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We had a fantastic day at Brokerswood. We arrived in high spirits! After a quick pit stop we were straight into challenging ourselves with one of the four exciting activities: zip line, archery, climbing and canoeing. The children all used a...

We have had a fantastic fortnight in Year Three. A visit from the author CS Clifford has inspired our reading and writing. What an insight in to how his ideas became books! We have begun exploring lines and emotion with mixed media in our Art...

Year 5 had a fantastic day taking part in a range of water sport activities in South Cerney. We built and raced rafts, learnt to canoe and paddle board. Generally had an awesome, if not a little wet, time! 

In Year 4, we have been putting our investigative skills to the test by experimenting how wing length affects how a paper spinner will fall. Conclusions and analysis to follow next week.

This week in Year 6 we've been investigating how light travels and conducting our own investigations into the relationship between light and shadows.  

Last week, Year 6 had an amazing opportunity to watch a theatre version of the book we studied in term 1: Girl of Ink and Stars. The University students of Bath, directed by Barra Collins, performed the 90 minute show. The children had the...

In our class, we had a debate about one of Why the Whales Came's main characters: The Birdman. Half of our class were in favour of including him in life on the island of Bryher and half of us were in favour of keeping away from him....

This week in Year 4, we have started learning about the Anglo-Saxons. Some of us designed and made our own Saxon shields which we shared in class.

To start the term off year 5 spent the day exploring, learning and discussing the topic of inequality. We learnt about well-known figures who fought for equality and discussed ways we could eliminate it. 

Year 1 went on an amazing trip to Bristol Aquarium! We were lucky enough to have a guided tour around the aquarium and learnt lots of interesting facts about the fish. One of our favourite facts is that octopuses are true escape artists – they...

Year 3 at Hilperton had an exciting start back to the summer term, looking at plants. We have designed investigations to see if we can prove exactly what plants need to survive and grow. We are creating our own bean graph too where each day we...

This week we have been finishing and editing our non-chronological reports. We have begun publishing them in handwriting pen. We can't wait to show them to our grown-ups next week.  

Year 3 have begun an exciting investigation into testing, designing and creating their own Roman shield that will offer them the best protection in a battle. Did you know that the Roman word for a shield is Scutum? We  began by testing which...

Year 4 took part in the 'Run the World' event which was organised by the friends of The Mead. We had 10 minutes to run as many laps of the school as we could to raise money. We put in a huge amount of effort and completed over 300 laps of the...

Year 5 really enjoyed the sponsored event at the beginning of the term. As a year group we love getting active and they loved the opportunity to 'Run the world.'

This term Year 1 have been learning about castles. We visited Old Wardour castle this week to learn about life within a castle. We had a great time touring the ruins of the castle, playing historical games, retelling our castle story and...

In Year 6 this week, the children have been investigating electrical circuits. They have also been trying out different ways of creating strong joins between pieces of wood. Both these activities are leading up to them making their own electric...

Year 3 had a fantastic day out at Stonehenge. The weather was cold and windy but we didn’t get wet! We experienced Neolithic life and attempted to build Stonehenge, by working out how to transport and stand up the stones. We also had a go at grinding corn,...

On Friday Year 1 had their Super Starter – a King and Queen Day! We came dressed up as kings, queens, dragons, knights, horses and jesters. We learnt a medieval dance in the hall which involved clapping and dancing in a circle holding hands. It...

Last week Foxes and Robins visited Upper-Row Farm. Whilst there, we got to look at and meet lots of different animals; pigs, cows, chickens, rabbits, horses, goats and lambs. We all really enjoyed our day and particularly liked when we got to...

Year 2 have been having lots of fun measuring in centimetres and metres. First, we measured objects that we found indoors, such as books and chairs. Then, we went outside and measured how far our friends could run in 3 seconds.  We had so much fun! ...

This week, Year 6 have been drawing nets of 3D shapes in Maths. To help us draw in missing patterns on a net, we folded the nets of shapes to check our original answers; it was fiddly work but good fun!   

We recently visited Green Lane Woods. Whilst there, we looked for 'portals' into magical words. We then built houses for a creature that may have lived in our magical land- we had a party house for sting insects and a football pitch for unicorns! 

This term our art inspiration comes from the sketches of Quentin Blake. We have looked at how to draw a person using the correct proportions using our thumb and finger as a guide to measure the head. We then evaluated our pictures afterwards to...

Something very strange happened in Year 2. A magical chair appeared in the classroom and when we sat down, we were transported to a magical land. We saw tiny animals, dragons and were flying high above castles. It was fantastic! What a...

This week, Year 4 learnt about a micro-organism called yeast that likes to eat sugary foods. When it does this, it makes a gas called carbon dioxide. This is what causes bread to have holes it in. We investigated which types of sugary foods...

What an exciting start to Term Four! We spent the day outside exploring the story The Tin Forest and our environment. Exploration has been a thread through our week as we have used a variety of instruments to create a Sound Picture of the Tin...

We have had a fabulous start to term this week with a competition project for the European Space Agency! We have been learning all about the Moon and how we could live there in the future. We have discovered the best location to live, how to get power, how...

Wow what a fantastic day we all had  when Johnathan's Jungle Roadshow came to visit us.  The  children were amazed by his animal collection and so fascinated by all the animal facts.  We were all so proud of how respectful the children were to...

Some of the year five children have been taking apart machines and trying to figure out how they work. We have dismantled a range of items, including laptops, computers, HI-FI units and even a TV containing an VHS player…which most of the...

This week in Year 4, we investigated how the size of a paper roll affected how large you could blow a bubble. We mixed washing up liquid and water and made a device out of cardboard and a split-pin to measure the diameter of the bubbles. We had...

Last week, in Year 6, the children who didn't go to Young Voices worked on a project in pairs or threes. The children chose from either a Geography or Science project related to our foundation learning in term 3. The children researched an area...

Last week in ICT we continued to explore Scratch Jr on Ipads. We used our story of Where the Wild Things Are to create our own storyboard, which next week we will re-create on Scratch Jr. The first background shows Max’s bedroom turning into a forest. Next...

The dragon egg hatched! We found the baby dragon out in the school grounds! How small and how sweet!

We started our new topic- Robots. We began learning a story by creating different actions for each word. So far we have learnt 4 paragraphs! Maybe we could show our grown-ups at home?

We decided to get active after Christmas. We set up 9 circuit stations and worked our way through them. They included; sit ups, star jumps and even mountain climbers! We were rather tired afterwards and spent some time relaxing to calm music. ...

Such a lot of lovely geography learning has taken place in term 2.  The children in year six have been exploring biomes (Plant/animal habitats) They researched different biomes and presented their findings.  The children in year two used...

This week, Year 6 were able to share their Well-being guides with their grown ups for our Fabulous Finish. Some of the feedback from our Well-being guides have been "Impressive use of words", "Very impressed with the standard of work" and...

Congratulations to Year 3 who worked collaboratively to perform a fantastic Narnia production on Thursday 13th December. Our songs 'Here comes the Snow', 'Snow' and 'Snowman' thrilled the audiences and the dramatic battle dance went down a real treat! The...

This week we walked to Budgens to buy some fruit. After we wrote instructions for Beegu so that she would know where to buy some food and how to pay for it.

In maths this week Year 1 have been exploring the numbers 1-20. The children used model figures to count out 16. We then filled up our tens frame and noticed that when it was full there were 10 figures inside, with 6 left over. We used a number...

The Ravens and Otters have had a fantastic week starting their portal stories, we have developed our characters and created our settings. We can’t wait to find out where our portal adventure will take us! We have also started to practise our...

This week Year 6 have been learning all about Parliament. From discussions about the difference between The House of Commons to the House of Lords, to campaigning, women's vote and why people vote? In tables, the children focused on a specific...

On Thursday, Foxes and Robins went to Westonbirt Arboretum. We had lots of fun walking through the brightly coloured trees catching the falling leaves. We also went on a hunt to try to find the Gruffalo and his friends.... we found them hiding...

This week, Year 6 have been writing and performing an Anti-bullying rap. The children worked in groups to use body percussion, dance moves and additional beats to give their raps an extra sparkle. We enjoyed discussing the important message of...

Year Three have had a super start to Term 2 and our new topic, Narnia. We climbed through the wardrobe in to Narnia on Tuesday and immersed ourselves in the story and film. Last week we also spent time thinking about light and dark, talking about how light...