As part of our hook into our new expedition – Diverse Doncaster. Where do we belong? – class 6 had lots of fun being historians this afternoon by looking at artefacts and using evidence to decide if they were reliable sources. We worked in groups to match baby pictures to staff photographs. Well done to Tallon, Lexi, Deacon, Ezra, Anais, Bobby and Hunter who guessed 5 of the 18 sets of photos correctly….
Check out the pictures here…weren’t we the cutest babies?
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!
What an ‘eggciting’ way to end the Spring term! But enough of the ‘yolks’, I’ll ‘crack’ on with the post…
Check out the fantastic decorated eggs that the children and their families have produced for our competition. As always, I’m blown away by the awesome support of our parents and carers for events such as these. It was almost impossible to choose a winner but I enlisted the help of Mrs Robertson and Mrs Woodroffe and they decided on Adam’s prehistoric dinosaur entry. He won an Easter egg but I made sure all the children had a prize for their efforts.
Have a wonderful, peaceful holiday.
See you in a fortnight
Miss R and the class 6 team xx
Congratulations to Rhys who won our learning legend postcard today for his awesome description of our final product. Well done sweetheart. The other pictures are just a couple from our XP outdoors session today with Mr Kershaw. We managed to dodge the snow and have fun in the sunshine.
A huge thank you to all class 6’s family members who joined us this morning for our learning event. As part of our science case study this term we looked at habitats and learned how humans are having a devastating effect on the homes of some of our creatures. We decided to give our tiniest critters a helping hand by building them some bespoke accommodation in the form of bug hotels. We used some plastic bottles left over from our final product along with other materials we had foraged from our quad to create the bug’s living quarters and had lots of fun sharing our learning with our families.
Take a look at the slideshow to see how we got on.
We spent a very chocolatey afternoon in class 6 making delicious Easter treats. The temptation to lick the spoon was almost unbearable, but I managed it…just!
The children will be bringing these home tomorrow along with their other Easter goodies.
As part of diversity week class 6 watched a video about disability called The Present. A boy is gifted a puppy but is very unkind to it when he realises it has lost one of its legs. The children’s shocked faces when they saw how cruelly the boy treated the puppy were clear to see, showing just how they felt about his behaviour. He eventually warms to the puppy and takes it to play outside. It is at this point it becomes clear that the boy has also lost part of his leg. The children discussed how this would have made him feel and was perhaps the reason he was so unkind to the puppy.
What amazing empathy the children showed towards the situation and what mature conversations they had about how being disabled did not mean you were any less of a person than a boy or girl who is able bodied.
So proud of you all!
Reeva, Thea, Shae and Deacon absolutely smashed their new division learning today, completing their task with very little support.
Great job guys.
Please keep this date in your diary… Monday 9th May 2022
In our next expedition we are looking in detail at Thorne, including the history of our school and community. We would like to invite family members to an informal coffee morning where you can have a drink and a bun while sharing your experiences of how Thorne and Green Top has changed over the years. If you have experience of living in a contrasting area too then it would be great for the children to be able to compare. Even better, if you have old photographs to share then we would love to see them.
Thank you
Key stage 1 team x
Class 6 kicked off diversity week by discussing autism. We watched a film about a zebra called Zane who had different stripes to all his friends. We talked about how we are all different and celebrated all the different things we are good at. We drew these things on jigsaw puzzle pieces and we will fit them together to make a diversity puzzle by the end of the week. Watch this space!
