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Sapphire’s learning this term
Sapphire’s learning this term. DT We have been learning about how to bake bread and different breads of the world. We started off thinking about all the breads we had heard of, and we knew a lot! Most of us had tried different breads and could say where in the world...
Nursery out in the community
Nursery were learning about remembrance this week. As part of their activities they visited the Church, war memorial and Market House undercroft to look at all the poppy displays. We have been taking part in an Autumn Maths Challenge. We have spent lots of time...
NSPCC speak out stay safe
On Wednesday before half term all the children at school participated in the NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe programme. Our children in Nursery and Reception were introduced to Pantosaurus . The children learnt about how their underwear covers up your private parts and no...
Year 3 and 4 Artists
Art in Y3/4 In the autumn term, Y3/4 studied the work of Jan Pienkowski who is most famous for illustrating the wonderful Meg and Mog books. We also looked at some of his other amazing works for the books The River of Stories, A Necklace of Raindrops and The Fairy...
Royal class update
We have all settled in really well in Royal class and are having so much fun! The most fun subject so far is computing; in computing we have been doing an animation about the Viking raid routes (The Danish Vikings travelled from Denmark to southeast of England). In PE...
Royal class – bringing learning to life
We can’t believe that it’s almost the end of our time in Royal class. We have had such an amazing time! Some of us on the beginning in September were nervous because we didn’t know many people. Through the year we became confident with each other and made friends. In...
Reception’s trip to Cosgrove Farm
Reception’s Trip to Copsgrove Farm Reception had a fabulous day at Copsgrove Farm in Bisley. First we travelled on the coach and got stuck on Brimscombe Hill. Eventually, we arrived in Bisley and were met by Kate who warned us against the Gangsta Grannies that drive...
Yr 5 and 6 visit the Living Rainforest
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...
Turquoise Class Yr 5/6
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...
Turquoise Science
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...
Sapphire Superstars!
English We have spent this term reading a book called Libba. It’s all about a musician from America who taught herself to play a guitar. She was left-handed so it was much harder for her. She grew up in America when segregation still existed and she had to fight...
Royal Class Yr 3 and 4
We have had another very busy few weeks in Royal class In English we are learning about Elizabeth Cotten, a girl that loves playing the guitar .She plays the guitar upside down because she’s left-handed. Elizabeth stopped playing the guitar because she had a child...
Reception Midnight and Teal are mathematicians and artists.
We have been enjoying the sunshine this week and having our picnic snack in the orchard. We have become sunflower detectives and have been busy planting and painting sunflowers. We had to work out whether we had enough pots and seeds to plant our sunflowers. We used...
Yr 5 and 6 learn about Eco-football
Our visit from F.G.R. A bit about Forest green rovers: The day the Forest green rovers representative came to Minch was an amazing day. We learnt all about the green club that had become the revolution of sports clubs all over the world. They are the first eco club...
Year 3 and 4 Residential and D.T
In DT we had to design and build a structure that would survive a flood. We used saws and glue guns to cut and stick our materials together. All of the groups had to work as a team, Before we sawed and cut and glued we had to measure our materials to make sure our...
Sapphire Class Year 3 and 4
Sapphire Class Year 3 and 4 Science We are learning about the human skeleton this term. We started the unit by having to recreate a human skeleton by trying to place all the bones in the correct places. It took most groups a couple of goes to get it right. On one of...
Turquoise Yr5/6 and Eco Fashion
Last week the children of year 5 and 6 put on a sustainable fashion show, capping off their learning in geography about the global garment industry. Here is a video showing a few of the outfits and some of the learning reflections from Turquoise class: ...
Cobalt are Fashion Forward
In Year 5/6 this week we have been learning about clothes and the fashion industry, in particular about fast fashion and about how the fashion industry isn't environmentally sustainable. We have been making new garments from old clothes that have been donated and...