Minchinhampton Academy Information

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        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...

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...