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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
Inspirational science in action!
We had the privilege of having a special guest in school today!
Miss B came to spend the day with us discussing routes into STEM jobs, the important work currently being undertaken by Scientists and to offer us an insight into life as a woman in STEM. We made sure that time was also made to…
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
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…
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.
Cross Fell's Fruit Salad Delight
In DT we have been designing and making fruit salads. We started by tasting a range of fruits then experimented with tools to see how we could prepare each fruit before designing then making our delicious fruit salads.
It was brilliant to see everyone working so hard making their way through…
Using our senses- crisp experiment! What flavour crisps do you have?
We continued our work on the senses in science today looking at how we use our sense of taste.
We carried out an experiment to determine whether we can tell the flavour of crisp from taste alone.
We tested 3 different flavours, thinking about how the crisps tasted and talked to our…
Cross Fell Science
This half term we have been learning about animals including humans in our science lessons.
After looking at how we have grown and changed over time we looked at, identified and labelled the basic parts of the human body having fun matching the labels to our fantastic model!
Our next steps…