Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week!
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“Lest We Forget” Hook Week
This week year three have started their expedition learning all about World War Two. Y3 have produced beautiful artwork of a skyline during the Blitz, watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks, learned all about how World War Two started and created aiplanes out of lollipop sticks. It is fair to say we are now fully immersed in our autumn expedition and can’t wait to find out more next week!
Wonderful War of the Worlds Artwork!
Deadeye dunkers.
PE is back! Thankfully we managed to escape the rain this week and make the most of the clement weather to hone our throwing and catching skills. Handball is our autumn focus sport and I reckon we’ll be pretty awesome at it come the unit end. The kids certainly impressed during their maiden session. Keep it up everyone..
Year 3 Community Games Afternoon
Yesterday, Y3 had a wonderful afternoon in our first community event. We were very excited to invite parents and carers into school to hold a games afternoon, taking part in games of bingo and even trying our hand at “Beetle Drive”, a popular game among children during World War Two. Thank you so much to all those who attended.
Astronaut food taste testing!
Ever wondered what an astronaut eats whilst they are in space? Well this week 6SO found out! We tasted some foods that astronauts eat during their space missions and rated the foods that we tried, including freeze-dried strawberries, bananas and even freeze-dried ice-cream. Yummy!
Y3 Charity Games Afternoon
Yesterday Y3 spent the afternoon having a blast playing games and raising money for charity. It wouldn’t be a games afternoon without a highly competitive game of Bingo and we even stayed true to our expedition playing “Beetle Drive”, a game that became popular among children during World War Two.
A visit from Doncaster Rovers!
Year 6 were very lucky to have a visit from some inspirational footballers yesterday. They participated in some exciting football activities, listened to how important teamwork is, and met some stars of the team!
Crew building!
Our class crew enjoyed a wonderful first week back engaging in a range of exciting team building activities! One of these activities was a STEM task where the children were challenged to design a table out of newspaper that was at least 20cm high and capable of holding at least one dictionary. In true NJS style, our crew smashed their goal and created a table that held an impressive FIVE dictionaries! Excellent team work 5RS – what a great start to the year!
To Infinity and Beyond!
On Monday, 6CC began the hook week of their first expedition this year, To Infinity and Beyond, centring around the idea of space. Inspired by both the scale and complexity of our universe, the children decided to build their own model solar system with pairs working together to create their very own papier-mache planet. Apologies to parents for the mess but I think it goes without saying our crew had a lot of fun covering their balloons with gluey mixture!
After listening to a short extract from H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, our crew set about using the descriptions and the illustrations in the book to design and create their own alien machines using watercolours. As you can see, the children endeavoured to use the style of the illustrator to good effect and the final creations were fantastic. Well done, 6CC!
On Tuesday afternoon, year six enjoyed a phenomenal surprise of meeting some of their footballing heroes. George Miller, Jon Taylor, Roshaun Williams and Max Woltman of the Doncaster Rovers 1st XI stopped by NJS to get involved in a short games session before answering some of our crews burning questions. I think they were very surprised with some of the children’s competitive attitudes and skills, might prove significant come their next match!
