Today Year 5 have been learning all about fire safety in the home. The Fire Officers have stressed the importance of having a fire safety plan. Please ask the children to share their learning with you.

Today we have had a guest in to teach us about how to control and relax the mind. When our Amygdala takes over and the fight, flight and freeze instinct kicks in, what can we do?

Year 5 put the final touches on to their snowman called Bob today!

Year 1 had a lovely playtime today in the snow. They worked as a team to make a snowman and made lots of snow footprints.

On Tuesday we all enjoyed sledging and making snowmen in the snow! What a brilliant start to 2025!

Today was a sad day at Marlfields. After many years of teaching at Marlfields, our amazing Mrs Radcliffe has taught her final lessons at the school. There were a number of tears but a larger amount of thank yous to our wonderful teacher who will be greatly missed.

Thank you for all your help, teachings and guidance, you will be always missed here at Marlfields.

Today the children age celebrated with our huge Christmas dinner.

This week year 1 have been busy crafting, baking and making lots of Christmas things!

The children went to our local church to participate in the Christingle service.

We finished the week with a yummy Christmas dinner.

We hope you have a lovely Christmas break and a happy new year!

Today Zoey came back to help us further with expanding our skills and today we tacked the skill of orienteering. By using maps of the playground the children had to locate objects around the grounds, mark them on their maps with the number that they found.

We explored the story of Christmas from perspectives of Joseph, the Three Wise Men, Mary and the Shepherds. We thought about what we could learn from their stories and how it may change us and our behaviours towards others.

This we we worked in groups to make a weather station. We had to consider which direction the wind blew, the speed of the wind, how much rain had fallen and the temperature around us.

On Wednesday year 5 walked up to Eaton Bank to watch a super performance of Christmas songs. They were expertly sung, played and signed by the children of Eaton Bank including some ex-Marlfields pupils. Year 5 really enjoyed the show.

Over the past few weeks the children in Key Stage 2 have all been practicing songs to perform at the local church. Today was the big day of our performance and the children did a wonderful job and all the hard work sounded amazing. A huge thank you goes out to the teachers for helping support and an even bigger thank you goes to Miss Booth who taught us all the songs we needed to know.

The KS1 children have all worked extremely hard this term on their show ‘Mend the Manger’. They did a fantastic job today and made all the staff in the KS1 team feel extremely proud!