Our class crew enjoyed a wonderful first week back engaging in a range of exciting team building activities! One of these activities was a STEM task where the children were challenged to design a table out of newspaper that was at least 20cm high and capable of holding at least one dictionary. In true NJS style, our crew smashed their goal and created a table that held an impressive FIVE dictionaries! Excellent team work 5RS – what a great start to the year!
On Monday, 6CC began the hook week of their first expedition this year, To Infinity and Beyond, centring around the idea of space. Inspired by both the scale and complexity of our universe, the children decided to build their own model solar system with pairs working together to create their very own papier-mache planet. Apologies to parents for the mess but I think it goes without saying our crew had a lot of fun covering their balloons with gluey mixture!
After listening to a short extract from H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, our crew set about using the descriptions and the illustrations in the book to design and create their own alien machines using watercolours. As you can see, the children endeavoured to use the style of the illustrator to good effect and the final creations were fantastic. Well done, 6CC!
On Tuesday afternoon, year six enjoyed a phenomenal surprise of meeting some of their footballing heroes. George Miller, Jon Taylor, Roshaun Williams and Max Woltman of the Doncaster Rovers 1st XI stopped by NJS to get involved in a short games session before answering some of our crews burning questions. I think they were very surprised with some of the children’s competitive attitudes and skills, might prove significant come their next match!
In their first week back, the children of 6CC have truly impressed showing a bucketful of enthusiasm, teamwork and confidence; over the course of the week, they have taken part in a wide variety of activities, ranging from lung busting capture the flag to hilarious drama games. Despite the novelty of the activities, the children have out their best foot first and now cannot wait to begin their first expedition of the year… more on that later! 😉
In our first week at NJS, 3HJ have made ’Time Capsules’ reflecting on their summer break and setting goals for the new school year. Each time capsule contains photos, examples of some of the children’s favourite things, pledges for the forthcoming year and pieces of awesome art work. These time capsules will be sealed and ‘buried’ till July where we will be able to reflect on our journey through year 3!
There was much excitment to be had today across both Year 3 and Year 4 as we ventured up to explore Eden Camp and all that it had to offer! The children were becoming immersed into the topic of the Second World War as we shall be exploring that further in this terms expedition. We shall see what else this expedition has to offer in the future and what else we can discover and explore!
Year Three have kicked off our autumn expedition, and their time at NJS, with a bang! We were so excited to learn all about what life was like during World War Two in all the different huts, experiencing everything from The Blitz and civilian life. The children were really enthusiastic and inquisitive and are very eagre to start our expedition “Lest We Forget”.
And its like they’ve never been gone! Our new year sixes have hit the ground running in their first day back and have spent the day developing both their character and relationships with their new crew members. Well done to the new 6CC children who approached every challenge with tenacity and worked well as a united team to overcome the day’s challenges. 👌🏼💪🏼
I think it is fair to say 3LG had quite the adventure on Friday.
We set off from school heading for Bridlington, only to get to Beverly and have to disembark the coach. We owe a massive thank you to Beverly High School for putting us up for an hour on their school field. The children of 3LG and 4GC were a credit to and great representives of NJS, showing beautiful manners and respect. Thankfully, after an hour having a play on Beverly High School field and eating ice creams we were back on the road and heading to the beach.
Once we arrived and lunches had been eaten, it was time for the real fun to begin. 3LG were in their element on the sand, from digging holes and building volcanoes to being buried in the sand everybody was having a fabulous time.
Then came the main reason for our visit, the John Bull factory. Rolling the rock was a highlight (as well as the biscuit and sweet tasting) and every child got their own stick of rock to roll and take home.
What an amazing morning we had completing our very first NJS sports day. I couldn’t be prouder of how all the year 3 children showed team spirt and sportsmanship whether they came first in their race or not! Super effort and determination on such a hot day! We are all waiting with baited breath to discover which class won!
