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On Friday, Ospreys had the chance to make lanterns for Trowbridge Lantern Festival. We used willow sticks and tissue paper, and the finished products look fantastic!

Year 2 have had amazing start to our new topic ‘How do things change’.  We spent the whole morning exploring the school grounds looking for signs of Autumn and collecting leaves and twigs. We then created our own Autumn sculptures which varied...

Something mysterious has landed in our playground. We were sent a news report asking us to investigate. We asked lots of questions and had lots of ideas about what it might be. Come and visit our classrooms to find out what we thought had...

This week Year 1 invited their grown ups in for an afternoon to build a model house for the Three Little Pigs. The children designed their house first. It needed a door that opened and windows you could see through. Then we built our house with...

Year 6 have been exploring myths in English and have been learning and acting out Theseus and The Monotaur this week. The children can't wait to design their own 'fantastic beasts' next week and begin planning their myths. They are working on...

So far this term Year 2 have had lots of fun learning the story of ‘Traction Man’. We wrote our own Superhero comic strips. We have also been very excited about our History learning where we have found out lots of interested facts about Rosa...

On Thursday afternoon Year 4 followed an interactive BBC lesson on Mental Health and Wellbeing.  We were keen to learn some new techniques to help with mindfulness and focusing, and you can see the concentration on the faces of the children in Ospreys! We...

This week, Year 5 went on a trip to Slimbridge Wetlands Centre to learn all about the water cycle and how wetlands help to keep our water clean. We thoroughly enjoyed investigating how polluted the water was and how to help keep water healthy...

Year 4 have had a fantastic yet mysterious start to the school year! A package from a museum containing an object all the way from Egypt has arrived in school. The museum has heard we're studying the Ancient Egyptians and so have asked for our...

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,...

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...