We love a bit of food tasting here at NJS and what better way to kick off an expedition all about sugar to critique some sugary treats brought in by our staff. And yes, we even had Pink Wafers to gorge on! Yummy.
Hook week is underway!
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Investigating nets of cubes
Year 6 have been working extremely hard on shape in maths this week. Today, we have investigated nets of cubes to see how many we could find. We showed excellent teamwork and resilience during this practical task.
A History Of Sugar
As part of our new expedition Serious About Sugar, Passionate About People 3LG have been investigating the history of sugar and sweets. Starting in 1538 and going all the way up to modern day we constructed a timeline from the start of the sugar trade to the opening of iconic sweet factories in Doncaster.
And our new expedition is ……..
We’re Looking for Apprentice Learning Coaches at XP Trust
We are looking for great people who want to become even better. We have a passion for staff leading their own learning to become the best versions of themselves – we see this role as the first step to become a leader within our Trust.
Easter Fun!
5EG had a little Easter Fun to end the amazing term! The Easter Bunny sneakily hid some yummy eggs around the classrooms!
We have had an amazing term, full of exciting adventures to the Wildlife Park, learning all about the Amazon rainforest, and what we can do to help save it. I for one can’t wait till the next expedition! All will be revealed soon!
🥚🐇 Happy Easter! 🐇🥚
And just like that, another term has finished! It seems like we have only just come back from Christmas! But time flies when you’re having fun and I think that was certainly the case throughout NJS this term and in 4TE too. Our expedition, ‘What A Wonderful World’ was such an informative, relavent and enjoyable topic and gave the children fantastic experiences. To demonstrate this, over the term we filled our displays and corridor outside of the class. The children put great effort into making our environment an engaging place to be and it would be a shame for such effort not to be shared, as shown below! To celebrate the end of this expedition and this term, we had a superb last couple days…
To celebrate the end of this term, 4TE had a very busy last day. First, along side 5RS, we embarked on an Easter Egg Hunt around school. 76 eggs were tucked away for the two classes to work together to forage for. They successfully found all of the eggs and were given an egg each for their detecting skills. Then, we decorated some cookies and biscuits which we had baked yesterday, and following this created more delicious goods in the form of chocolate-covered cornflake buns! Then, later in the day, we once again joined together with 5RS to participate in some board games which had been created by the children of 5RS. We had a great time playing some brilliantly creative games which led us nicely onto the end of the day and also the end of this term. The children deserved such a fun day to commemorate all of their hard work from this term. So to conclude, I hope you all have a lovely Easter and are able to get outside in the sun too. Have a great break and see you soon!
This Week In The Trust
Crucial Crew!
On the first of April, Year 6 took the annual trip down to Rotherham for Crucial Crew; a day of safety training and life skills practice. The children experienced a range of life scenarios, from a visit to the magistrates court to learning about the serious impact of hate and knife crime. All of the scenario leaders were from backgrounds relevant to the training they delivered who helped to make their training as engaging as possible.
After a busy Spring term which has flown by, the visit to Crucial Crew was a pleasantly different way to mark the end of term. We hope you all enjoy the Easter holidays and look forward to seeing you again in Summer!
🎤🎤 ‘The Band is just fantastic that is really what I think!’ 🎸🎸
This expedition has had a very heavy music focus this last half-term! This initially cultimated in a trip to the recording studio to record our verses for the Trust’s song ‘Dear World’. Recently however, we have taken the tune of ‘Dear World’, and wrote our own verses in order to create our own song! The version above, with exception of the chorus, was written fully by different children in the class, then their verses were put together to create class 4TE’s very own song! Then, in the space of an hour, we hastily rehearsed, practised and then recorded our song as you can see above. I think the children wrote some beautiful verses and given the short amount of time we had to practise, performed fantastically. Lovely stuff songwriters!