Class 16 have had a fun day creating Christmas cards and calendars for 2021. Mr Ambler was even brave enough to get the glitter and paints out! As well as creating cards and calendars we have been getting into the Christmas spirit singing songs and putting together our Christmas script. We can’t wait for you to see it!
As part of our expedition ‘how can we help the world we live in?’ we have focused on deforestation and the importance of trees. We had an expert visit us in school to teach us how trees adapt to their environment and we had a look around our grounds at some of the different trees. We were shocked how different all of the trees were and the different ways they had adapted to their surroundings!
A big shoutout and thank you to Mr Kershaw for taking the time to come and teach Year 5 lots of map reading skills during G Block today. Everyone enjoyed working together and taking part in fun activities. I was also so impressed listening to everyone’s new knowledge of using compasses! We can’t wait to put our new map reading skills into practice!
This morning in crew as part of ‘National Tree Week’ we have been discussing the importance of trees and why they are important to the environment we live in. In addition, this has linked perfectly to our expedition ‘How can we help the world we live in?’ The children were really reflective on the impact deforestation has locally and globally and what we can we do to help our local environment. As a crew we all made pledges to make our world a better place to live in. Well done Crew Ambler and Crew Jeeves for a fantastic community crew lesson.
I would like to give a huge shout out to Henley and Elise for their brilliant coaching skills in maths this morning focusing on squared and cubed numbers. I was blown away with how well they were both explaining what squared and cubed numbers are and how to solve problems linked to them. Great coaching Henley and Elise I am very proud of you both!
Following on from Mrs Faulding’s post yesterday, here are some more pictures of our great afternoon learning all about the Hatfield Moors fire!
Thank you again to Mr Fenwick for taking time to come and visit us! 🚒
Year 5 and 6 have been so lucky today by having Firefighter James Fenwick in to talk to them about the devastating fires at Hatfield Moors back in May 2020- this linking to our expedition surrounding Deforestation.
James was one of many of the brave firefighters that worked tirelessly at the moors to combat these fires for 6 weeks and explained to us the effects the fires had on the local wildlife and their habitats as well as showing us lots of different images and explaining his journey on this job; from the start of the fires, all the way through to the end. We were all so shocked at the damage that was caused by a disposable bbq!!
The children had lots of questions for James about the moors fire and found it really interesting hearing the ins and outs of his job role. A huge thank you to him for answering them so well and for taking time out of his busy, important schedule to come and talk through this with us. We really appreciate it!!
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All of the activities link to our Expedition ‘How can we help the world we live in?’
We can’t wait to see what you get up to!
Year 5 have begun their collage art work in preparation for their propaganda posters. The propaganda posters will be displayed at Thorne Community Woods and will encourage people to look after our environment! A fantastic start – well done Crew Ambler!
Thanks to all who have entered the pumpkin competition. The deadline for entries is 12pm today. Unfortunately any entries received after this time will not be part of the judging. One winner per phase will be announced and all entries will receive a small treat on their return to school next Monday. Details of the competition are below:
🎃🍁🍂Happy half term 🎃🍁🍂
At Green Top we are sad that family learning can’t take place as it would usually in our classrooms and therefore we have pledged to have a family learning activity each half term for the whole school community to get involved with.
The first family learning challenge will be a ‘Carve or Decorate your own pumpkin’ competition. This competition will be judged on 31st October. There can be one entry per child and all entries must be entered by a photograph sent to [email protected] by the 12pm Tuesday 27th October. As photographs are entered they will be blogged on the website for all to see. All students who enter will receive a ‘treat’ on their return to school on 2nd November.
In addition one winner will be selected from each phase. Winners will be announced on October 31st.
