Today in Class 7 as part of Arts week, we recreated Paul Klee’s Senecio using oil pastels and water colour. All of our paintings are incredible and they made Mrs Hay and Miss Rhodes smile a lot! We are very exited to display them in our beautiful classroom.
A brilliant time was had by members of the Green Top KS2 Book Club today at the Doncaster Book Award Finale, held at the Dome.We have been reading, blogging and voting for the books all year and today was when we discovered the winners!
 
Arriving early, we had time to practise making lots of noise with our home-made shakers and then the fun started…….
Liz Millions, an illustrator and writer, gave us a very entertaining crash course into how to draw imaginary creatures like dragons and unicorns. Starting with a potato or baked bean shape, she gave us tips on how to create fabulous cartoon characters. Just by changing the eyes and the mouth, she demonstrated how to completely transform a picture – and all done with her unique, hilarious sense of humour!
Joshua (call him Josh) Seigal was up next! He entertained us with his brilliant, interactive poems about chicken, his dog and how he ‘doesn’t like poetry’! We learnt lots about rhythm and how to perform poetry and it was great how he got us all joining in. He was then kind enough to sign our books and pose for a photograph with us!
    
In the afternoon, after a second ‘slot’ by Liz Millions (Teddy Bears and Pirates this time!), we were delighted to welcome Philip Ardagh, the’ 2 Metres Tall, bearded, international best-selling children’s author’ to the stage. His wacky style had us howling with laughter – especially when he told us the story of his second-hand (sorry ‘second-bottom) pants that he was forced to wear.
Finally, the winners of this year’s awards were announced. Congratulations go to Primary List winner, Julian Clary, for ‘The Bolds’; Secondary List winner, Amy Alward for ‘The Potion Diaries’; and Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, winner of the poetry list.
A big ‘Thank You’ to the committee and volunteers of the Doncaster Book Awards for staging another fantastic event, yet again free of charge. Check out their website on www.doncasterbookaward.net for more photos, news and events.
Today we had our Friday spelling challenge ‘Race against the bomb!’
Everyone worked so hard and earned 5 house points each for their efforts.
The spelling champions today were:
Thomas in 3rd place with 66 spellings, Isobel & Neve in joint 2nd with 67 spelling and Ryan in 1st place with 70 spellings!
Well done! 🙂
Well done to Charlie, Hattie and Jasmine, winners of our Extreme Reading competition, showing us how a good book can be enjoyed anywhere!!
Think you can better? Pass your pics to Mrs Graves!
 
Today in Class 7, we have been racing against the timer to spell our Common Exception Words. The top 3 winners were…
Charlie in 1st place with 83 spellings, Thomas in 2nd place with 79 spellings and Emily coming a close third with 76 spellings in 5 minutes. WOW!
Well done to everyone for trying their best!
Mrs Hay 🙂
The book fair opened on Friday morning  and it was lovely to see so many children excited about buying a new book!
There is a great selection of books at very reasonable prices – made even cheaper with the World Book Day token, that gives £1 off!
The Book Fair is on until Wednesday after school – come and buy a book and raise funds for school!
Today the winning bloggers from the ‘Why I love Green Top Blog’ competition received their prizes in our Out of this World assembly. They have all been given a £5 voucher to spend at our book fair this week!
Well done and enjoy your prize!
What a morning so far. Michael the School Chef has picked the Best Costume for both children and staff. We have made over £50 on our book swap stall and we have had over 300 children looking for ‘Wally’, and its only 11.20.
In Class 7 today we have been ‘racing against the bomb’ in our spelling session. We spelt as many common exception words as we could in 1 minute. Ryan was the overall spelling champion!
