I am blown away by the craftsmanship and quality in Expedition. My Year 6’s have worked so hard in building their background knowledge on the similarities and differences between living in England and Brazil. They have then presented their own so beautifully and I cannot wait to display some of the examples in our classroom!
10 crew coins for working hard!
-Miss Blackham
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Today, year 5 and 6 had an amazing experience courtesy of Prime VR who visited our school to deliver a virtual reality workshop, emerging our children in the different layers of the rainforest. It was an amazing opportunity for the pupils to feel as if they were really part of our amazing rainforests across the Earth, learning about the ecological impact of deforestation and it’s impact on biodiversity.
We had some wonderful feedback from the session leader about the engagement and amazing knowledge of our students, even though the learning was all new.
Today we visited the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington! We had learned a lot about the early advances of flight and we impressed our guides with our previous knowledge! We learned about some local Yorkshire heroes in the aviation industry such as Amy Johnson (our very own Amelia Earhart) and Sir George Cayley. We have seen and sat on some very cool planes.
In 3B, we have been learning all about the parts of a volcano and how they have been formed. The class were very excited to have a go at creating their own mini volcanoes using sourdough to erupt. We then used dyed sourdough to place over the erupted “lava” replicate the building of layers of solidified lava (igneous rock) over time after each eruption.
Miss Brown
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We have been visited by a real-life geologist! Andrew came to visit to speak to us about the rock cycle and how different types of rock are formed. He was fascinating and even taught us about the rock beneath our school!
He brought lots of samples of different rocks with him. Some had traces of silver in them! Looking at and exploring rocks with him has really helped us to build our background knowledge for this case study.
Thank you Andrew!
Mrs Haycock
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Year 5 showed great determination on this afternoon’s hike from school to the historic Markham Main (Armthorpe) colliery pit top. We ventured through the woods and were pleased to find the now defunct spoil tips had been made into a beautiful nature reserve for the public of Doncaster to enjoy. We explored onward to the new housing estate where we discovered the monument and stones marking the two mine shafts, also being surprised to learn that the nearby street names were named after those who had lost their lives underground.
We spent some time to reflect on the miners’ of Doncaster hard work through the years, working on our sketching skills by drawing the monuments.
Next, we ventured up high to the very top of the area, resting around the cairn to complete some beautiful sketching of the panoramic views of the city.
It was a long walk and we were very impressed at the resilience and engagement shown from everyone.
A huge thank you, also, to the family members who attended to help make this a really special learning opportunity out in the field.
Well done everybody!
Year 5 Crew
Today, Years 5 and 6 were visited by Rob, a local expert in mining with over forty years’ experience in the industry. We felt truly immersed in the life of a miner in Doncaster as he answered all the children’s brilliant questions and showed us through the range of artefacts he had gathered over his exciting career. It was great how he and the children made connections between our recent visit to Caphouse colliery and the vast number of coal mines in our home city of Doncaster.
This experience really helped to tee up our afternoon of family learning, keep an eye out for the next blog!
2P have been exploring the difference between human and physical geographical features. We then used what we had learnt about Amelia Earhart’s final flight around the world to match which of these features she might have seen in different parts of the world. We then went for a walk around the outside of the school to see which features were most common around the building. We discovered that there were mainly human features.
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