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Today in our Geography session we learned all about different types of housing in our local area and had a go at making our own versions using junk modelling materials. We can’t wait to go out into Alston for a walk to see everything we have learned about first hand. Great job everyone!

It was fantastic to catch some of our children independently choosing to read their RWI books during linked learning today, the confidence in reading is really shining through as is the determination to keep on getting better. Keep up the great work!

As part of our Science topic this half term we are looking at seasonal changes and dark nights have formed part of this discussion. Today we were extremely fortunate to welcome PC Joel and PC Ian into class to talk to us about the importance and being bright and being seen when out and about and…

We have been on a visit to Gilderdale to join in with forest school. We had so much fun exploring the area, looking for insects, climbing ropes and fallen down trees and using the hammock. As well as this we used the paint and mud kitchen. We discussed fire safety and then toasted marshmallows and…

We have been learning about Diwali. 

We then used saltdough to create our own Diwali lamp. Once dry we used bright colours to decorate them. 

In our Geography topic this half term we are looking at our local area and as part of this we are going to be making some model houses on Tuesday so if you have any junk modelling boxes, shoe boxes, tubes, pots etc that you would beable to send in to help us with our crafting that would be…

For the children in Mrs Liverick's Blue group you have now learned all of your sounds so your aim is to speed up your word reading when reading longer words. These clips will be perfect to help you :-) we hope you find them useful.

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IypG0sbw/AAVcWTNI
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We are continuing to work hard on learning our sounds and personalised updates on the sounds we are still finding tricky and need to recap will be in our book bags tomorrow so you can see how your child is getting on and which sounds we are working on recapping in school that you may also be able…

In Cross Fell we use White Rose Maths to support our children's maths development.

We wanted to draw your attention to another great way to enjoy maths at home that complements what we are doing in school.

White Rose's FREE workbooks for Years 1 - 6 give children and parents/ carers an extra…

Children in Need 2024

08:40 - 15:35This year, Alston Primary School Council has come up with plenty of ideas to help raise money for Children in Need 2024!

On the actual day of Children in Need (15th November 2024), we will be wearing spotty clothing (voluntary monetary donations to be…

The children in Cross Fell are really enjoying their weekly reading buddies session with the children from Flinty Fell and it has really inspired them to read. Feedback from the children was that they would love even more things to read including comics and magazines so we are putting out a plea…

We would like to signpost you to this helpful resource which comes from Oxford Owl. We use Read Write Inc to teach phonics at Alston Primary School and this page has a range of helpful tips and information about phonics and reading.  We hope you find it useful.

‘We’ll do whatever it takes…