This week in our world religion lesson we looked at ‘The last supper’ and how Christians celebrate the holy communion by eating bread to represent the body of Jesus and wine (juice) to represent Jesus’ blood. We also looked at Good Friday and the Easter story in class. This was then followed up with an assembly to help the children understand that Jesus forgave everybody for his sins and died with them in order to give everyone a ‘clean slate’ – this was demonstrated in the assembly by the speaker getting a pie in the face for others mistakes.
We then looked at the rebirth of Jesus and how he resurrected on Easter Sunday and what the Easter egg represents (new life).
Below are some pictures from this weeks lessons and assembly.

On Tuesday Year 1 went to the hall to experience some silly science!

Today was world book day; where we dressed up as a character from one of our favorite books in order to celebrate our love for books and reading! We loved seeing all of the wonderful costumes our Year One class decided to come in as; here are a few from today…

Today, Year One attended a workshop hosted by WestEnd performer, Autumn, who showed the children how we can tell stories using our body. The children were able to use movement, travel and facial expressions to retell the book previously looked at in class – ‘Dinosaurs and all that rubbish’. The children were able to sequence the story and retell it through dance, as seen in the pictures.

The children thoroughly enjoyed being able to tell a story in this way and having the opportunity to impersonate different characters and events from the book. The children also had opportunity at the end of the workshop to reflect and ask questions to Autumn.

Last night the Year 5 and 6 boys battled it out against other Congleton schools. The first match was St Mary’s Vs Marlfields. It was a strong start with a score scored from Marfields but from nowhere two goals were scored against us. The next match was against Buglawton and with our team working together and scoring some excellent goals we won 2:0. Our final match was against Quinta and although the boys worked extremely hard Quinta won 3:1. Well done boys you did us all proud!

Today Year 1 made their own cucumber and mint raita dip! They used their cutting skills to cut the vegetables and evaluated their dips at the end.

This week the children conducted an experiment looking at which material was the most absorbent. The children decided that fabric is the best material to soak up any spillages!

Earlier in the year the children at Marlfields were challenged to capture a photograph based on the theme ‘buildings in harmony with nature’. Two representatives from the Rotary club came in to award the children for their amazing effort and every child who participated was given a certificate. Three pieces were chosen and they won some amazing gift vouchers to spend! Thank you again to the Rotary club for organising such a wonderful competition and we look forward to welcoming you back to our school.

We had the most amazing trip yesterday at the Polar Express. It was so magical and we met Santa!

Macmillan day was enjoyed by all, from wearing our pyjamas to eating the delicious cakes.