Academy Head's Blog

Here at Cross Farm we use the Talk 4 Writing approach which has been developed by Pie Corbett. Talk 4 Writing breaks the writing task down in to manageable chunks to enable children to be able to conf...

Since the children have return to the Academy we have noticed an increase in the need to focus on the teaching of how to regulate emotions.What do we mean by regulating emotions?As adults we have lear...

As we approach the end of term we look to the long holiday over Easter. With restrictions easing slightly to the rule of 6 for outdoors and further restrictions hopefully being eased on the 12th April...

As we have started to settle from another lockdown our focus has been on children's resilience and how they have had to be incredibly resilient over the past 12 months. What we are starting to notice ...

I often refer to the Dr Seuss quote 'THE MORE YOU  READ THE MORE THINGS YOU KNOW. THE MORE THAT YOU LEARN THE MORE PLACES YOU'LL GO'As adults we know how important reading is. We use it everyday for e...

The 8th March 2021 is an exciting day for us as an Academy as we welcome our children that have been remote learning since the 4th January. However as I feel excited I am also full of all sorts of oth...

February half term is always a great time to get out and about and see what is happening around us. Even more so in the current situation where long walks are sometimes our only time outside. Every wa...

Why is outdoor learning so important to children's education?It's history, it's geography, it's science... it's everything! When I was looking at whether or not teaching was for me I came across a sch...

Welcome to our new blog. I am delighted to start a blog about Cross Farm on our website. This will be an area where we discuss and share all the things that makes Cross Farm an exciting place to learn...