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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...

Class News Week 3 News from Turquoise by Viola and Mimi We read a picture book with no words called ‘Journey’ and we made our own Journey story stop motion animations.  It was difficult to make all the little parts but it was fun and we got better at it.  Now, we are...

While the rest of the country was locked away, the maestros of Minchinhampton were determined not to let the summer term end without the revitalising extravaganza that is the musical soirée. Thanks to the inspiration and technical know-how of Duncan Mann alongside the...

Here is the Risk Assessment for last week of term 8th July.

Minchinhampton pupils have hit the headlines of the Stroud News and Journal with their poetry. read the full article here: https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/18508294.minchinhampton-primary-schoolers-produce-poems-express-feelings-pandemic/ Tess and Austin in...

Outdoor Learning Over the Autumn/Winter term, Children from Year 2- 6 have had additional outdoor learning time on Monday afternoon (Foundation Stage/ Year 1 have theirs weekly). In times when we are reminded that many children spend far less time than their parents'...

Turquoise Class Assembly I thought it was amazing learning all about the fish of the deep and the song was well written and went well with the music. I loved how they included David Attenborough. The best thing was they weren’t shy at all- they were nice and loud. It...

The Christmas Fair On Saturday Minchinhampton Academy had a Christmas Fair, run by the PTA. There were lots of people there. Lula-Rose said, ‘It was very festive and exiting. It was a perfect place for children to have a fun time. I loved all the cakes and games to...

Choir at Cecily Court On Monday 9th December 2019 our KS2 choir went to Cecily Court across the road to sing to the residents who live there with Mr Weinberger, Miss Crowther and Mrs Overthrow. We sang lots of different songs, including ‘Candlelight Silent Night’ and...

KS1 NATIVITY On Monday 9th December the hall was packed with children performing in the of show ‘Christmas Values’ and they blew our socks off! Each class performed their own song that was either a Christmas carol or a song about something to do with Christmas. They...

Ocarinas and Shakers 9th December-12th December 2019 In Year 5/6, hands got to work moulding, shaping and rolling thick lumps of clay; minds got creative over a ball of clay. We were making Aztec instruments; shakers decorated in beautiful Aztec themed patterns....

PHILOSOPHY EVENING On Wednesday 11th December 2019, the schools P4C club hosted an evening, packed full with questions, answers and more questions. The P4C club attended the evening, with their parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers and all other relatives, as well...

The Swimming Gala 2019: Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 entered the 2019 swimming gala at Stratford Park. We first tried out for the trials to see who were the fastest; the people that got through went on to the gala. The options were breaststroke, backstroke and front...

Cyan Class Assembly In our class assembly, we recreated a real live archaeologist’s dig. We were taken by surprise at how the children had put it together. How clever they’ve become! There was a comedy trio, some scientists and two wordsmiths who were all very good....