Welcome back Thoresby. Hope everyone had a good half term.

This is traditionally a busy term in school and this year is going to be no different. We've started new topics in Maths, English and Science.

In Maths we've started to look at reading different sorts of tables and how to find information in them. We've even had a go at creating our own tables.

In English we're looking at the book "Window". This is a lovely book that looks at the changing scene out a window over 20+ years. Everyone has enjoyed looking for the differences and talking about why it's changing.

In Science we're looking at magnets. We had lots of fun on Tuesday going around the classroom finding different things that would stick to it and things that wouldn't.

We are continuing to go to Construction on a Thursday morning this term. This week everyone finished their pencil cases and will be able to take them home next week once they are dry. We look forward to finding out what we're going to start making next Thursday. 

Survival Day

On Monday 12th May all of KS4 took part in a survival day at the Robin Hood Activity Centre. We started the morning building dens ready for playing laser tag in the afternoon. We was very impressed with the efforts made. We even tested how water proof they were by shooting them with water pistols. Some stayed dry whilst others may have got a little wet!

We then split into groups; one doing archery and one doing fire lighting. 

After lunch we again split into groups; axe throwing, laser tag and chocolate cake making. 

At the end of our survival day those going back to school went back on a school minibus whilst the rest stayed for our KS4 residential.

Residential 12-14 May

Day1

Following on from the KS4 Survival day 12 members of KS4 stayed at the Robin Hood Activity Centre for a 2 night residential. Once the others had gone back to school we enjoyed some free time, where we made our beds, played games and explored the site. After an evening meal of pitta bread pizzas, garlic bread, homemade potato wedges and followed by delicious honey cake, we settled down to watch a movie before going for a well deserved sleep. 

Day 2 

Once everyone was awake we enjoyed some breakfast, made our packed lunches then set off walking through the woods to Portland College. We were very impressed with everyone who tried to climb up the climbing wall and later the zip line. After a picnic lunch under an old RAF parachute, we all worked together to try and problem solve - moving a stack of tyres from one side to another without putting a lower numbered tyre on top of a higher numbered tyre!! 

Back at the centre we again enjoyed some free time before driving over to The Archer for a delicious dinner and pudding. Back at the centre it was another movie before lights out.

Day 3

Everyone took a little longer to wake up on Wednesday morning! After breakfast and making packed lunches we packed our bags and cleaned the building before heading to Sherwood Pines for some orienteering. Using the map and following the signs we made our way around the sight before heading back to school. 

Week Commencing 21st April

Hope everyone had a lovely Easter holiday and had lots of yummy Easter Eggs. 

We're now in Summer term 1 which is set to be a full and busy one. We are still doing PE on a Monday afternoon so please send your student in with their PE kit each week. On a Thursday this term we will be going to Sutton College to do construction. There is a chance that we might get dirty whilst there so please send in your student dressed in clothes that can get dirty and put their school uniform in their bag to change into at lunch time.

Week commencing 12th May we have our KS4 residential - lots of great activities have been organised for this so it should be a great three days. Coinciding with this is our KS4 Survival Day which takes place on Monday 12th May at the same place as our residential. All of KS4 will take part - what will we be surviving this year? Zombie apocalypse? Ship wrecked on an island or survivors of a plane crash? What ever it is I'm sure it will be great fun. 

Week commencing 24th March

Thoresby have been having lots of fun this week in Maths with water. We've been looking at language of capacity - empty, full, nearly empty and nearly full. It's a good job we had water trays on each table!

In science we've continued looking at plants. We conducted an experiment to see how seeds grow outside verses how they grow under artificial light. We all got to try the mico salad leaves which were yummy.

On Thursday we went out as part of Leisure. We went to look around a pet shop in Mansfield and afterwards enjoyed a walk around Carr Bank park and a drink in their onsite tearoom.

World Book Day fun

This week we have been busy enjoying reading, listening to stories and creating our window display for World Book Day. 

The book we chose was the cooler than cool book "How to be cooler than cool" by Sean Taylor. We've loved reading this book and had great run looking cool ourselves for our window display photos. 

On Thursday we went to Ikea, where we all enjoyed some lovely breakfast. Everyone went up to the counter themselves and ordered what food they wanted. Afterwards we went around the store taking photos of everyone reading a book in different settings. 

Week Commencing 10th February

Thoresby have had a very busy half term. 

In English we learnt lots about Muhammad Ali when we looked at his autobiography. We then chose someone we was interested in and researched them on the internet. Everyone then wrote their own autobiography on that person. They were all very impressive.

We ended the half term looking at poetry and everyone wrote their own poem about what they see on their way to school. Look out for a video on seesaw of everyone reading out their own poem.

On a Wednesday afternoon Thoresby have been going to the Radio Station. They have been learning to make radio jingles and have even been live on air talking to Ken about their favourite things. Ken was very impressed when Tyler listed all the tram stops and all the Robin Hood Line train stops!

In PE Thoresby have been working on their balancing skills. From walking on beams to balancing on fitness balls, they've all tried really hard to improve.

 Week Commencing 6th January

Welcome back Thoresby class. It sounds like everyone had a good Christmas and New Year. 

This half term in English we will be looking at Celebrities. Our first one is Muhammed Ali. We've looked at a book that talks all about his life and why he's famous. Soon we'll research other celebrities.

We're now going to the Radio Station on a Wednesday afternoon and on a Thursday we'll be going to The Acre. Unfortunately we could go this week due to it being closed. Instead we cooked some delicious cheese scones and flapjacks.

This week we have been making lots of 2 and 3 stage patterns. Some have been two different colours, some two different shapes and some have been different sized objects. 

In our English lessons this week we have been reading a new book which we are all really enjoying - You Must Wear a Hat by Simon Philip and Kate Hindley. We have been super amazed at how much everyone has been remembering about it. Look out for pictures of Thoresby all wearing hats soon!

One Thursday we took a trip into Kirkby to enjoy a drink in a cafe. Afterwards we took a walk around Morrisons where we bought lovely French food ready for our ASDAN afternoon with the rest of KS4.

Last week was school enterprise week. Thoresby class designed and made Christmas gift tags. However our tags are different!

We decided to make our gift tags with an extra gift for after Christmas!

We used scrap paper from the art room to make some seed paper and used seeds from flowers we'd grown earlier in the year and seeds from packets that Mr Jackson had open at home. We then used scrap card to cut out gift tags and glued a star shaped piece of seed paper to the front. 

We presented our product on Friday to the Dragons in our own version of Dragons Den. They were very impressed with our gift tags and liked that we'd not spent any money in the production of them. They even took one home with them!! 

Look out for them later this month as they'll be available to purchase from school and the school Christmas fair.

Week commencing 4th November

We hope everyone had a good half term holiday. We've been enjoying finding out what everyone got up too.

This half of the term is always an exciting one - lots of fun Christmas activities to look forward too. It won't be long before it's here!

In our maths lessons this week we have been looking at 1 more and 1 less. We started out looking at numbers up to 20 but soon found ourselves going up too 100.

In English we've had fun with the book Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen. We even acted out the book on Friday and all had some yummy chocolate brownie to eat whilst we did it!

As part of our Leisure course we had a lovely morning at Sutton Lawn on Thursday. We enjoyed a walk around the park and spotted the different leisure activities that people can do there. Our walk was followed by a trip to the cafe where everyone chose something to eat and drink. In Maths all week we had been looking at money and everyone impressed us with their recognition of the different coins.

In computers we have been using the BeeBots. Thoresby are getting very good at sending them around the classroom.

In PE we have been working with Wollaton Class to improve our basket ball skills. We have some great bouncers and this week we're practising shooting.

In English we have started a new book, "The Most Magnificent Thing". Thoresby have been thinking about what kind of magnificent thing they would build and what it would help them to do. 

In Titan we have been looking at all the different road signs you can see when you're out and about. We spotted some outside the school and practised safely crossing a road.

Week Commencing 2nd September

Thoresby have returned hitting the floor running! We've come back and got straight back into our lessons - this has impressed all of us. 

We've started looking at a new book in English - Can I Build Another Me. Everyone has wrote some amazing independent sentences that describe themselves. 

In Maths we have been working on partitioning numbers. Again Thoresby have been amazing at this and have used numbers up to 100!

In our English lessons we have been looking at the fairy tale Rupunzel and on Wednesday we all took it in turns to act out the different characters from the story. Some of Thoresby make very scary witches!!

In maths this week we decided to see how many pairs we could make using coloured counters. Lydia was a star at this and made in total 33 pairs (with a little help from Mrs Davis),

On our last day of term we danced away at the school disco and enjoyed some yummy cake thanks to Lewis and his family. 

We wish all in Thoresby and those leaving us a very happy Summer Holidays!

Week commencing 1st July

Welcome to our new Thoresby Class. Our new members are settling in to the class and we're all finding our feet in our new classroom. 

Until we break up for the summer holidays we will be getting to know each other, reading Sam's Sandwich in English and in Maths we'll be exploring measuring.