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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...

Royal class were inspired by John Agard's 'Rooms' to write their own performance poetry.  We hope you enjoy it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt0SE2rYLvk&feature=youtu.be

Welcome to the exhibition of Turquoise Class's landscape paintings of Bubblewell, a hidden valley in Minchinhampton. To download and view the fully interactive Turquoisean Gallery as Mr Weinberger intended, please click here: Turquoise Art Gallery Turquoise class have...

Sapphire Class: This week started with an introduction to our RE unit. We are looking at Hinduism and what Hindus believe about their god.  We were shocked to find out that they have more than one god. Their main god is Brahman, but he is represented by three other...

Here is what Turquoise class have been doing over the past few weeks in our learning:   Science:  In science we have been doing forces . In forces we’ve investigated gravity, air resistance and water resistance and simple machines (levers, cogs and pulleys).  In...

  Turquoise Art Gallery Turquoise Class have put their paintings in a gallery- see here:- Turquoise Art Gallery (1)

A Monster Calls A frosted wasteland, Instant regret. Wind howls like a pack of wolves that hasn’t eaten since ten years. Snow smothered ice, jagged. Jagged teeth pulling you into the deadly frost abyss. Frost takes over your heart. Icebergs crash into each other like...

Curriculum Exemplar Landscape Art         October 2020 Over the last two days the Year 5/6 classes have walked to Minchinhampton Common and Bubblewell to draw and paint in the open air or to use the correct expression, to engage in ‘plein air’ painting. Many landscape...

In the last two weeks in Sky class we have been rather busy! In science we have been learning about water and air resistance. Learning about air resistance helped us when creating our flying machines. We had to balance out the weight with the air resistance. As a...

This week I have enjoyed reading the poem ‘Rooms’ by John Agard. I liked that we could create our own rooms when we wrote our poem. We performed our poems to the class and I loved hearing what everybody else had done. Lots of us have been writing new poems in our...

What a variety of activities in Cobalt this week!     Yesterday we did map trails.  I was with Torin.  The key to our trail being successful was that we worked together.  We negotiated when we had different ideas.  Our trail led children across the field,...

A guide to reading a wordless picture book  Just a few tips for reading a book that has no words to read! Sit with the audience at eye level. A wordless picture book asks the audience to come towards the book rather than have the story come to them. You need to make...

Poems based on ‘On the Run From Colours’ by John Agard Black scared me in my sleep. Grey hypnotised me, taking over my mind. Blue swallowed me whole and wouldn’t let go. Black chased me into a broken home. Grey tricked me, leading me into trouble. Blue smashed down...

by Lyra (Year 6) and Amelie (Year 5) This week for music we have been doing a fun thing on a website called incredibox.com. You can make really fun songs and Sam did a song for his learning journal and it inspired us to do our own.  It was really fun and we enjoyed...

We’ve been busy this week experimenting in Science, working with numbers in Maths, making hot air balloons, singing along to music and discussing the final pages of Journey.  This week we made various paper ‘helicopters’ and investigated what made them fall at...