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Here is sky class out in history looking at timelines and sketching in art. In art we learnt how to draw body proportions accurately. First we watched a step by step video on how to draw  the basic sketch of the body. Afterwards we got out the mannequins and practiced...

Nursery has been completely refurbished over the last few weeks with very grateful thanks to the PTA for providing a large amount of the funding.  We are all loving the new look.

Well, it has been a really fun term here in Royal class and we have learned so much! In English, it has been really exciting because we have learned about pugs of the frozen North. We have been writing poems, and we have been acting out scenes with groups about the...

Sapphire’s learning this term. DT We have been learning about how to bake bread and different breads of the world. We started off thinking about all the breads we had heard of, and we knew a lot! Most of us had tried different breads and could say where in the world...

Nursery were learning about remembrance this week.  As part of their activities they visited the Church, war memorial and Market House undercroft to look at all the poppy displays. We have been taking part in an Autumn Maths Challenge.  We have spent lots of time...

On Wednesday before half term all the children at school participated in the NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe programme. Our children in Nursery and Reception were introduced to Pantosaurus . The children learnt about how their underwear covers up your private parts and no...

Art in Y3/4 In the autumn term, Y3/4 studied the work of Jan Pienkowski who is most famous for illustrating the wonderful Meg and Mog books. We also looked at some of his other amazing works for the books The River of Stories, A Necklace of Raindrops and The Fairy...

We have all settled in really well in Royal class and are having so much fun! The most fun subject so far is computing; in computing we have been doing an animation about the Viking raid routes (The Danish Vikings travelled from Denmark to southeast of England). In PE...

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...