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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 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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

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...

https://youtu.be/HW-mrsWkrB8   As some will have noticed, the scaffolding for the solar roof installation was removed recently, marking the end of a challenging construction programme delayed by the careful (time-consuming) removal of around 5,000 slate tiles...

Well we certainly have been busy in Royal class since we started back in September! We loved doing French day and we liked the café and games. We enjoyed the animal hunting game the most because we had to work out what their French names were. Our class book is how to...

     History-    Shackleton 4.4.1915 ‘During the night of  the third we heard the ice grinding to the eastward, and in the morning we saw that young ice was rafted 8~10 foot high in places. This was the first murmer of the danger that was to reach menacing proportions...

    ART Hello,today I am going to be taking you on an adventure, exploring Paul Cezanne’s museums of artwork.  For art this term, we have been focusing on Paul Cezanne,the famous French post-impressionist painter.  First we have been writing down our thoughts of four...

This year Minchinhampton Academy was invited to talk at the Education for Sustainability panel discussion at the WOMAD Festival. Our year 6 representatives were given some tough questions but rose to the challenge and not only showed how much they'd learnt but also...

Nursery have continued to spend a lot of time outside, exploring and investigating.  The children have displayed a lot of interest in nature and their surroundings and there has been lots of lovely collaborative play.  This week we have said a sad farewell to our...

We have had quite the animal adventure this week in Aqua Class! On one afternoon we were lucky enough to spot a hedgehog taking shelter in the shade right next to our classroom! We got it a bowl of water and watched it as it woke up and made it’s way along the edge of...

Indigo Class have been busy bees this week! We have been learning all about honeybees in particular. In addition to learning about the jobs that bees do and the problems we would have if honeybees became extinct, the children have all drawn a careful anatomical...

https://youtu.be/DPGC7ouqJbA In groups, we made fighting vehicle robots to push each other off a sumo circle.  We made them out of cardboard and paper.  The expert, called John, gave us the electronics: a circuit, wires, a transmitter, a receiver and a remote control....

Midnight Class enjoyed releasing their butterflies this afternoon. We have been watching carefully as they have completed their metamorphosis. It was very exciting to see them released into the wild. We had a lovely time last week exploring the old toys from the past...