Year 5 Visit to Danum Museum

5th December 2021Rachael Smith

This week, as part of their The Magic of Motion expedition, year 5 and 6 visited the Rail Heritage Centre at Danum Museum, which is home to two impressive locomotives (No. 251 and Green Arrow) and a large selection of railway memorabilia from the Doncaster Grammar School rail collection. The children were also treated to a fantastic workshop that explored how trains have been on a journey of change over the years. This supplemented their classroom learning brilliantly and provided an exciting, hands-on experience for all of our pupils.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

2nd December 2021Helen Jenkins

Yesterday, 3HJ saw the return of our very own pesky elf – Egbert! We noticed that he had climbed into our Christmas tree and hidden amongst the branches with a letter from Santa at the North Pole.

Crew Jenkins really got into the Christmas spirt decorating the Christmas tree and adding lots of tinsel to the classroom! I really hope our friend Egbert isn’t going to be too much trouble!

When two worlds collide!

2nd December 2021Gavin Chadwick

We had an amazing math’s week during November and this is a celebration of the work produced across NIS and NJS. Here, two beautiful strands of maths and artwork collided: tessellating patterns and cubism. If you look closely enough, you can see that the children have cut up pictures of themselves working mathematically in a cubist style and that put the pieces back together to form the faces of a cube. Ace!

Budding historians!

2nd December 2021Emma Gould

Year 5 enjoyed their trip to the Danum Museum today, and expanded their knowledge of the history of trains even further! They participated in a workshop exploring artefacts and completed a scavenger hunt around the museum! A great day was had by everyone!

Need for steam (and speed)!

1st December 2021Charlie Cicero

Year 6 enjoyed a thrilling trip to the recently opened Danum museum in Doncaster City Centre on Wednesday. Learning about Doncaster’s deep rail heritage that began with George Edmundson; the classes learned about the mechanic of steam locomotives as well as the business brought to Doncaster that developed it into one of the UK’s industrial heavy weights.

Definitely worth a family visit!

Danum Museum Visit

1st December 2021Stephanie Oliver

Year 6 had a fantastic day at Danum Museum learning all about Doncaster’s rail heritage. We saw two impressive locomotives and found out about how Doncaster Plant Works shaped Doncaster. The children behaved impeccably which was noted by the museum staff!

Spelling Tennis

26th November 2021Gavin Chadwick

Ok, so in the pantheon of amazing things teacher’s get to, well, teach, ‘Spelling’ isn’t always up there with the ore and wonder of a physics experiment or Relentless Roman’s history lesson. However, not to be deterred, we have some weird and wonderful ways of teaching spelling at NJS, not least through playing tennis with letters. Here, children pick a word from our weekly spelling lists and bat each letter of the word back and forward calling the letter out as they do. Of course, we have some interesting ‘grunts’ and ‘groans’ as the children attempt a cross court backhand and I could have sworn that Maria Sharapova herself was amongst my flock this week. Anyway, marvel at the ‘joy’ of learning different spellings from the happy faces of 4GC on the pictures below!

We love reading!

25th November 2021Stephanie Oliver

Accelerated reader is now in full flow at NJS and 6SO are thoroughly enjoying reading for pleasure every day. This session is helping to improve the children’s reading fluency and improving their vocabulary. The pupils are performing well in their comprehension quizzes and are working hard to achieve at least 85% in each quiz.

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