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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are getting married tomorrow so we learnt all about why royal weddings are so special. We found out about members of the royal family and about features of a royal wedding. We made biscuits and hats to mark the occasion and had a replica wedding in the garden. It was quite exciting and very glamorous. 

​On Friday 11th May, we performed our class assembly to family, friends and KS2 children. The teachers were very proud of us all and they enjoyed our singing, dancing and acting.  We learnt lots of interesting facts about Natural Disasters while we were rehearsing our assembly and enjoyed sharing these with everyone.  After the assembly, our teachers shared with us the lovely comments that the audience had written for us and listening to these made us feel proud.
 
“Brilliant! Well done, year 4.  Loved the singing and dancing.  See you all on the stage one day.”
 
“Well done to all of year 4 for a brilliant assembly.  You should all be proud of yourselves.”
 
“Fab assembly year 4.  Loved it and learnt something new.  Thank you. Well done.”

We (the Year 5 Mini Police) went to the Denes play area on Monday 23rd April to pick up litter. This was part of our Mini Police programme.

​During the last seven weeks, we have learnt all about anti-social behaviour.  Anti-social behaviour comes in 3 parts – nuisance, personal and environmental. As a group, we had to do certain tasks to help the local community so we decided to collect litter and tidy up our local park. We all got ready with our litter pickers and high visibility vests and went down to the Dene to collect the litter, which is a major part of anti-social behaviour. You will be surprised it is not always the children who drop litter- adults do too!

We found a variety of things littering the Denes including: a sold sign from a house, a sweeping brush, empty cans and broken bottles as well as sweet wrappers and ice lolly packets. In one hour, we manage to fill six bin bags. We collected from the local streets on the way to the Denes and we were shocked by the amount of litter in our local community. We want people to pick up their own litter and we have asked the council for more bins.

After we had finished cleaning up the environment, we were allowed to play in the park. It was great fun! Mrs Davison was talking about forces but we just wanted to play!

Thanks for reading this from Reid Street Mini Police Officers. 

​During the Spring Term, 14 children from 5R completed their cycling proficiency. We thoroughly enjoyed this experience and passed the 6 week course.
 
What happened during Level 1?
 
In Level 1 of this training, we completed some tasks that would show whether we could carry on to Level 2. During Level 1, the tasks we completed were: bike checks, helmet fittings, cycling across the yard that included emergency brake stops, looking at the colours the instructor flashed up while we were cycling and telling them the colour shown, weaving through cones, cycling on the inside of a cone circle and, as we did this, the circle minimized. Then all of the separate groups linked together and we cycled round a big circle of cones. At different points of this, we needed to leave the circle and then join back in at a safe point. We also, if it was safe to do so, gave one of our instructors a high five. Next, we moved onto level two of our training.
 
What happened during Level 2?
 
In Level 2 of cycle proficiency, we went out on the roads with our instructors. It was scary at first for some whilst others enjoyed all of it. Our Level 2 tasks included: bike checks, helmet checks, positioning of our bikes on the roads, overtaking parked cars, turning corners, U-turns, riding with our groups all together and performing looped U-turns.
 
We had a lot of fun completing our training and it will be very useful for the future! We hope 5D enjoy it as much as we did.
Thanks for reading our blog,
Daniel and Martha.