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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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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:  ...

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...

Mrs Saeed’s class acted out the Easter story starting with Palm Sunday, The Last Supper, Good Friday and The Resurrection. We set up an Easter Garden in the classroom which was magical. We learnt about all the different types of animals that hatch from eggs and made...

So much has happened since our last newsletter entry! It has been busy, but fun! In English, we have written acrostic poems about different types of birds like robins and wagtail. Our new book we have been learning about is a mystery at the moment but we’ve looked at...

English We are looking at the poetry from The Lost Spells by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris. Jackie Morris was our artist focus last term and we looked at some of her work from this book as inspiration for our Art pieces. One of the poems studied was 'Jackdaw'...

Year 5 & 6 Music- We've been singing You've Got a Friend by Carole King and playing it on glockenspiels.  I like singing.  Carole King doesn't make music anymore but she has written lots of songs. You've Got a Friend is a gentle pop ballad.  I like it but it is a...

These last few weeks Cyan have been working on poetry. with some wonderful results! Poems about Life - can you guess what they are talking about? Life by Orla Meredith Leaping and cartwheeling across the bouncy mat happy laughter when I'm rolling around Incredibly...