Year 6 Treat

We had to say "Goodbye" to our Year 6s today, but not before a fantastic trip  to Blackpool Pleasure Beach for their end of year treat. The children behaved impeccably and had a thoroughly good time. We wish them all the best for their new lives in high school this coming September. Good luck for the future!

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Smooth Operators...

Some of our Year 5 gifted and talented mathematicians have be lucky enough to have 'taster' lessons at high school. Over the last few weeks, members of classes 5A and 5B have been furthering their maths skills with a range of interesting challenges.


Initially, they were tasked to work out the cost of various items of shopping and how much change they would receive if they were given a certain amount of money to spend.




They then had to design a fruit smoothie recipe, taking into consideration the proportions of ingredients and how this might affect the flavour of the drink. The group also looked at weights and measures and the importance of being accurate when reading the results from a scale.

They produced posters to describe the quantities of the ingredients and finally they had to carefully weigh out the amounts of products and use a measuring jug to get the correct amount of milk for their smoothies.

Here are a selection of photos showing the smoothies being made:



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Year 6 Mini Enterprise 2015

Our Year 6 classes have recently been planning for Mini Enterprise.  There was a wonderful range of stalls this year, from cupcakes, to games to penalty shoot out. The children worked hard to come up with the initial ideas, plan the events, design advertising material, produce promotional video clips and run the events on the 7th and 9th July 2015.

This video shows the culmination of many weeks of hard week, preparing the events. Well done Year 6: over £300 pounds was raised over two days!

INSET at Manchester Creative and Media Academy

I am sure that all the staff will agree that today was a thoroughly productive and informative Inset at Manchester Creative and Media Academy. There was a phenomenally positive vibe throughout the day. A huge thank you to all the staff, MCMA site staff and other teachers who helped make this day a memorable one!

Team Marton outside the Manchester Creative and Media Academy

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Children's University 2015

This morning, many of our pupils were involved in the Children's University Graduation. It was wonderful to see so many of the youngsters being rewarded for their study efforts. Please click the image below to visit the photo gallery.

The 2015 Graduates follow the tradition of cap throwing!

You can find out more about the Children's University Programme by visiting this link: www.childrensuniversity.co.uk