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10 November 2023

Fantastic Fred!

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.

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10 November 2023

Children in Need

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…

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3 November 2023

Bringing books to life- our author visit

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!

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31 October 2023

Wheelchair basket ball fun

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.

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19 October 2023

Inspiring role models

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…

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19 October 2023

Cross Fell's Pumpkin workshop

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,…

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19 October 2023

Harvest celebrations at St Augustine's Church

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…

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18 October 2023

Long term homework presentation

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.…

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18 October 2023

Draw it to prove it! More maths strategies in action!

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…

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10 October 2023

Promoting good mental health

Today is mental health awareness day. We spoke about feelings and emotions, did some team building activities and spoke about why everyone was special to us

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7 October 2023

Home -school partnership - promoting maths 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…

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7 October 2023

Maths learning in Cross Fell

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.

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