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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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6 October 2023

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…

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5 October 2023

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…

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28 September 2023

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…

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28 September 2023

Park Fell's Forest School fun

Park Fell have been really enjoying their forest school sessions where they can really get hands on with their understanding the world area of learning. It is lovely to see everyone so engaged and enjoying their learning.

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27 September 2023

Cross Fell's Teambuilding Fun

This term we took part in an Action Ants activity afternoon where we travelled to Newton Rigg to enjoy a fun filled afternoon with a host of other local schools, learning new skills and enjoying competing against each other to complete a range of challenges. It was fantastic to see everyone having…

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22 September 2023

Colour mixing fun

Cross Fell have been learning about colour mixing. We started out with red, yellow and blue and were challenged to make green, orange and purple.

We dipped our fingers in the paint and mixed them together to see what colours we could create- we were amazed to see that we had magic colour mixing…

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20 September 2023

Sharing our love of reading in Cross Fell

We really enjoy spending time in our reading nook, cuddling up to a reading bear and sharing books with our friends. 

We are lucky to have a range of books in our classroom and love to have visits to the library van to regularly top up our reading stock so that we can keep sharing our love of…

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7 September 2023

Clubs

At APS we offer a range of exciting clubs that the children are welcome to attend free of charge. These clubs will vary each term to try to take into account the children's different interests. This half term's clubs start next week, please send in any slips by Friday and we can allocate places-…

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6 September 2023

Cross Fell's Royal approval

We were delighted to start our year receiving the Royal seal of approval for our writing.

We received a very exciting letter and card from King Charles, direct from Buckingham Palace, thanking us for letters that we sent to the palace at the end of the Summer term.

The children were amazed…

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