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CLPE Reflecting Realities
Over the last five years CLPE have worked with our partners and alongside so many others to support a real and visible change across the literacy landscape. We detailed many of these efforts in our report published in 2021 and we can see, in the figures published in...
Year Two, Authors, Discovery and Exploration
Year Two We have introduced continuous provision in year 2 and the children are enjoying learning through discovery and exploration. This term Year Two are continuing their Tree topic. We have planted tree seeds, learnt about their life cycles and began plotting local...
Midnight, Teal and Aqua
In Midnight, Teal and Aqua Classes we have been painting our families and telling family stories. The children have shared their stories with one another. We have also been talking about “being special”. The children enjoyed using mirrors to look at themselves. We had...
Turquoise class navigate learning
Geography in Turquoise Class In geography, we have been using lots of maths knowledge to learn map skills, such as using 6 figure grid references on maps. On Tuesday, we learnt how to take a compass bearing. We went onto the field and followed instructions saying to...
Sapphire’s recent learning
Sapphire Newsletter Art We have spent the term looking at the work of the late illustrator Jan Pienkowski. He did a lot of work based around silhouettes. Some of his most impressive pieces have been based on fairy tales. In our final art lesson we were allowed to...
Sky Class Curriculum
Sky Class by Daisy Worboys Computing This week in Sky class we have been computing. We have been using a programming app called Python. This app is a level higher than any programming app we have used in school before so we have had many misunderstandings but, we have...
Royal class are scientists and gymnasts.
Royal class have continued to be very busy this term and have lots to share with you! In English we have carried on learning about Arthur and the Golden Rope. We have written diary entries as Arthur, letters to persuade him to go on an adventure and Kennings about the...
Teal class have done sssssso much learning this week.
Teal Class has been busy! We started the year painting ourselves and chatting about what we like doing and what our family is like. We have learnt the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’ (which we changed to ‘The Little Orange Cat’) and have been writing, reading and...
Minchinhampton teams shine in Football Festival
On Wednesday 12th October a group of our KS2 pupils went to a football tournament in Stonehouse. In total there were 25 teams:16 teams in the Year 5/6 competition and 9 teams in Year 3-4 competition. Year 5/6 played a total of 5 matches and got to the final....
Cobalt write recipes for friendship
Gymnastics On Monday, we did gymnastics. We practised our cartwheels and we also did our routines. The thing I found challenging was walking on the bench. I did a balance on it and it was tricky. I was scared of falling off. I got better at it because I focussed...
Indigo class talk trees!
In Indigo class we have been learning about the importance of trees. It has been very interesting finding different types of trees and collecting their seeds. We know that trees provide us with Oxygen and keep the air clean. This is why we wanted to plant our own tree...
Nursery get out and about in the Autumn sun
Nursery The Nursery children have been very busy exploring and making new friends over the last few weeks. They have been making the most of the lovely Autumn weather and have been out and about getting physical and exploring the lovely area in which we live. Trips...
Cyan, wolf attacks, rounding and silhouettes
Cyan Class In maths we’ve been learning place value, it’s always fun in the end and we love maths. We’ve also been rounding numbers up to the nearest 10. In English we’ve been learning about a story called Arthur and the Golden Rope. So far in the book there has...
Sustainable Fashion
Year 5/6 presented us with their fashion show. They performed to the whole school and then to parents in the evening. The PTA ran a swishing event – which was a chance for parents and children to come and swap some of their used/ unwanted clothes for other people’s...
Aqua class are Amazing!
Aqua Class have been busy learning the new routines of their classroom and making friends. The children have really enjoyed painting pictures of themselves and drawing their families as the class topic is All About Me. They have also worked hard to learn the oral...
Turquoise go green with their doodling!
Green Doodling by Dottie Cole and Athena Wright. In Turquoise class we have been doing something called green doodling. The most important part is looking closely at nature. Green doodling means that we get to go outside, have fresh air and time to ourselves. But,...
Sapphire Report from the Frontline
Science - Experiments! We are learning what it is to be a scientist and one of the main things we need to understand is fair testing. We have completed 2 experiments now. The first was looking at which flat surfaces allowed a toy car to travel the furthest. We rolled...
Coram Beanstalk Reading Helpers
Can you spare a few hours a week to become a reading helper at our school? We are working with a charity called Coram Beanstalk to recruit and train volunteer reading helpers who can commit to an afternoon or two a week to come in to school. As a reading helper you...