Autism Awareness Week Prize Winners!!

By A Graves13th April 2018

I would like to say a big Thank You to all the children and teachers at Green Top for the fantastic work they completed to celebrate World Autism Week during Aspiration Week on the theme of “It’s OK to be Different!”.

We shared stories, learnt how to support a friend with autism and learnt that we a re all different – and that’s OK!

The class activities inspired one year 5 boy to write about his own personal experiences and then share it in assembly!

As a result of our activities, we won a prize from TTS Group – an education supplier – of £150 of resources to support communication and sensory needs! A fantastic prize that will be put to very good use!!

  

If anyone has any questions about Autism or would like more information, please contact Mrs Graves in school

Have you spotted the staff quotes about reading around the corridors?

By J Jackson28th February 2018

As part of World Book Day staff have written a quote about reading.  Can you spot them around the corridors?  Maybe you would like to write a quote about reading and share it with your class.

Ava’s Award-Winning Dragon!

By A Graves5th February 2018

Well done Ava!

Ava’s amazing design has been selected as a winner from lots of entries from all over Doncaster, in the Doncaster Book Award ‘Design-a-Dragon’ Competition. Ava put lots of effort into her Dragoon design at book club and at home and her design has been chosen as a winner by the Book Award Committee! Ava has now been invited to a ceramic arts day with a professional artist during half term, where she will be able to bring her design to life and make her dragon design out of clay!

Ava and her winning dragon!

Congratulations Ava – I’m sure you’re going to have an amazing time!

 

The Green Top Hub!!

By A Graves13th September 2017

The newest  area in school was installed over the summer holidays in the KS1 outdoor area. ‘The Hub’ consists of the ‘Learning Hub’ and the ‘Nurture Hub.’

The Learning Hub is an area where children, from across the school, get extra support in their  learning for English and Maths.

 

The Nurture Hub is where we support the child’s social and emotional needs, in a relaxing and calming environment.

Both Hubs have been busy since term started and we are looking forward to working with more children as the year goes on.

The Learning Hub: Mrs Graves:

The Nurture Hub: Mrs Fitzpatrick, Mrs Rafferty, Mrs Dewsnap and Mrs Dale.

Green Top’s Pop-Up Chocolate Shop

By A Graves29th June 2017

A big thank you to all the parent’s, carers, family and friends who came to the Year 3 and 4 Pop-Up Chocolate Shop at school today. It was wonderful to have so much support – I hope you had the opportunity to taste your purchases!

The children have worked so hard over the last few months to design and create all aspects of the products – from the packaging production to the chocolate creation!

Well done to Kane and Megan for writing and presenting such a great introduction to the event – you both spoke with confidence and clarity in front of so many people!

Finally, a big thank you to all the staff, who have supported the children in their chocolate exploits over the last few weeks – Green Top really has resembled Willy Wonka’s factory at times – the children could not have done it without your assistance!

Class 10 Den Day

19th June 2017A Graves

We had a brilliant day on Friday building dens and all for a good cause. We worked together and used our imagination to create our dens to work in – all the time thinking about children who are not as fortunate as us. We raised money for Save the Children to help them continue their excellent work providing shelters for children who need it.

Water Cycle in a Bag!!

By A Graves24th May 2017

How do Class 10 learn about the water cycle? By creating it in a plastic bag of course! We have created perfect miniature climates inside clear plastic backs and attached them to the window.

As the sun shines through the window, it heats the water allowing it to evaporate into water vapour. As it cools, it condenses back into water droplets – in a clear demonstration of the water cycle!! See if you see it working!

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Chocolatey Maths and science!

By A Graves24th May 2017

In science, we have been learning how materials change state and in maths, we have been looking at statistics in maths and how to read and draw tally charts, bar charts and line graphs –  so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to use chocolate to investigate our theme in a little more detail!

To complete the tally charts, we quizzed year 4 on their preferred chocolate flavours and then converted the results into a bar chart – making sure we had a correct scale and appropriate labels.

To generate data for our line graph, we investigated how quickly chocolate melted and compared the temperature of the water as it cooled the chocolate! Class 10 showed great restraint with all the melted chocolate around the class room!

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Class 10’s tasty homework!

By A Graves24th May 2017

Members of Class 10 have really been embracing this term’s homework by getting creative in the kitchen. As well as ‘cress-head eggs’ and ‘chopping board water cycles’, we have also had (in true Willy Wonka style) homemade chocolates designed and produced by our class members! They look incredibly professional – I hope they taste as good as they look!IMG_3070 IMG_3071

Charlie, Chocolate and Children – A day at York’s Chocolate Story.

By A Graves17th May 2017

A fantastic day was had by all when Year 4 visited York’s Chocolate Story museum!

Class 10’s day began in the Willy Wonka-inspired Chocolate Making workshop. After a unanimous vote, bubble gum flavour was selected for our Edible Chocolate Wallpaper. We listened really carefully and followed the instructions to create amazing chocolatey wallpaper, that even had a picture transferred on it! It was good enough to eat!

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After lunch, we made our way up the ancient Shambles, looking at the fascinating sweet and fudge shops as we walked! We were then ready for the main event – a trip through time, as the story of chocolate and how it came to York was demonstrated in a brilliant interactive way.

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We began in the time of the Mayan and Aztec civilisations, when chocolate was as precious as gold and then we learnt about the Chocolate Pioneers who brought chocolate to York and turned it into the amazing industry it is today. There were one or two surprises along the way – but we won’t reveal all in the blog – we don’t want to spoil it for you!

As we moved to the second floor, we entered the virtual factory floor to discover how chocolate is turned from the bean to the bar. We learnt how our taste if dependent on smell and how to hold chocolate so it doesn’t melt.

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As we moved to the second floor, we entered the virtual factory floor to discover how chocolate is turned from the bean to the bar. We learnt how our taste if dependent on smell and how to hold chocolate so it doesn’t melt.

 

And then another hands-on activity – making our own chocolate lollipops! With sprinkles galore, we shook, sprinkled and shimmied until we had the perfect treat!

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The resident Chocolatier explained how fillings are put into truffles and then it was time to pick up our lollipops!

We left on a total sugar high, all in agreement that the day was ‘sweet’!