Armistice Day at Green Top

11th November 2025Jayne Rodgers

Crew council were very proud to be invited to take part in the Armistice Day ceremony in Thorne Memorial Park this morning. Our children proudly wore their poppies and recited a specially composed poem to remember the fallen in all wars. Our preparations for this began a few weeks ago when we decorated netting in History Club and constructed a wreath to be laid at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. Our Councillors can be seen with both of these tributes in the photos below. As a school we focused on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey and learned a little about the origins of this very special grave. Why not ask your children to share the story with you? Also, each Crew is now the proud owner of a ‘Garden of Remembrance’ display, where we can remember each day the sacrifices of these brave men and women. Even our Nurture Hub children got involved and produced a lovely poppy collage.

When you go home, tell them of us and say  For your tomorrow We gave our today.

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Year 3 – Let’s Play Expedition!

17th October 2025Claire Dutton

It may have been our last week before the half-term but Year 3 have still been mega busy with lots of learning so it was really nice to capture some of our Year 3 children ‘playing Romans’ on the playground … Max (a Roman soldier) capturing Nasrin (a Celtic rebel) to make her a slave actually looked way more fun than the textbooks make it sound!

As well as playing, we have been finding out about the Roman army and what life was like as a soldier … why not ask us if we’d rather be a legionary or an auxiliary soldier? And, we’ve been using both primary and secondary sources to learn about slavery in the Roman empire too … you could ask us if all Roman slaves were treated the same, and if they could ever find freedom?

Class 6’s visit to 1666

25th September 2025Jayne Rodgers

Class 6 took a huge step back in time today with our Great Fire of London workshop. We were visited by Thomas Farriner and Samuel Pepys who gave us first hand information about the tragic event and who were both mightily impressed by the knowledge that the children were able to share. We also demonstrated our dramatic talents as the children became the wind, flames, houses and fire fighting citizens in ’10 second freeze frame’ activities. We had an amazing time!

I was very proud of the behaviour of ALL the KS1 children today and our visitor commented on the beautifully calm atmosphere as she moved through our school.

Well done everyone!

Class 7 Time Travellers!

25th September 2025Simon Gerrard

Today, Class 7 had 2 special visitors. One was Thomas Fariner telling us about how and why the Great Fire of London started. The second was Samuel Pepys telling us about what he had written in his diary during this great, historical event. Both let us make freeze frames from the event and we even sang nursery rhymes as well. We loved it!

Class 7 – Historians!

16th September 2025Simon Gerrard

Today, Class 7 have been researching about the Great Fire of London, using a range of fact files as our sources of information. We have been working together to read and then find the important information ready to add to our own fact files! I was very impressed with the facts and the effort put in Class 7, keep it up! 🙂