Miss Walton’s Class | Green Top School

Captain Tom 100 Challenge! 🏅

By Sophie Myers27th April 2021

This Friday, Friday 30th April, marks the beginning of the Captain Tom 100 Challenge which will continue until Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May.

The family of Sir Captain Tom Moore is inviting the world to take inspiration from his famous 100 laps around his garden to celebrate Tom’s life, his generosity of spirit and the hope and joy he brought to millions.

YOU can join this celebration and take part in the Captain Tom 100 by setting yourself your own challenge based around the number 100!

Let the number 100 be your inspiration and do something amazing, whether it’s..

100 Star Jumps

100 laps of your garden

100 minutes of gaming

Baking 100 cupcakes

Singing for 100 minutes.

We would love to see lots of you taking part and taking lots of photographs of your challenges. Please send any photographs or videos to [email protected] so we can celebrate your contributions on the blog.

Here is a video with more information about the fundraising event.

Click on the link below if you would like to donate to the Captain Tom Foundation:

https://captaintom.org/donate

I can’t wait to see what you achieve in your challenges!

#CrewGreenTop #CaptainTom100

Maths Week and NSPCC Number Day

By Kelly Overson26th April 2021

Dear Parents and Carers

Next week is maths week at Green Top (4th – 7th May). We will be celebrating maths and to do this we will be doing the following:

Each day you will be informed of a challenge you can complete at home and bring into school or email to [email protected]
Each day there will be a FUN maths challenge on the blog for you to complete as a family at home
Friday is NSPCC Maths day so we will be having a ‘maths’ dress up day (£1 donation)

Please see the school blog for links to the NSPCC maths day website, ideas for dress up and daily posts next week.

NSPCC website:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-you-can-do/charity-runs-cycles-and-challenges/social-and-special-events/number-day/

Tuesday’s challenge is: Maths‌ ‌is‌ ‌everywhere!‌ ‌Take‌ ‌a‌ ‌photograph‌ ‌of‌ something‌ ‌maths‌ ‌related‌ ‌around‌ ‌our‌ ‌local‌ ‌community.‌ ‌This‌ ‌could‌ ‌be‌ ‌a‌ ‌percentage‌ ‌in‌ ‌a‌ ‌shop‌ ‌sale,‌ ‌a‌ ‌date‌ ‌on‌ ‌a‌ ‌building,‌ ‌a‌ ‌bus‌ ‌timetable‌ ‌or‌ ‌numbers‌ ‌on‌ ‌a‌ ‌traffic‌ ‌sign.‌ ‌Who‌ ‌will‌ ‌be‌ ‌the‌ ‌most‌ ‌creative?‌ ‌Send‌ ‌your‌ ‌photographs‌ ‌to‌ ‌[email protected]. Good Luck!

Last year was a huge success and enjoyed by all – we can’t wait to see what next week brings.

Thanks

Mrs K Overson

Dress up ideas:

Class 12 Blitzkrieg artwork – Hook week!

By Luke Oldridge16th April 2021

March Reading Challenge!

By Rebecca Knowles19th March 2021

Join in with our March reading challenge by helping us to earn 250,000 reading minutes!

Log how many minutes you have read this week at home!

Don’t log the minutes you have read in school as your teachers have done this for you!

The link to the Google form is here: https://forms.gle/jj31KPb8wnbdEZLT6

Fossil sketching

By June Miller18th March 2021

This morning in Gblock class 12 worked on their observational skills to sketch a fossil which links to their expedition, well done everyone you all worked hard on these today, you should be really proud of yourselves!

Here is just a few!

Watch those feet!!

By June Miller18th March 2021

Today crew Oldridge had to work collaboratively and discuss with each other how to turn the sheet over without stepping off it onto the carpet. They had so much fun with this and showed great teamwork.
well done class 12!

John o Groats to Lands End – Week 2

By Tom Ambler12th March 2021

Hello

Please find attached the google form for week 2 of our John o Groats to Lands End challenge. I will update the map on Monday evening so it gives everyone time to send their steps in. Good luck and keep those steps up!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVNHzsvrm-mooGC1xa8UxZeVnrV2wswoE1NvpnSZLum0m8zA/viewform