Yesterday, we took part in a whole KS2 orienteering competition where children had to use maps, teamwork and speed to get around the markers on the course in the quickest time! Shout out to all of Y6 for completing the course and working together as a Y6 crew. There was definitely some competition on show!
This week we have taken part in many crew building activities. I have really enjoyed getting to know my crew and seeing everyone work together as a team. Well done Crew Ambler!
Yesterday, Year 3 took part in a whole KS2 orienteering competition where children had to use maps, teamwork and speed to get around the markers on the course in the quickest time! it was great fun and so lovely to see the children working well together and enjoying the warm weather outdoors.
In Year 3, our first week back has been ALL about exploring what makes a good crew member because ‘if we get crew right, we get everything right!’ so on Wednesday, we thought about how we could be good crew members in our local communities – both within school and beyond! Then, to put this into action we went out and about to litter pick in Thorne Memorial Park. We even found a little bit of time to play and rest, and to take in the beautiful boards there made by last years’ Year3/4 children … who knows where our beautiful work will end up this year?! The children were a real credit to us all and we were so proud of their beautiful behaviour out in the community – great job boys and girls!
Wow … what an amazing start to our first week back in Year 3! On Tuesday afternoon, we all attended Camp Green Top where Mr Kershaw put us through our paces with team games, fire safety, smores and a good old sing-song (of course)!
What a lovely morning we had completing an orienteering course where we got to run around the KS2 playground in search of different points!
We then were lucky to be able to visit Camp Green Top that Mr Kershaw put on for us. We read in tents, made musical instruments and toasted marshmallows with Mr Kershaw!
Here we are reading and making instruments!
We ended the day by litter picking within the community!
We had a very special visitor in Class 6 this afternoon to help us understand what happens to the things that we throw away – Lynn, from the Doncaster Council Waste and Recycling Education team. The children had prepared a list of questions to ask and Lynn showed us some very interesting slides and videos to explain what happens to the things we put in our waste and recycling bins. We learned some very interesting things during her visit. For example, did you know that only 3.5% of the things we throw away goes to landfill, and the things we put in our ‘general waste’ bins are repurposed and used to generate electricity? She even left us some gifts – made from recycled materials of course – to remind us how importand it is to ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’.
Thanks for visiting Lynn!
Class 12 have had an amazing week so far completing lots of fun activities to build on our existing Crew values. I am so proud of everyone’s hard work and participation and cannot wait for the Water Extravaganza and more importantly, the rest of our year together!
Year 5 want to say a huge thank you to everyone for their kind donations which allowed us to go to Thorne Moorends food bank and deliver a wonderful amount of food which will help many families in the community!
Today we have been so busy! It started with orienteering this morning. The children used Electronic tags to go around the playground finding the markers, using maps of the school. It timed them to see how quick they were and the children worked with their partners brilliantly. I was tired just watching them run around the field!
After that we had our xp outdoors experience session. We moved around the 3 activities in our crews. These were reading in the teepee tents, toasting and eating marshmallows and then making musical instruments using natural wood from the field. It was so much fun!
Finally we took the cards that we made to a local care home. The residents were so pleased to see us and loved chatting to the children.
Can’t wait for Friday!!! See you in the morning!
