Becoming artists!

25th November 2021Emma Gould

This week 5EG have been practicing their artistic skills by sketching trains from different time periods. They have studied original pieces of artwork and committed to producing their own piece of artwork ready for our final product reveal. Next week we will introduce the watercolours!

A trip into Donny!

17th November 2021Gavin Chadwick

What a day we had on Thursday 11th November! 4GC caught the public bus into Doncaster interchange and proceeded to walk along the various Roman influenced areas of Doncaster culminating in a visit to the remains of the Roman fort by the Minster.

However, an extra special event was taking place outside Mansion House; the Remembrance Day Service. Here, we were lucky enough to meet Ben Parkinson, Mayor Ros Jones and even an officer in the Royal Air Force. The children were impeccably behaved and respectful during the service and indeed the day promopting members of the public to email the school to compliment our children.

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Y3 take a trip to Doncaster Town Centre

15th November 2021Lauren Gate

Last week Y3 went on a trip into Doncaster Town Centre to look at the Roman heritage. We got on the double decker bus into town – an experience that proved to be a favourite of the day, walked through history following the timeline of Doncaster, had a guided tour of Doncaster Minster and looked at the ruins of the Roman Fort. We even got a picture with some policewomen! The aim of the trip was to support the creation of our product, so the children will have walked and seen exactly what they will be discussing in their Prezi presentations. A great day was had by all!

Perfect Perspective

12th November 2021Stephanie Oliver

Yeah 6 are developing our perspective drawing skills ready to tackle drawing trains for our final product – we are going to produce an information board about Doncaster’s rail heritage. This week, we have been creating one-point perspective artwork. We think our pictures are so successful that it looks like you could dive straight into them! 

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Why should Doncaster remember the Romans?

12th November 2021Helen Jenkins

Yesterday, our Year 3 children embarked on a trip around Doncaster town centre, looking for clues to help answer our guiding question of “Why should Doncaster remember the Romans?” We had a thoroughly exciting day, which kicked off by catching the local bus into the town centre, finding the “Frenchgate’ and Baxtergate” as well as exploring the site of the Roman Fort in the grounds of Doncaster Minister. All our children were a credit to Norton Junior School and many members of the public commented on how sensibly they behaved on their journey into town and back. Absolute superstars!!

Math’s Week 2021

11th November 2021Gavin Chadwick

279 Coins in 3 minutes – Wow!

It’s that special time of the year where schools shine a light on all things mathematics. This year, NJS and NIS are working collaboratively to raise the profile of the subject by engaging in TTR Band Battles and as you can see from the picture above, we have had some oustanding performances across the two classes within my yeargroup. Although these are the children’s rock names – for obvious reasons – I must point to our top performer Torres who has honed his skills over the last two years and become beyond proficient in his recall of times tables facts. They’ll be more battles happening across school today so keep a look out for other posts that will share our math’s story.

In addition to this, our schools are working together to create a campus piece of math’s of tesselating artwork which should be quite splendid.

Stay tuned…