The celebration of Diwali this year falls on 4th November. In Community Crew today, we looked at the festival of Diwali and the reasons behind why it is celebrated. We really enjoyed learning about the different elements of Diwali and even made our own light lanterns. We ended our Community Crew session by thinking about our hopes for the year ahead and the children had lots of lovely hopes and wishes!
It was so lovely to have my crew back today and listening to all of their wonderful half term stories!
To kick start our day, we started with our crew session where we focused on target setting using our HoWLs rubric. Each group had to put back together a sliced up rubric and I have to say I was really impressed with everyone’s knowledge and understanding!
From there, we have set our weekly targets which I hope that we meet by the end of the week!
Well done Crew Knowles!
During our expedition lesson today we have been researching some of the people who have influenced the history of British rail. These people included George Stephenson, Richard Trevithick, James Watt and Nigel Gresley. I was so impressed with the research that my crew carried out and the facts that they discovered!
There was lots of great coaching happening in maths today during our addition and subtraction lesson. I’m so proud of everyone!
Thank you to everyone who came to support our event this afternoon! What a great way to help our community and be kind! We are looking forward to working with the experts from the park railway after half term and also handing over the money we raised today.
Thanks to everyone who had a go on our ‘guess the …’ games!
The winners are listed below. Prizes will be delivered to the children tomorrow!
Guess the lion’s birthday – Alexsis
Guess the elephant’s name – Ruby
Guess the weight of the pumpkin – Grace
Guess the amount of sweets – Lola
Well done everyone!
Thank you to those who kindly bought raffle tickets to be entered in to the draw! Below are a list of winners!
The prizes will be delivered to the children in school tomorrow. We have full names on the raffle tickets so know which prize belongs to which child.
Prize 1 – Ava
Prize 2 – Lilly
Prize 3 – Harry
Prize 4 – Thomas
Prize 5 – Gaynor
Prize 6 – Crystal
Prize 7 – Harriet
Prize 8 – Jenson
Prize 9 – Claimed
Prize 10 – Kaleb
Prize 11 – Claimed
Prize 12 – Emily-Rai
Prize 13 – Harry
Prize 14 – Martha
Prize 15 – Ellis and Annie
Prize 16 – Claimed
Prize 17 – Sami-JoJo
Prize 18 – Gaynor
Prize 19 – Jack
Prize 20 – Wez
Prize 21 – Claimed
Year 6 participated in the Take 10 to Read event on Friday in support of World Mental Health Day and improving our wellbeing!
REMINDER
Dear parents/carers,Â
On Tuesday 12th October 2021 we will be inviting you to join our family learning celebration. Our current expedition is centred around the history of rail and we would like to work closely with the local community by supporting Thorne Miniature Railway, who are currently fundraising to keep their service running.Â
This will be taking place in Thorne Park where our children will be hosting stalls to raise funds in support of the miniature railway.Â
On Friday 1st October we will be taking part in a non-uniform day. To come in non uniform we would appreciate a donation for the tombola that will be one of the stalls at our fundraiser.Â
On family learning day we would like to invite you to join us at Thorne park and support your children. On 12/10/21, Year 5 and 6 will be running stalls and have the opportunity to have a ride on the miniature train and learn about how it works.Â
To enable this to happen children will need to be collected from Green Top at 2:00pm and meet us in the park by 2:15. This will give you a chance to enjoy the event prior to the rest of school and the local public being invited to join us at 3:00pm. Unfortunately if you are unable to join us children will remain in school until 3pm where they can be collected as usual.Â
Please email [email protected] to let us know your intentions.Â
Thank you, Team 5/6.Â
During Expedition, each group had to generate some ideas to answer a question. To do this, they picked a protocol from the cards and used it within their groups to share their ideas. Some groups chose to Whip Around, some chose to Popcorn and some chose to Cold Call!
