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Curriculum Exemplar  RE RE through art                                           October 2020 Religious education involves exploring theological and philosophical lenses on the world and one of the ways to express this is in art supported by discussion.  In this way,...

Curriculum Exemplar Power of Reading Rocket Girl                                                              November 2020 ---inspired by ‘Astro Girl’ by Ken Wilson-Max Power of Reading uses a range of high quality fiction, non-fiction and poetry to inspire pupils to...

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....