Year 5/6: Aventurine: Gallery
Date: 6th Jul 2026 @ 2:54pm
Over the last term the children in Aventurine have been dancing to 'Sandstorm' and 'California Girls'. A few photos of their dances.
Date: 10th Jun 2026 @ 1:13pm
The Vikings Have Landed!!!
Today, in Aventurine we created a dramatic re - enactment of when the Vikings arrived at Lindsifarne Priory, in AD 793. The children arrived at school looking absolutely fabulous in their costumes: Monks, Anglo Saxons and of course the Vikings!!! They had previously made lots of props, including Viking boats,Anglo Saxon jewellery, wepons, Bibles and manuscripts. The poor Anglo Saxons didn't stand a chance, as our terrifying Viklings arrived....
Date: 20th Mar 2026 @ 12:41pm
We had lots of fun creating pictures of Ted out of coins. Ted even visited our class with Mrs Sleep.
Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 2:01pm
Congratulations to Aventurine for their amazing work last term. They thoroughly deserve the treat day today.
Highlights included : A play by Etta, Mia, Juno, Esther and Shola
DJ Shola and her decks - a stunning session.
Dens
Football
Ipads
Board Games
Snacks
The children had a fabulous day and they played and partied so well. They are fabulous children to be around.
Mrs Butter xxx
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: 16th Dec 2025 @ 1:26pm
It has been an absolute pleasure to spend this time of year with your children. They have been shinning stars! I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year!
Mrs Butter
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 1:11pm
A few pictures of our fabulous trip to the rainforest.
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 3:38pm
We recently had an expert chess master in to help us understand and play the game of chess. For some of the children this was the first experience of chess they had had. All the children really enjoyed these sessions.
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 3:34pm
Before starting our Frida portraits, we created double page spreads where we focused on specific techniques. We lookedat the background of her art and used different materials to create our own sketches based on hers. We also had a go at drawing in the style of Frida kahlo by doing a self portrait lying on our backs!
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 3:13pm
What an amazing day the children in Aventurine had in forest school. A big thanks to Mrs Priestley for all of her hard work.
Date: 22nd Oct 2025 @ 10:27am
What an amazing time we all had at Hooke Court. The children immersed themselves in all the activities and they had lots of fun learning many new skills. As a team, the children constructed a rope-pull system to get medical supplies across the moat. In the evening, they had a great time singing crazy songs around a campfire. One of their favourite activities was creating beautiful magnets using delicate shells. As part of the Tribal Kingdom day the children gathered logs to build dens, became tribes for the day by choosing their own tribe leader and came up with a tribal chant. By far the most exciting experience was making rockets and blasting them up into the sky! All adults were extremely impressed with the behaviour of the children and they made us all proud!
Date: 24th Nov 2024 @ 9:25pm
Date: 24th Nov 2024 @ 9:22pm
The children are really enjoying studying about the artist Frida Kahlo. They have made some beautiful small studies in their art books and will be starting their portrait drawings on Monday.
Date: 24th Oct 2024 @ 10:07am
What an amazing time we all had creating wonderful memories at Hooke Court this year. The children were fantastic!
We took part in a range of exciting activities including; bridging a very wet moat; night search and rescue; tribal kingdom day; shell craft and rocket building!
The children all enjoyed some delicious food for breakfast, lunch and tea!
We are extremely proud of all the children for embracing their time away and hope you can agree from the photos that they have had a truly memorable experience and one that they will hopefully remember and cherish for a long time 😊
Date: 25th Sep 2024 @ 1:08pm
The children in Aventurine loved this lesson. We identifed proper nouns, collective nouns, common nouns, partitive and abstract nouns in a nonsense poem. Then we said the poem together with actions and different voices for the different types of nouns. Take a look at the video!!!
Date: 18th Jul 2024 @ 2:14pm
I am so proud of each and every Year 6: they worked so hard in such a short space of time to create a magnificent show. We had a long and very busy day performing three times, each time they just got better and better. Fantastic singing, dancing, great comical performances and brillaint props. Well done chaps, I hope you have some wonderful memories.
Thanks to Chris for filming the production, here is llink if you would like to watch it again.
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 5:01pm
Date: 24th Jun 2024 @ 3:42pm
Engaging in problem solving puzzles, geometry themed, gave the children the opportunity to develop their skills of perservance and determination. They also should great problem solving and logical thinking:all whilst having fun!
Date: 3rd Jun 2024 @ 12:47pm
A big wow to all the children who have brought in Homework this term!
Date: 3rd Jun 2024 @ 12:37pm
Date: 3rd Jun 2024 @ 12:33pm
Our Owl pellet investigation suprised us all. The children worked liked scientists as the carefully removed the casing and discovered whate the owls had digested.
Date: 3rd Jun 2024 @ 12:27pm
It was lovely to work with all the year 5's during Science week. The children loved learning about space and getting outside to show the knowledge of how the earth moves in relation to the other planets.
Date: 23rd May 2024 @ 11:47am
After all that dancing the children slept really well last night. This morning they packed up & had another big breakfast (who knew watermelon and bacon was a good combination!), be warned your child is now used to cereal, croissants, full english and fresh fruit, all in one sitting!
We have had lots of compliments from other guests about how well behaved the children are and what good manners they have. Proud.
This morning we went swimming again and on the water slides - brilliant fun. Then we will have a picnic lunch & get on the coach. See you back in Stroud - we will be the tired and bedraggled looking ones! Enjoy unpacking their bags!
Date: 22nd May 2024 @ 11:11pm
Sorry for uploading photgraphs so late, we have been very busy!
Today was very wet in places, so we only had a few minutes on the pedal carts before we had to go inside. So we played cricket, rounders, basketball, made candles, went on the climbing wall and then swam. The children are shattered, but still very lively!
Then we ate even more lovely food, went in the games zone and some of us played pool. Most of us (including some staff) went in the Fun Zone and climbed around soft play and went down slides (Mrs NG took the pics). Then we went to the lounge and listened to a live singer and almost all the children danced. A great day. We are all in bed now. Enjoy the photos.
