Making Music!

3rd November 2021Emma Gould

This week 5EG have been exploring making music! We have been practicing keeping the beat, passing the sound along and following a rhythm. Over the next few weeks we will be creating our own piece of music based on the sounds of the different trains we have been learning about.

Balancing Act!

3rd November 2021Stephanie Oliver

Year 6 have started a new unit of work in PE tis half term: gymnastics! We began by looking at different kinds of balance. The pupils worked in pairs and offered critique to one another via our praise and wonder protocol to help each other to improve. It was great to see the children collaborating and supporting one another.

Swan Lake – The Royal Ballet

3rd November 2021Helen Jenkins

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.

Visitors from the Royal Ballet

3rd November 2021Lauren Gate

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!

Community, Crafts, and Cake!

15th October 2021Thomas Edwards

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!

15th October 2021Gavin Chadwick

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.