HOWL winners!

21st April 2022Samantha Good

Big shoutout to all of class 5 for our first week back after half term. It’s been full of fun and hard work, a lot of us even getting to share our amazing learning with parents and families. What a week so far!

These 3 superstars have been voted by our awesome crew for their hard work, kind manners and attitude around School, as our Be Kind, Get Smart and Work Hard postcard winners this week. We held a vote throughout the day and I totally agree with the outcome. Such fantastic members to have in the class.

Keep it up! Miss Good x

Drone fun in ks1

20th April 2022Aime Shaw

This afternoon, the children were very lucky

as they had a drone expert in to show them how we can take aerial photographs and get a birds eye view of everything on the ground.

They loved watching it take off and fly over the school but they especially loved seeing the photographs afterwards which showed a lot of Thorne and areas surrounding the school.

what a fantastic experience!

Thanks so much to Geoff for coming in and doing this for us…the children appreciate it so much as we will use these photos in our Summer expedition!

Mrs Shaw and the key stage 1 team x

Learning legends

20th April 2022Samantha Good

Well done yesterday to these four legends! It was just too hard to choose one, such great attitudes to learning and some amazing outcomes in phonics, maths and in our talk for writing exercise, retelling the story of the Story Machine. Keep up the great work, I love seeing your proud little faces shine 😀

Take a look back..

20th April 2022Samantha Good

Our first introduction to our new expedition for Summer term was to have a go at matching the adults in school to their faces as babies! We had lots of fun looking at who was who, guessing by identifying features that looked similar. It was such fun seeing how people have changed. The children then got a chance to draw ourselves as a baby and then as they are now, where they could identify that they might have looked similar but the two drawings were not going to be the same. We wondered, what will we look like in the future…?

Droning on!

20th April 2022Samantha Good

WOW what a fantastic afternoon we had when Geoff came in to teach us all about the amazing ways a drone can be used to capture arial images. The children (and adults!!) loved watching the drone take off and head up into the sunny sky. We learnt all about the quadcopter style of drone, and we even figured out it was called that because of the 4 propellers it uses to fly! After we watched it take off and fly through the sky, we then got to see some incredible images that had been taken of the school and Thorne, we could see for miles! We can’t wait to share those pictures too.

Family learning fun!

31st March 2022Samantha Good

Class 5 had a brilliant morning of family fun, collecting up lots of resources to make bug hotels with! We used techniques like shredding and glueing that we have been looking at in art to get creative with compostable material safe for our wonderful wildlife.

Have a look at some of our work…

Key stage 1 family learning

30th March 2022Aime Shaw

Please keep this date in your diary… Monday 9th May 2022

In our next expedition we are looking in detail at Thorne, including the history of our school and community. We would like to invite family members to an informal coffee morning where you can have a drink and a bun while sharing your experiences of how Thorne and Green Top has changed over the years. If you have experience of living in a contrasting area too then it would be great for the children to be able to compare. Even better, if you have old photographs to share then we would love to see them.

Thank you

Key stage 1 team x

KS1 phonics sounds and spellings WB 25.4.22

28th March 2022Jayne Rodgers

Good morning everyone.
Here are this week’s phonics focus sounds and spellings for each group.

PINK – Phonics sounds – x as in fox and y as in yes
Spellings – his, has, fox, fix, box, exit, yell, yes, yam, yet

RED – Phonics sounds – oi as in boil and ear as in hear
Spellings – his, has, join, coin, spoil, point, fear, spear, rear, years

BLUE – Phonics sounds – 

ie as in field,

Ea as in bread 
A as in acorn
A as in wasp 
Spellings —
Field
Yield
Bread 
Deaf
Acorn
Bacon
Wasp
What
People
Called

Any questions please ask
Miss Rodgers x

SUPER SHOUT OUTS for class 5!

24th March 2022Samantha Good

WHAT a week this week, we have been working so hard in our assessments this week and to top it off, class 5 have had some amazing work to celebrate this morning! Here are our Be Kind, Work Hard and Get Smart post card winners this week. Everyone deserves a huge shout out though, it’s been a tough old week so far but the hard work is really paying off in the outcomes of our assessments!