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Date: 4th May 2023 @ 2:10pm
All the children followed a design to make the base of their crown and then personalised them with recycled materials. A big thank you to Mrs Taylor, who as you can see in the photo below, is a dab hand with the glue gun and was a huge support in helping the children. I am always impressed with the creativity of the children. Watch this space for more photos of their finished projects.
Date: 3rd May 2023 @ 1:50pm
Diamond Class’s trip to Wallbridge Upper Lock and Canal Basin enabled us to extend our knowledge of this term’s topic on "the Canal in Stroud". Volunteers from Stroud Canals Trust gave us an informative guided walk along the canal towpath and we also enjoyed a relaxing boat trip to Capels Mill and an information session about the history and restoration of the local canal at the Visitors’ Centre. After a delicious packed lunch with our friends we were fascinated to be shown the lock gate being opened and closed and to observe the difference it made to the level of the water in the canal. We found out that the captain of our boat, Bob, was also the captain of the boat King Charles III sailed on when the canal was reopened by the then Prince Charles back in 2018!. Our busy day ended with a scenic walk back to school along the canal.
The children had a busy and informative day and we had lots to talk about when we got back to school. Amongst the many comments the children mentioned: “I didn’t realise the canal was in a state of repair and had to be fixed”. “the volunteers were so kind and friendly to us and know lots of facts to share with us”, “I didn’t know donkeys were strong enough to pull the boats” and “I was really interested in how the lock gates made a difference to the water going down and up again!”
Date: 2nd May 2023 @ 10:55am
Last week Aventurine took part in an African Drumming working. The children learnt how to feel for the pulse of the music, play in unison and a go using 3 different instruments.
Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 9:34am
Daimond Class enjoyed a lively visit from a drummer this week. We explored pace, rhthymn, volume as we worked together to create some intricate music together.
Date: 21st Apr 2023 @ 3:52pm
TRANSLATION AND REFLECTION
In maths the children have been exploring shape. They have learnt how to translate and reflect regular and irregular polygons. They enjoyed playing maths games to practice their new skills. They know that a reflection produces an image that is the same distance from the mirror line as the object and that a translation moves a shape up, down, left, or right to produce a congruent image.
Date: 21st Apr 2023 @ 3:39pm
Our new topic is the "Canals of Stroud" and we enjoyed a soggy afternoon in our Forest School area buliding and investigating a toy lock system.
Date: 21st Apr 2023 @ 3:34pm
Greek Dancing and Drama
The children in Aventurine had a fabulous time in dance this week. They used their bodies to create poses that represented The Ancient Greek Olympic games.
Can you tell what Olympic game they are trying to portray?
Date: 16th Apr 2023 @ 4:09pm
The children did themselves proud on our visit to the Pitt Rivers this week. We saw all sorts of artefacts from human history across the world and heard the fascinating stories behind lots of them.
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 4:08pm
The children in Adventurine have been enjoying exploring about the Maya. After researching their own Maya spirit animal they created designs to reflect this.They then showed their artistic talents by creating their own masks. |
Date: 8th Mar 2023 @ 4:31pm
We have had a great day celebrating our love of reading! The children (and adults) all looked amazing!!
We drew along with Sarah McIntyre (the author and illustrator of our new class book, Pugs from the Frozen North); Watched the BBC Live World Book Day Event; had time to just sit and read for pleasure; went off to listen to an adult read us a book of our choice and made some lovely bookmarks.
Year 6 Science - evolution and inheritance.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:33pm
While Year 5 were at Hooke Court we spent 3 days learning all about evolution and inheritance. We learnt about Charles Darwin and his observations on the finches’ beaks whilst in the Galapagos Islands. We also did Human pictograms about inherited characteristics.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:31pm
We had a super day at our local museum, learning all about the journey of wool from sheep to cloth. We also looked at maps from the 1800 and 1900s and present day to see what areas had been developed, as well as being a human loom!.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:20pm
Year 6 were so excited to meet their book buddies, they played and read to them. We look forward to seeing their friendships blossom over the year.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:17pm
A few pictures of the children working and enjoying maths this week
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:13pm
Aventurine and Emerald Amazing trip to the Mills of Stroud.
Last week we went on a trip to Dunkirk,Gigg and Ruskin Mills.At Gigg Mill we learnt how to weave and how to spin wool using a spinning wheel. We loved seeing all the interesting machines. We even got to try them ourselves. The two men, Robin and Peter, were lovely and really helped us to understand how to weave. We also went to Ruskin Mill where we saw a watermill and learnt about hydro- electricity. At Dunkirk mill we learnt about the work of a child in the mill. We were amazed to see the waterwheels working and the noise that they made. Did you know that the cloth from the mills is used for soldiers and for covering billiard tables? We all had a really fantastic day.It really was the best trip ever!
Written by Bella, Olivia, Rowan, Eve and Georgie.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:10pm
Last Friday Aventurine visited Stroud Museum, where we all had the most amazing day. Highlights of the day included meeting Peter Playne a mill owner, following a trail around the museum, map work which saw the class plotting the differences in Stroud that had occurred since 1835 and learning more about the cloth Industry. At the end of the day the children made a magnificent human loom.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:04pm
The children in Aventurine are amazing actors. In order to build up ideas to retell events and feel what Jim, the main character from Street Child was feeling we used drama to explore the plot. They not only thoroughly enjoyed the lesson, they completely captured how it was for Jim in the workhouse.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:02pm
This morning Aventurine have be learning that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but they have also had fun exploring their traits and characteristics that may or may not be different to their families.
Can you spot the tongue rollers? The group with a second toe longer than their big toe? What other groups can you spot?
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:00pm
In our dance lessons the children have been thinking about the Industrial Revolution. Using their imaginations, the children became the workers, building the bridges, railways and tunnel. Then they proceeded to create this improvisation using the rhythm of the music to convey the repetitive nature of their actions.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 2:39pm
On Friday morning, we learnt 4 new stitches and practised our sewing skills using these 4 types. They were the running stitch, back stitch, cross stitch and blanket stitch. The children will use these skills to design and make a Christmas stocking that will be sold at the PTA Christmas Fair.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 2:32pm
Over the last couple of weeks, the children have learnt the running stitch, back stitch, cross stitch and blanket stitch. They then designed their own Christmas stocking to sell at the school Christmas fair. In each stocking the children had to make a stocking that would fit on a Christmas tree, include at least two stitches they had learnt and be selling to the target market (children and adults). I think you will all agree that they did an amazing job, and their stockings look wonderful!
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 2:22pm
This week we visited Slade Farm. We took a short walk from school and along the way we all admired the views of Stroud. Once we arrived, we were greeted by Heidi and Sarah who talked us through the morning. We had lots of fun building our own mini rafts with sticks and reeds and then tested them in the stream to see which ones were the quickest. After this, we searched along the hedgerow to see how many different plant species we could spot. The children enjoyed playing a mini bug mime game before we settled down on the grass to have some lunch, again admiring the amazing views!!
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 2:14pm
Today, we dedicated the whole day to researching, developing and preparing our own seasonal salads. After our trip to Hawkwood College, we know all about what grows seasonally in the UK. First, we tasted ingredients in a traditional Greek salad and then thought about flavours and textures to create our own recipes. In groups, we used a range of tools to grate, peel, slice and chop fruits and vegetables. Next, we added ingredients such as seeds, olives and cheese before mixing and drizzling sweet and zingy dressings on our salads. As you can see, they not only looked irresistible but were also healthy and delicious!
