Cross Fell's Learning

Today we have had Police Community Support Officer Joel Larmour from Cumbria's Neighbourhood  Policing Team  to talk to us about water safety.

We are always talking to our children in school about how to stay safe and it was lovely to hear Tony passing on the message about how to keep ourselves…

Reading continues to be a big focus in Cross Fell and we are really enjoying taking part in a book swap where we can bring in any books we have enjoyed at home and swap them for a new one. Sharing that love of reading with our friends has been wonderful and the scheme has proved to be very…

We have had a great time at bikeability today. We have practiced moving in and out of cones, turning, ducking under poles and also going over a ramp! Everyone has done an amazing job showing such good listening and teamwork. Well done Cross Fell you can all put your new found skills into practice…

We  have continued our work on 'How to find Gold' today and have been working in groups today to look deeper into the pages from our story- as you can see from our faces we love to work together and the discussion work really helps to enhance everyone's learning.

We have been talking about what…

Save the date! 09/07/2024

The school council have chosen Grisedale Croft as their local charity and would like to invite you to a garden party to raise funds for them.
More details nearer to the date

What a great morning we had at the wetlands. After all of the rain the wetlands lived up to their name and with the river level continuing to rise we couldn’t do pond dipping this time but we had great fun on our scavenger hunts and woodland exploring. Well done everyone and a huge thankyou to the…

Cross Fell joined Middle Fell today to take part in a code along event alongside a BBC Micro:bit live stream lesson. We learned how to code our Micro:bits so that we could classify, track and analyse living things in both the plant and animal kingdoms.

It was so wonderful for Cross Fell to have…

Cross Fell have had great fun handling the chicks today as you can tell from our faces! We have loved observing the change over time as the eggs have hatched into very lively little chicks- thankyou to Park Fell for allowing us to share your learning with you it has really helped us with our…

Cross Fell are really excited to be embarking on their latest DT project- designing and making a sunglasses case.

Linked to our seasides topic we were challenged to make a sunglasses case that we can use to keep our sunglasses safe when we are out and about in the Summer.

We started our…

We went on a trip with Action Ants where we participated in an obstacle course, a low ropes adventure course, archery and cross bows, golf, and dodgeball. We had to work together in teams and find strategies to achieve activities. 

We love it when we get to put on our sport’s top ready to compete against other schools.

Our Action Ants trips inspire us to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities.  We take part in our Action Ants festivals regularly throughout the year which gives us…

The children really enjoyed our growing topic last half term and so to keep the enthusiasm going and in response to requests from the children I am going to be running a Year 1/2 gardening club every other Wednesday during lunchtime.

I will ask the children tomorrow if anyone is interested in…