Songwriters of the year

9th February 2022Lauren Gate

This term LKS2 across the trust are coming together to record a charity single, promoting our message of caring for the planet. As part of this, each school has been tasked to write a verse of the song. NJS will be opening the song with verse 1 and today we started the process of putting everything together.

Today Y3 were joined by Geoff to help us write the lyrics for our section of the product through a songwriting workshop. We analysed music, wrote letters to the Earth expressing our feelings about climate change and then turned these thoughts and feelings into lyrics. The children shared some amazing ideas and came together to create a great verse to the song.

We can’t wait to be able to record the song, and sing our lyrics.

Show and tell!

4th February 2022Emma Gould

This week 5EG asked to have a show and tell during our Crew time. It was fab to see children wanting to show and explain to the class what they have done, or something important to them. Speaking in front of the whole class can be quite nerve-wracking but these guys did it with no fear at all!

Staff Day – Monday 31st January

4th February 2022Gavin Chadwick

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.

Order it, compare it, simplify it, add & subtract it!

3rd February 2022Charlie Cicero

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!

3rd February 2022Stephanie Oliver

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

27th January 2022Helen Jenkins

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!

27th January 2022Charlie Cicero

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!

27th January 2022Stephanie Oliver

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.