So in Crew Haddock the children had an old student come into school (Kodi) and showed them some basic boxing skills. The children really enjoyed this and really looking forward to some more 🥊
Boxing Skills
FS1 – Decorating our classroom and Christmas tree as a crew!
Crew Dorman had a lovely time decorating the classroom for Christmas this morning! We loved choosing which baubles we wanted to put on the Christmas tree. We worked as a crew to take it in turns to put on the baubles and listened to Christmas music whilst we decorated together! We think our classroom and our tree looks amazing! 🎄
FS1 – Creating animals for Percy’s Park!
Over the last two weeks we have been busy making lots of animals that we discovered lived in ‘Percy’s Park’ and the woodlands near us! We have used our cutting and sticking skills to explore feathers and leaves and I am sure you will agree our animal creations are super!
While we made the animals we discussed what we could find in a wood like Percy’s!
C said – “Owls live in a tree!”
A said – “Leaves and birds!”
R said – “A fox and rabbits”
N said – “Leaves sticks and rabbits”
We also discovered that lots of the animals in Percy’s park are nocturnal, which means they sleep during the day and only come out to eat and play at night! What an exciting expedition! We hope you can join us for our celebration of learning next week on Thursday!
Crew MW get Christmassy!
Crew MW had a lovely time decorating the classroom for Christmas this afternoon! We loved choosing which baubles we wanted to put on the tree and then climbing up onto the stool to reach the top. We think the trees look beautiful! 🎄
Star of the day in Crew Haddock
Sharni-Mae is the star of the day as she as made the right choices throughout the day and helped her teachers in the class. Well done 👏
Sharing our Stories: 01/12/2023
Beautiful Work This Week
Pride of Thorne Awards
This very special event has brought together nominees from across Green Top’s local community who have been recognised for their invaluable work both with and for the people of Thorne. From food banks to emergency services to care homes – all were presented awards by KS1 children at Green Top, as part of their Expedition ‘Not all superheroes wear capes’. The list and variety of work celebrated this evening was incredible and each and every award was so well deserved. Congratulations to all of you from Green Top!
Norton Infants march for Askern CRY Foodbank
Carcroft celebrate and share their awesome ‘Chronica Carcroft’ Roman Newspaper!
Top of the Blogs
Year 6 final touchdown writing @ Green Top
G28 Class 1 Court Case @ XP Gateshead
X27 Ethics revising hard! @ XP
Case Study 3 – Reflection in 1M @ Plover
A freezing day out at the Kids EFL Cup! @ Norton Juniors
Christmas is coming! @ XP East
What does it mean to be British? @ Carcroft School
Presentation of Learning @ Norton Infants
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Celebration of Learning🎉
During our celebration of learning, we were able to show our grown ups everything we have learnt during expedition this term. We shared our guiding question “Why should Doncaster remember the Romans?”. We then took it in turns to share what we had learnt in our 3 case studies (Geography, History and Science). Grown ups got the opportunity to look through our writing and expedition books to see our non-chronological report and diaries. We then shared our final product and had a browse through this. We are all really proud of how well this has turned out!
Active Crew
Today in Crew, we completed a kids vs adults DannyGo to get our bodies moving. All the children enjoyed working as a team vs Miss Pashley and Mrs Brown.
LKS2 Celebration of Learning
This afternoon, the children had the opportunity to share their expedition journey with their parents. They did an absolutely amazing job of speaking in front of an audience and proudly showed off the learning they have been doing. They should be beyond proud of themselves for the product they’ve produced.
We have a limited number of newspapers available for a donation if you would like a copy.
Thank you so much to all the grown ups that joined us for our Celebration of learning this afternoon. We really appreciate the support you’ve shown today.
What does it mean to be British?
In citizenship crew we have been exploring our nation, Great Britain. We discovered our nation is diverse. This means there are lots of different people. Some will be the same as us and others will be different. It also means there are different places to visit and different things to do and experience. We concluded that diversity helps us learn and grow as people. It is something to be celebrated!
We then drew things that make us proud to be British, what makes our nation special. We drew pictures of Buckingham Palace, the beaches we visit, our lovely homes and our favourite British foods!
