FWIW: when I trained on a high-winged medium performance ultralight, I was never taught crab approaches. "stick into the wind" was the motto, on take-off as well as on landing. And as our 15/33 runway was very prone to crosswinds, with some tricky turbulence from buildings just before touchdown, it was made a matter of routine to me to land on one wheel and slow down until the other touched - never doubt it will! - , still keeping the nose wheel up for as long as possible, to spare its feeble construction.
As I understand, crab approaches are for the faster lower-winged machines, for lack of better options.
BTW @cjm: consider flying late in the day, wind tends to fall shortly before the sun does. Round here a surprising amount of first soloes occur in late afternoon. I think UK climate won't be that much different.