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Martha’s Poetry Blog 'I like the way that poetry gives you flow of happiness and lets you imagine things you have never imagined before.' Mrs H Mrs H has a spark of kindness in her eyes, She cares about her two dogs and everybody around her, Her hair is like a wave of...

Robot Wars           Year 5/6                 2019/20 At Minchinhampton we are committed to providing enriching and challenging experiences for our pupils.

Curriculum News Flash Barvember        Maths using Bar Modelling                 November 2020 Maths is not just about skills and right and wrong answers- it is about reasoning and logic and creative problem solving. It is a wonderful adventure. Often our children...

Curriculum Exemplar Purposeful Science                    March 2020 We aim to narrow the focus of a topic and go deep. This way we hope our pupils will become not just enthused but inspired or concerned or morally engaged in the knowledge they are encountering. We...

Curriculum Exemplar History Immersion        November 2020 Shackleton’s Expedition As much as possible we would like the children to embrace historical learning, to know what it is to be a historian; to explore evidence and artefacts.  One of the ways we use to engage...

Power of Reading    Yr 5/6 Year 5/6 have been learning about Shackleton’s journey to the South Pole. They have been writing inspirational speeches for Shackleton to say to his men at the point that they get stuck in the ice. They studied speech writing before they...

In Teal Class we have had a very busy week. The children enjoyed chalking words and pictures to do with Space on the top playground.   We have all been practising writing our names and Y1 have been writing sentences using the graphemes they have learnt so far....

What a week in Royal class! We have started learning all about light. This week, we went outside and found out how shadows are made. We tried making our shadows spell out words by using our bodies to create shapes. We also learned how light travels in straight lines...

These few weeks in Sky class we have been doing all sorts of things.  In English we have been writing a motivational speech and every night we have been practising  to learn our speech off by heart and at the end of the week we get to perform them in front of the...

I have found all of the games that we do in PE extremely fun, especially when we play rounders and benchball.  It is fun to be on teams with people that you don’t normally work with.  Millie In class we have been doodling penguins and at the moment we are making a...

In Cyan, we've been busy working out how to keep Ms McCarron and Mrs Dawk's cups of tea warm. We had to design an experiment remembering to make it a fair test -which variable would we keep the same- and learning how to draw an annotated scientific diagram.  We are...

I In Azure Class we have enjoyed our first week back after half term. We all enjoyed planting daffodil and tulip bulbs in the sunshine as well as having our first recorder lesson with Mrs Kettle on Thursday afternoon! In English we created lots of extended sentences...

A Page… dot, dot, dot I look at the page, I see the page, What to do on a page? The page is white, The page is blank, What to do on a page? I look closer on the page. Do I draw? Do I write? What to do on a page? Then I have an idea. The idea goes away. What to do on a...

Curriculum Exemplar Philosophy For Children        November 2020 This week in collective worship we have continued to explore the theme of compassion. One morning Year 2 pupils explored the question, ‘Should we also have compassion for an ant? As usual with our...

Imagine – by Alfie  Imagine a fox, as big as a box, Imagine Blake, as long as a snake, Imagine a snail, as fast as a whale, Imagine an egg, as big as a leg, Imagine a cheetah, as long as a metre, Imagine a snake, as long as a train, And a pea the same size as me....

Curriculum Exemplar Nurture         October 2020 The school runs a Nurture group which looks to offer a range of opportunities for Year 1 pupils that they wouldn’t experience so readily in the classroom. It is especially designed to help them develop  the social and...

Curriculum Exemplar ECO-PROJECT:                            2020 21 Blog 2:  ECO-PROJECT:     Working Party Meeting 1                     December 2020 The Eco-working party met on Wednesday evening. The group presently consists of parents, staff and governors but...