What an amazing day of CPD during our recent staff training INSET – we covered all things English, Expedition and of course, my love and passion, Mathematics. For the latter, now we are working as one leadership team across both the Infants and Juniors, we focused our work around lesson design and the key ingredients of a maths lesson. Here, working collaboratively and using classroom protocols, we unpicked the purpose of each ingredient and outlined practical examples of what that looked like in practice. In the end, we created a lesson rubric that all staff could draw upon when designing their maths lesson and ultimately impact positively on the progress of our children.
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Order it, compare it, simplify it, add & subtract it!
In Maths, fractions have been our focus for the majority of Spring term so far. This week, the children have been deepening their understanding of finding a common multiple to help them compare, order, add and subtract fractions.
Intent on mastering fractions, half of the class mentored their peers in finding the common multiple so they could order fractions. Excited by the thought of using their own ‘teacher equipment’, they embraced the opportunity to support and challenge their classmates. Top notch, 6CC! 👍🏼😁
Fantastic fractions!
For the past two weeks, Year 6 have been learning all things fractions related in maths. It is great to see the pupils getting to grips with this tricky area of mathematics. Today the children worked in pairs ordering fractions with different denominators but as you can see, we forgot to use paper! We’re not sure the cleaners will be too happy!
Special visitors from The Royal Ballet
This morning 3HJ were joined by visitors from Royal Opera House. The progress made by the children in the short time since starting ballet lessons has been phenomenal with huge amounts of determination and focus. We performed our Alice in Wonderland routine perfectly to an excited audience of year 4 children. All our special visitors commented on how well behave and polite our children were and loved that they were actively supporting each other. So so proud of you all.
Why did the leopard hate playing hide and seek? Because he was always spotted!
6CC thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park today will all the children captivated by the wide variety of animals prowling about the grounds. Old classics such as the roaring lion prides, majestic Amur tigers and towering polar bears were a spectacle to behold; new inhabitants of the park such as the Harar hyenas and Californian sea lions were also on show, adding to the diversity.
However, the workshop with a wildlife expert introduced several of Earth’s most well known species and how they faired in terms of their Red list level – the rating of endangerment. An eye opening experience educating the children about why the population of certain animals is declining and what is being done to help save the species.
Overall, a fantastic day out for our expedition. Well done, Crew!
Wild Wildlife!
Year 6 had an amazing day at Yorkshire Wildlife Park! We took part in a workshop learning about endangered animals and the reasons why certain species are under threat and had a great time exploring the park. The pupils behaved impeccably all day and showed themselves to be great role models for NJS.
Awesome Athletics!
Kudos to our mini athletes representing NJS at CTC yesterday. After a feast of running, jumping and throwing, our children finished a respectable 2nd position missing out on first place by the narrowest of margins. More importantly, however, they represented the school superby showing great respect, support and sportspersonship to both the opposition and each other. Very well done!
In The Zone!
Today, 4TE have been practising their reading skills with some test questions about our key text – ‘The Last Bear’. We have had to get in the zone and be detectives to uncover the secrets within the text, and figure out the answers to some tricky test-like questions! We have really been working super hard as you can see!
3LG have the Chance to Dance
This morning we were lucky enough to be joined by visitors from the Royal Opera House and Royal Ballet. The children were a credit to the school, and we received lots of positive feedback from the visitors. The children worked so hard, were super focused and finally got to perform their Alice in Wonderland dance to an audience. Myself and Mrs Gracey are so proud of them all, and the growth from when we started at the beginning of autumn has been incredible. Well done 3LG!
A busy week in 6CC!
Balance! Now hold it…
Last Wednesday, both year 6 enjoyed their first gymnastics lesson where they explored the two different types of balances: point and patch.
Through communication, cooperation and a great deal of effort, each pair classified a range of solo and paired balances into the two categories, making sure to hold their balances for at least five seconds.
To conclude the session, each group were asked to create their own sequence complete with two patch and two point balances. The audience then critiqued the performers based on their synchronisation, variety of balances and showing a clear beginning and ending to their sequence. Awesome effort from all groups!
More teachers, more learning! Fractions Edition
A challenging week focusing on fractions didn’t frighten 6CC as they in their student-teacher pairs. Complete collaboration on show as the pupils and mentors threw themselves into the task, the aim being to consolidate our learning: simplifying fractions, finding equivalent fractions and comparing fractions.