This afternoon the children in Marlfields choir went out into the community to perform some Christmas songs. They enjoyed juice and chocolates and gave the residents some gifts. The children sang some Christmas songs, Christmas carols and shared some songs from our own Christmas production.

As part of our Viking topic the children have researched, designed, planned and made a Viking longboat. We think they look amazing and the children loved it making them in groups. This morning some year 2 children came into class 5 and Amelia and Kira told them all about their moving longboats.

In science yesterday the children were investigating which materials had the most impact on friction when a car travelled down a ramp. The car travelled the fastest on sandpaper and slowest on foil.

This afternoon year 5 have been investigating forces, in particular upthrust. The children had a range of items that they weighed as they are and then weighed in water to see what happened. The children found out that the objects weighed less in water due to the force upthrust. To finish off the children used plasticine to make into a boat to see if it could float.

As part of our DT topic the children are going to be making moving Viking long boats, last week to begin the designing process the children investigated how to use the cams in order to make the boats move up and down.

A fun Friday afternoon in year 5 learning all about forces. The children carried out a balloon rocket investigation to find out about thrust.

Year 5 enjoyed their first cricket session this week, learning basic skills and finished off with a game of none stop cricket.

The children have completed their clay Viking jewellery.

Before half term class 5 designed and then used clay to make their own Viking jewellery. Yesterday the children painted them in silver or gold paint to finish them off. I am sure you will agree that they look great.

In Year 5 on Tuesday as part of our science we were looking at gravity and understanding which direction it works in and how it acts.

On Thursday, during their PE lesson Year 5 have been developing their football skills.

Year 4 and 5 had a great morning going back in time at Congleton Town Hall on Thursday morning.

This morning we have had our first session at astbury mere, it has been so much fun. We learnt how to build a raft, tie knots correctly and had fun trying them out in the water, lots of us ended up falling in the water.