Marton & District C E Aided Primary School

Thank you all for attending ‘Meet the Teacher’ evening on Monday. All information from Teaching staff has been uploaded to the school website if you need this.

 Weekly news from our busy classes:

• Reception have spent their first full week at school, developing their fine motor skills, playing team games and learning the school rules. They are using fine motor skills activities to build up the muscles in their hands ready for good pencil control and letter formation. We have been exploring using 'Mr Quacky Duck' grips to making pegs talk to each other. There has been lots of laughed and fun voices used. 

• This week, Year 1 have had a lovely week learning about Harvest and discussing the journey our food takes to get to our plates. Alongside this, everyone is working hard with their phonics and reading.  We have been practising how to share our learning on Seesaw and created some super shape doodles. 

• Year 2 have spent the week learning about proper and common nouns in English. We have been working through our place value in Maths. In science we have looked at survival needs of birds and the different things they eat. We have also started our Monochromatic topic in Art by looking at different patterns. 

• We’ve been busy practising routines in our first full week of Y3. We started allocating class jobs and held an election for our school council class representatives. We’re pleased to announce that Max and Harry were voted in! I know they’ll do a superb job! In music, we practised moving, singing and playing our glockenspiels along with a bar of 4 crotchets, as well as performing our first song in music, ‘Home is where the heart is’.

• Year 4 have been busy exploring nouns of all kinds – common, proper, collective, and even partitive – and brought them to life through performance poetry! They’ve also shown off their creativity by drawing amazing one-point perspective sketches that really pop off the page. In History, we’ve begun an exciting journey into the world of the Romans, using sources to discover what life was like long ago.

• Year 5 have had a fantastic full week in school and are confidently settling into new routines. This week we have begun exploring our exciting monochromatic art topic, learning to describe artwork in detail and bringing pencil drawings to life with creativity and expression. I was so pleased to see lots of children wished to take challenges home to practise! It was also wonderful to welcome Mr Pinfold to Marton from Love Music Trust for our first ukulele session. 

• Year 6 have really enjoyed taking part in whole-class ELSA sessions this week, practising calming strategies to help us feel our best. We’ve also kicked off our new geography topic on sustainability by exploring how we use single-use plastics at school and at home, and we’re already buzzing with ideas about the positive changes we can make for our planet!

Did you know that Ella in Year 4 has been awarded a reading challenge medal from the Mayor for all her reading over the summer holidays? How fantastic is this! Both Ella and Emilia also took part in their first Brownies residential last weekend too.

This year Congleton Library had over 400 children join the Summer Reading Challenge and 33 children came from Marton – how fantastic!

Rev Jim conducted his first school Worship on Thursday and this was such fun. We are so lucky to have his friendship and support.

We are ALL loving daily Lunchtime Play Patch an ELSA Patch and it is a joy to be with your children.

Please can we ask that children don’t run and mess around the planters near KS2 playground after school, they have been beautifully looked after and we are very proud of them.

Enjoy your weekend, Nevin Deakin