Cross Fell's Learning

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…

Cross Fell were really surprised when they came into school this morning and discovered that we had been visited by some Reindeers during the night! We found that they had nibbled our carrots and left us a very cheeky elf called Sparkles who is here with us until Christmas as he has heard how…

Cross Fell are extremely excited to start opening their book advent calendar every day in school as we count down to the hoildays.

We really enjoy promoting a life long love of books and reading in Cross Fell and our book Advent calendar always add that little extra magic to our reading…

We were really surprised to see Fred’s new clothes when he challenged us with some new sounds each afternoon this week!

We are trying really hard to learn our sounds and are noticing an improvement so please do keep up the good work at home and Fred will keep challenging us in school.

The school council have met together and decided to support Children In Need as one of our charities this year.

The council have decided to hold a Children in Need colouring competition if anyone would like to join in, it is 50p entry please stick your money to your sheet and put your name on…

We joined Nicola Kinnear for a fun session inspired by her latest picture book, Ready, Steady Squirrel! We enjoyed a story session with Nicola and heard all about Evie, a very determined little squirrel, we even learnt how to draw our own squirrel!

Cross Fell really enjoyed travelling to Nenthead Village hall to take part in a wheelchair basket ball session. It was lovely to see everyone so engaged and the session promoted so much discussion work about trying new things and persevering even when things were challenging. Well done Cross Fell.

We were very lucky to welcome Miss Bradley into school yesterday to talk about her job as a scientist. The children were delighted to hear all about her job and asked some fantastic questions to learn more. We are very fortunate to have such inspiring visitors offering an insight into the life of…

We really enjoyed taking part in a NFU workshop today.
Every Thursday at 2pm, Becca and Lizzie from NFU introduce a different inspirational role model from the world of agriculture and engineering and today we joined the pumpkin workshop and enjoyed learning about all things food, farming,…

Cross Fell have been learning all about Harvest and learning some special songs to sing in church. It was lovely to be able to share such a special celebration with our local community and draw together all of our learning. Well done everyone for singing so beautifully - you all worked really hard…

We were very impressed by the quality of homework that we had sent into us over the past half term. Our home- school partnership is extremely important to us and we love it when we can work together on projects deepening our understanding and helping us to take our learning in our own direction.…

In Cross Fell we develop a range of strategies to support us in our maths learning and today's session was a big hit! We moved form using our concrete resources to record our work pictorially on the tables. We loved learning the draw it to prove it strategy and talking to our table partners about…