On Wednesday 8th March we celebrated the biggest girls’ football event by inviting all of the KS2 girls to a football training session. It was great to see some new faces come along to training and want to get involved in the sport. Well done girls!
To celebrate World Number Day (08.03.2023), we decided to hold our own Maths Rockstar Day. We took part in different challenges ranging from numeral recognition in Nursery, Numbots activities in Reception and KS1, right up to TTRockstars Battles in KS2. The winners in KS2 were allowed to pick an adult to compete against live in the hall. Of course the children were the fastest thinkers and were victorious over staff. There were also prizes for best Best Dressed and Best Air Guitarist.
On Thursday, we celebrated our love of reading by sharing books together with our friends. The children thoroughly enjoyed reading together and getting lost in the imaginative worlds.
We also shared the text “The Dot” across the whole school and completed a wide range of activities linked to dots and believing in ourselves. Each year group shared their work in Assembly.
Nursery/Year 3 Shared Reading
Reception/Year 6 Shared Reading
Year 2/Year 5 Shared Reading
Year 1/Year 4 Shared Reading
Today Year 3 visited Whitburn Methodist Church as part of their RE topic. We have been looking at Christian worship in our local area. The children loved visiting the church and especially enjoyed singing.
Year 6 were very excited today as they all received their leaver hoodies.
We think they look fantastic!
Following our winter break, the Y6 boys were back in action last night. They were really excited to get going again but had a tough 3 fixtures on the night. It was a mixed bag of results with the boys adding a win, loss and draw to our results so far this season. With one round of fixtures left, we are looking forward to seeing how high up the league we can finish!
Today, Year 5 visited Nissan to take part in their Code Club session. We learned how to program our robots to complete tasks and follow routes around the factory and also got to watch how real robots work on the factory floor! We were treated to juice, cookies and a pen and blue tooth speaker to take home!
As part of their topic on sculpture, Y4 recycled old plastic bottles to make maracas. They looked at West African instrument designs to inspire their own decorations on the maracas.
In DT, Y4 children each made a slingshot car. They built the chassis and launch mechanism using lolly sticks, hot glue and tape. They designed their own car bodies and constructed and assembled them independently. They the. Had fun testing the cars and racing them against each other.
To prepare for our upcoming trip to London and visit to the Houses of Parliament, the MP for South Shields, Emma Lewell-Buck, came to answer our questions about life as a Member of Parliament. The children asked some great questions and found out lots about the government as what it is like to be a part of it. I think we might have some future politicians here at Marsden!
