Wow … what an amazing start to our first week back in Year 3! On Tuesday afternoon, we all attended Camp Green Top where Mr Kershaw put us through our paces with team games, fire safety, smores and a good old sing-song (of course)!
What a lovely morning we had completing an orienteering course where we got to run around the KS2 playground in search of different points!
We then were lucky to be able to visit Camp Green Top that Mr Kershaw put on for us. We read in tents, made musical instruments and toasted marshmallows with Mr Kershaw!
Here we are reading and making instruments!
We ended the day by litter picking within the community!
We had a very special visitor in Class 6 this afternoon to help us understand what happens to the things that we throw away – Lynn, from the Doncaster Council Waste and Recycling Education team. The children had prepared a list of questions to ask and Lynn showed us some very interesting slides and videos to explain what happens to the things we put in our waste and recycling bins. We learned some very interesting things during her visit. For example, did you know that only 3.5% of the things we throw away goes to landfill, and the things we put in our ‘general waste’ bins are repurposed and used to generate electricity? She even left us some gifts – made from recycled materials of course – to remind us how importand it is to ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’.
Thanks for visiting Lynn!
Class 12 have had an amazing week so far completing lots of fun activities to build on our existing Crew values. I am so proud of everyone’s hard work and participation and cannot wait for the Water Extravaganza and more importantly, the rest of our year together!
Year 5 want to say a huge thank you to everyone for their kind donations which allowed us to go to Thorne Moorends food bank and deliver a wonderful amount of food which will help many families in the community!
Today we have been so busy! It started with orienteering this morning. The children used Electronic tags to go around the playground finding the markers, using maps of the school. It timed them to see how quick they were and the children worked with their partners brilliantly. I was tired just watching them run around the field!
After that we had our xp outdoors experience session. We moved around the 3 activities in our crews. These were reading in the teepee tents, toasting and eating marshmallows and then making musical instruments using natural wood from the field. It was so much fun!
Finally we took the cards that we made to a local care home. The residents were so pleased to see us and loved chatting to the children.
Can’t wait for Friday!!! See you in the morning!
We had great fun this afternoon orienteering completing timed challenges! Despite the tiredness from camp, Harrison and Charlie from Crew Knowles came first out of the whole school with an incredible time of 3mins 41 seconds!! They were closely followed by Macky and Junior with an amazing time of 3mins 51 seconds! Well done boys – smashed it!
I wanted to share some wonderful home learning from Charlotte in Year 4. Over the holidays, Charlotte carefully crafted a stunning picture of the Colosseum using small tiles to create a detailed mosaic.
Her creativity, patience and attention to detail are clear to see — it is a truly impressive piece of work! The mosaic has already sparked great interest and discussion in class, making it the perfect talking point to kick off our brand-new expedition on the Romans.
Well done, Charlotte — what a fantastic way to start our year!
Please join us for our Year 5/6 family learning event on Wednesday 3rd September 2-3pm! Our family learning session will involve orienteering outdoors and we can’t wait!
