Year 3 were very excited to be joined by dancers from the Royal Ballet this morning as we continued with our Chance To Dance programme. The children danced in role – choosing to be either Odette or Rothbart, the main characters from Swan Lake. We learned all about different types of movement and jumps, dancing at different levels and using facial expression to convert feelings. It is wonderful to see how far the children have progressed since beginning this programme and we can’t wait to see what comes next.
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Visitors from the Royal Ballet
This morning year 3 were lucky enough to be joined by representatives from the Chance to Dance programme. We got the opportunity to work with an artist from the Royal Ballet and a local dance teacher. The children learned all about different stage directions and the mappings of movement that come together to make ballet. The children worked in their groups to create “flocking” movements in the style of the characters from the Royal Ballet Swan Lake. In their groups the children put together a routine using these movements and performed these in front of the whole class!
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Community, Crafts, and Cake!
4TE finished off a fantastic first half-term with an action-packed fun-filled day! Firstly, the whole school had a brilliant opportunity to plant some trees alongside the school field. Crew Edwards and Crew West relished this unique experience and had a terrific time planting and naming their trees. In years to come as the children grow older and even when they leave NJS, they will be able to walk alongside the school and spot the very same trees that they planted today. After this, the children got to create some Halloween themed crafts. Spooky spiders and ghoulish ghosts were haunting the classroom this morning, it was a spooky time indeed! Finally, the children had been very busy at home and had baked an incredible amount of treats. There were cakes, biscuits, cookies, flapjacks, you name it, it was there! 4TE got to snack on their treats and we shared the goods with the rest of the school as well. It was a magnificent way to conclude a brilliant day and start to term. I’d like to finally thank everyone in 4TE for such a fantastic start to the year. I hope everyone has a great couple weeks and we shall see you soon!
One…Hundred Trees at a Time!
What an amazing day and way to finish our final week of the half term! We had 100 trees to plant and 240 very willing and enthusaistic children. The video below shares our story (we had 10 extra trees delivered on the day btw) and captures the essence of the project. A massive thank you is reserved to all our volunteers from both within school and the wider community – it really was a gargantuan effort to get the trees in the ground during 1 school day. Have a great half-term everyone.
Welcome to the Workhouse!
The children of 5EG were transported back 250 years to the time of the Industrial Revolution this morning. In true Victorian style we set the children to work immediately; they were scrubbing tables, cleaning up spillages, darning socks and making bread and butter pudding. The children really got into their roles and enjoyed learning by immersing themselves in the experience.
Let us be your guide!
In the summer term of 2021, the Y3/4 phase team embarked on a quite wonderful Expedition: Take a Walk on the Wild Side. Here, we endeavoured to take both our children and staff outdoors: reconnecting with nature and appreciating the beauty of our world beyond the confines of our homes which the population had been subject to for large periods of time during the pandemic.
Expeditions are always underpinned by purposeful and meaningful learning, and after all we had endured as a school and community, never before did an expedition carry such purpose in our mind’s eye. The learning outcomes were outstanding and have culminated in a quite fabulous product that landed in school this week. Understandably, our children and staff are equally excited to unwrap the guides and see the beautiful work that has been produced. We have had nearly 100 copies that have been pre-ordered with still enough left for anyone who would like to purchase one for just £10. These can be picked up for the office or paid for on parent pay.
So we now have the walking guides and a whole bunch of children who are super enthusiastic about getting outdoors. Time to go for a stroll….