Cross Fell's Learning

Many people think they “can’t do maths”, but with exciting new teaching approaches, we’re proving day by day in Cross Fell that every child really can love and succeed in maths!

We want to make it as easy as possible for parents to support their child’s learning at home and in addition to the…

In our maths sessions both Year 1 and Year 2 have been learning about place value and it has been lovely to see everyone using a range of concrete resources to display their understanding and explaining their reasoning to their partners.

In DT we have been designing and making fruit salads. We started by tasting a range of fruits then experimented with tools to see how we could prepare each fruit before designing then making our delicious fruit salads.

It was brilliant to see everyone working so hard making their way through…

This term we took part in an Action Ants activity afternoon where we travelled to Newton Rigg to enjoy a fun filled afternoon with a host of other local schools, learning new skills and enjoying competing against each other to complete a range of challenges. It was fantastic to see everyone having…

Cross Fell have been learning about colour mixing. We started out with red, yellow and blue and were challenged to make green, orange and purple.

We dipped our fingers in the paint and mixed them together to see what colours we could create- we were amazed to see that we had magic colour mixing…

We really enjoy spending time in our reading nook, cuddling up to a reading bear and sharing books with our friends. 

We are lucky to have a range of books in our classroom and love to have visits to the library van to regularly top up our reading stock so that we can keep sharing our love of…

At APS we offer a range of exciting clubs that the children are welcome to attend free of charge. These clubs will vary each term to try to take into account the children's different interests. This half term's clubs start next week, please send in any slips by Friday and we can allocate places-…

We were delighted to start our year receiving the Royal seal of approval for our writing.

We received a very exciting letter and card from King Charles, direct from Buckingham Palace, thanking us for letters that we sent to the palace at the end of the Summer term.

The children were amazed…

Cross Fell have really enjoyed working with Mrs Harding this year in their music sessions to learn to play not only the recorder but also a range of percussion instruments.

We have enjoyed expanding our music vocabulary and using our voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and…

We have really enjoyed our recent DT project, from researching different puppets to looking at ways of joining fabric to then cutting and sewing our own puppets. It was lovely to see the care and attention to detail that went into our designs and the quality of the finishing was particularly…

We really enjoyed our visit from Mieke and Miles the Bear from the Great North Air Ambulance today.

Mieke talked to us about what the air ambulance does and how we can help to support this amazing charity.

It is lovely for our school to  be building connections within the community to …

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…