Here are some photographs with some of the things we got up to last week to immerse our classroom – it’s now looking fab! We have already made a great start to Case Study 1 – keep a look out for some of our fab learning! 🚀🪐

We had a great experience day yesterday pretending to be evacuees from World War 2. We walked to the church and imagined we had been transported to the 1940s! When we got to the church, Mrs Raper shared some interesting stories about her mum’s experience of WW2 and evacuation.

We imagined what it would be like to have to go to new homes with new families to escape the bombs and wrote postcards home to our loved ones! We also thought about what we would pack in our suitcase which was a very interesting discussion!

Just a reminder that Year 3 and 4 will be visiting Thorne Methodist on Thursday morning. The children are invited to dress up as an evacuee as part of our learning on World War 2 if they would like. Children will require a packed lunch to take with them as we will eat lunch there as part of the experience. FSM children will receive a lunch from school.

Thank you

Year 3/4

Year 4 PE sessions will take place on Monday afternoons. Children will need to fetch their PE kits to get changed into.

Please be reminded that Green Top’s PE kit is black bottoms (shorts or long bottoms), a green t-shirt and trainers. Year 4 will be outside so children may wish to bring a black or green jacket ready for when the weather gets cooler.

Thank you

Miss Knowles and Mr Taylor

On Tuesday, we made Spaghetti and Marshmallow Bridges. We had to build a structure to see how many ping pong balls it would hold. We had to work collaboratively and make sure that everyone in our team was having a go. Freya said, “It was a difficult challenge but it was nice to work as a team and collaborate together.” After that, we went outside and played Cops and Robbers with Miss Myer’s class and we all played together.

On Wednesday, we completed the paper challenge. The aim was to hold as many pieces of paper as possible. We took it in turns to be the captain and give directions to our teammates.

On Thursday, we played everyone is it. Eve said, “It was hard to dodge everyone else because if you weren’t fast enough they would dig you first.” “It was hard to decide who was tug first,” said Kianna. Crystal said it was very challenging but it was fun.

In maths, we have been doing arithmetic starters. We worked together to do a range of problem solving activities. We have also been thinking about the best part of us. We wrote a draft and then wrote it on the chrome books. We have also learnt about community and the different communities we are part of.

All week, we have been singing our crew song. On Friday, we completed an escape room maths challenge.

Written by the children of Crew Barnett

In Crew Schon we enjoyed our team building day so much hat we continued the activities throughout the week in our crew sessions. We learned lots of skills that we can apply to our everyday activities. We learned that communication is the key to success.

A big shout-out to Joe who was fantastic at communicating his ideas to his team. Just noticed every time something was going wrong and communicated this to his team. Also a shout out to Elea who was also confident to communicate her ideas to her team mates.

A Shout-out to Ivy-Ray, Spencer, Eden, Harper, Ava-Leigh and George. Their entire team was involved in the problem solving and they were the fastest team to organise their gutters effectively. They easily adapted when the activity was changed slightly.

In Crew we started to explore the word community and what it means. We began with our Crew community. We used a ball of string to show how we are linked together as part of our crew community. We discussed how we would all then have an impact on our class, key stage and school communities throughout the day. We discussed the importance of community and how we can all have an impact. We focussed on making people smile in our community. We discussed that people in our local community sometimes go through tough times and the things we can do to help those in need.

We decided to re-establish links with the local Smile-a-While group that we worked with last year. We made some cards to send to them to let them know we are still thinking about them. We want to keep our links in the local community alive as we truly value our community at Green Top school. I wonder what other links we can make in our local community this year?

Wow what a week Class 6. You have been absolutely awesome! I am so impressed with your attitude towards everything we have done. You have looked after our new classroom resources, showed a great amount of respect to each other and the wider school community and showed an excellent attitude towards your learning activities. I couldn’t of asked for anything more.

Friday was our ‘Technology day’ and we had lots of fun doing a photograph scavenger hunt around school. Then in the afternoon we had our first experience of our new Year 1 outdoor area. It was so much fun letting off steam and relaxing in the sunshine after all of our hard work this week. For Funky Friday time we enjoyed playing with the parachute.

Keep it up Class 6. I am so proud of you.

All year 3 children have a fantastic opportunity starting on Monday! Kicks football coaches will be coming into school to deliver football sessions on Monday afternoons. This will run for them up to October half term. Children will be expected to follow our PE kit norms and bring their PE kit every Monday.

Our PE kit is as follows. Black bottoms (shorts, tracksuit bottoms), a green t-shirt, black/green jacket or fleece for cooler weather, trainers.

Football boots, shin pads, gloves will not be needed so please don’t buy or send these into school 😊.

Have a fabulous weekend. See you all next week.

Mrs Pearson