Dennis, the lovely gentleman in charge of Markham main mining memorial, personally invited these three children back to the gardens along with numerous other schools in our area. He wanted to share our anthology of poems with them as he wanted to inspire other schools to write their own. We were so proud when Dennis read out our poem in front of the newspaper representative as well as numerous ex miners and other schools! The children also really enjoyed listening to the Markham main band!
Thank you so much to those who have signed and returned their consent form for the Harry Potter studios tour. As we need to act quickly to secure our tour, we are only able to book places for those children who have returned their slips by Friday.
We will be raising funds for the children’s tea at the service station on our trip by selling bacon/sausage sandwiches next Friday to 5/6 children. Please remember your £2 next Friday to secure your sandwich. We will also continue to fundraise this summer towards further leavers celebrations. Thank you so much for supporting these fantastic opportunities for your children.
Darin has been a superstar this morning during our ‘do now’ activity. He led his own learning by challenging himself further using our challenge station! -Miss Blackham
I need to give all of 6B a shout out for maths learning this morning! We used sweets to support us when finding percentages of amounts. The children were awesome and really grappled with their learning and they really challenged themselves to achieve their ME’s. It’s fantastic to see how their collaboration skills have developed this year and I am so proud! Keep it up superstars! -Miss Blackham
I can’t believe that there have only been 4 days at school this wee, we seem to have done so much!
In English, we have developed our speaking and listening skills by creating role plays about a disastrous visit to a dentist. We followed this up by starting our extended piece of creative writing – a diary entry about a disastrous visit to a dentist! We are being inspired by the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the Demon dentist.
In Expedition, we had stomach churning investigations into how our digestive system works. We researched the functions of the parts of the digestive system and then things got a little bit messy when we created our own digestive system with bananas, orange juice, biscuits and a pair of tights!
A great week has been topped-off with today’s NSPCC number day. We have shared the book ‘How many Jellybeans’ which showed us exactly what 1 million jellybeans looks like. That inspired us to investigate different aspects of maths using jelly beans! We have weighed, timed, created 3D shapes, graphed, estimated and much more – and then we got to eat Jellybeans – win win!
I am so proud of working with the children and adults in LKS2, their hard work and enthusiasm makes me look forward to coming to work every day!
Today, Noah, Lola and Agrima represented crew 5/6 and took the money we raised for Markham Main mining memorial to Dennis along with copies of our anthology of poems. The poems will be placed on a plaque to go inside the memorial garden. We feel proud of our mining community and we desperately wanted to give something back to them once we had learnt all about the miners and how they shaped Doncaster in our last Expedition. The sponsored walk was an amazing way to raise funds and we’d like to thank everyone who took part and sponsored our pupils. The anthology of poems are available to purchase for £1 each and the money raised will be donated to Markham Main. We are so proud of you all 5/6! -Miss Blackham
Well done to the lovely Lola for winning the yellow T-shirt award this week! Lola has been amazing in maths and has shown great resilience. She has worked so hard to ensure she achieved her ME and she also produced a stunning (and very informative) poster on steel in Expedition! Keep it up superstar! -Miss Blackham
We have 2 fantastic yellow t-shirt winners this week.
Brendan has settled really well into Plover. He has been very kind, sharing and making lots of new friends. Well done Brendan.
Charlie has been working hard all week to get a 4 in his HOWLs. The rest of the class have been really proud of his attitude to learning this week. Well done Charlie.
A huge shout out to Summah and Nishal for winning an award from Doncaster stories for the amazing poetry they submitted during lockdown. What a fantastic achievement you two! We are so proud!
I am so proud of these three boys who have won the Plover post cards this week. They have been amazing role models and produced some awesome work in Expedition! Keep it up boys!
