by head | Oct 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Curriculum Exemplar 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...
by head | Oct 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the last two weeks in Sky class we have been rather busy! In science we have been learning about water and air resistance. Learning about air resistance helped us when creating our flying machines. We had to balance out the weight with the air resistance. As a...
by head | Oct 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
This week I have enjoyed reading the poem ‘Rooms’ by John Agard. I liked that we could create our own rooms when we wrote our poem. We performed our poems to the class and I loved hearing what everybody else had done. Lots of us have been writing new poems in our...
by office | Oct 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
What a variety of activities in Cobalt this week! Yesterday we did map trails. I was with Torin. The key to our trail being successful was that we worked together. We negotiated when we had different ideas. Our trail led children across the field,...
by head | Oct 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
A guide to reading a wordless picture book Just a few tips for reading a book that has no words to read! Sit with the audience at eye level. A wordless picture book asks the audience to come towards the book rather than have the story come to them. You need to make...
by Minch Academy(2) | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Curriculum Exemplar Journey by Aaron Becker September 2020 A whole school curriculum project focused on a single wordless picture book. A chance for our school community to reconnect and reflect. We started the school year off with a curriculum and an...
