Class 6 Hook Week day 1

1st September 2025Jayne Rodgers

We were all very excited today to settle into our new year 1 routine and took part in phonics, expedition and maths lessons. During expedition we learned the title of our new expedition – Not all heroes wear capes, and discussed our guiding question – How will I be a hero in my community? We completed our Blast Off quiz to see what we already know and planned placards, which we will make this week, with slogans showing how we can improve our local area.

We also began to use our wonderful White Rose Maths booklets and worked in groups to sort objects in different ways.

Congratulations to Elizabeth and Isaac who won our postcards today.

See you tomorrow Superstars!

Class 6’s soggy end to a truly wonderful week!

29th August 2025Jayne Rodgers

Our first week in Y1 came to a damp but joyous close today as we took part in Green Top’s Water Extravaganza. The squeals of delight and gleeful laughter from both children and staff was awesome to witness. We also put the finishing touches to the recycling boxes that we made as part of our ‘How does what I do impact others?’ guiding question (watch this space for photographs of our product). We have learned so much this week and can’t wait to put our new-found knowledge into action throughout the year.

Also, a huge congratulations to Axl on being voted Crew Rodgers’ councillor and to Oliver and Mila-Rose for being awarded our final postcards of the week.

I’m SO looking forward to spending the next year with you all!

Class 6, day 3 – special visitor

28th August 2025Jayne Rodgers

We had a very special visitor in Class 6 this afternoon to help us understand what happens to the things that we throw away – Lynn, from the Doncaster Council Waste and Recycling Education team. The children had prepared a list of questions to ask and Lynn showed us some very interesting slides and videos to explain what happens to the things we put in our waste and recycling bins. We learned some very interesting things during her visit. For example, did you know that only 3.5% of the things we throw away goes to landfill, and the things we put in our ‘general waste’ bins are repurposed and used to generate electricity? She even left us some gifts – made from recycled materials of course – to remind us how importand it is to ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’.

Thanks for visiting Lynn!

FWB, Class 6, day 2.

27th August 2025Jayne Rodgers

Another smashing day in our new class! Smores and singing in Camp Green Top with Mr Kershaw, more craft activities with our wonderful Young Learning Coaches – who are already proving invaluable – and our proud postcard winners, Rueben and Lennox. More of the same tomorrow kids? Don’t mind if I do!

KS1 Superheroes Unite – An invitation to our family learning event on Thursdy 4th September

27th August 2025Carly Schon

On Thursday 4th September, all KS1 children are invited to come to school dressed as a favourite superhero of their choice. We have been learning about heroes in the local community so they may wish to consider these, such as police officers and nurses, or they may opt for their favourite fictional superhero instead. Costumes do not have to be bought – be creative with the things you already have at home!

Parents and carers are then invited to join us on the Key Stage 1 playground from 1.30pm where you will be able to enjoy a range of superhero themed activities (trainers a must, capes and masks optional!)

We do hope you will join us and we can’t wait to see you all then.

KS1 team x

Awesome first day in class 6

26th August 2025Jayne Rodgers

What an amazing bunch of little superstars we have in class 6! We began the day by going on a treasure hunt to work out which norms we want to see in our new class and supported each other by helping with phonics to read the statements. We gathered some items of waste from our playground, sorted them according to their materials and discovered that ALL of the materials we found can be recycled in some way. We had a visit from our Y6 learning coaches who helped us to create craft using ‘trash’. and we ended the day by exploring the different areas of our new classroom and used our skills to build castles, colour pictures, create patterns, build towers and engage in imaginative play. I was particularly impressed by the team work shown by Albie, Niamh, Ellie, Regan and Blossom who worked together to finish our dinosaur jigsaw puzzle in record time and recieved a postcard for their efforts.

See you all tomorrow for another exciting day!

(P.S. If you have a spare tin of food or some dry goods such as pasta or rice in your cupboard, please send it into school tomorrow to help our Y5 children as they support our local food bank. Thank you!)

Class 6 and Paddington’s Picnic

9th July 2025Jayne Rodgers

We had a wonderful afternoon yesterday celebrating the end of our wonderful expedition; North, South, East, West. Where could your journey take you? We invited parents and carers to join us for a picnic with Paddington and sat in the lovely sunshine enjoying the sandwiches we had made.

Thanks as always to everyone who came along and made our Celebration of Learning a success!