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Lavish Landforms ⛰️

27th September 2023Charlie Cicero

This afternoon, 6CC explored the formation of human settlements. The children organised their settlements depending on the physical features of the environment, such as mountains, forests and rivers to name a few. The children then justified their decisions on where they placed key features to the group. Great class discussion and reasoning!

JUMP! JUMP! SHOOT!

In P.E. this week, the children incorporated the fundamental skill of jumping into the skill of shooting in handball. Aiming to gain an advantage when shooting the ball, the children tried exceptionally hard to practice the jump shot before taking the new skill into the game. Extra points were on offer for those who jumped, shot and landed in the semi-circle, as well as for making an effort to recover the ball when possession was lost. Awesome effort and a special mention to Evelyn for performance in the mini-game!

Doncaster Rovers players visit NJS!

26th September 2023Stephanie Oliver

Today, Year 6 welcomed two Doncaster Rovers players to NJS for a Q&A session. One player was none other than Bobby Faulkner – former pupil of NIS and NJS! It was great for the pupils to hear Bobby’s journey into a career in football and the children asked some fantastic questions.

Rainforest research! 🔬🌳

22nd September 2023Charlie Cicero

6CC have been busy this week delving deep into the mysteries of the Amazon rainforest. After some paired research, the children have produced their own rainforest flap books, illustrating and explaining the differences between the four layers of this diverse environment. Year 6 have been keen to extend their writing using causal conjunctions to explain facts further. Some of our class crew also demonstrated their artistic skills creating their own pictures for each layer. Top work, crew! 👍🏼😁

Bookmarks for our Bookworms!

21st September 2023Gavin Chadwick

In our continued quest to commit acts of kindness, 4GC are ready to distribute over 240 bookmarks made from repurposed materials to each and every pupil of NJS. A nod to Mrs Flint and Miss Wilkinson in this regard as they have laid the final touches to said items, largely, and unsurprisingly, in their own time. Alas!!

Place Value in Y5

21st September 2023Joshua Carr

Today 5JC spent some time on Sumdog consolidating our learning around Place Value. They’ve still got plenty more questions to work through in their free time!

Layers of the rainforest

21st September 2023Stephanie Oliver

Year 6 have been learning all the about the layers of the rainforest and the features of each layer including the conditions and the animals that live there. We then brought our learning together in the form of a flap book!

It’s all beginning to add up! ➕

21st September 2023Charlie Cicero

This morning, 6CC’s pencils were ablaze as they scorched their books with their hard work and resilience. Looking at column addition, the children have begun effectively and efficiently find the total larger numbers and demonstrate their reasoning through identifying misconceptions of people in the problem-solving and showing their thinking through pictorial representations. Top effort, guys! 😊👍

Dribbling Skills ⚽️

21st September 2023Helen Jenkins

This week Yr 5 we’re practising dribbling skills in PE. The children used different parts of their foot to control the ball and enjoyed playing a range of games to develop these skills.

Split Art!

15th September 2023Emma Gould

Children in 6EG have worked collaboratively to create an awesome piece of art work of an animal from the Amazonian rainforest. They had to work carefully and precisily together to ensure the sections of the image matched which took concentration and teamwork!