Today, Class 15 have been impressing everyone with their fabulous artwork practising one-point perspective ready for working on our final products next week. Well done everyone 🙂
Class 15 – Rail Expert Visitors
Today, we have enjoyed two fantastic workshops – one about rail safety from Network Rail and the other about careers in the rail industry by Northern Rail. Both workshops were fantastically interesting and gave us plenty of food for thought. Well done to everyone – your behaviour and manners towards our visitors were impeccable. A special shout out goes to Edward who made a wonderful conductor!
Y5/6 Presentation of Learning
Parents and carers are warmly welcome to our presentation of learning based on our guiding question, “How has the 19th century influenced lives today?”. We will share our learning throughout this term and share our work in History, Science and Art. Please join us on the 26th March at 2-3pm in the school hall. See you there!
Class 15 – Using Critique to Improve our Artwork
Today, Class 15 have enjoyed creating watercolour art in the style of Quentin Blake. We had a go at creating a picture of George Stephenson’s Rocket (an early locomotive) and then we used peer critique to help us make improvements to a second draft. Great effort everybody – you all did a fantastic job!
Class 15 – A Fantastic First Week with Mrs Dutton
Wow! What a fantastic week, I have enjoyed with my new class – Class 15. Everybody has made me feel so welcome and I have been so impressed by all of your learning and craftsmanship efforts … keep up the amazing work and I can’t wait to see how far we can go together!
This week, we have enjoyed learning about: decimals and fractions in Maths; non-fiction texts in English; watercolours and The Flying Scotsman in Expedition; and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in Reading … we even managed to squeeze in a bit of hockey for PE in the rain, too! I hope everyone is ready for a well-earned rest over the weekend 🙂
Don’t forget, if you want to do a bit of extra background research about The Flying Scotsman in preparation for writing next week, you could check out the Railway Museum website at: https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk . Or even pay them a visit in York with your family over the weekend?
I can’t wait to see you all again on Monday – have a lovely weekend, Mrs Dutton x
Y5 Expert Visitor – Train Driver
Yesterday, Year 5 enjoyed a visit from one of our Y6 children’s mums – Sarah – who is a real-life train driver. We enjoyed learning about the different roles that Sarah has worked in as well as all the training she has had to complete in order to be a successful train driver. The children asked lots of varied and interesting questions, and we were really shocked to find out that there are only 39 female train drivers in the whole country … out of 400+! Lots of the children showed huge enthusiasm for life on the tracks so perhaps we have some budding train drivers amongst our Green Top crew?
Crew Barnett Leaving Party
A lovely surprise party from my crew this afternoon. Thank you Ashton for all your organising! You’re a star!!
A final shout out to Crew Barnett!
A massive thank you to everyone for the messages and gifts – I am totally overwhelmed. It has been a pleasure to teach at Green Top and work with some amazing people and children.
Crew Barnett – You are all brilliant!! I am gutted that I can’t make it to the end of the year with you but I know you will all do me proud! Remember to focus on yourselves and push yourselves so that you get everything you deserve.
Year 5 Photography Club
Today we have had 2 challenges to complete. The first one was taking photographs of things close up and then trying to guess what they were. Can you work any of them out?
Our next challenge was to take pictures of something beginning with each letter of the alphabet. I wonder if you could have a go over half term?
Well done Aoife!
It is always great to see achievements from out of school. Aoife smashed her dance competition last weekend! Good luck for this weekend as well – I am sure you will be great!