had wheels and axles that we…

We have really enjoyed sharing the book ‘The Jolly Postman’ during our Literacy sessions over the past couple of weeks.

The book ties in beautifully with our journeys topic and has allowed us to explore familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and stories, perform rhymes and poems, take part in some…

In our computing sessions we have been learning all about programmable toys. We focussed on sequences and considered the importance of the order of instructions within a sequence.

We investigated creating sequences using the same instructions in different orders and tested these sequences to…

It was so wonderful to see everyone working as a team in Literacy today making some story boxes to represent the different stops that the Jolly Postman makes on his rounds. We were really impressed with how engrossed everyone was with the task and the final boxes are amazing!

In school reading has a high priority and we involve pupils from different classes by giving them responsibilities to contribute to the life of the school by becoming a reading buddy.

Our buddies are proud to be part of the scheme and help to share their skills and expertise as readers with…

The children had a great time at lunchtime making snowmen and snow pets of all sizes- thankyou to Mrs Humphrey for sharing the picture.

It was lovely to see everyone having so much fun and the weather provided us with a great opportunity to keep revisiting our seasonal changes topic in Science…

This afternoon we have continued our work in Geography by looking at the continents. We looked at where they are in the world, the sizes and some key features about them.

We have started our new topic this afternoon - a wonderful world. We were looking at the continents and oceans using great map skills!

We were extremely excited to find that Santa and his chief Elf had dropped in to see us in Alston Primary School today! We really enjoyed spending time talking to Santa and were delighted to find that he had given us all a very special book of our own to take home and enjoy on the run up to…

We are very proud of our house groups in Alston Primary School and enjoyed a thoroughly entertaining day rotating around all of the classrooms with our house groups taking part in a range of different Christmassy craft activities. It was wonderful to see everyone from Reception right up to Year 6…

We were delighted to be able to perform on stage alongside the rest of the school for our Christmas show- 'The Miracle.'

A lot of hard work went into learning our songs and dance moves so that we could really show off all of our talents to the extremely appreciative audiences. Performing on the…

We are working really hard to learn all of our sounds in Cross Fell and Fred is never far away to help us with those trickier words with his 'special friends, Fred talk, read the word' strategy, but we were really surprised when he turned up in a Christmas tree outfit with his friend Sparkles to…