How can we save our seas? ♻️

10th May 2024Rebecca Kendrew-Jones

In our first expedition case study, children in the EYFS have been answering the question ‘How can we save our seas?’. To hook the children into this we completed a gallery walk looking at a range of images showing how plastic pollution is damaging our planet and endangering the creatures that live there.

I was amazed at how well the children reflected upon the images, articulated what they saw and how this made them feel. This was the start of a fantastic case study that prompted our children to become activists and make a stand against plastic pollution! Look at some of their amazing posters sharing the message to use our recycling bins to help save the seas!

Incredible Artists

9th May 2024Laura Parsons

We have been working really hard this week to learn as much as we can about Doncaster Mansion House. Not only have we been learning about why it is such a significant landmark in Doncaster but we have been creating beautiful artwork of it too. We began by looking at the building as artists and working out what shapes we could see, what the distinguishing features are and discussing what techniques we could use in our own artwork. We worked collaboratively too, to complete a jigsaw of the Mansion house. That forced us to look carefully at the building again and learn about the shapes and lines we are going to need to create our pieces. We all then began our first drafts – we ended the session with a gallery walk to begin to critique our work so far.

I’m looking forward to seeing the final drafts! Well done Class Five

We can change the world!

9th May 2024Elouise Chadwick

I would like to make a shout out to a little girl in class 1 who visited the seaside at the weekend. We are currently learning all about plastic pollution and the harm that it can cause to our seas. Aurora found some rubbish at the seaside and told her mummy that it didn’t belong there. She put it in the bin and said she wants to save our planet. You are a real life super hero Aurora, thank you for being so kind and for making our world a better place.

This week in class 1 the children have been very creative. They have made posters to tell everyone how important it is to save our seas and recycle…

Campsall Church Fieldwork

8th May 2024Laura Parsons

We have spent a beautiful morning completing fieldwork in the sunshine! We walked to Campsall Church and had a tour. We found out lots of historical information about the church and saw lots of the items we have been learning about in our RE lessons.

Mrs Parsons x

Collaboration in Crew

4th May 2024Claire Goodyer

Last week when Ros Jones came in to visit she told us about the Peace Window, a beautiful stained glass window in Doncaster Mansion House. She told us that each symbol used in the design represented something from Doncaster’s history. In crew this week we worked together to research what each picture in the Peace Window represented and also found out that the window was made for everyone in the past and everyone today who seeks peace.

Immersed in Reading

3rd May 2024Claire Goodyer

Class 6 have been enjoying our brand new fluency books in reading groups this week. We’ve been wowed by new facts we’ve learned, shared our opinions in group discussions and explored new vocabulary that will make our writing more interesting in the future. ‘Talk to the Tail’ has been a real page turner!

KS1 Community Crew

2nd May 2024Emma Powell

What an absolute pleasure it was to be a part of our KS1 Community Crew this afternoon. All of the children articulated their learning and activities from Crew sessions this week so well. We heard about some fabulous critique of artwork, some wonderful stories that have been shared and examples of children enjoying playing Crew games together. There were also several appreciations and it was wonderful to hear from children who acknowledge the kind actions of their peers. Keep up the amazing work KS1.

Rockpool Magic

1st May 2024Elouise Chadwick

Over the past couple of weeks the children have been acquiring the knowledge to answer our case study one question ‘How can we save our oceans?’ With our lack of access to coastal wildlife, we decided to bring marine life to Norton Infant School! The children thoroughly enjoyed this unique experience and got up close and personal with ocean life. You only have to look at their faces to see how captivated they were…

The children enjoyed learning interesting and funny facts about the sea creatures. They also impressed our expert visitors with their knowledge of plastic pollution and they showed real care and concern for marine life.

Following our visit, the children have been writing with real enthusiasm and stamina. They have created some beautiful work and have blown me away with their skills!

We are Rockpool Experts!

1st May 2024Sarah Winkley

Yesterday the whole of EYFS had the most amazing expert visitors come into school to share and show us what a rock pool is and what species of creatures can be found inside them. The children were thrilled to get up close and personal with Shore Crabs, Spider Crabs, Hermit Crabs, Purple Sunshine Starfish, Regular Starfish, Sea anemones, Sea Urchin’s, Mussels and Barnacles. They learnt many interest facts about the creatures from Mike and James from Aqua Explorers provided by Aqualease.

The children were very receptive to the creatures and many pushed themselves out of their comfort zone to explore and experience the creatures either by touching them or holding them. Nursery asked some interesting questions to the visitors and also shared their existing knowledge that they have learnt so far with the expert visitors.

It was an amazing learning experience to really engage and enthral our children, as most will have never experienced these creatures in real life before and it has helped the children to have a better knowledge, understanding and compassion for the creatures we are learning about in our current expedition “What happens where the sea meets the shore?” Such beautiful work!

Habitat Gallery Walk

29th April 2024Sarah Winkley

Today Nursery took part in a sea habitat gallery walk as they explore all of the different environments that sea creatures can be found in, live in and thrive amongst.

The children learned about the most familiar places such as the sea and an aquarium, whilst also discovering what a sea sanctuary hospital and a rock pool are. We watched and exciting video about what a rock pool might house, in preparation for an awesome, surprise experience later this week! Finally Nursery listened to the story “Billy’s Bucket” by Kes Gray, which tells of a little boy who would like a bucket for his birthday. However inside the bucket is another world – a rock pool world! We spoke about what we would like to see inside our buckets, if we had one like Billy’s. Some of the suggestions were; “shark”, “whale”, “a mermaid”, “Two little dogs”, “a unicorn”, “a stingray”, “a starfish”, “an octopus”, “a crab” and much more! What great imaginations, just like Billy’s!