Reception -Aqua Class and Midnight Class
Minchinhampton Academy
Return of Elvers – Earthrise – Al Jazeera English.
On Monday 14th July we will be releasing our elvers back into the wild. We will be walking down to Well Hill Lake at 1.30pm and should be back in school by 3pm. Please sign the permission form in the bookbag and let us know if you are able to help to walk the children down to the lake and back to school.
Here is a link explaining the conservation of the eel in the UK and beyond.
On Monday we had a day of football frenzy.  The day started with some football training with some real football coaches from Forest Green Rovers. We learnt some skills and had a short  game.
football 2 from Aqua Class on Vimeo.
Here are the results so far for our Reception football tournament.
Round 1
Wales  1-0  Scotland
England 2 – 1 Â Northern Ireland
Round 2
England 1 – 3 Scotland
Wales  1 – 0  Northern Ireland
Round 3
England  1 – 2  Wales
Scotland  3 – 4  Northern Ireland
Round 4 – Play off for 3rd place
Northern Ireland  1  – 0  England
So that means the final will be between
WALES and SCOTLAND
to be held on Monday (7th July)
Good luck everyone!
In Reception we have been running our own football tournament as part of our World Cup theme. Our budding footballers have been split into 4 teams, each with a captain and goalkeeper.
Here are the teams
TEAM ENGLAND
TEAM SCOTLAND
TEAM WALES
TEAM NORTHERN IRELAND
SOME OF THE SPECTATORS
The first round has been complete and results will be announced soon…
This week we have been particularly messy in Aqua class. Apologies for any extra scrubbing required at bathtime!
Messy Play on PhotoPeach
Tomorrow is Sports Day and we all have our fingers crossed for a rain free day.
The action will start at 9.30am.
The format is the same as in previous years but for those new to our Sports Day here is a brief run down of events;
All of the children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are put into mixed age teams. Siblings will be in the same team. Two grids of activities are set up on the field and each team competes against one other team in each of 10 activities (5 on one grid and 5 on the other). Scores are recorded and totals added.
There will then be some running races. The heats have already taken place and the fastest 8 Reception boys and 8 Reception girls have been chosen for the final.
Here are the finalists
Reception girls                                Reception boys
Sophie Shepherd                                 Isaac Hewer
Alice Stevens                                    Archie Hyatt
Ilyana Potten                                    Riley Spill
Isla Catt                                          Fergus Crowe
Cerys Kirby                                      Ethan Cairns
Erin Brown                                       George Thompson
Amy Thompson                                  Sam Brown
Amira Kirat                                      Ryan Adams
A picnic lunch with friends, family or teachers will follow on the field and then KS2 activities will begin after lunch. Parents are free to stay for the KS2 Sports afternoon or to return at normal pick up time. Depending on the weather, we (Reception) may come out to watch KS2 in the afternoon or we may remain in the classroom.
Good luck everyone and we hope you all have a lovely day.
Since we have started blogging, it has been fantastic to see just how many people have been commenting on our posts. Â We feel that the blogs give people outside of school a view in to the classrooms. Â It also means that the children can share their class’ work with anyone and everyone.
We are now starting to invite the children to comment on our blogs and have begun to take them through the guidelines that are displayed , sharing with them what makes a useful and valued comment.  We are aware that not many children from the lower part of the school will have email addresses and so the children are being taught to use the following method.
In the email section put yourname@minchacademy.net…so mine would be MRO@minchacademy.net
In the Name section put who you are and your class…Adam Teal
Then write a comment as normal.
This method will work for anybody and the class teacher will still need to moderate each comment before it is shown on the blog.
We encourage children to use the best punctuation and spelling that they are capable of and remind them constantly that what they write can be seen by anyone in the world!!!
We hope this will take the level of engagement with our blogs to a whole new level.
Here are some children giving recommendations about how to write a good comment…
And a poster we have displayed in school.
Most of all, have fun – it will soon be your turn to blog!
Mr. O.
Do your children start talking a strange language whilst doing their maths homework? Do words such as chunking, grid method, or partitioning baffle you?
Attached below is a PDF file to help you to understand more about the methods used in our school and to enable you to further support your child/children with maths.
Click the link below to view the interactive PDF file.
The videos below have been created by pupils in Years 5 and 6.
Addition Video Guidance
Subtraction Video Guidance
Today was our  Dutch Day and we had a super fun time.
We even had our own Netherlands team
and our red, white and blue team
We tasted a number of traditional Dutch dishes. Here was our menu for the day;
Hotchpotch (or in Dutch Hutspot) is a dish of boiled and mashed potatoes, carrots and onions with a long history in traditional Dutch cuisine
Nasi met Kroepoek – Indonesian rice and prawn crackers
Frikandel Speciaal – Dutch sausage
Gouda cheese
Pepernoten- a Dutch cookie.
A huge thank you to Mr Jansen for preparing all of the food and explaining what each of the foods were and why they are important to the Dutch.
The children also found out many interesting facts about the Netherlands and I Â hope they can remember some of the information and share them with you at home.
I have attached a copy of our cursive handwriting that we are practising in class. Please click on the letter formation page.