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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....

Yoga & Mindfulness Every Wednesday after school teachers do yoga with Mrs Mclaughlin. The benefits of it is they give their bodies time to be calm and quiet. They try lots of techniques for breathing and stretching and being kind to their bodies. Some staff do...

Power of Reading Year 3/4 have been studying a graphic novel called ‘Mary and the Riddle of the Sphinx.’ It is based around ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. By the end of term we hope that all of the pupils will have created their own comic book. By Martha

Sports Hall Athletics On Friday some children from KS2 went to Sports Hall Athletics. Athletics was in Stroud and the coaches were lots of secondary school who helped with all the different activities. Here are some activities that they did:- Under and over relays...

Visit to SLG At SLG we did lots of awesome stuff. To get chosen for SLG, you had to have the winning poster and bottle design. The reason why we did this is because Year 5/6 had their science week. We were given a challenge by three scientists from SLG in Cheltenham....

Science   Week Science week was an absolute success and everyone had fun. In the build up we  made a skipping rope out of 3 plastic bags; a clay sun cream bottle and dice made of milk and vinegar and that was only a bit of what we did. On Monday we learnt about...

Sapphire class’ assembly On  Children in Need Day,  Sapphire Class did their assembly. It was about Egypt and Tutankhamen.  Morgan was Tutankhamen, Zac was Lord Canarvan and Arthur was Howard Carter. The children split into three groups used a rhyming script specially...

Rugby Tournament On Friday the 15th we took part in a tag rugby tournament and luckily for us, we won. We all got medals and for the school we got a cup. We won all of our games except for one and then we got through to the finals and won that. The bad thing was that...

In our Remembrance Service, the Community Committee talked about how the soldiers saved our way of life. Two groups made reefs to remember the people that died in the wars; others wrote prayers and others wrote poems. Fact: If the navy, army and air force hadn’t won,...

Stroud Book Festival On the 7th November 2019, some of KS2 went to Stroud Book Festival. First we saw Onjali Q. Rauf who talked about refugees. She is the author of two amazing books called, ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ and ‘The Star outside My Window’. The...

Children in Need On Children in Need day we got to dress up as teachers! Every pupil brought in £1 in order to dress up. We had a lot of fun and even the teachers got to dress as pupils. I thought that it was a very creative and ‘it was different in a good way,’ Isla...

Bonfire Night On the 9th of November Minchinhampton Bonfire Night took place.The bonfire is to remember Guy Fawkes and how he tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament: it was an act of treason. There is a saying that goes, “Remember remember the fifth of November.' ...

AZTEC COOKING On Monday 19th, Tuesday 20th and Wednesday  21st November, Year  5/6  cooked Aztec  themed  food [one day per class] consisting of Aztec salsa, tortilla and guacamole. First the children were put into groups of four, these groups would be the ones they...

At the Tutankhamun exhibition, we saw lots of cool jewellery and fascinating statues. The Egyptians believed that you had 2 deaths; the first when the soul  left the body and the second when  people stopped speaking your name. We saw the statue that guarded the tomb-...

What is P4C? P4C, or Philosophy for Children, is an approach to learning and teaching which enhances children’s thinking and communication skills, boosts their self-esteem, and improves their academic attainment. It was established over forty years ago by Professor...

Christmas Fair - no school uniform day  Friday 22nd November. Please bring us your unwanted BOOKS, TEDDIES, BOTTLES (of wine, beer, spirits, bubbly etc.) TOYS, GAMES, DVDS, CHOCOLATES, GIFT SETS, HOMEWARES, JEWELLERY, GIFTS FOR MEN, COOKING THINGS ETC. ETC.  The...