This morning year 3 were lucky enough to be joined by representatives from the Chance to Dance programme. We got the opportunity to work with an artist from the Royal Ballet and a local dance teacher. The children learned all about different stage directions and the mappings of movement that come together to make ballet. The children worked in their groups to create “flocking” movements in the style of the characters from the Royal Ballet Swan Lake. In their groups the children put together a routine using these movements and performed these in front of the whole class!
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Community, Crafts, and Cake!
4TE finished off a fantastic first half-term with an action-packed fun-filled day! Firstly, the whole school had a brilliant opportunity to plant some trees alongside the school field. Crew Edwards and Crew West relished this unique experience and had a terrific time planting and naming their trees. In years to come as the children grow older and even when they leave NJS, they will be able to walk alongside the school and spot the very same trees that they planted today. After this, the children got to create some Halloween themed crafts. Spooky spiders and ghoulish ghosts were haunting the classroom this morning, it was a spooky time indeed! Finally, the children had been very busy at home and had baked an incredible amount of treats. There were cakes, biscuits, cookies, flapjacks, you name it, it was there! 4TE got to snack on their treats and we shared the goods with the rest of the school as well. It was a magnificent way to conclude a brilliant day and start to term. I’d like to finally thank everyone in 4TE for such a fantastic start to the year. I hope everyone has a great couple weeks and we shall see you soon!
Gory Gladiators
This week, 3HJ have had the pleasure of learning all about the gruesome lives of Roman gladiators. We have discovered many horrifying facts ranging from fighting with wild animals to women slaves also being thrown in to the colosseum to battle. We have been fully immersed in this new learning which kicked off with a ‘Silent Conversation’ where the children had to decide whether a whole host of facts were true or false. Children then learnt about the the different types of armour and how they were trained at school for battles. It has been wonderful to see everyone so engaged in their learning. Well done 3HJ! Now …… let’s do battle!
Roman Army Experts!
4TE were very busy today demonstrating all of their knowledge of the Roman Army! Alongside the knowledge they already held, the children had to create an anchor chart which would show all of the new information about the Roman army which they had learnt today. What came as a result of this, was numerous amounts of fantastic, informative and visually eye-catching pieces of work. Some children even chose to stay in at break time to work on their anchor charts instead of going out! A brilliant time was had by all.
What’s the locomotion?
6CC have been thrown into the shoes of historians this week, delving into the history and development of locomotives. Their research has spanned from the Victorian era all the way to present day with their intention being to produce a fact file, either on Google Docs or Slides, to educate the rest of the school and wider community about our expedition. Stay tuned for more info on their creations!
Welcome to the Industrial Revolution!
Whilst learning about the Industrial Revolution, our children became historians for the afternoon and investigated a range of primary source material to help them to discover what life was like for the working classes during this period.
Choo Choo! All aboard!
This week, Year 5 and 6 have been exploring our guiding question: How have trains been on a journey of change? We discovered who had a pivotal role in the invention of the steam engine and how these machines transformed Britain at the time. To do this, we used the protocol ‘Building Background Knowledge’ where the pupils work collaboratively in groups to share information from a key text. We learnt about George Stephenson, James Watt, Richard Trevithick and Nigel Gresley and brought our findings together as a team.
Oops! Neville spoilt the potion again… lucky, 6CC were on hand to fix it!
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📍 With Neville (me) ruining the felix felicis potion, it was 6CC’s task to filter the potion back to its original state. Through many stages of experimental filtering and sieving, all groups were able to systematically filtering out gradually smaller solids from the potion until they were left with the clearest liquid they could create. Yet again, each team demonstrated excellent problem-solving, collaborative and communication skills. Awesome effort, Crew Cicero! ✅
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Chance To Dance
This year, Y3 are working with the Royal Opera House on the Chance To Dance programme. Through this programme the children will be working on the Royal Ballet Alice in Wonderland. This week the children came up with 8 beat movements that they thought expressed the different characters from the ballet. The children used their imagination to transform into the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and Alice. They thought about how all the different would act and used this to put together small routines in the style of the Alice ballet.
Comparing numbers with a ‘Twist’
3HJ couldn’t believe their ears when they were given permission to use the tables as jotters this week! You can see the excitement on their faces. Here we are showing our understanding of less than, more than and equal to. A fantastic maths lessons which resulted in wonderful outcomes! I also had plenty of volunteers to clean up too!