Y5/6 Rounders Tournament @ Campsmount Academy

7th June 2024Charlie Cicero

On Wednesday June 5th, Leger Sport hosted an exciting Year 5/6 rounders tournament featuring teams from across Doncaster. With a mixture of Year 5 and 6 pupils, the team got off to a good start with strong communication and reactions; throughout the tournament, they played exceptionally well, displaying remarkable skill and sportsmanship. The matches were intense, especially against Barnburgh, Mallard and Kirk Smeaton, where our players demonstrated agility and determination. Despite fierce competition, NJS secured a commendable third place. We are incredibly proud of their performance and the way they represented our school. Congratulations to all the teams and especially to our players for their outstanding effort!

Year 5 Heart Dissection

6th June 2024Joshua Carr

As part of our current Expedition, we have been looking into how we can better look after our bodies. We got the opportunity to visit Campsmount to dissect a sheep’s heart and explore how the heart helps to keep our body fit and healthy. We will also be finding out how we can better take care of our hearts!

5JC Farm Fieldwork

22nd April 2024Joshua Carr

During Hook Week, we spent a day at a real working farm exploring the impact that food has on our bodies and environment. It was a lovely opportunity to see how the food we eat is produced and the many challenges the farmers face in finding the right balance between food production and environmental sustainability. We even got to see some newborn lambs!

🎶🎵Young Voices 2024🎵🎶

7th March 2024Helen Jenkins

What an amazing time children from NJS had at the 2024 Young Voices concert. The Young Voices experience is not just a children’s choir concert but the largest children’s choir concert in the world. All members of staff were so proud of the way the children put their all into singing each of the songs and the dance moves were pretty cool too! 😊

Lowry in Doncaster!

27th February 2024Joshua Carr

During Case Study 2, we have been creating our final product, which is a Lowry-style painting of the Doncaster landscape. The students took their own photos of buildings during our fieldwork experience and have been practising a range of watercolour painting techniques to ensure they were ready to create their final product.

Ukulele- Week 1

22nd February 2024Joshua Carr

It was our first ukulele session of the year and the students loved recapping the basics and getting familiar with the ukulele again. We also began working on our first song!

Our Learning Journey- Hook Week

26th January 2024Joshua Carr

Year 5 have been busy working through their new expedition ‘The Power of Change’. They have started exploring the guiding question ‘How has the 18th Century influenced lives today?’.

We began our expedition with our usual ‘Hook Week’, the above photo shows our learning journey so far. We experienced what a Victorian School and Victorian Workhouse would have been like, built background knowledge about Victorian Schools, visited Danum Museum and the surrounding areas, explored a Victorian artist (William Morris), watched Oliver Twist and began to look at The Industrial Revolution in more detail.

We are already working through our first case study and can’t wait to find out even more!

Problem Solving- Square Numbers

18th January 2024Joshua Carr

We finished this week in Mathematics with some problem-solving activities. The students were showing resilience and perseverance by using a trial and error method to try and order the numbers so the adjacent numbers were added together to make a square number.

Hook Week

12th January 2024Joshua Carr

During Hook Week, we began by engaging in a Victorian school experience. The pupils dressed as Victorians and took part in strict Victorian lessons led by harsh and cruel school teachers! On Tuesday, the children watched Oliver Twist to learn about the lives of poor children in the Victorian era. The focus was life in the workhouse and the pupils even carried out some painstaking workhouse tasks. Wednesday’s focus was the Victorian artist, William Morris and the pupils created some of their own art in this style. The week ended with fieldwork to Doncaster City Centre where the pupils explored the development of industry in Doncaster at the time of the Industrial Revolution. They visited Danum Museum and looked at how Doncaster was a significant location in the development of railways.

Story Time- 5JC/Class 6

6th December 2023Joshua Carr

Today, 5JC spent some time sharing their stories and soft toys with Class 6 at Norton Infant School. They have spent the last few weeks preparing and writing their stories based on a rainforest animal of their choice. Before writing the story, as part of their DT case study, the students researched, designed and created their very own soft toy that was suitable for a Y2 student. It was great to see all of their hard work over the last few weeks pay off as the Y2 students were engrossed in the stories.