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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...

Our first couple of weeks back have been really busy! We started the term doing the DT lesson we were supposed to do last term, but we couldn't because of the school being closed for Storm Eunice. We had already designed and built our flood proof structures so all...

Turquoise Science - light - photography We made a camera out of a shoe box by lining it with black paper to make it light tight. We also painted some of the inside black.  We put a light inside and saw there were still cracks so covered them up too.  We made a little...

What is it like in Midnight Class? “Midnight Class is really fun when we get to do lots of painting. I liked painting Supertato. It took a long time because we had to remember all the parts.” Josephine “Midnight Class is fun because we get to do lots of art. I also...