The month of October brings in not only the earlier nights and the colder weather but the celebrations of Black History where we remember everyone who has fought for the rights of the people.

This years theme has been all about ‘Saluting our Sisters’ and each class have studied a famous woman from Black History, looking at their lives, what made them famous and the impact they have had upon the world.

Foundation Stage have been looking at the story of Jo Jo and Gran Gran.
Year 1 studied Dr Mae Jemison.
Year 2 read into the life of Claudia Jones.
Year 3 recorded the ambition of Eniola Aluko.
Year 4 were transported by the refusal of Rosa Parks.
Year 5 followed the work of Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
Year 6 were moved Floella Benjamin.

This week our work on the talents and paintings of J.M.W. Turner came to a close.
The children were given a copy of Campo Vaccino (1839) to extend and add detail to using the styles and techniques used by the painter himself. The children used the blending of tones, shades and water colours, the use of perspective and their knowledge of landscape to produce their extensions of the original image.

This week we have looked at who Boudica was and how influential she was to stopping the Romans from fully invading Britain. Where she came from, how she was involved with the Roman forces and how she was betrayed by the promises the Romans failed to keep.
The children have been writing about the different views that the people had of Boudica from the views of the Celts and from the Romans. After this the children chose a scene from Boudica’s life to re-enact, the children then had to guess the parts as well as the scene chosen by the group.

This week we have all been working incredibly hard and expanded our knowledge so much further.

English we have spent the week building our descriptive writing skills based on our class story of Romulus and Remus, many of our final pieces have gone up onto our WOW Wall.

History has now brought us to the woman who fought back against the Roman invaders, Boudica. We were able to learn who she was and why the Celts found her an inspiration and how the Romans found her one of the most challenging obstacles in their path to power.

Art has lead us to continue to improve our artistic skills by blending colours into developing our upcoming landscape project based on the work of J.M.W. Turner. In addition to this we have been exploring the life of the artist himself.

We were lucky enough to celebrate our charity event with our McMillian Coffee and Breakfast morning, inviting parents into school to enjoy their breakfast with the children. With this special day we were able to come into school wearing our pajamas.

This week we have been further understanding the Roman Army and why they travelled so far to invade and attempt to conquer our lands. We learnt about how they wanted to make their home away from Rome as well as the tools and equipment that each soldier needed to carry.

We went to the hall to become the Year 4 Roman Army. Scan the QR codes to see our Roman Army forming to take over the school.

Wow, what an amazing first week back the children have already started to learn new things about the world. This week our first Science lesson took us outside to identify different habitats around our school.

We searched the school grounds for the different places that animals like to call home including: the forest, the allotment, the pond, the trees and even the school field. We then named the animals that call our school home, as well as clarifying that, no teachers don’t live in school.

Today the children all gathered in the hall for our school prize giving assembly.

We started off our prizes by celebrating our Foundation Stage and Year 1.

Next came the celebrations for Years 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Our awards consisted of STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths), Music, Commitment and Attitude for Sport, Artist, Reading, Writing and the Ru Morgan Maths.

Each year the staff around the school vote on who throughout the year should win 4 of our most prestigious awards: The Kerry Yarwood Kindness Award, The Shannon Boam Inspirational & Courage Award, Environment Award, School Courtesy Award and finally our Attendance Award.

At the end of our prize giving Mrs Isherwood and Mrs Pearce presented our Year 6 class with a small token for their effort and achievement throughout their time at Marlfields.

Please keep an eye out for this weeks Newsletter for more information.

Today year 4 have been experimenting with sounds once again. Last week we learnt that when objects vibrate they create sounds and that the larger the object that vibrates the lower the pitch and the smaller the object that vibrates the higher the pitch.

We have been using our scientific knowledge and enquiry to create a devices which can make different pitches.

Today the children in Year 4 took a classic tale and discussed their thoughts and feelings about who in the tale was right and who may have been in the wrong.
After a quick dramatisation of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ we then thought about who was actually right. Was it the three pigs or was in fact the wolf. The children then had to choose a point of view they agreed with.

Team Pig vs Team Wolf.

After some wonderful arguments for and against each of the characters the children then got a chance to persuade each other to join the opposite team.

After our hearty debate a number of children were then persuaded to go to the opposite team.

In the end most people change their thoughts and ideas and the wolf was deemed to be in the right. However, will things change next time when more evidence presents itself to the class.

This evening the children from Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 went to participate and show off their sporting skills at Town Sports against the other schools of Congleton. After a quick warm up from our volunteer sport parents the children were soon ready to get started. Everyone performed to their absolute best and we at Malrfields are so incredibly proud of everyone for their participation and effort. There were even some medals for a few of our amazing athletes.
Thank you to all the parents who came to cheer the children on and a huge thank you to all the staff who were able to help make the evening an amazing time for all. A special thank you goes to Mrs Radcliffe for organising everything for this amazing evening, everyone has had an amazing time.

Today a number of children from both year 3 and 4 went to CHS to have a chance to experience circus skills.

Today our school had our ‘move up morning’. The Year 3 class found out that they have Mr Price for their Year 4 teacher.

We started of by introductions getting to know each other and what we all like to do, inside and outside of school. With this we created a shield with all the things we love to do on them.

The children went away talking about what we had been up to and what our Year 4 adventure together will be like.

Today the children continued their work from our break in last week. After reviewing our plans from last week we began to construct our replica classrooms. We installed our electronics, following on from our work in Science, chose what would work best to stop future thieves and then decorated our classrooms.

The children worked incredibly hard to make sure their classrooms functioned the way that they researched, planned, designed and built.

Now the children will reflect on their designs and put their ideas forward to the school for future protection against such events.

Let’s hope our class will be safe once more from future incidents. Thank you Year 4.

A horrific event has happened in Year 4 this morning. As we were about to enter the classroom we were greeted by red tape barricading the door.
Our classroom has been broken into!! At this time we are unsure as to whom would have done such a thing.

The children were shocked to see what had happened to our class. A number of the children started looking for clues to why this tragic event has occurred.

Once we had put our room back to the way that it should have been the children decided that we need to make an alarm system to ensure that this won’t happen again.

Using our scientific knowledge of electricity the children have begun to plan their own alarm systems by making a miniature replica of the classroom.

We will keep you all posted as events unfold.

Well the moment finally arrived, after a year of practicing our instruments we finally got the opportunity to play alongside the Hallé Orchestra.
The children thoroughly enjoyed this amazing opportunity and were singing and talking about it on the trip back, other than those who took a little nap.

We started by practicing with the Love Music Trust on our songs we have learnt each lesson when all of a sudden the music rose from the Hallé orchestra and the children all fell silent. Listening to the different pieces and joining in with the live performance will hopefully be something the children will remember for years to come. We even got the chance to hear the Hallé perform some more well know pieces including the STAR WARS Suite.

I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part and the looks on your faces when the orchestra started were priceless and I will never forget.