Year 1/2: Amethyst: Gallery
Date: 10th Feb 2026 @ 11:43am
Pancake Racing was flipping marvellous. Thanks to Mrs Priestly for organising it - we all had such a good time!
Date: 12th Nov 2025 @ 5:18pm
In Maths we have been looking at the 2D shape a rectangle. We made different rectangles and went on a retangle hunt!
Date: 12th Nov 2025 @ 5:15pm
In Science we have been learing about the human body. We drew around a friend in our group and labelled the main body parts we need to know for Year 1 and 2.
Date: 12th Nov 2025 @ 5:09pm
Our topic in Autum Term 1 was "Memory Box". As part of this we brought in bags full of memories all about us! We shared them with our friends and spoke with such confidence! We learnt so much more about each other.
Date: 12th Nov 2025 @ 5:01pm
We've been busy celebrating Diwali in Amethyst. We made rangoli patterns using coloured rice, used our 2D shape knowledge to make rangoli patterns and made our own Diya lamps to take home. We had such fun and learnt lots about "The festival of Light".
Date: 6th Jul 2025 @ 9:38am
On Thursday we went to Stroud library to find out about the summer reading challenge. We met Archie who talked to us. Then we enjoyed reading books together. Thank you for letting us visit.
Date: 6th Jul 2025 @ 9:36am
How exciting this week has been. On wednesday we dissected some Barn Owl pellets. We could not believe how many bones we found! evidence of mice, shrews, voles and birds.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:37pm
On Thursday we were lucky enough to meet Tamsin from Stroud Valley's project to go pond dipping at Capel's Mill. We had to use indentity sheets to name 4 things we found. Pond snail, newts - palmate and smooth, pond skaters and leach. But to our surprise for the first time in 10 years no dragonfly larvea
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 3:33pm
We have been growing plants and cress to look at the roots and shoots. We grew cress in one week and today made egg and cress sandwiches.
Watch the beans grow outside over the summer.
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 12:51pm
We had a brilliant morning at The heavens this week. We spotted early spring flowers, liostened to and spotted birds. Ate delicious cooking thanks Mrs EBS! spotted things in the stream and paddled in the stream. Thanks for all the help.
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 2:31pm
Who doesn't like a good book. Today we read Mr Wolf's pancakes by Jan Fearnely. Extremely funny with a little surprise at the end. We had a lovely day enjoying activities based round this book and of course making pancakes! We also talked about Shrove Tuesday.
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 4:19pm
What a great day we had celebrating as many Chinese families will have done on Wednesday. Stir fry, chop sticks, story and role play galore. Look out for there DT work coming home,
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 4:19pm
Today Amethyst class went to the Museum in the Park. They had 5 workshops with the education team. We found out about food dinosaurs ate and even found some examples, we looked at how fossils were formed and got to handle them. We also got to look at the xhibits in the Museum. What a great day .
Date: 20th Dec 2024 @ 3:42pm
What a lovley evening we had reading books and drinking hot Chocolate.
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 4:08pm
Dear Parents and Carers I have been over whelmed by all the things donated to our Reverse Advent Calendar. Thank you. The food bank will be so grateful.
Date: 6th Dec 2024 @ 4:05pm
Old bear is in the attic . He is stuck we had to design , make and test something that could reach.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 12:57pm
We were lucky to work with The Stroud valley Project . We learnt about hedgehogs and hibernation. We found out how important it is for hedgehogs to be safe and wam.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 12:22pm
In both our recent stories the Main characters had to use a parachute so we tried to make one which could carry a little duck safely. There were some successes and some diasters.
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 4:23pm
Professor Slime left a trail of destruction that Amethyst class had to stop. They had to find all the messages telling the other school children to break things and threw litter to mention a few.
Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 2:11pm
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We celebrated diwali with many people around thge world. We made Diva lamps to welcome people over our Rangoli patterned mat. We made traditional food and retold the story of Rama and Sita.
Date: 24th Oct 2024 @ 2:48pm
If you down to Forest school be sure of a big surprise. Teddies everywhere. How lovely to see so many families today on the trail and picnic.
Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 4:29pm
After our visit to Goodrich castle we saw the arrow slits but didn't know about bows and arrows so we came back to school and have been enjoying archery and using the targets to try and score. Ask how we did.
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 12:56pm
What a great way to start the non-fiction section of our topic Turrets and tiaras. Goodrich castle filled us with excitment as we were taken round by Mistress Nell. we found the murder holes and portcullis amazing. Did you know they sold the toilet contents to farmers!
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 3:44pm
We had a lovely afternoon in Rodborough fields picking blackberries, rolling down hills and playing Pooh sticks. Hopefully the crumble will be yummy tomoroow.
