Y5/6 Visitor: Rt Hon Ed Miliband

14th February 2025Charlie Cicero

On Friday morning, Years Five and Six were visited by Doncaster North’s MP, Ed Miliband. Following their learning about the civil rights movement, gender inequality and wealth inequality, the children had the chance to ask their local MP questions about his career and learn about his role in government. The children prepared questions and asked about his success and challenges; his ideas for how to help Doncaster and the country; his priorities as per his role in the current government cabinet.

Mr Miliband also took the time to learn about the children’s current expedition with Y5/6 reeling off their favourite facts from ‘Fights for your Rights’. Thank you to Ed for taking the time out of his busy diary to visit us!

Yr 5 take on the HAKA

13th February 2025Helen Jenkins

Over the past 6 weeks, 5HJ have learnt how to perform the Maori people of New Zealand’s tradition dance The Haka which demonstrates pride, strength and unity. All children worked in small groups and preformed their own interpretation which was performed to a small audience.

Celebrating Rosa Parks

13th February 2025Helen Jenkins

On Tuesday 5th February, Year 5 and 6 celebrated the life of Rosa Parks – a pivotal civil rights activist – who has been a huge part of our learning in our current expedition “Fight For Your Rights”. The children spent the day writing and performing their own songs about her life, creating protest posters and finally holding a March around school.

Lego Build the Change!

11th February 2025Stephanie Oliver

Year 6 have signed up to Lego’s Build the Change challenge! The children must work in teams to design and create built spaces for specific people and purposes. There first challenge is to design and make a party space suitable for a specific person with specific needs. We have been incredibly impressed with the pupils’ great teamwork and their creative ideas when designing.

Super Swimmers

7th February 2025Helen Jenkins

Yesterday, I had the privilege of taking a team of swimmers to a Legacy Sport competition at Askern Leisure Centre. Our children were amazing, bringing home a range of gold, silver and bronze medals in breast stroke, front crawl and back stroke. The team spirt and support for each other was what makes our children so special. A huge well done to all involved!

4TE find the gold!

31st January 2025Thomas Edwards

Today, 4TE were given a very special assignment… Using their recently aquired proficiency of grid method multiplication, the children had to solve a series of questions in order to uncover a codeword which led to a stash of ‘gold’ hidden somewhere in the school! The children showed brilliant resilience and teamwork to perservere with the challenge and as can be seen, to eventually find the gold!

6RH Creating and performing complex routines

29th January 2025Richard-David Hewitt

So impressed with the attitude, creativity and physical ability of these incredible year 6 children. This half term we have been working hard on body movements and control and today they have created some really impressive routines and performed them to their peers. The courage to throw themselves in to gymnastics, challenge themselves, perform outside of their comfort zone all with a smile on their faces is so impressive.

Reading Gym

29th January 2025Helen Jenkins

Over the past few weeks, 5HJ have worked hard to develop reading fluency and prosody. This week, we have learnt about the differences between the suffragists and suffragettes, completing ‘reading gym’ sessions where the children read quietly to themselves for a given length of time. This has really helped develop our stamina for reading.