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!!

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!

Gory Gladiators

14th October 2021Helen Jenkins

This week, 3HJ have had the pleasure of learning all about the gruesome lives of Roman gladiators. We have discovered many horrifying facts ranging from fighting with wild animals to women slaves also being thrown in to the colosseum to battle. We have been fully immersed in this new learning which kicked off with a ‘Silent Conversation’ where the children had to decide whether a whole host of facts were true or false. Children then learnt about the the different types of armour and how they were trained at school for battles. It has been wonderful to see everyone so engaged in their learning. Well done 3HJ! Now …… let’s do battle!

Harry Kane watch your back!

13th October 2021Lauren Gate

3LG have been honing their football skills this week in PE, working on their dribbling, passing and shooting. They have been working really hard on controlling the ball and working together as a team. The children worked both on their own to develop their ball skills and in groups to coach each other’s technique with the ball.

Chance To Dance

8th October 2021Lauren Gate

This year, Y3 are working with the Royal Opera House on the Chance To Dance programme. Through this programme the children will be working on the Royal Ballet Alice in Wonderland. This week the children came up with 8 beat movements that they thought expressed the different characters from the ballet. The children used their imagination to transform into the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and Alice. They thought about how all the different would act and used this to put together small routines in the style of the Alice ballet.

Comparing numbers with a ‘Twist’

7th October 2021Helen Jenkins

3HJ couldn’t believe their ears when they were given permission to use the tables as jotters this week! You can see the excitement on their faces. Here we are showing our understanding of less than, more than and equal to. A fantastic maths lessons which resulted in wonderful outcomes! I also had plenty of volunteers to clean up too!

Chance To Dance

29th September 2021Helen Jenkins

Last week saw the launch of our new and exciting dance program ‘Chance To Dance’. Year 3 visited Cast in Doncaster to watch an exceptional performance from the Royal Ballet! Our focus is Alice In Wonderland and we have been working hard to create motifs for the main characters – Alice, The White Rabbit, The Mad Hatter and The Queen of Hearts. Children have thought carefully how to portray their characters through movements and facial expressions which we then put to music!

Doncaster Museum

23rd September 2021Helen Jenkins

Our year 3 children were lucky enough to visit the brand new and exciting Museum in Doncaster this week. The children participated in a whole range of activities linked to Roman times such as artefact hunting, playing Roman games and dressing in REAL Roman armour. We even had time to explore the rest of the Museum and I was extremely proud of the how each and every member of 3HJ represented our school! It was lovely to hear such positive feedback from Museum staff and the general public! Well done 3HJ!

A day at Doncaster Museum

22nd September 2021Lauren Gate

Last week year 3 got the chance to visit the brand new Doncaster Museum. After the excitement of travelling on a coach, the children had the opportunity to take part in a fantastic Roman workshop. During the workshop, the children dressed up as Romans and Celts, handled 2000 year old artefacts, designed Roman mosaics and even played Roman board games. After the workshop, we got the opportunity to explore the rest of the museum, with the children taking a particular liking to the interactive art!

The children represented the school wonderfully, and I received lots of lovely feedback from members of the public about how polite and respectful the children had been as they were going around the museum. Well done 3LG!

A very Roman visit from Ronulus

15th September 2021Helen Jenkins

Rewind some 2000 years and 3HJ found themselves in Roman Britain! What a wonderful day we had learning all about the Roman way of life from a huge selection of artefacts including children’s toys, coins and jewellery. The children got so much from a hands on learning approach and we’re amazed to discover how Ronulus spent his time!
Check out the amazing costumes too!