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Our new term in Royal class We have been enjoying our English.  In English we have been doing Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx which is a graphic novel. At the moment in the story Marcy has gone to Egypt to find her Dad and bring him home. Marcy is scared of...

Sky Class Newsletter Written by Seb and Jacob   R.E In R.E, we have been learning about Islam and Muslims. Mrs Saeed came in to talk to us about being a Muslim in Britain today. We have also made Muslim posters and learnt all about Eid. Muslims have to follow the...

Viney Hill In the week before half term, 35 year 6 children went to Viney hill. The residential camp lasted 4 days and had 7 activities: crate stacking, abseiling, rock climbing, canoeing, team building, mountain biking, low ropes and archery. Children had 3 places...

Y5 Newsletter p4c-In p4c we have been talking about if we should be treated equally. Most of us think we should always be treated equally. I agreed with the majority. P.E- P.E was great. We played dodgeball and benchball as a year 5 group. I enjoyed this alot but some...

The Reception children have made a super start to Outdoor Learning this term. We have been using our senses to learn about nature. We have found conkers and beech nut shells. We have watched the squirrels and the wildlife area resident robin. When the wind blows we...

Busy time in Cyan Class We are really enjoying our Power of Reading book; Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx. This week we have become illustrators, interpreting the text from a section of the story. Our role on the wall was of Marcy the main character from the story....

Azure Class had a lovely time visiting Avoncroft Museum of Buildings. They made bricks and learnt about the frog in a brick! They saw lots of buildings and thought carefully about what each building was for and what it was made of. Some of the favourite buildings were...

AQUA CLASS In Aqua class, we have been looking at planting and growing different flowers during our literacy lessons and outdoor play. Whilst outdoor learning, we have been identifying trees and completing team building activities. Amongst other things, we have been...

Sapphire’s news from this week. Our week always starts with a visit from Mr Heggarty. He is a well renowned storyteller who is working with us for the next few months. He tells us stories from across the world and gets us to join in. We love the stories he tells us;...

Turquoise class   History topic: Aztecs and Maya: "We learned that the Aztecs and Maya made islands in lakes to grow food on (we looked at primary and secondary evidence).  They were called chinampas. We were given water, mud and willow for weaving and had to build...

Minchinhampton Newsletter   Friday 8th October 2021 At Minch school this week we have been talking about our P4C(philosophy for children) lessons in class and assembly. We had 5 fabulous classes and their representatives talking about what they have done in class....

Royal Class Newsletter By Evie Horner and Phoebe Nicholls Greetings from Royal Class!  We’ve had a great start to the term and have been having lots of fun. Here are some of the things we have been getting up to since the start of September. Through the last four...

Sky class The Aztec and Mayan ` This term in year 5/6 we have started learning about the Aztec and Mayan people.  A visitor came from London to talk to us about the Aztecs and Mayan.                                                  Aztecs and Maya   In topic we are...

Dear Parents/Carers, In the light of some recent cases and some uncertainty about how to respond, please find here- Some more guidance for parents trying to assess child’s symptoms/ whether child should come to school If children display any or all of these symptoms...

Year 6: Class of 21 We think of Hazel as hugely original Can we just say-- what an extraordinary first book Imogen is an empathy sponge We think of her beautiful singing in Cyan class toilet We think of Ben as philosophical We all say ‘Yes- Lord Yoga.’ When we think...

Our Year 5/6 production, Star Warts, was a success! With Daft Ada and her crew saving the universe from the umpire and his racketeers! Performing it was really fun because we were involved a lot on stage! We were Racketeers: Borg and Becker. We performed it to all the...

Indigo Class has been learning hockey skills on a Monday afternoon. The children have been practising holding their sticks correctly, leading their ball accurately around an obstacle course and even passing the ball to each other AND trying to gain possession of it!...

Wild World Heroes Join the Wild World Heroes for a summer of reading fun! Available online and in public libraries from now until September, the challenge provides fun, reading for pleasure activities for all abilities and helps prevent the summer reading dip during...