World Book Day 2024

22nd February 2024Mrs Graves

We are looking forward to celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 7th March.

It would be lovely to see the children dressed up as their favourite book character, but please don’t feel like you have to rush out and buy a costume!

£1 Book Vouchers will be given to children on the day which can be spent in most supermarkets and book shops, but we do also have a Book Fayre coming into school the following week, and children can put their voucher towards the cost of a book at that event – more details to follow soon.

More information can be found on https://www.worldbookday.com

Mrs Graves

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Year 3 PE

21st February 2024Grace Henderson

The new term meant a new PE scheme; the children have started on dance. Today the children had learnt about what the Haka dance was all about. We discussed the use of emotion and expression, levels, and movements that were involved in the dance, before incorporating stance, facial expression, voice and moving towards positions into their own dance with a partner. Year 3 had so much fun with this lesson!

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The Haka in 3F

21st February 2024Lucy Wood

3F have had so much fun this morning in PE. Their new unit is Dance and today they learnt all about the Haka and where it originated from. They then learnt the steps to the Haka, along with practicing their intimidating faces and hand gestures.

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Miss Wood

3GS looking at environmental science

20th February 2024Mr Schofield

Today, 3GS discussed how human activity is causing the destruction of Arctic animal habitats.

We then wrote in our books about how this is caused, and what will happen if animal habitats are not protected.

I was proud of how hard everyone worked and the improvement to handwriting. Well done guys, the practice is paying off!

We are mathematicians

20th February 2024Josie Farrow

Today, we learnt how to divide a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number with a remainder. Miss Farrow’s maths class used matchsticks to help them work out the answers.

Danum Read Aloud Competition

20th February 2024Mrs Graves

Today in crew we have launched the Danum Read Aloud competition to our children in KS2 (Year 3,4,5 and 6).

The theme this year is book openings. Children can select their favourite from the selection of extract to perform for their crew. Winners will then go into the KS2 semi-final and winners from that will progress into the school final, held on Thursday 7th March – World Book Day.

One overall winner from our school final will be entered into the Doncaster final held at the Danum Museum and Art Gallery on 27th March.

Good Luck everybody!

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Motivational Crew

20th February 2024Josie Farrow

Y3 took part in the floating lift challenge yesterday. We split off into mini Crews and were given the task of lowering the hoop down to the floor using only 1 or 2 fingers each. Students used a variety of skills too successfully lower the hoop to the ground without dropping it.

Year 3 Faith Day

9th February 2024Mrs Graves

This afternoon, we have been learning about the Islamic Religion, in particular, about the mosques where muslims worship.

After finding out some background information, we were really pleased to be joined by Rayyan’s mum, who talked to us and answered our questions about her faith.

After building our knowledge, we demonstrated what we had learnt by becoming Mosque Visitor guides.

I am so proud of how hard everyone worked. What a lovely way to learn more about the varied lives of people in our class, crew, school and community and to help us appreciate each other more.

We would like to say a big ‘thank you’ to Ms Gent for coming in this afternoon to talk to us, we really appreciate you giving us your time.

Mrs Graves, Miss Farrow and Mr Schofield

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