Author Archives: Shoscombe Primary School

Beech Class: Journeying to the Stone Age

As part of their Stone Age learning, Beech Class went on a memorable visit to Stonehenge and walked to the nearby long barrow. Back in the classroom, they have been reading Stone Age Boy and …

Chestnut Class: Fossil Hunters at Lyme Regis

Chestnut Class enjoyed a brilliant trip to Lyme Regis, immersing themselves in the life and legacy of pioneer paleontologist Mary Anning. Their reading and writing have revolved around fossils and Mary Anning’s discoveries, and they …

Sycamore Class: Living History at the STEAM Museum

Sycamore Class traveled to the STEAM Museum in Swindon for an extraordinary immersion into World War II history. The museum has truly raised the bar, and our pupils took part in four fantastic workshops: Women …

Bake off!

Today all the Children at home and those that are at school enjoyed our own Shoscombe Bake off. The theme was set around what we have been researching at school, Australian art, The great barrier …

Treasure our Last Whole School Story of this year

Watch Mrs Rorison read the whole story: Treasure- Whole School Story Thank you to Hannah, Charlie C, George C, Oakley Hughes, Bailey H Crash! Clink! Chink! Esther rummaged through the rubbish dump sorting through …

Using recycled materials to recreate the Great Barrier Reef

In Design and Technology we were asked to used a range of materials to create images of the things we might see on the Great Barrier Reef. We used fruit, vegetables, baking, tissue paper, sticks …

Australian art work

Our children at home and at school have been using traditional techniques to paint pictures of Uluru. Click here to view our Australian Desert Art

School Story Number Three – Where the Horizon Melts

Thank you to Cypress, Betty, William, Phoebe R, Archie HV, Arlo and Noah. In Australia on what was supposed to be a normal day deep down in the clear blue sea, Bubbles swam to his …

Piper: Our Second Whole School Story

Piper Chunk 1 Thank you to Annie (Year 6), Rhys (Year 6), Tilly (Year 5), Charlie M (Year 4), William (Year 3), Antonia (Year 3), Aaliyah (Year 2), Scarlett (Year 2), Finley (Year 1) On …

Environmental Art

One of our Home Learning activities was to use materials found in our gardens to produce a picture. Just look at these creative and artistic pictures! Well done everyone.