Green Top School

Reading Week!

29th September 2025Rebecca Knowles

Our annual reading week is coming up WC 6th October and we can’t wait to celebrate!

Throughout the week, our reading ambassadors will be helping us to celebrate reading in lots of fun ways! The ambassadors will be hosting the official launch event for our brand new library as well as a reading drop in event.

Other things happening throughout the week:

We will be hosting book sales where all books will be 50p

We will also be running our renowned ‘Crack the Code’ competition where children can attempt to crack the code to our safe full of prizes! This will also be 50p per go!

Year 3 – RE: The Story of Moses

29th September 2025Claire Dutton

Last week, Year 3 continued their RE learning around the Jewish religion and its stories about God’s promises. We learned about the story of Moses, from his escape as a baby in a Moses basket on the River Nile to his victory in leading his people out of slavery and through the Red Sea itself. To consolidate their learning, children reenacted scenes from the story and created story maps to retell the tale. Why not ask your child to retell you the story and see how much they can recall? Can they remember the ten plagues that God sent to Egypt to help Moses in persuading the pharaoh to release his slaves?

Class 7 – Let the Children March!

29th September 2025Simon Gerrard

Today, Class 7 have been looking into their new text ‘Let the Children March’. We learnt about what children had to face, growing up in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. We then worked together to critique the images!

MacMillan Coffee Morning!

29th September 2025Sophie Myers

Thank you to all the adults that were able to join us on Friday morning to support our first coffee morning of the year and support MacMillan!

Our Student Leaders really enjoyed being a part of their first event and helping to sell some buns and cakes at the end of the school day!

Extended Study – Are you up for the kindness challenge?

29th September 2025Sophie Myers

Next week is NSPCC Kindness Week, to celebrate the week we are hoping to see lots of you demonstrating one of our HOWL’s – ‘Be Kind’ and showing lots of compassion.

There will be some added activities and challenges next week but to get us prepared let’s see how many of you can tick off some of the challenges on the kindness grid. You could even have a go at creating your own kindness grid for your crew to complete!

Can you share some photographs of how you have shown kindness this week? Remember to share your story in Crew next Monday!

Year 1: Phonics Drop In

26th September 2025Carly Schon

On Thursday 2nd October 3-4pm Year 1 teachers will be hosting a Phonics Drop In session in the school hall. We would like to invite all parents and carers of Year 1 children to join us to find out more about our school phonics programme, how you child is taught phonics in school and what you can do at home to support your child. Miss Schön and Miss Rodgers will be available to talk you through activities and resources and to answer any questions or concerns you may have. There will be lots of activities for you to take part in with your child. Phonics is a huge part of your child’s learning in Year 1 and we really hope you can join us!

XP Outdoors | KS2 Den Building Week

26th September 2025Rory Kershaw

This week, KS2 have taken part in our exciting Den Building Week. Armed with logs, branches, sticks, and plenty of imagination, every crew rose to the challenge of working together to create their very own shelters in the great outdoors.

What really shone through wasn’t just the impressive dens, but the way crews collaborated. Each year group showed amazing Craftsmanship and Quality – carefully thinking about design, testing ideas, and adjusting their builds to make them stronger, safer, and more creative. From problem-solving to making sure everyone had a role, our crews truly embodied teamwork at its best.

The results were fantastic: unique dens that reflected each crew’s creativity and resilience. More importantly, the crews had fun. Well done to all of KS2 – you should be incredibly proud of what you achieved this week!