This morning in Crew Ambler we have been preparing for our expert Susan Durant coming into school tomorrow to share her experiences working at Thorne & Moorends food bank throughout the pandemic. We have been busy preparing shout outs and questions to share with Susan tomorrow. We are really looking forward to her visit 🙂
Today, in Year 5, we looked at Marcus Rashford and the impact he had on our country during the pandemic.
The children built on prior knowledge through the use of images, text and videos to develop their understanding of his inspirational role. They then reflected on Marcus Rashford with their own opinions using evidence to justify themselves.
This Friday, Friday 30th April, marks the beginning of the Captain Tom 100 Challenge which will continue until Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May.
The family of Sir Captain Tom Moore is inviting the world to take inspiration from his famous 100 laps around his garden to celebrate Tom’s life, his generosity of spirit and the hope and joy he brought to millions.
YOU can join this celebration and take part in the Captain Tom 100 by setting yourself your own challenge based around the number 100!
Let the number 100 be your inspiration and do something amazing, whether it’s..
100 Star Jumps
100 laps of your garden
100 minutes of gaming
Baking 100 cupcakes
Singing for 100 minutes.
We would love to see lots of you taking part and taking lots of photographs of your challenges. Please send any photographs or videos to [email protected] so we can celebrate your contributions on the blog.
Here is a video with more information about the fundraising event.
Click on the link below if you would like to donate to the Captain Tom Foundation:
I can’t wait to see what you achieve in your challenges!
#CrewGreenTop #CaptainTom100
In expedition this week, we have been looking at what it means when we talk about culture and values. The children were able to discuss what values were important to them before looking at the values that we share in this country; democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law and mutual respect and tolerance of others. We then looked at ways in which these are promoted throughout Green Top and how they have been impacted more recently as a result of the pandemic. I was really impressed with some of the deep and thought provoking conversations that we were able to have as a class.
Check out some of the amazing photographs taken by our Year 6 children during hook week!
In English today, the class have been looking at some real life examples of ordinary children with inspirational stories. As we move through the expedition, we will continue to look at more people who have inspired us all throughout the pandemic.
In our English hook lesson today, we looked at what ‘inspirational’ means and who is inspirational to us.
Each group looked at a different story of an ‘ordinary child with an extraordinary story’ and we learned all about 12 year old boy who opened a school in Lebanon, a young boy who invented Braille, a young girl who survived a plane crash in the rainforest, and finally a boy who created in invention to help save the oceans from plastic pollution! Wow! Some truly inspirational people!
If you want to be inspired some more then watching the lovely video that Miss Myers found for us to hook us into our learning!
As part of Hook Week, Year 6 because photographers today!
Before taking pictures, we looked at the different camera angles that can be used to create images. These included: low angles, high angles, eye-level angles, bird’s eye view angles and tilted angles!
I have to say that the photos that were taken were brilliant and really blew all of the adults away! Watch out for the upcoming video which will showcase some of the children’s beautiful work!
This morning, Class 16 have hooked themselves into our photography case study. We focused on looking at how important different camera angles are and then put them into practice. I was blown away with the quality of pictures that were taken this morning. Well done Class 16!
