Captain Tom 100 Challenge! 🏅

By Sophie Myers27th April 2021

This Friday, Friday 30th April, marks the beginning of the Captain Tom 100 Challenge which will continue until Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May. 

The family of Sir Captain Tom Moore is inviting the world to take inspiration from his famous 100 laps around his garden to celebrate Tom’s life, his generosity of spirit and the hope and joy he brought to millions.

YOU can join this celebration and take part in the Captain Tom 100 by setting yourself your own challenge based around the number 100!

Let the number 100 be your inspiration and do something amazing, whether it’s..

100 Star Jumps

100 laps of your garden

100 minutes of gaming

Baking 100 cupcakes

Singing for 100 minutes.

We would love to see lots of you taking part and taking lots of photographs of your challenges. Please send any photographs or videos to [email protected] so we can celebrate your contributions on the blog.

Here is a video with more information about the fundraising event.


Click on the link below if you would like to donate to the Captain Tom Foundation:

https://captaintom.org/donate 

I can’t wait to see what you achieve in your challenges!

#CrewGreenTop #CaptainTom100

 

 

 

Maths Week and NSPCC Number Day

By Kelly Overson26th April 2021

Dear Parents and Carers 

Next week is maths week at Green Top (4th – 7th May).  We will be celebrating maths and to do this we will be doing the following:

  • Each day you will be informed of a challenge you can complete at home and bring into school or email to [email protected] 
  • Each day there will be a FUN maths challenge on the blog for you to complete as a family at home
  • Friday is NSPCC Maths day so we will be having a ‘maths’ dress up day (£1 donation)

Please see the school blog for links to the NSPCC maths day website, ideas for dress up and daily posts next week.

NSPCC website:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-you-can-do/charity-runs-cycles-and-challenges/social-and-special-events/number-day/

Tuesday’s challenge is:  Maths‌ ‌is‌ ‌everywhere!‌  ‌Take‌ ‌a‌ ‌photograph‌ ‌of‌ something‌ ‌maths‌ ‌related‌ ‌around‌ ‌our‌ ‌local‌ ‌community.‌  ‌This‌ ‌could‌ ‌be‌ ‌a‌ ‌percentage‌ ‌in‌ ‌a‌ ‌shop‌ ‌sale,‌ ‌a‌ ‌date‌ ‌on‌ ‌a‌ ‌building,‌ ‌a‌ ‌bus‌ ‌timetable‌ ‌or‌ ‌numbers‌ ‌on‌ ‌a‌ ‌traffic‌ ‌sign.‌  ‌Who‌ ‌will‌ ‌be‌ ‌the‌ ‌most‌ ‌creative?‌  ‌Send‌ ‌your‌ ‌photographs‌ ‌to‌ ‌[email protected].  Good Luck!

Last year was a huge success and enjoyed by all – we can’t wait to see what next week brings.

Thanks

Mrs K Overson 

 

Dress up ideas:

PE – Long Jump!

By Rebecca Knowles25th April 2021

On Friday we had such a fun PE session! Our PE for this term is athletics so last week we focused on long jump and perfecting our long jump techniques. We also practised starting our run up from different starting positions which built on our learning about sprinting from the week before!

Don’t forget to click on the pictures to see some close up action shots!

Inspirational People!

By Rebecca Knowles19th April 2021

In our English hook lesson today, we looked at what ‘inspirational’ means and who is inspirational to us.

Each group looked at a different story of an ‘ordinary child with an extraordinary story’ and we learned all about 12 year old boy who opened a school in Lebanon, a young boy who invented Braille, a young girl who survived a plane crash in the rainforest, and finally a boy who created in invention to help save the oceans from plastic pollution! Wow! Some truly inspirational people!

If you want to be inspired some more then watching the lovely video that Miss Myers found for us to hook us into our learning!

Long division

By Rebecca Knowles15th April 2021

I am beyond proud of Crew Knowles and how hard they are working on developing their long division skills. It is such a tricky concept but the children have been grappling with it and are really growing in confidence! It is lovely to see just how proud they are of themselves when they get the answer right! Well done guys, you are truly working hard and getting smart at the same time!

 

Budding photographers!

By Rebecca Knowles14th April 2021

As part of Hook Week, Year 6 because photographers today!

Before taking pictures, we looked at the different camera angles that can be used to create images. These included: low angles, high angles, eye-level angles, bird’s eye view angles and tilted angles!

I have to say that the photos that were taken were brilliant and really blew all of the adults away! Watch out for the upcoming video which will showcase some of the children’s beautiful work!

Mehndi Patterns!

By Rebecca Knowles25th March 2021

Yesterday we looked in to the religion of Hinduism and at the Holi Festival. We looked at the religious festival and thought about how it might have been different during the pandemic.

We then linked our lesson to our learning about mindfulness and spent a relaxing afternoon drawing mehndi patterns.

Captain Sir Tom Moore!

By Rebecca Knowles25th March 2021

Today we delved into the life of Captain Tom to find out why is such a national hero. It was very interesting to learn about his life and all of the wonderful things he did during the pandemic. He truly was a hero!

Expedition Presentations!

By Jake Taylor25th March 2021

In Year 6 today, some children were presenting their expeditionary learning to other schools within the trust. Some of the children presented to Plover School whilst some presented to Norton School. Although there were a few nerves, it was fantastic to see the courage on show. It is never easy to present to others but they all did an amazing job of showcasing their learning throughout this expedition. Well done to all involved!