This afternoon, the children have been researching some of the people who played a significant role in the development of railways throughout the Industrial Revolution. We have looked at four different people from various periods of history: James Watt, Richard Trevithick, George Stephenson and Sir Nigel Gresley. Each one contributed massively towards the development of the rail industry we can see today.
Thank you to everyone who came to support our event this afternoon! What a great way to help our community and be kind! We are looking forward to working with the experts from the park railway after half term and also handing over the money we raised today.
Thanks to everyone who had a go on our ‘guess the …’ games!
The winners are listed below. Prizes will be delivered to the children tomorrow!
Guess the lion’s birthday – Alexsis
Guess the elephant’s name – Ruby
Guess the weight of the pumpkin – Grace
Guess the amount of sweets – Lola
Well done everyone!
Thank you to those who kindly bought raffle tickets to be entered in to the draw! Below are a list of winners!
The prizes will be delivered to the children in school tomorrow. We have full names on the raffle tickets so know which prize belongs to which child.
Prize 1 – Ava
Prize 2 – Lilly
Prize 3 – Harry
Prize 4 – Thomas
Prize 5 – Gaynor
Prize 6 – Crystal
Prize 7 – Harriet
Prize 8 – Jenson
Prize 9 – Claimed
Prize 10 – Kaleb
Prize 11 – Claimed
Prize 12 – Emily-Rai
Prize 13 – Harry
Prize 14 – Martha
Prize 15 – Ellis and Annie
Prize 16 – Claimed
Prize 17 – Sami-JoJo
Prize 18 – Gaynor
Prize 19 – Jack
Prize 20 – Wez
Prize 21 – Claimed
Year 6 participated in the Take 10 to Read event on Friday in support of World Mental Health Day and improving our wellbeing!
REMINDER
Dear parents/carers,
On Tuesday 12th October 2021 we will be inviting you to join our family learning celebration. Our current expedition is centred around the history of rail and we would like to work closely with the local community by supporting Thorne Miniature Railway, who are currently fundraising to keep their service running.
This will be taking place in Thorne Park where our children will be hosting stalls to raise funds in support of the miniature railway.
On Friday 1st October we will be taking part in a non-uniform day. To come in non uniform we would appreciate a donation for the tombola that will be one of the stalls at our fundraiser.
On family learning day we would like to invite you to join us at Thorne park and support your children. On 12/10/21, Year 5 and 6 will be running stalls and have the opportunity to have a ride on the miniature train and learn about how it works.
To enable this to happen children will need to be collected from Green Top at 2:00pm and meet us in the park by 2:15. This will give you a chance to enjoy the event prior to the rest of school and the local public being invited to join us at 3:00pm. Unfortunately if you are unable to join us children will remain in school until 3pm where they can be collected as usual.
Please email [email protected] to let us know your intentions.
Thank you, Team 5/6.
In our science lessons, we have been looking at different ways of separating and filtering items. The children were challenged with taking a bottle of dirty water containing mud, sand, leaves and stones and making it as clean as possible using the tools and equipment available to them. All of the children did a brilliant job working together as a team – well done!
Year 5/6 are making links through expedition and working with our local community to support the miniature Railway. We will be hosting a range of exciting stalls for you to get involved with and all proceeds will be donated to keep the miniature railway running.
Please come along at 15:00pm on Tuesday 12th October and support us!
I am thrilled to be running and supporting the Green Top Learning Council this year and I am so excited to see what is in store for us!
The Y5/6 Learning Council members have their first appointment tomorrow where they will be speaking to visitors and leading a tour!
Here they are planning for their upcoming engagement!
Watch out for further blogs and pictures of events that involve the Y3/4 Learning Council members too!
As part of our science learning, we focused on the properties of stainless steel today and why it is such a useful material in the rail industry. We learnt about Harry Brearley and how stainless steel was invented just up the road from us in Sheffield!
