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...
by office | Oct 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Poems based on ‘On the Run From Colours’ by John Agard Black scared me in my sleep. Grey hypnotised me, taking over my mind. Blue swallowed me whole and wouldn’t let go. Black chased me into a broken home. Grey tricked me, leading me into trouble. Blue smashed down...
by head | Oct 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
by Lyra (Year 6) and Amelie (Year 5) This week for music we have been doing a fun thing on a website called incredibox.com. You can make really fun songs and Sam did a song for his learning journal and it inspired us to do our own. It was really fun and we enjoyed...
by head | Oct 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
We’ve been busy this week experimenting in Science, working with numbers in Maths, making hot air balloons, singing along to music and discussing the final pages of Journey. This week we made various paper ‘helicopters’ and investigated what made them fall at...
by head | Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Class News Week 3 News from Turquoise by Viola and Mimi We read a picture book with no words called ‘Journey’ and we made our own Journey story stop motion animations. It was difficult to make all the little parts but it was fun and we got better at it. Now, we are...
