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Dear Parents/ Carers, ‘On Monday (little bit rainier than Tuesday) we went on a 6 mile walk through Princess Anne’s estate and across to Avening. We were going a rock tour- as in a tour of local stone age standing stones. We saw a stone with a hole in it that had been...

We basically did a human timeline on the field with a very, very long tape measure.  One end was now and one end was the past.  We put people at different points in history that we've learned in school. I was Howard Carter (the man who found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922...

This week we have had a few days without the noisy Y4s because they have been on their residential to Viney Hill. Because of this, the Y3s were split into 2 groups and have spent Monday to Wednesday being busy. We had a mini English unit all about mythical creatures...

Sky Class English In English we've been writing  stories. We were read Kidnapped by Pie Corbett to inspire us. We were allowed to either continue the story, retell it in your own words or change it. We did it on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. It was fun because we had...

We have come to the end of another busy term here in Royal class and have had lots of fun! In English we have done poetry on the Werewolf Club Rules by Joseph Coelho. We have annotated quite a few of his poems, we have written some of own versions based on his...

Although we only had three days in class this week, we managed to fill them up with lots of exciting activities. Along with Maths and starting our new unit 'Anna Hibiscus Song' in Literacy, we had fun doing some artwork. We all painted beautiful pictures of our...

Cyan class has been working very hard on the play Ye Ha,every Friday. Instead of doing P.E we dance in class for the play.Every Thursday year 4 would practice after school in the hall.At the start it wasn’t looking so good but now it is forming together and filling in...

In DT we made wooden bird boxes from a kit using wood, nails and glue.  Then we designed our own bird box for different birds (ours was for a robin).  We then made prototypes out of spar wood and wood glue.  It was fun but a bit tricky.  Sawing the wood was not easy...

English Poetry - We started this week looking at poems by Joseph Coelho who is the Children's Laureate. He has written lots of different poetry collections including the one we are studying this term, Werewolf Club Rules. His poems are easy to grasp and he talks about...

Teal Class has been… Learning the definition of a reptile Making crocodile books and writing crocodile facts Making, building and testing bridges for strength in Design and Technology Balancing in PE Learning what people believe in RE Playing and learning, learning...

ART In art we have been studying figurative drawings. We have drawn miniature models in lots of different positions. Bill Brant and Henry Moore have inspired us, we have copied some of their most famous drawings and learned lots of facts about them and their lives. ...

In Royal class we have had a very exciting term and done lots of brilliant things. In English we have written our own versions of The Clocktower. It has been fun because we have learned how to do setting descriptions and we can go wild with are stories! In Maths  we...

Nursery have been learning all about Chinese New Year, painting Chinese numbers, dancing and doing yoga in the school hall and enjoying playing and learning outside.

Cobalt get active Practising for the gymnastics competition Vault On Monday and Friday break, I go down to the hall to practise floor and vault.  I find vault really easy because you just jump over it with the trampoline.  When the stage goes up for the Y3/4 show, we...

Cyan visit a Hindu Community Centre This week Cyan went on a trip to the Hindu Community Centre in Cheltenham with the rest of Year 3/4. When we got to the temple we took off our shoes and coats and then walked up some stairs to the temple room. We gave a piece of...

In science we have been learning about the solar system.  The Earth is spinning on its tilted axis. One full spin takes 24 hours. The Earth is also orbiting (circling) the sun. It takes 365 1/4 days to orbit the sun. Because the Earth’s axis is tilted, for half the...

Science  We have started a new unit all about electricity. In our first lesson we had to look at different toys that use electricity and figure out how they worked. We were allowed to play with the wire buzzer games to see what made it work. We discovered that when...

BEWARE of the crocodile! Teal Class has been discussing, writing, painting, drawing and asking questions about saltwater crocodiles all week! This is because our new ‘power of reading’ unit is all about a saltwater croc. However, you may be surprised to learn that we...