Class 6’s Victorian school experience

On Monday we re-hooked the children into our current expedition, Diverse Doncaster – Where do I belong? by inviting them to compare their own school experience to that of a Victorian child. We changed our seating plan, chanted times tables, wrote in chalk and discussed the punishments the children of the past would have had to endure if they didn’t do as their teacher told them. Many thanks to our volunteers Mrs Stone and Kalab for showing everyone what would happen if you didn’t get your work right. Mrs Stone was even taken outside for ‘six of the best’.

It really was great fun but we all decided we much prefer the modern day Green Top methods of learning to those in the past!

Class 6 superstars

Logan and Kalab showed today what a difference increased focus and concentration make and produced some amazing writing to win our learning legend postcards. Keep up the good work boys!

Class 6 – superstar round up

What an amazing week filled with smashing swimming awards, fabulous question writing, marvellous maths, and acts of kindness that go above and beyond.

So proud to be Crew Rodgers/Oneill this week guys!

Have a fabulous half term break everyone and don’t forget to practise those phonics sounds. See you in a week xx

Class 6 – Jubilee fun

We’ve had a fantastic day celebrating Her Royal Highness’s 70 year reign. We designed crowns, coloured Union Flags and orb and sceptres and completed quizzes.

Apparently the Queen’s main job is ‘laying around’! I suspect their may be a little more to the role than that!

Congratulations your Majesty with love from class 6 x

Harry Potter Hamper Raffle!

Y6 are looking to raise money to help fund some of our upcoming leavers celebrations such as buying leavers hoodies and autograph books.

We have 2 fantastic Harry Potter hampers to give away to 2 lucky winners!

Your child will bring home a strip of raffle tickets this week which are 50p per ticket. If you would like to buy any, please add in your tickets and the correct amount of money in to a sealed envelope and pass on to your class teacher. If you would like more tickets, please see the school office.

The raffle will be drawn on Friday 17th June. Good luck!

KS1 Phase Assesmbly

Lots more to celebrate this week in key stage 1! Year 1 had lots of amazing reading certificates given out, year 2 have been getting some awesome shoutouts for their hard work in SATS this week. The children were shining!

Lots of shoutouts for those of use that have been awarded the Be Kind, Get Smart and Work Hard HOWL certificates too. It is so great to see so many young people striving for these awards, although it makes it hard for us to choose sometimes! What a great dilemma to have. What could YOU do to be our winners next week?

Class 6 postcard winners

A huge well done to both Tallon and Rhys who won our post cards today. Tallon was very good at using his phonics strategies to spell words and Rhys gained a double whammy by producing excellent writing and being a good friend to our new class member Lennie.

Excellent job guys!

Class 6 – Maths Record Breakers!

Today is National Numeracy day and class 6 joined in with the TT Rockstars on-line event to smash the world record for the most people joining in with a ‘number roll’ – a times table counting activity. As you can see from the photographs they were very excited to be part of the event and to find out they are now world beaters at this! We continued the fun by creating a competition entry to say how they would use numbers in their future jobs and ended the morning by creating their avatars on the TT Rockstars platform and practising their 2 times tables to earn virtual coins.

What an exciting day!

KS1 – Eat your heart out Hollywood!

How wonderful it was to be able to welcome our parents and carers back for the celebration of our Autumn learning expedition – What will I do to be a superhero in my community?

We gathered at the XP East site for a star-spangled red carpet event where our children truly were the stars of the show in a first screening of their final product video which showcased their learning in true Hollywood style.

Thank you so much to everyone who braved the traffic and came dressed in their best to help us recognise and honour the children’s hard work and achievements in such an awesome fashion.

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Class 6 kindness champions

Elina and Reeva showed wonderful acts of kindness today and won our post cards because of this. Elina was kind to her friends during playtime and Reeva spent the day making sure our classroom was tidy and helping me in any way she could. What wonderful young ladies you both are.