Last week, Yr 5 brought the life of Cleopatra to life through a range of drama productions. These involved her early life, becoming queen and her mysterious death! Great acting skills 5HJ
Exploring the life of Cleopatra
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Exciting Egyptians!
Since before half term, Year 6 have been studying the wonderful civilisation of ancient Egypt. This week, the children of 6CC have enjoyed learning about the significance behind the river Nile, the longest river in the world and how it acted as a source of wealth for the Egyptian people.
Through tea parties and building background knowledge, the children have also studied the gruesome process of mummification, with a view to planning their own mummification instructions.
Y5/6 Rounders Tournament @ Campsmount Academy
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!
Mayan Mask Madness
This afternoon, Y3 have been channeling their inner Mayan and creating their very own Mayan inspired masks. We looked at why Mayans wore masks and how they were designed before creating our own.
Investigating foods
To finish our exciting hook week, 5HJ investigated the amount of salt in certain foods and sugar in drinks. The children were also given the opportunity to taste a whole range of exciting and unusual fruits and vegetables. We tasted pak choi, avocado, bean sprouts, dragon fruit, rhubarb and lots more! Some were definitely more popular than others!
New Hall Farm
During hook week, Yr 5 completed fieldwork at New Hall Farm in Barnsley where we learned all about who wheat and barley is grown, farmed and milled to make flour which is supplied to Warburtons to make bread. We also discovered how important hedgerows are to the many different animals and creatures that live there. Finally and most importantly, we had so much fun digging for worms in the cabbage field. Check out the size of some of the whoppers we found!
Y3 Unwrap The Bar
Last week Y3 kicked off our summer expedition “What is the cost of a bar of chocolate?” with an absolute bang! We started the week blind taste testing a range of different chocolates and discussing our favourites.
Then, we baked some delicious brownies to be sold at a bake sale to help raise funds for our final (top secret!) products!
We finished the week off in style, holding a competition to see who could build the tallest chocolate tower using melted white chocolate. We even built towers that were over 30cm tall!
Egyptian Day
To launch our new and exciting expedition – Happy, healthy me, the children were fully immersed in all things Egyptian on the first day back after the Easter break. 5HJ created mind maps of background knowledge about the Egyptians which they added to over the course of the day after looking at a variety of different sources.
Y3 Dream of Dancing
Chance to Dance 2024 is well underway with preparations for the final performance in full swing. With weekly visits from Miss Wendy, our chance to dance children have ween working hard to consolidate their ballet knowledge. Focusing on “The Dream”, the children have been thinking about making shapes with their bodies and different ways to move across a space. We can’t wait to watch the beautiful dance they produce!
Y3 Plant Trees
Y3 celebrated their amazing learning throughout the spring term by each planting a tree around the perimeter of the school field. We reflected on our guiding question “How can we protect our wonderful world?” and presented our learning to parents. We are very lucky that Murphy’s group donated enough trees that every child could plant their own with their own customised wooden tag.
Thank you so much to everybody that came and celebrated the children’s awesome work with us.
