We’ve had a super start to Anti Bullying Week this week. We talked about what respect means to us and then we talked about how we can show respect. Miss Sowry then talked about what is nice about each person in our class and introduced Student shoutouts to the class.

Yesterday morning, we were all treated with going to see Year 6s class assembly where they shared what they have been learning about within their World War II topic.

Year 5 have had a super day for No Pens Day Wednesday. It has been a day that has encouraged Miss Sowry to plan  lessons  that  didn’t  involve the children needing to use their  pens or pencils and to run a day of hands on and speaking and listening activities. In  English we performed our news reports in front of the the class and then we discussed what was good about each  news report and what they could improve for next time. Each child said at least one positive aspect and one aspect that each group could work on.

In Maths, we created a ‘human’ negative number line with the whole class- which was so much fun 🙂 

Then in Science, we began to make and develop our parachutes as part of our Forces topic in Science- pictures to come soon.

Overall, we had a fantastic Wednesday and enjoyed not using pens, pencils or even whiteboard pens for the day.

Whilst we were in the woods today Connor made a surprising discovery. He found a bird’s egg on the ground. At first we didn’t think it was real. Mr Hunter told us it was a wood pigeon’s egg and that they aren’t very good at making nests.

This week at Marlfields it has been Forest School week. Today we designed and created nature shoe boxes. We worked in our teams (Polar Bear, Snow leopard, Panda and Orangutan) to create the habitat of our adopted animals. Can you tell which habitat belongs to which animal?

Year 5 have been baking with Mrs Barnes this week. They have learnt to make pastry and made strawberry tarts. A lucky adult each day has eaten the spare one as a taste test!

Today Year 5 performed their assembly. It included topic work, English, a retelling of Beowulf, Science, DT and even a Maths dance! The children have worked exceptionally hard this year and it shows in how much progress they have made. Well done Year 5!