Minchinhampton Academy Information

Y5/6  Living Rainforest On Tuesday and Friday of this week, the year 5 and 6 visited The Living Rainforest near Newbury. A chance for our Rainforest topic to come to life! Our focus was on sustainability. It was amazing, especially seeing the animals up close that we...

In music years 5 and 6 have learned about crescendo and diminuendo.  Using body percussion, percussion, tuned instruments and our voices we finally performed an indigenous song from the rainforests of Brazil.  It is called Hey Dumba and it is about rain in the...

In science we have been learning about the circulatory system.  It is actually called the DOUBLE circulatory system as the heart pumps twice: once to the lungs to pick up oxygen and once to deliver oxygen and nutrients around the body.  Oxygenated blood carries...