Yesterday in both reading and science, we were active learners doing read and hunt around the room activities. In reading we read sentences from this week’s texts on ‘The Gunpowder Plot’ and ‘How fireworks work’, then made sensible attempts on the meaning of given words using the context to help us. In science we gathered facts from around the room about the adaptations of different plants and animals from the rainforest. We went on to teach a partner about an animal we had researched.
Class 7 began their pop art work! They worked hard and concentrated well on being able to cut out shapes accurately, print their dots and created beautiful pop art style patterns in their writing.
Firework crafts underway here in Nursery. Lots of wonderful conversations about colour, sparkles, dark and light and onomatopoeia words such as ‘bang, pop, fix, shoot’. The children have also been looking like scientists and sketching like artists when creating observational drawings of the pumpkins.
Today we have enjoyed listening to songs and dancing with scarves and imagining we are shooting up to the sky like fireworks! I think you can tell from the children’s faces how much they enjoyed this gross motor and expressive arts activity. Some children chose to also play instruments to make ‘bang’ sounds just like a firework.
This week we are talking about fire safety and enjoying dressing up, role playing fire fighters and painting bonfires. We have been learning about Guy Fawkes and the British celebration of Bonfire Night and the meaning behind it.
Next Tuesday (11.11.25), Year 2 will be hosting a family learning event linked to creative writing. We hope that you can attend this date, which will begin at 1.30pm. Please come through the main entrance and we can take you to your class.
We look forward to seeing you 🙂
Dear all Parents & Carers,
A reminder to all that you MUST apply via the Doncaster Council Website (see below) for your child’s school Reception place. Children in Nursery DO NOT automatically receive a place in Reception if they already attend Green Top Nursery.
If anyone needs any support with the admissions process, please pop and see us.
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/schools/primary-admissions
Kind regards,
Mrs Hay & Mrs Burton.
Year 2 have written some gorgeous speeches that I can’t wait to share with you all. We did however have the opportunity to read them to the other year 2 class and perform them in front of our own class. I was so impressed with them, how they were written and how they performed them. Amazing work year 2…well done!
