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!
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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.
Staff Day Reminder – Friday 28th January and Monday 31st January
Just a reminder that we have two upcoming staff days where the school will be closed to students, Friday 28th January 2022 & Monday 31st January 2022.
Thank you
There and Back Again…
Last week, as previously documented… 4TE embarked on the mighty adventure to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. Well, this week we have been planning to write about our trip. We aim to write some super detailed descriptions of what we experienced and these are some of our plans so far! We’re hopeful of some great pieces of writing to come!
The Call of the Wild
5EG have had an amazing day at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. They have demonstrated exemplary behaviour and been great ambassadors for the school. We managed to see nearly all of the animals, and even the elusive leopard!
¡Hola Sudamérica!
From the snowy peaks of the Andes to the green grasslands of the Pampas fields in Argentina; through the dense canopies of the Amazon Rainforest to the vast, aridvexpanses of the Atacama Desert in Chile, 6CC have put their knowledge of human and physical features to the test by exploring the various biomes in America’s southern continent.
Year 6 will now look to uncover the mysteries of each biome in South America and how the climate of each unique biome affects the life of flora and fauna within their region. Until next time, adios! 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇨🇷🇪🇨🇦🇲
The Polar Bear Necessities
Last week Year 3 and 4 were lucky enough to take a trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park with the rest of LKS2 from all XP Trust Schools. During the day 3LG did lots of animal spottings, and even heard the lions roar. We saw, wallabies, camels, meerkats, a leopard, tigers and zebras. But our favourite was defitinetly the lemurs, who were so active running around and climbing just above our heads.
The focus of our trip was “Project Polar”, a conservation programme run by YWP in order to help save the polar bears in their natural habitat. As part of this, we were so excited to have a workshop all about polar bears run by one of the zoo’s experts. During the workshop we learned all about the adaptations polar bears have, why they are endangered and what we can do to help save them.
A better use of bed sheets!
This week, year 5 have used a selection of bedsheets to create their own landforms, which they then used as a basis to investigate human land use. The children used the contours of the land to add a river, forests and pastures, before discussing collaboratively how these might affect human settlements. The pupils recognized the importance of providing human settlements with a water supply, vegetation, building materials, space for livestock and a means of defense. Super work 5RS!