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Cross Fell really got into the spirit of World Book Day by amongst other things, taking part in some reading in extreme places and also enjoying a trip to our local community library.

Our love of reading at APS is evident!

We have been looking at significant explorers. We were finding out about Matthew Henson and his exploration. We talked about the equipment he used, the difficulties he faced with his journey and recognition, and how we are able to find out information about him. We then created arctic pictures to…

Science - Moon and Mars Live Interactive Space Lesson

Cross Fell are keen to get growing again this year and are looking to further develop our gardening area- can anyone help us with our task?

Do you have any old pots or tools that you can donate? 

Do you have any seeds or seedlings that you would like to share? If the answer is yes then…

Throughout Alston Primary, we have voted and chosen these activities for World Book Day 2024 on Thursday 7th March...

Children will visit the library with their class, help decorate the classroom door from their chosen book or author, enjoy hot chocolate and a biscuit during Reading Buddies and…

In our Science today we looked in the school grounds to see which plants were growing and where.

We also examined a range of fruits and vegetables to see what we could see and were amazed to see the seeds contained inside- we have set ourselves a challenge to try to grow some ourselves!

We really enjoyed making bird feeders today inspired by the bluebird from our Robot and the Bluebird class story.

After reading the story the children really enjoyed learning all about a range of birds and thinking about how we could help them.

Great work everyone- it is so lovely when a…

Phonics screening check - information for parents

The phonics screening check has 40 words. 40 real word and 40 nonsense words it will happen during the week of the 10th June 2024

These are words that are phonically decodable but are not actual words with an associated meaning e.g. brip,…