Now that we are at the end of another half term, it was time to reveal the winners of our reading challenge. Crew Hamill have worked really hard to move their polar bears across the ocean in order to get them to the safety of the ice berg. This half term, we had two winners:
Both of our winners received a Herbie Hedgehog reward! Happy Easter 🙂
At the beginning of the week, we finished our maths lesson a bit early so we took the opportunity to practice our Arithmetic (fractions of an amount). It was great seeing everyone use the method and almost everyone for all of them correct.
In expedition, we used our music knowledge and discussed the pentatonic scale. The pentatonic scale is a scale with 5 notes that are, C, D, E, G, A. We then used an interactive xylophone to practice using the pentatonic scale to play some different phrases.
Last week was Sign Language week in the UK – so all the students at Green Top have made this video, singing and signing the song ‘True Colours’ as part of the celebration!
As part of their awesome POLs this week, every single Year 3 and 4 child has planted a tree at Norton Junior School, with support from Murphy’s and their Roots Programme.
They also celebrated their product from last term (more on this next time!) and unveiled their awesome digital artwork, made from images of recycling – this will be on display in school after the Easter break!
KS1 at Plover have just finished their Expedition ‘The Blue Planet’. Their final product has provided a lasting legacy for the community – a lovely eco garden that will develop across future Expeditions to provide a range of habitats and food sources for a variety of insects, birds and mammals.
Students dedicated the trees to community heroes who have helped to improve the lives of people across Intake and Doncaster at their POL yesterday – including Mrs Ogle and Dame Rosie Winterton!
On Friday, KS1 and LKS2 at Green Top celebrated their learning for their two Expeditions – ‘The Blue Planet’ and ‘There Is No Planet B’
The celebration included an interactive art gallery, a visit from Reptile Rendezvous and showcasing awesome family learning.
Weekly Update for families @ XP Gateshead
Finding the magic in Science @ Norton Infants
UKS2 Celebration of Learning @ Carcroft School
The French Revolution at Campsmount @ Norton Juniors
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In our expedition lesson, we were musicians and practiced sing the song “What a wonderful world”. We had to make sure we were singing in tune but we did find that keeping to the tempo and beat of the music tricky in some parts.
This week we unpicked what habits we have. We decided whether these were good habits or bad habits and then looked at how we could improve these habits! We have some great habits such as reading to calm down, going swimming each week and listening to music but we definitely need to improve some bad habits like picking our finger nails.
We have been super busy in Crew Thompson with our Easter art. We first started by looking at our artist “Jessa Dupuis”. We looked at a range of her work and discussed what we praised, noticed and wondered. We then did our first draft in our sketchbooks using our cutting skills and layering skills and creating a backwash.
We then practiced cutting out flowers and leaves as when we peer critiqued each others work, we noticed that this was something we needed more practice on.
In our Scottys session this week, we put all of our skills into practice. We had to work as part of a mini crew to complete a number of exercises and reach the other side. We had lots of fun and Mick definitely put our strength and endurance to the test!
In our computing session, we became inventors and designed our own invention. We had to use all our previous knowledge to make sure our invention had inputs and outputs. We came up with some fantastic inventions!
Crew Hamill are extremely proud of their final collage piece! We used blue powder paint to sponge paint a background and then developed our cutting skills further from our drafting session. We critiqued our draft pieces and realised that we needed to focus on the size of the pieces we were cutting and we needed to be more accurate with the shape of the flowers we were cutting. We’re very happy with our final spring designs.
