Our new Year 5 children have had a fabulous couple of days in their new classroom; we’ve worked and danced our way through the days.
Day one involved playing get-to-know you games, doing some times tables practise, creating personalised hoodies and even competing in a Year 5 blooket quiz.
Day two saw us making our own self portraits, getting our first ukulele lesson and playing times table parachute! Of course we had to play a few extra games as well
We are going to have a great year together!
Nursery had a lovely morning taking part in lots of sporting events followed by some water fun. Y5 loved spending time with the children who they will be buddying next year.
As part of our athletics topic in PE, Y5 have been practicing their shot putting skills. We worked in teams to throw, measure and record our distances. This activity also linked in with our maths work of converting measurements and working with decimals.
Y2-Y5 thoroughly enjoyed their visit from Whitburn Cricket Club. We discovered a lot of natural talent and some children made a lot of progress in the hour session!
Hopefully, some of the children will have discovered a new hobby!
A great afternoon had by all!
Congratulations to this year’s winners, yellow team.
Year 5 put their knowledge of the parts of a flower today by dissecting a tulip and separating out the different parts. It was fascinating to see in the inner workings of the plant!
The Y5 children did Marsden proud by taking part in bikeabilty week and learning how to stay safe on their bikes, level 2.
This half term, in PE, Y5 have been learning about Netball. Our main focus has so far been on the three main passes: chest pass, shoulder pass and bounce pass. Check out our moves.
Once we were confident in passing, we moved on to footwork and defending.
To finish off our angles and shape unit, Y5 were challenged to make their own 3D shape using art straws. They needed to make sure they measured and cut the straws accurately so that the shape had the correct properties.
After the adventure of a lifetime, Y5 threw themselves straight back into their work this morning and learned how to measure angles up to 180 degrees. The tables were transformed into collection of angles using tape and the children used protractors to measure the angles. We used whiteboard pens to mark the angles (don’t worry Mr Rudduck and Mrs Hunter- it wipes off!) and then check their partner’s work.