We have had a very busy week in class 6 as we began our new Expedition – Diverse Doncaster. Where do I Belong?
We made double sided art work showing some of the familiar landmarks in Thorne – St. Nicholas’ Church, the water tower, Mr ap Harri’s house and Peel Hill, painted huge copies of some of these landmarks to decorate our classroom and sketched and coloured logos of some of the shops from our town. We were very lucky to have a visit from Phil Sheppard, who told us all about the books he has written and illustrated about Doncaster and gave us a live performance of some of his stories. We also used our knowledge of past and present to match some of the staff at Green Top to pictures of them when they were cute little bubbas!
A huge thank you to everyone who donated, bought wristbands and badges and entered the raffle to raise money for the MND charity last week. I would also like to give a massive shout out to Elsie from class 6 and her family, who raised an outstanding ÂŁ275 to buy raffle tickets. This is a cause very close to their hearts as they sadly lost Elsie’s grandad to the disease in 2011.
Once again the generosity of the Green Top community has blown us away!
Jake, in Year 6, approached the school and his crew with wanting raise awareness around MND. Being a big fan of Leeds Rhinos, he has been inspired by Rob Burrows’ bravery and the superb effort of his ex-team mate, Kevin Sinfield. As a crew, we have planned a MND day for Friday 19th April for the whole school.
We are encouraging all children to wear something white, yellow or blue for a small donation that will go directly to the MND association. We will also be holding a coffee and cake morning in our school hall, all of our parents and carers are welcome to join us from 8:45. Jake has also secured a fantastic raffle with many excellent prizes which includes:
4 Leeds Rhino tickets
4 Wigan Warrior tickets (x2)
2 Doncaster Dons tickets
4 Bradford Bulls tickets
1 signed Doncaster Dons shirt
1 ÂŁ20 voucher fot Canterbury House
1 ÂŁ25 voucher for Attitudes Salon
1 cut and dry voucher at Nume
1 ÂŁ20 voucher at Beauty Garden
1 ÂŁ10 voucher at Beauty Garden
1 30 minute facial at Nume
1 back massage at Anne Wynne
1 ÂŁ20 voucher at Bradbury Butchers
1 ÂŁ10 voucher at Bliss Cafe
1 voucher for KFC
1 voucher for 12 cupcakes and 2 brownie trays at Cake It
1 large sweet hamper
1 voucher 2 medium carvery at Kings Chamber
1 voucher for a man and child cut at Clippers
2 bottles of prosecco
4 bottles of wine
Tickets can be purchased at the coffee morning or by sending your child with the money- Y6 children will visit classes daily with raffle tickets. Tickets are priced at ÂŁ1 each or ÂŁ5 for a strip.
Alongside this, children from Crew Mumby will be selling wristbands and badges throughout the week (week commencing 15th April) and will visit all classrooms daily. Wristbands and badges are priced at ÂŁ1.
I’m sure you will agree that this is a fantastic cause to support, particularly when our students organising these fantastic community events.
We had a lovely time at our presentation of learning on Friday sharing all our beautiful artwork in our pop up gallery. Thank you to everyone for your support as always!
Thanks so much to everyone in class 6 who has sent in a photograph of them reading in an unusual place for a display in our new reading corner. Even Mrs Symolon got involved!
There is still time to send in your picture. Be as creative and imaginative as you like. See below for inspiration!
Years 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be holding an art gallery in school on Friday 22nd March. We will have their art work ready to share with you on display in frames. This is a fantastic experience for the children to see and share their art work in this kind of setting.
Key stage 1
Key stage 1 will have their art work set up in their classrooms and also have time slots to have a workshop with reptile rendezvous and their animal guests.
The time slots are as follows:
You are welcome to come and celebrate the children’s work with them at any time between 4 and 5 but if you are around for your child’s class time slot with reptile rendezvous, then this would be fantastic too!
Year 3 and 4
Year 3 and 4 will have their art work in the hall set up in an exhibition ready for you to view anytime between 4 and 5pm. There is also the opportunity to use the green screen and have photos taken with polar bear backgrounds.
Every visitor
There will be canapes made by Michael, in the hall for all guests to enjoy. We really hope to see as many parents and children as possible at our first ever Green Top Art Exhibition. The children’s art work will be available to buy on the night (as well as any pre-orders that have been made) at a cost of ÂŁ10. Thank you as always for your support with the children and their education…they have all worked extremely hard to produce good quality art work and can’t wait to share it with you!
I can’t believe the amount of wonderful character spoons we had fetched into school as part of our World Book Day competition! The creativity and effort that has gone into each and every one is amazing!
The Learning Council judged the spoons this morning but it was such a hard choice that we have ended up with 8 winners instead of 4!
Watch this space to see the winning spoons tomorrow …
To help decorate our new reading area class 6 have a request. We would like to display photographs of us reading in unusual places. This could be in the garden, in the dark, in the bath, in the dog’s kennel…the more unusual the better! Be as imaginitive and inventive as you like!
You can print them and send them in or email them to me at…
Don’t forget that our KS1 and Y3/4 presentation of learning takes place on Friday 22nd March 4pm – 5pm. This is a combined event so if you have children in both phases, you can celebrate them both at the same time!
We have been so impressed by the children’s art work and can’t wait to share their work with you in our special gallery!
We really hope you can join us in this exciting collaborative celebration!
If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher.
As some of you will know I LOVE a dress-up day and the children all looked fantastic as we celebrated World Book Day today. A massive thank you to you all for your wonderful costumes for this special event. We have all had such fun drawing our favourite characters to decorate our book area, and reading whilst in costume to move onto the first space on our brand new challenge, Readopoly. Watch this space for more details.
