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We embrace RE as a subject partly because of its potential for deep thinking; for asking the big questions in life. This Spring Year 5/6 have been asking the question, ‘If God were holy and loving, why is there suffering in the world.’ Here are some of their...

In Royal class since our last newsletter we have done an awful lot! In art we have been learning about Jean Michel Basquiat and we have just finished making our finished posters. We thought up slogans that made people think about climate change used the wax resist and...

Teal Class LOVED World Book Day. It was an experience appreciated by all. Our special visitor was none other than… Mr Moss! He read The Tale of the Toothbrush to the children (using numerous voices) and invited them to get up and act out various parts of the story!...

Sky Class collage responses to our RE focus this week of "If God were holy and loving, there would be no suffering in the world. Deep discussions! We were learning how to work out ratios using Skittles. The maths resources may or may not have been eaten at the end!...

Cyan celebrate Chinese New Year We celebrated Chinese New Year of the Tiger by making red envelopes from a single piece of red paper. It was very tricky but we all persevered and successfully made at least one envelope and decorated it with Chinese good luck writing....

We havebeen immersed in the cold continent of Antarctica in Aqua Class this week! Whilst exploring the book 'Blue penguin', we have placed ourselves into the role of the characters through freeze frames, thought bubbles and role play. We had a tray full of ice and...

Azure Class have had a rather busy week! The children have been learning about Jackson Pollock, an abstract painter. They had great fun splatter painting on Monday afternoon and then on Wednesday they created group masterpieces on a much larger scale, squirting paint...

Sapphire  Our week started with our visit from the storyteller as usual. This term he has split us into 2 different groups. Before lunch he teaches stories to the Y4 group and then after lunch he teaches different tales to the Y3 group. Some of the stories the Y4 are...

Geography In Turquoise class  this week, we have been learning all about the rainforests and deforestation. Did you know that there were 400 million hectares of temperate forests before the year 1700 and hardly any now?.  It is interesting (and sad)  to find out how...

Sky Year 5/6 Newsletter Art For art we have been drawing Characters from the ‘Journey to the River Sea’ (book);such as Clovis King also known as  Jimmy Bates; then we have Miss Minton who looks strict but on the inside she is quite nice; Maia the main character is...

Teal Class have been immersing themselves into the world of penguins, ice and all things Antarctica. We have created 'icy collage pictures' based on our new 'Power of Reading' unit, practicing our gluing, tearing and cutting skills. Of course, we have busily painted...

In Royal class we have done a lot since the Christmas break. For example we have been really lucky to have Karl Nova visit and teach us a rap and now we have been annotating his work and performing a rap of our own. Our year 3/4 production is coming up and we’re all...

Indigo Class have been learning about times tables this week. They have been using their mathematical equipment (fingers) and drawing arrays to work out the answers to lots of number sentences. Indigo Class have also been learning about a book called 'The Lonely...

School Newsletter from 5/6 Cobalt This week we have been studying light and Rainforests, linked to our English reading of Journey to the River Sea. In Science, we have been making pin-hole cameras out of pringle cans. If you want to make one yourself, you will find...

Cyan are learning about skeletons. Today we had 6 different bones to explore, We played Scientists and used our best detective skills to work out which bones belonged to which animal. Can you guess the skull below? There were bones from a crocodile, shark, tortoise,...

In maths, Azure Class have been practising their multiplication and division from last term and learning their 2 and 10 times tables. They have been using the right vocabulary to describe what they are doing. They have also been introduced to the concepts of position...

This week Year 3/4 took a trip to Bristol Museum. It was a very interesting and informative day. We became Egyptologists like Amelia Edwards handling artefacts and solving clues from Ancient Egypt. We all enjoyed exploring all the wonders of the museum. We loved...

A dig into the past As you know at Minch we like to go narrow and deep with as much of the learning as we can. In practice this means focusing on a specific theme in say a topic and exploring it in more detail and asking more questions and learning about it at a...