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6 February 2026

National storytelling week meets forest school!

National Storytelling Week at Forest School

This week at Forest School we’ve been celebrating National Storytelling Week, letting stories come alive in the great outdoors 

Well done Cross Fell! 

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30 January 2026

Forest school

 Forest School Fire Strikers 

Today at Forest School, the children had the exciting opportunity to use fire strikers as part of their outdoor learning. This activity was carefully supervised and focused on teaching fire safety, control, and respect for nature.

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30 January 2026

More gymnastics fun with Carlisle United

Gymnastics with Carlisle United 

Another fantastic session Cross Fell!
You were engaged, positive, resilient and growing in confidence each week!

Well done!

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30 January 2026

Making the Moon

We have been looking at space in Art and made moons out of paint and salt. 

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28 January 2026

Computing in Cross Fell

Running algorithms in computing!

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16 January 2026

Gymnastics with Carlisle United

Gymnastics with Carlisle United 

Everyone was focused and engaged and said they can’t wait till next Friday to do gymnastics again!
 

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16 January 2026

Problem solving in forest school

This afternoon Anna read us a story from Winnie The Pooh -
Eeyore needed a new house and Cross Fell was given the task to build him one!

The children showed wonderful creativity, problem solving by working together and showing fantastic teamwork!
Super job Cross Fell

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13 January 2026

Paper Mache

Cross fell are making paper Mache hot air balloons. This ties in with the transport topic they are learning. We had allot of fun.

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8 January 2026

We are illustrators!

Just before Christmas we each drew a monster to be included in the young writers book ‘Monster Mayhem’. We have received a certificate to mark this achievement and all children will bring a letter home tonight to give permission for their artwork to be published. Well done Cross Fell!

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10 December 2025

He's behind you! Cross Fell visit the pantomime

What a fantastic morning we have had at Hexham! We really enjoyed watching the pantomime Red Riding Hood and loved our snack bags in the interval. A huge thankyou to everyone on the PTA and Alston and Garrigill charity for their kind donations to make our trip happen and Ms Reed who organised…

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5 December 2025

Cross Fell computing- digital photography

Computing

Wow, we can alter photographs!

Children independently changed their photograph to black and white.

We discussed that images that we see in different places can be altered as well.

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5 December 2025

Marshmallows!

Forest School Friday! Today Anna talked to us about campfire safety in our session before we toasted marshmallows. We got to eat them with biscuits. We also got to meet our two new resident chickens!

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