by head | Nov 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Curriculum News Flash Barvember Maths using Bar Modelling November 2020 Maths is not just about skills and right and wrong answers- it is about reasoning and logic and creative problem solving. It is a wonderful adventure. Often our children...
by head | Nov 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by head | Nov 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by office | Nov 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by emiles | Nov 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
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....
by Minch Academy(2) | Nov 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
