After learning about Earth day, the children from Bluebell class have been busy, weeding, watering and preparing beds for new planting.

Today the children took part in some team games. They practiced their dribbling, passing, moving, defending and attacking skills.
The children worked together to complete a range of tasks and showed excellent teamwork!

Today the children at Marlfields had the chance to compete in invasion games.

Year 4 were practicing their passing, moving, defending and territory taking skills.

Today the children were lucky enough to have an exciting chance to play with some silly science experiments.

The children had a very exciting morning for science week!
They took part in a silly science workshop and had lots of fun learning about all different types of science.

Today Year 1 dressed up as a character from their favourite story book.

Today the children have all come in dressed as their favourite book characters.

Today the children were practicing their artistic art strokes and linear techniques to write their names in simplistic Chinese.

We created The Four Gentlemen in Art today. This refers to four plants: plum blossom; the orchid; the bamboo and the chrysanthemum.

We all really enjoyed our dance session today! We made up our own dances and followed a routine we made up.

This morning the children did a special dance session. We learnt how flexible we are, worked together and made up dances of our own. The children absolutely loved it!

In English we are reading The Firework Maker’s Daughter, we made our own volcano this morning. We poured white vinegar onto soda crystals and watched as the larva oozed out of the volcano!

As part of our History and Art we are learning about ancient china and their mythical creature, dragons: Today we made our own dragons using salt dough. We put scales, wings and tails on and used our rulers to add some detail.

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?