Year 5 are loving wilderness school, they are learning many new facts about the environment in which they live. The second week we made sea creatures crawling out from the sea based on the story ‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury and toasted marshmallows. We loved them thank you Josh!
This week they looked at wildlife living within rock pool and created their own stone sculptures. Miss Clark thoroughly enjoyed this activity.
They can’t wait to explore more next week!
Today, on the 21st of June 2017 the WE movement came to Marsden Primary School. Once the bell had gone for the beginning of the day and all the classes had completed their register, all the pupils lined up eagerly, awaiting the assembly.
Once all of KS2 was inside the hall, they were introduced to Alex (a man who worked for WE). He told all of the pupils about how anybody could change the world, no matter how small or how big. To make sure everybody believed him, he told us a true story about an Indian boy.
He was born in a poor part of India, that was rural. The village in which he lived had no school, so when a group of men came to his village and promised the children an education, his parents jumped at the opportunity to give their child a better life.
Little did they know, that the men worked for a company that made carpets, they used the children to make them.
The boy worked eighteen hours a day every day, when he was just four years old. This continued until he was ten, when a human rights group set him free.
From then on, he wanted to let the world know how awful child labour is. He did speeches all over the world, including places like Boston in the United States of America.
As soon as his speeches became popular the sales of carpets began to drop. Until one of the companies got angry at him and shot him, while he cycling with his friends.
A boy who was reading the newspaper the day afterwards was so angry at the article about it, he tore it out of the newspaper and showed it to his class. He asked if anybody was willing to join him and prevent events like what happened to the Indian boy. Eleven hands went up, and the boy, the eleven children and his brother founded WE , in a classroom in 1995.
WE helps developing countries all over the world. That includes countries like, Kenya, rural China and Haiti. They help hundreds of villages get access to clean drinking water and good, nutritious food.
By Ben Hardie Y6
What an amazing show our Year 6 children put on at The Customs House!
Tonight and last night, the group performed their own routine to Run DMC’s “It’s like that” . Not only did they impress their audience with their moves but, as always, they represented Marsden perfectly with impeccable behaviour.
A special thank you to Rachel from SAFC for helping the children bring together the dance.
Yesterday, Year Four began their journey to become rockstars! Over the next six weeks, Mr English will be coming into school to teach the children how to use Garage Band on the iPad. Each week, the pupils will create a section of music which will eventually build into their own song! Mrs Watson appreciated the moments of silence when all 31 children had their headphones on! We’ll look forward to hearing the end results!
Well done to everyone who joined us for ‘Wake up and shake up’ this week. Key Stage Two started our ‘Healthy Living Week’ by exercising before school on Monday morning with Miss Fyall. Foundation Stage and Key Stage One then continued to work hard during their ‘Wake up and shake up’ on Tuesday morning with Miss Edwards, Ms Gilbert and Mrs Hanratty. A special mention also goes to our fantastic kitchen staff who came to join in the fun too. Well done everyone! Don’t forget to join us for our ‘Bike it breakfast’ on Friday morning.
Today, Year Four were treated to an amazing drama workshop linked to the production of Gangsta Granny! We created our own ‘gangsta’ alter egos and performed Granny-style rap, created freezeframes from the play and improvised our own scenes. Thanks to Stef from the Sunderland Empire for making our afternoon so fun!
Charlie and Nicholas also took part in the Flamingo Land football tournament outside of school and played fantastically well. They faced a number of difficult matches and played well as a team to fight off the competition. Well done boys, I am very impressed with the football talents in year 5!
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Year 5 had an amazing time on Tuesday sharing their PE lesson with three members of the U23 squad. Click here to read the full article.
On Monday 15th May 2017 SAFC filmed year 5 in PE for their Youtube channel, promoting the league final match involving the under 23 team. We were lucky enough to meet three players from the team, who interacted with the children and taught them key attacking and defending skills. They even signed our SAFC t-shirts and we thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Well done to Jasmin and Alex, who were part of the winning team at a football tournament last weekend. The girls were triumphant against a number of teams throughout the country and faced a difficult match in the final but teamwork paid off and the they were overall winners! We are extremely proud of you, well done!![IMG_1829[1]](https://cdn.realsmart.co.uk/f71f77ea8f428aeb5925b93a03881a70/uploads/2017/05/IMG_18291-e1494946395965-300x224.jpg)
