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This week is Children’s Mental Health Week (7-13 February 2022). This year's theme is Growing Together.

We’re encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown and how they can help others to grow.

This morning we have read All Are Welcome and thought about how we can be…

We really enjoyed getting out into the school grounds to take part in the RSPB's big garden birdwatch.

It was lovely to see how excited everyone got when we spotted some of the birds from our spotter sheet- well done Cross Fell!

We had a great day meeting Alasdair, Simone & Rory from Cumbria Fire and Rescue service and PC Chris yesterday in school. We saw lots of equipment and asked questions about their roles and how to stay safe in the community.

Cross Fell were really fortunate to beable to bring their learning about habitats to life by enjoying a visit to Susan's Farm. It is fantastic to beable to get really hands on with our learning and take our learning outside of the classroom.

We had a wonderful day yesterday at Susan’s Farm

Flinty Fell had a great visit to Durham to tour the Botanic Gardens there- a great trip to bring their science and topic learning to life.

We were extremely fortunate to be able to go and watch the Tour of Britain passing through Alston today, it was a real treat to be able to witness first hand a professional race of this scale and we really enjoyed making flags to cheer the riders on. We especially loved it when all of the support…

Exciting news. Over the holidays Park Fell's butterflies emerged from their cocoons. They are beautiful. We will release them tomorrow.

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Our first chick has hatched! We talked about how it hatched and watched a video on you tube before writing a sentence about it. We than made a chicken house outside

Park Fell have been carefully looking after some eggs as part of their new life topic - today it was extremely exciting as one of them has starting to crack! We will keep you posted once our first chick arrives. 

Today Park Fell continued to think about frogs and how they produce new life. We looked at the lifecycle and made our own ‘fake’ pond with frogspawn, tadpoles, froglets and frogs to explore the cycle through play. We painted frogs after looking at patterns on some and then had a visit to…