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Middle Fell have been busy making some fantastic skeleton puppets to explore the bones in the body.

Everyone was in the zone for this one!  Well done Middle Fell ☺️

This afternoon, Flinty Fell took part in The Spaceship Earth Primary Show in association with the Stem Hub.

It was great fun! Flinty got to join Mission Control on our exciting Earth observation to view our beautiful planet from space. They also got to virtually visit the orbiting satellites…

In school reading has a high priority and we involve pupils from different classes by giving them responsibilities to contribute to the life of the school by becoming a reading buddy.

Our buddies are proud to be part of the scheme and help to share their skills and expertise as readers with…

The children had a great time at lunchtime making snowmen and snow pets of all sizes- thankyou to Mrs Humphrey for sharing the picture.

It was lovely to see everyone having so much fun and the weather provided us with a great opportunity to keep revisiting our seasonal changes topic in Science…

This afternoon we have continued our work in Geography by looking at the continents. We looked at where they are in the world, the sizes and some key features about them.

We have started our new topic this afternoon - a wonderful world. We were looking at the continents and oceans using great map skills!

Reading Framework

Teaching the Foundations of Literacy

Why Does Reading Matter?

To everyone at Alston Moor Federation, reading matters emotionally, culturally and educationally. We promote finding a Love of Reading in a Language-Rich Environment. Children who find a love of reading -…

We were extremely excited to find that Santa and his chief Elf had dropped in to see us in Alston Primary School today! We really enjoyed spending time talking to Santa and were delighted to find that he had given us all a very special book of our own to take home and enjoy on the run up to…

Even Santa shares our passion for reading! We had a very special visitor to Alston Primary School today- Santa and his chief Elf!

We were delighted to all receive a lovely book from Santa to take home to share with our families- it was a very exciting visit!

Thankyou to everyone who arranged this very special treat for us, we are lucky to have such a supportive school community. Here are Cross Fell and their exciting presents, it wasn’t long after this that they were all enjoying sharing the lovely books that they had received.

We are very proud of our house groups in Alston Primary School and enjoyed a thoroughly entertaining day rotating around all of the classrooms with our house groups taking part in a range of different Christmassy craft activities. It was wonderful to see everyone from Reception right up to Year 6…

We were delighted to be able to perform on stage alongside the rest of the school for our Christmas show- 'The Miracle.'

A lot of hard work went into learning our songs and dance moves so that we could really show off all of our talents to the extremely appreciative audiences. Performing on the…