This week NJS have been taking part in the Walk With Wildlife Five Day Walking Challenge.
As part of this, we have been using our crew time to discuss how we get to school in a morning, whether this be walking, driving or cycling. This has tied in nicely with our Wise Wednesday crew sessions over the half term, in which we have been debating the benefits of exercise and getting active outside.
We have even taken our walking challenge one step further, walking a mile around our school filed every morning during our crew sessions. We have been clocking up the steps, averaging around 1800 steps!
In January 2023, students in Year 9 studied a joint HUMAN and STEAM expedition called ‘You give me fever’ where students had to answer the guiding question:
Is Science enough to save lives?
The final product was a charity drive in order to raise money for local health charities. We did lots of school events in order to raise money for the charity chosen by each school. We conducted a sponsored walk, bake sale, PJ day, sponsored silence and a bikeathon.
For our presentation of learning, we created short flip book animations that were projected in XP East. There were zones set up outside around XPD made to look like the time periods of each case study (Black Death, Cholera Outbreak, Spanish Flu & Aids). We were dressed up in period costumes and spoke to the audience about the science and history or each case study. Students also displayed their artwork and sketchbooks to showcase the skills they had acquired this term. At the end of the PoL we presented the funds raised for equipment at NHS Doncaster.
It has been wonderful to partner with Frenchgate on this important project – we can’t thank them enough for giving our Schools the opportunity to make their own pledges and display them for all to see within the Centre.
Please don’t misunderstand this post as being boastful rather that it’s a massive appreciation to all members of our Crew these last 7 days for their successes in Accelerated Reader tests. As the screen capture shows, of the 18 tests taken by our Crew members, 17 have been passed with an astonishing average of 91.8% of questions answered correctly. These guys are absolutely flying at the minute. Keep it up!
After spending the past 5 weeks learning everything there is to know about fractions in maths, 3HJ are definitely experts, especially in adding and subtracting fractions. Children supported each other today in completing a treasure hunt with high levels of accuracy. Well done guys!
I can’t take any credit for this but a massive well done to my crew who averaged a whopping 272 coins on average in this week’s crew battle. They have been working so hard on improving their times tables and one would like to celebrate this publically!
Hook week is a-go! Year 6 have enjoyed exploring the world of mining by creating their own high quality mining information posters as well as drawing some mining artefacts. The drawing and sketching we practised earlier in the year has been put to use, to great effect. Well done, guys! 👌🏼😁
This week Year 6 have began our latest expedition ‘At the Coalface’. We were lucky enough to have an expert visit us from Sandvek mining company. A great way to immerse ourselves in the expedition!
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Marvel at our finished pieces of artwork that will be one half of the final product for our current expedition: Earth Shattering Events. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s pop art, we have created images of a volcano erupting and then filled in each block with different, and very vibrant, colours. Alas!
