Times Tables Rock Stars day!!! (International dance day) – Friday 29th April

20th April 2022Luke Oldridge

On Friday the 29th April, we will be having a rock star dress up day in years 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1. Times Tables Rock Stars is an excellent site which helps children practice and improve their times tables. All children in these year groups have a login. To promote it’s use across school, we are encouraging children to dress up as rock stars on the above date. Not only will children have the opportunity to use this site on this day, we will be linking it to International Dance day which falls on the same date. Therefore, in the afternoon, children will also be dancing and crews will be making ‘rock-style’ music videos. Pictures and videos of the day will be blogged by each crew.

Red Nose Day 🔴

19th April 2022Jake Taylor

Well done to the winners of the ‘Design a Red Nose’ competition! There were some fantastic entries but the school council voted and decided that these would be the winning entries. Well done to all who submitted an entry.

We are also pleased to announce that the school managed to sell £300 worth of red noses in the run up to the event before raising a further £301.58 through donations when wearing something red. Thank you to every one for your generous donations!

Place Value Confidence

31st March 2022Rebecca Knowles

Crew Knowles practised some of their place value skills today online and did a fab job! They worked collaboratively to work out the answers and consolidated their knowledge of place value. Well done – you have all worked so hard!

Y6 Maths Support

30th March 2022Rebecca Knowles

Mr Mumby has made a fantastic maths website to support the Y6 children with their arithmetic skills.

On the website you will find lots of models to help the children with some of the different arithmetic skills that can be a bit tricky – there are also lots of practise questions to try afterwards.

All of our monthly arithmetic tests are also on the website so why not have a go at improving your score!

https://sites.google.com/greentopschool.org/mathsy6site/home

If there is anything that you cannot access, please let the Year 6 teachers know 🙂

Y5/6 Celebration of Learning

28th March 2022Rebecca Knowles

A huge well done to Y5/6 who shared their expedition learning this afternoon in the sunshine! They presented their gorgeous art work in their photo frames which were handmade by themselves!

I was also so proud of their passionate speeches about endangered animals and it was lovely to see how proud all of the children were when they saw their product hung up around the school grounds!

Y5/6 Celebration of learning

28th March 2022Tom Ambler

Well done to all of Y5/6 today who celebrated their learning from our current expedition ‘How can we help our world survive?’ The children spoke with great enthusiasm and could recall prior learning throughout our 3 case studies. In addition to this, their art work was amazing and we would all like to give a shout out to Mrs Green for her awesome art lessons in G Block! Well done Y5/6 everyone is very proud of you 🙂

Y6 – Times Tables fun!

25th March 2022Rebecca Knowles

Crew Knowles enjoyed practising their times tables through playing different style games. It was a fun way to engage the children in practising the tables they are unfamiliar with as well as it being a nice activity for early birds club!

Y6 – Peer Critique

25th March 2022Rebecca Knowles

Crew Knowles worked hard to peer critique their writing touchdowns using the rubrics to support. They edited and improved their writing and added in lots of new features to enhance their writing. The speeches that they have written are about deforestation and have been written from the perspective of an endangered animal – some of them definitely make you think twice about protecting our planet!

Y5/6 Celebration of learning

25th March 2022Tom Ambler

Just a reminder to Y5/6 parents that our celebration of learning event will be going ahead on Monday from 1:30. Our celebration will take place on the KS2 playground. The children’s picture frames will be available for donation and all proceeds will be going to The World Wildlife Fund.

See you all on Monday 🙂

Y5/6