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Cyan Class have been having drumming lessons with an external music teacher. At the end of last term they performed to the Reception Year 1 children.  They even wrote their own composition  

Azure Class were very busy the week before Easter! They planted sunflower seeds, visited Reverend Coral at Experience Easter at Holy Trinity Church and spent two days learning more about the Jewish way of life. The children learned about Shabbat, the Jewish day of...

Sapphire Class: Production - We finally got to perform to an audience!   For the past 3 months we have all been working hard to put our production of A-la-la-la-la-laddin together. It has not been easy at all. So many of us have been poorly during the term and...

Midnight Class What a busy week. We had a fabulous day on Monday all dressed up as Supertato, the Evil Pea and other super vegetables. We had a great time outside parading around the field and playing games. We enjoyed our game of Supertato Supertato Evil Pea - our...

This week we learned about humanism in RE.  We thought about the rules for living that a humanist might use, just like Christians follow the ten commandments.  After comparing Christian and humanist rules for life, we thought of the rules that we each thought...

Teal Class have been out looking for signs of spring! We decided that… The weather gets warmer. Any snow and ice from winter begins to melt The days are longer. Spring is the season when we move our clocks forward by one hour Spring weather can be quite varied Trees...

Minchinhampton Primary School Upcycled Fashion Show On Friday the 25th of March, Minchinhampton School did an upcycled fashion show. We turned unused clothing into outfits that we all designed, sewed and gave it a new snazzy look. There were a variety of different...

Pinhole cameras  In science we have pinhole cameras. We had some photographic paper which we put in our black pin hole camera  box and stuck it to the back with blue tack. Then we put it on the step ladder  and the other person would take the blue tack off the...

Royal Class News In Royal Class we have been very busy! Last time we did indoor PE we did the spring board and we got the apparatus out and we were doing front flips onto the crash mat. We haven’t been doing PE that much for a couple of weeks because we have been...

In Indigo Class we have had lots of fun exploring maths, science and phonics in creative and dynamic ways. The children have planned, produced and observed their own experiments and investigations of growing cress and mustard seeds. We have started to discuss and...

    This has been a frenetic week of photographic action for the children in Year 5- 6 at Minchinhampton! We have had many different aspects to this. One visitor talked to us about their careers and photographic methods, including taking a photo of an...

Nursery have been raising money for Save the Children Ukraine Appeal all week by running 3 laps of the school field every day.  They have all been superstars and have raised almost £400 so far.  It is not too late to donate - please follow the link below:...

Cyan have been designing and building model houses. They had to withstand a flood and we are looking forward to testing them next week. On Wednesday we were lucky to have a visit from Aurora and her team. We became secret agents hunting for treasure. It was enormous...

As usual, we have been very busy in Aqua Class this week. Here are some things that the children had to say about what they have been up to. Jack - "I enjoyed the challenge in maths because I tried to solve it using cubes and in lots of different ways." Didi - "I...

'In Year 3/4 we learnt about fractions …we used playdough...we cut the playdough into pizza pieces and explored different fractions of a pizza with our cutting tools. The parts need to be equal to talk about fractions. We also talked in terms of fair shares when it...

'Year 3/4 are designing houses which can survive a flood. We watched a film about people living in Bangladesh who have to survive on land that always floods. It is made worse by the sea level rising. We are trying to design houses that could survive despite the flood,...

Year ⅚ Sustainability of fashion 'We are planning a cat walk and fashion show to highlight the importance of sustainable fashion. Right now we are creating books out of recycled materials, including old, disused folders and decorated with left over cuttings from our...

Year ¾ Disgusting Digestion 'We have been learning about digestion but we didn’t just write notes off the board. Instead we actually created our own digestion system with tights, cups and a plate to catch ‘it’ on- as in ‘it’ being the faeces. We put through our...