At Doncaster Tennis Lawn Club, a team of key stage 2 pupils from NJS took part in Legacy Sport’s tennis tournament. Each member of the team played three competitive games each of them performing brilliantly: some started strong with others growing in confidence with each game.
The result of the competition surpassed expectations when NJS achieved not 3rd, not 2nd… but 1st place!
Amazing effort from all the team!
As part of their geography case study, Year 5 have been using the internet to learn more about the United Kingdom, more specifically England and it’s major cities. 5CC began by learning the difference between the United Kingdom and Great Britain, before exploring a map of England’s counties. Year 5 lastly finished off by locating a list of the UK’s largest cities on the map, as well as plotting the location of Doncaster.
On Tuesday, the 20th of May, a team of 10 pupils from NJS participated in this year’s ‘Play on the Pitch’ tournament at Doncaster Rover’s EcoPower Stadium. The team performed extremely well, winning every group stage game in the morning and only conceding two goals in the entire day. The children also took part in a variety of workshops, including dementia awareness, knife, crime awareness and a create your own kit workshop.
In the afternoon, the team continued into the knockout stages where they faced Sunnyfields Primary. After a miraculous goal at kickoff by Charlie McCloy, NJS spent a vast majority of the game attacking the opposition in the opposition is third of the pitch. Sunnyfield had several attacking opportunities that were well defended, however a goal occurred after a messy corner. The game went to penalties where goal keeper, Levi, and our penalty takers did extremely well. Eventually, Sunnyfields secured victory, six penalties to five.
It wasn’t the result the team desired but they greatly enjoyed the tournament. Big thank you to Club Doncaster, for organising the event, and our wonderful parents and carers, who helped support and transport the team.
NJS pupils were in for a huge surprise this morning when a real-life Gladiator walked into our assembly hall!
Zac, also known as Steel from the hit show Gladiators, delivered an unforgettable workshop all about health, fitness, and achieving your goals. From mindset and motivation to exercise and healthy eating, Steel inspired us all to think like champions and strive to be the best versions of ourselves.
The hall was buzzing with excitement and energy, and we loved hearing Zac’s incredible story and advice. What a powerful start to our day—and a brilliant reminder that with hard work and the right attitude, anything is possible!
A big thank you to FONCA for providing an experience the children will never forget!
What a wonderful day celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE day. Children dressed in the patriotic colours of red, white and blue and took part in a thought provoking Crew session, listened carefully during remembrance assembly and observed a minute silence. Lunch was a picnic or traditional fish and chip supper. In the afternoon, 5HJ created these stunning watercolour paintings of a Spitfire mid flight!
More success today as the Y5/6 mixed cricket team secured silver medals. Unfortunately, the final did not go their way but there were stellar performances all around. A shout out to one of our youngest team members for her incredible performances over the last two days (girls and mixed cricket tournaments): Eleanora!
Well done to both the girls and the boys teams for all their practice during lunchtimes and break times. Onto the Y3/4 cricket tournaments in a couple of weeks time!
This morning, 5HJ explored a range of 3D shapes including cubes, spheres, pyramids, and a selection of prisms. The children were tasked with the job of identifying the amount of faces, edges and vertices to solve mathematical problems.
In a dodgeball tournament taking place at Armthorpe Academy, our Y5/6 made the final, beating every team bar one to reach the knock out stages. Each game was hotly contested, with some with the incredible shots and catches. Shout outs to Mack, Alba and Zak for their whole team knockouts – 5 whole team knockouts between them!
The final vs Owston Park
Beating Owston until the final millisecond when one of their balls hot Hollie in the back. After a group referee decision, they decided on extra time which resulted in 2 minutes extra game play. Both teams took early losses but ultimately Owston came out winners. Well done to our amazing team nevertheless!
MVP – Holly Williams
Last week, our fieldwork took us on an exciting walk from school into Askern. First stop was to look at how the land where Askern Main Colliery was situated is now being used, then onto Askern Lake to look and the mining wheel monument and old coal carts and finally a picnic and play in Campsall Park. The weather was extremely kind to us and we had a fabulous day!
This week has seen Yr 5 embark on our new and exciting expedition ‘At The Coalface’. Check out our miners who really captured mining both past and present (we even had a few canaries).
After looking at the structure of a mining head, children were set the challenge of building one using wooden skewers, cocktails sticks and modelling clay. The outcomes were amazing and extremely well designed.
