PUMPKIN COMPETITION

By Claira Salter26th October 2020

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.

An Autumn Celebration to end Year 1’s First Half-Term!

16th October 2020Claire Dutton

Year One have had a brilliant Autumn inspired day to end our first half-term of the year!

We have enjoyed discussing seasonal change and thinking about what is so special about Autumn, making links to the celebration of harvest, weather and colour. We also had the chance to decorate (and eat!) our own biscuits as a special treat… Yum yum!

Our focus was to learn about the work of Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama who puts dots everywhere… even on pumpkins! We used her work to inspire some of our own beautiful work which you can check out below and in our video. Enjoy!

We hope you all have a fabulous half-term and will look forward to seeing you all in two weeks time.

Mrs Dutton, Miss Hilton, Miss O’Neil and Mrs Robson 🙂

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Conversation Starter

By Claira Salter11th October 2020

Do you ever ask your child what they’ve been learning this week only to get told ‘nothing’ or ‘I can’t remember’.

To try and help with this, each year group will share a specific question each week about that weeks learning to try and help get the conversation going. 

Let us know if it’s useful and helps children talk about their learning. 

#crewgreentop

Phonics lessons online

By Claira Salter8th October 2020

Parents of children in F2, Y1 and Y2 may want to explore this website https://lettersandsounds.org.uk/for-home/overview. This website provides pre recorded phonics lessons which can be used to support your children with the phonics screening check which typically takes place in Y1 during the Summer term.  This year our Y2 student are expected to take this phonics check during the second half term.

 

Monday tricky words

By nhilton28th September 2020

 

class 5 have been have a go Henry’s today by spelling tricky words using chalk on the carpet.  I was so impressed at how everyone’s letter formation had improved since starting back at school. Well done everyone. Keep up the hard work.

 

Miss Hilton

Year 1 online classroom

By nhilton23rd September 2020

Hello Year 1

 

We have set up a new online classroom for you where you can access homework, key information, learning and learning links. All children should have received an email inviting them to join their new classroom. Their new email is [email protected]

Everyone has a new login for their emails but should have the same password.

username:

firstname.surname33

password:

password

 

Once you have joined leave us a comment on the classroom so we know you have been successful. We look forward to seeing you all there!

 

Miss Hilton and Mrs Dutton

What a great week in class 5!

By nhilton17th September 2020

A huge well done to Ellie- Mai for being our learning legend in class 5 today. she worked really hard in English writing a sentence about our new class text Emma Jane’s Aeroplane. She used her phonics to sound her words out and was using the image from the book to support her ideas. A great piece of work Ellie- Mai, keep it up.

 

I am blown away at the learning happening in class 5 this week, we have got so much done! You should all be proud of what you have achieved, we’ve taken on maths, phonics, English and expedition. Your recall skills to link your learning to the rubric in our end of the day crew circles is showing how reflective you really are becoming and it is amazing to see. keep up the good work everyone and enjoy your days off. I cant wait to see what you can achieve next week.

 

Miss Hilton

Numicon counting

By nhilton10th September 2020

Class 5 have been fantastic at counting the numicon today and ordering them from 1 to 10. We even had a go at writing the numbers under the numicon. Everyone worked so well and I was blown away at how we were coaching our peers who found it a little bit tricky.

 

Keep up the good work class 5 you are making me feel so proud to be your teacher!

 

Thank you

Miss Hilton and Mrs Robson

 

Our classroom

By nhilton8th September 2020

Our classroom is looking a little bit more exciting now we’ve added some of our fabulous arts and crafts to it.

Learning legend

By nhilton3rd September 2020

A huge shout out to Isobel for being our learning legend today. She was a connecting Connie in maths this morning. She wrote all numbers from 0-10 correctly and had a go at sounding the number out to write it in words, well done Isobel!

 

Miss Hilton