Cross Fell's Learning

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.

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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,…

Over the summer break Cross Fell moved into their new classroom, it is looking very smart indeed and we can't wait to welcome the new cohort of children in to start their learning journey. Full details of routines and FAQs can be found on Class Dojo. As always if you have any questions please do…

Just a reminder that we have the sponsored walk on Tuesday, more details are on both our class Dojo page and school story.

⭐️ THANK YOU ⭐️
For your generous donations

We’re overwhelmed with the support we’ve received so far for the Sponsored Walk. This Tuesday children from 10 year groups…

We are very lucky to have such a supportive PTFA, they have organised a duck race to be held on the last day of term so how about getting together after school to celebrate yet another fantastic year in school. Ducks are available to purchase at the school office for £1.00

Cross Fell really enjoyed spending time on our learning bus today , sharing stories and having fun!

We really enjoyed showcasing some of our work from our music sessions this half term. We really enjoyed the experience of getting up on the big stage and performing for all of our friends and families.

Some fabulous seaside art today, talking about the artist and completing the picture using shades of blue, drawing together our learning from earlier in the year about colours and colour mixing and how to use different brush strokes.

We have been very lucky to have Daniel and Sarah from Adventures in Art & Design working with us today. We have all produced something focused on traditional image making and illustration techniques and look forward to seeing some of our work developed into North Pennines themed postcards and…