The Friend’s of Green Top are planning a Bonfire Themed Tuck Shop on Monday. This will take place at 3pm and again at 4pm (after clubs) on the KS2 playground.
The Friend’s are working hard to raise money to support Christmas treats and events at the end of this term. We will announce what their hard work has enabled us to provide our children at the end of the term!
I’d like to thank them, as always, for their support and efforts!
DISCO Reminder:
Thursday 2nd November 2023
EYFS 2pm – 2:45pm
KS1 3pm – 3:45pm
KS2 4pm – 5pm
£2 entrance to the disco will include a hotdog, juice and a glow stick. Additional drinks and sweets will be available to purchase.
Uniform / clothes:
Nursery children are welcome to come to school in their DISCO clothes.
F2, Y1 and Y2 will be in school uniform and will get changed in class before the DISCO begins.
KS2 will be in school uniform for the day and change at home or during their club (if they attend a Thursday club).
Thanks
| 13.12.2023 | EYFS Christmas Performance | EYFS | Hall 9:30am Hall 2:00pm |
As we begin our second Autumn term and the run up to Christmas the children of KS1 are requesting your help. We have been learning about heroes in our local community and as part of this expedition we have had visits from many wonderful heroes including our Mayor, a midwife, police officers and a firefighter, and have gone out into the local area to visit other heroes who work in care-homes and supermarkets.
On Thursday 23rd November at 4pm, we will be celebrating the end of our expedition by holding the Green Top Pride of Thorne Awards ceremony and we would like your help in nominating someone who is a hero to you or your family. Today the children made lots of wonderful suggestions for possible recipients of an award – nurses, doctors, vets, police officers, firefighters, carers, dance teachers, swimming teachers, our school cook, foodbank workers – anyone who has gone above and beyond to help others would be a worthy nomination. We will be posting a Google form next week for you to make suggestions so please be having a think about who you would like to nominate.
We would also love to get an idea of how it feels to be a hero in our community by spreading some Christmas cheer to children in our local area. With this in mind we are asking parents and carers to send in a small gift to wrap and donate to the Thorne food bank to be distributed to its users over the Christmas period. Ideas for gifts could include – bubble bath, hair accessories, small soft toys, chocolates, stationary such as stickers, pens, pencils or notebooks, reading books or jigsaws etc.
Simply buy the gift you would like to donate and send it into school anytime before Wednesday 15th November. We will be holding a family learning event on the afternoon of Thursday 16th November where we will wrap the presents that you have donated. Or, if you would prefer, you could send in a small cash donation instead and we will buy a gift on your behalf. These will then be passed to the food bank on the evening of our award ceremony.
Any questions please ask.
With many thanks for your continued support,
The KS1 team x
The children were rehooked into our expedition learning today by reading supertato. We then discussed the book and why the main character was a superhero and then the children made their own superheroes using the fruit and vegetables that linked to the story. They had so much fun doing this and I was so impressed with some of their creations.
Also, a special thankyou to all of the parents and carers that provided us with fruit and vegetables today. We really appreciate it and it has definitely helped us with our learning.
Mrs Shaw x x
This afternoon we continued with our Science case study, focusing on characteristics that offspring inherit from their parents. It was really interesting to listen to the children share their own stories about how they have been told they look like or behave like their family members. We then went on to relate this to a range of animals and the children loved the challenge of matching parent to offspring. We quickly worked out the difference between the Asian and African elephants but the ‘cat family’ definitely caught us out! Who knew how hard it was to identify the difference between a young jaguar, cheetah and leopard! Fab work guys – I have really enjoyed our first day of learning this half term. x
This morning we watched, critiqued and compared speeches made by Greta Thunberg and Emily Brown. We thought about the tone/style they used, who their audience was and the purpose of the speeches they gave. I was very impressed with the vocabulary the children used during the lesson and their reflections on which they preferred and why. Well done everyone for a great start to the new half term! x
On our first day back after half term, Class 10 have worked together on column method and more specifically, Class 10 have been working on exchanging the extra 1. We had some of our expert coaches who were confident with this and made great teachers to the rest of the class! It was lovely to see such hard work and confidence from Class 10 in this ready to continue to work hard on in the future!
Crew Councillors will be going around classes from tomorrow with our Poppy Appeal products. We have recommended donations of £1 for snap bands, wristbands and stationery with zip tags and key rings 50p.
This afternoon, we have been creating our school wreath ready to send to the Remembrance Day Celebrations.
A great day was had by Y6 as we visited Tropical World in Leeds to further develop our understanding of biomes and habitats. Children were surprised by the humidity within the centre which made us realise what the conditions would be like in the Amazon Rainforest. Fortunately, the weather was on our side and we were also able to explore parts of Roundhay Park; taking part in a workshop comparing this forest to a rainforest.
