Welcome back 4TE!

6th January 2022Thomas Edwards

Welcome back everyone! We hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year’s! This week, 4TE have been getting right back into action by becoming extremely creative immersing themselves with our new expedition, ‘What a Wonderful World’. Our eventual goal will be to answer the question of ‘Why should we protect our beautiful planet’.

In order to immerse ourselves, we have been creating Arctic-themed crafts, and learning a little bit about the Arctic, climate change and global warming. Here are some of our crafts we have been creating!

A step into the wild!

6th January 2022Rachael Smith

As we begin our spring expedition, the children have been transported into the depths of the Amazon rainforest as they start to explore our guiding question: ‘Why should we help our planet survive?‘ During hook week, the pupils were first immersed in the wonder of the Amazon, from the rainforest layers to the biodiversity of the species that reside there. To celebrate this, our class designed and created an incredible door display, complete with indigenous species from the rainforest canopy. As the week has progressed, the children have gradually been introduced to the issue of deforestation and have produced some thought-provoking news reports to highlight different perspectives on the subject.

🌎 Why should we help our planet survive? – Hook Week

6th January 2022Charlie Cicero

Thrown into the vast and dense Amazon Rainforest, 6CC have answered the call of planet Earth’s SOS to learn about the importance of this natural beauty and the to raise awareness of its vital role in regulating our world’s climate.

This week, years 5 & 6 have been introduced to several of the endangered species inhabiting ‘the lungs of the world’ and where they belong in this complex eco system. 6CC have produced wonderful piece of split artwork through teamwork and determination, as well as creating their own plea to stop deforestation via a group made news report. 📽️

Why should we help our planet survive?

6th January 2022Stephanie Oliver

The children have had a super start to 2022 and have thrown themselves into our new expedition: Why should we help our planet survive? This expedition will focus on the Amazon Rainforest and the animals and people that live there. We will discover how important it is to protect the rainforest linked to climate change and global warming. During hook week, the pupils learnt about deforestation through writing their own news reports and created some amazing group artwork of rainforest animals using mixed media.

Back to school with a bang!

6th January 2022Helen Jenkins

What a great start to the new year we have had! It has been so lovely to welcome our children back into school and hear all your Christmas adventures.

Immersion week has seen some truly wonderful art projects happening for our exciting new expedition – What a Wonderful World!

We have got our hands well and truly sticky with papier-mâché as well as creating paper collages of our beautiful Earth! We can’t wait to show you the finished products!

A Crafty Christmas

10th December 2021Lauren Gate

Yesterday 3LG had their Christmas Crafts Morning. We had so much fun making Christmas Hama beads, turning ourselves into Christmas elves and designing Christmas cards. We spread Christmas cheer (and lots of glitter) all around. A great morning all around and the children made some great crafts. We all had a blast and were so thrilled to be joined by so many parents and carers.

Crafting for Christmas

10th December 2021Helen Jenkins

It was such a treat to invite parents into school to take part in Our Christmas craft afternoon! We demonstrated patience and resilience whilst making Hama bead decorations and also ‘Elf-ed ourselves’. Thanks as always to our wonderful parents and carers for supporting your children.

“God Bless Us, Every One!”

9th December 2021Rachael Smith

As part of our Christmas Expedition slice, year 5 have stepped into the streets of Dickensian London where they have encountered the covetous, old sinner, Ebenezer Scrooge! After recreating the famous character description of A Christmas Carol’s frightful protagonist, the pupils have worked collaboratively to generate powerful vocabulary that will enable them to produce a contrasting description, following Scrooge’s transformation at the end of the novella. What better way to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas!

Christmas Crafts!

9th December 2021Thomas Edwards

This week has been full of Christmas Crafts at NJS and there was no exception for 4TE! Fresh from the weekend on Monday morning, 4TE went straight into creating some amazing Christmas crafts. There were creative cards, delightful decorations and beautiful beads! Everyone had a great time and it was a super start to the week!