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Science We have started this term with a new science unit all about rocks and fossils. We began with looking at different rock samples and we had to use all the clues and questions to figure out which rock was which. Some were obvious (like chalk) where others were a...

Cobalt Newsletter WC 12/05/25 Life has been very different this week because Year 6s have been doing SATS! So for us Year 5s, in Maths we have been doing Roman numerals, for example I is 1, V =5, X =10. English has been really fun- we have been studying a poem called...

Azure Class had an outdoor learning session where they were tasked with filling an entire white A4 piece of paper with colour. But, in order to do this they had to create rubbings of their surroundings. The pupils enthusiastically grabbed a crayon and made rubbings of...

Sky class are having a busy time at the end of the Spring term! We have been learning the Lindy Hop from WW2. The whole of year 5/6 have been doing this old dance. It is a very creative and interesting dance. You get very caught in the moment. It is very energetic,...

On Monday lunchtime a large party of visitors descended upon us and were given a tour of the school and grounds by our pupils. Amongst them was Stephen Morgan who is the Under-Secretary of State for Education, Simon Opher, MP for Stroud, as well as representatives...

Cobalt Newsletter News from the Front Line w/c 17th  March 2025 In English we have been reading the book – Song from Somewhere Else by A.F Harrold. We have completed a conscience alley to help the main character decide whether she should go do the stairs or not. We...

Cyan have really been enjoying their poetry unit this term.  We have been performing poetry, writing poetry and today whilst enjoying the wonderful sunny weather we got outside to gather ideas for our next poems which will be about nature.  Children gathered ideas to...

This week is Neurodiversity Celebration week. Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. It aims to transform how neurodivergent individuals are perceived and supported, to...

Half term seems like a long time ago we’ve done so much in Royal class already!  In English we have finished planet Omar and now we are moving onto werewolf club rules which is a poetry book and the author is Joseph Coelho. The latest thing we did in planet Omar was...

Sapphire news Reading In our class, we love reading. We start the day with reading and for a lot of us, it helps settle us for the day. We have been working hard to develop our fluency. This means we need to read with expression and not sound like a robot, we need to...

Over the last few weeks Nursery have been learning all about Chinese New Year - we practised our scissor skills by making Chinese lanterns, we have been practising and looking out for words beginning with S because this year is the year of the snake and we worked...

Midnight making their healthy breakfast bowls of fruit and plain yoghurt as part of DT learning. We learnt how to hold a knife safely to chop up our fruit.  

In Cyan we have been very busy. In English we have been writing our own chapter for our book Planet Omar. Our chapters are written in the style of the author Zanib Mian who uses lots of funny writing and pictures drawn throughout the book. It's been really fun as we...

Aqua has been very busy this term. In science, we have been exploring materials and their absorbency. In computing, we have been photographers. We have been taking pictures of ourselves on Chrome Books and editing them. We have also looked at what devices we can take...

written by Lilith Ross (Y5) and Molly Avery (Y6): During our history topic, we looked at old admissions registers that told us who came to this very school during World War 2. Some of them are evacuees. The folder was a primary source (something that was there at the...

This term in royal class has been super busy and we’ve learned so much already!This year in English, we have been learning about planet Omar.It has been very interesting and it inspires us to read more books.It is about a boy called Omar and his Muslim family. we have...

In English, this week we have been focusing on characters emotions from the book Goodnight Mr Tom. We created freeze frames to show how Willie, Tom, Mrs Hartridge and The Vicar felt when they heard the announcement of the beginning of WWII over the wireless. In...

This new term in Cobalt has been really fun. We have started learning so much already from World War 2 to RE to lots of maths work! We have only been here for more than 2 weeks but it feels like 5! Maths In maths the year 6s have been learning BIDMAS which stands for...