Extended Study – Thank you day!

30th June 2025Sophie Myers

Thank You Day is a national initiative in the UK dedicated to expressing gratitude to individuals and groups who make a positive impact in our communities. Originally launched in 2021 to acknowledge the efforts of NHS staff and other key workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the day has since evolved into a broader celebration of appreciation and community spirit.

We would like to get involved by saying a big thank you to different people within our local community.

Create a postcard, thank you card or poster to someone in our community that you want to say THANK YOU to.

Make a list in Crew of all the people you want to say thank you to and bring in your completed cards next Monday! We would love to deliver some of the cards before the end of Summer Term!

Extended Study – COMPETITION TIME!

23rd June 2025Sophie Myers

Throughout this week, there are lots of National Awareness days including:

  • National Children’s Art Week
  • Plastic Free July
  • Clean Beaches Week
  • International Plastic Bag Free Day

Use the following links to build your knowledge:

https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/childrens-art-week-2025/https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/plastic-free-july-2025/https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/clean-beaches-week-2025/https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/create-week-2025/https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/international-plastic-bag-free-day-2025/

TO CELEBRATE THESE DAYS WE ARE GOING TO RUN A ART COMPETITION WHICH WILL BE DRAWN ON THE 14TH JULY!

THE CHALLENGE – Create a piece of art to celebrate plastic free and clean beaches etc.

Could you use plastic as part of your artwork, shells, sand etc.

Bring your completed artwork in to school and hand to Crew Leaders by the 14th July – Crew Council will pick a winner from each phase!

We can’t wait to see and display your final pieces!

Extended Study – Drowning Prevention Week!

16th June 2025Sophie Myers

Do you know how to stay safe in water?

Have a look at the following link to build your knowledge of water safety:

https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/drowning-prevention-week-2025

Take a look at this video made last year:

Familiarise yourself with the information before our visitor comes in to visit – Can you share what you’ve learnt in Crew and create a poster to display on your crew board.

Extended Study – Healthy Eating Week 2025!

9th June 2025Sophie Myers

This week why don’t you get involved by:

  • Trying some new fruit and vegetables that you’ve never had before
  • Making a food diary of all the different meals you have eaten within a week
  • Make a food diary of the meals you’ve eaten that include the dietary information e.g. amount of sugar, fats etc.
  • Create a healthy food plate

Bring your work in to share with your Crew – We can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to!

Keep an eye on the blog for days next week where Crew Council will be selling Fresh Fruit and Vegetables at Playtimes.

Year 3 – Telling The Time Practice

6th June 2025Claire Dutton

Year 3 are working hard on their current Maths topic – telling the time, but many of us are finding it very tricky … especially telling the time to 5minutes and to the minute using analogue clocks. Please could we urge everyone to spend some time at home looking at analogue clocks and watches, discussing time and practising reading different times throughout the day as this will really help us when we are looking at digital times and then problem solving with time.

For half-term, we did share some homework around this so a big well done to those who have already completed this. If you haven’t already done it then why not take another look at the previous blog post here: https://greentopschool.co.uk/year-3-telling-the-time-homework-for-half-term/

You might also find this clock-face poster a useful tool: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tEgZLbusnHDci9sh7PMsSUPYSI73jsf8/view?usp=sharing

Extended Study – World Environment Day!

2nd June 2025Sophie Myers

On Thursday 5th it is WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2025!

Take some time to familiarise yourself with this charity on this website: https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/world-environment-day-2025/

Watch the video and create a pledge about what you are going to do to support World Environment Day!

Share your pledge in Crew next week!

Year 3 – Telling the Time Homework for Half Term

22nd May 2025Claire Dutton

In Maths, we have been learning all about time. Children have recapped telling the time to 15 and 5 minutes on an analogue clock from Year 2 and we have extended this to read the time to any minutes past or to the hour. To help consolidate this learning please find some homework below that you could do at home over the half-term holiday. There will be 100 HoWL points for anyone completing the homework!

And, don’t forget, you can still practise telling the time just by looking at any clocks that you come across – anywhere! Why not challenge yourself to read the time every time you see a clock or a watch? Can you get quicker at doing this by the end of the week?!

Telling the time to 5 minutes – 3 levels of challenge! (includes answers)

Telling the time to the minute – 3 levels of challenge! (includes answers)