This afternoon we took part in a workshop with Darren England, a professional football referee, who works for the FA. Darren has even refereed  matches that Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo  have played in!
We worked together  in teams to develop different items that might be useful to the referees during a  game and then presented these ideas to the class - in the style of Dragons Den! 
We learnt that there are some key  elements required in order to work successfully as a team: listening, sharing, working collaboratively,  giving feedback, being patient, questioning skills and most importantly respect!

This week we celebrated International Women's Day. We discussed and identified women from different parts of the world - past and present  - who achieved something amazing throughout their lifetimes.  We then decided  that we each  have a very inspirational woman, close to home, in the form of our mums, step-mums, grandmothers, aunties and sisters, to name but a few! 
This then led us to do some writing about what makes our female relative special to us, some  even went as far to say , they were their heroines. The final result?  Some fantastic, tear-jerking emotive language that shows just how much we love and appreciate these people, even if we don't always show it!   We have attached some of the writing below...tissues at the ready!

This morning we were lucky enough to have a taster session in Judo. We worked in partners to develop just a few of the skills and  techniques needed in Judo,   it was a great session and we can't wait to learn more!

We have been investigating and solving problems around volume of shapes today. We used the multilink to create 3D shapes  in order to solve some problems and   spot links and patterns in different shapes and their volume. We  discovered that the formula for calculating volume was   l x w x h. During the investigations we realised that multiplication is commutative so it doesn't actually matter which way  you multiply the numbers - as long as you multiply the correct ones!