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Curriculum Exemplar : Purposeful Science

Curriculum Exemplar Purposeful Science                    March 2020 We aim to narrow the focus of a topic and go deep. This way we hope our pupils will become not just enthused but inspired or concerned or morally engaged in the knowledge they are encountering. We...

Curriculum Exemplar: History Immersion

Curriculum Exemplar History Immersion        November 2020 Shackleton’s Expedition As much as possible we would like the children to embrace historical learning, to know what it is to be a historian; to explore evidence and artefacts.  One of the ways we use to engage...

Curriculum Exemplar -Inspirational Speeches

Power of Reading    Yr 5/6 Year 5/6 have been learning about Shackleton’s journey to the South Pole. They have been writing inspirational speeches for Shackleton to say to his men at the point that they get stuck in the ice. They studied speech writing before they...

Chalk, rockets and our families. What we have been up to in Teal.

In Teal Class we have had a very busy week. The children enjoyed chalking words and pictures to do with Space on the top playground.   We have all been practising writing our names and Y1 have been writing sentences using the graphemes they have learnt so far....

Curriculum Exemplar: Art

Landscape Art         October 2020 Over the last two days the Year 5/6 classes have walked to Minchinhampton Common and Bubblewell to draw and paint in the open air or to use the correct expression, to engage in ‘plein air’ painting. Many landscape artists would claim...

Light, Vikings and Poems

What a week in Royal class! We have started learning all about light. This week, we went outside and found out how shadows are made. We tried making our shadows spell out words by using our bodies to create shapes. We also learned how light travels in straight lines...

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