Today our Year 4 enjoyed an athletics PE session practising their long jumps. We used iPads and an app called ‘measure’ to measure the distance of each jump. Great work everyone!
Just a reminder that Y4 PE will now be on a Tuesday afternoon and children will require outdoor kit.
The children have enjoyed listening to the story of The Rainbow Fish this week which inspired us to create our own rainbow fish using blue play dough, glitter and sequins to represent his glimmering scales. The children have been talking about how we can be a kind friend and have practised sharing just like the Rainbow Fish did at the end of the story.
The children worked so hard yesterday to collect grass, leaves, sticks and wood to build our new bug hotel.
The children had so much fun exploring the nursery garden to find mini beasts to be our new residents. We found worms, wood lice, ladybirds and worms.
In crew yesterday, the children set their own target for what they wanted to work on. They had a choice of what they felt they needed the most practice with and then they independently worked on this area…it was great to see them being so pro-active and leaders of their own learning.
Class 8 have started their geography case study this week. They have been exploring maps, atlases and globes and discussing the different features. They found lots of keys, scales and images that needed to be unpicked to help us to understand the information. The children then presented some of their information that they found in their groups to the rest of the class. It was great to see them grappling together.
Today we began our learning for our new expedition. Please find below links to the overview of what we will be learning in the summer term and extended study menu’s for Y1 and Y2. There is no obligation to complete all of the homework, but past experience has shown that studying themes at home linked to our expedition has helped the children to consolidate the learning they have done in class. Plus they LOVE sharing their new knowledge with you. Don’t forget to send the work into school or email photographs so we can celebrate their achievements.
Miss Rodgers, Miss Schon, Mrs Shaw, Miss Hilton and Miss Good x
We have had a very busy week in class 6 as we began our new Expedition – Diverse Doncaster. Where do I Belong?
We made double sided art work showing some of the familiar landmarks in Thorne – St. Nicholas’ Church, the water tower, Mr ap Harri’s house and Peel Hill, painted huge copies of some of these landmarks to decorate our classroom and sketched and coloured logos of some of the shops from our town. We were very lucky to have a visit from Phil Sheppard, who told us all about the books he has written and illustrated about Doncaster and gave us a live performance of some of his stories. We also used our knowledge of past and present to match some of the staff at Green Top to pictures of them when they were cute little bubbas!
We can’t wait to begin our learning next week.
A huge thank you to everyone who donated, bought wristbands and badges and entered the raffle to raise money for the MND charity last week. I would also like to give a massive shout out to Elsie from class 6 and her family, who raised an outstanding £275 to buy raffle tickets. This is a cause very close to their hearts as they sadly lost Elsie’s grandad to the disease in 2011.
Once again the generosity of the Green Top community has blown us away!
Wow! What a fantastic and busy week it has been in Class 15. After a couple of days to settle back in, we have ended on a real high – with EVERYBODY in the class achieving a 4 in their HoWLs for two days in a row :). Of course, the children were keen to celebrate this and we have enjoyed milkshake and sweet treats together, as well as some extra break time to enjoy playing dodgeball. The cherry on the top? 100% attendance ALL week – well done!
As part of our immersion into our new expedition topic, we have been learning all about the ancient Egyptians – reading facts, creating our own pharaoh-themed portraits, creating papyrus coloured paper, using hieroglyphics and even making our very own headdresses … check out our photos and I’m sure you’ll agree they look amazing!
I can’t wait to see how next week can top this week … and now we know everyone is capable of a 4 on the HoWLs tracker, the standard is really set high for amazing learning behaviours all round 🙂 Let’s keep it up!
Best wishes for everyone’s well-earned weekend,
Mrs Dutton x
This week the children have been excited to hook into their new expedition! We are excited to answer the question ‘What happens where the sea meets the shore?’ We have have enjoyed creating an under the sea look to our classrooms and are looking forward to talking more about our seaside and holiday experiences next week! Postcards and photographs are welcome!
Here are some of our moments and beautiful work caught on camera!
