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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...

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...