Junior News

On a wet and rainy Thursday, the Nursery and Reception classes visited Roves Farm in Sevenhampton.  The rain didn’t stop us having lots of fun and learning all about the farm animals.  We went on a tractor ride and stopped in the wetland for a minibeast hunt where we found a frog, a toad and lots of bugs.

After our delicious indoor picnic we enjoyed feeding lambs, holding rabbits, chicks and a guinea pig in the animal barn.

The hay maze and bouncy castle were very popular and we ended the day making our own woolly lamb pictures.

Daisy Cole: “I like finding the toad and playing in the hay maze.”
Alex Higuera: “My favourite bit was riding on the pedal tractor and feeding the lambs.”

Rendcomb College Junior School’s Eco Team took part in the “BIG Tidy Up” and battled with litter on St George’s Day as part of the Keep Britain Tidy campaign. The students donned gloves, capes and tabards as they picked up litter around the campus in their special "BIG Tidy Up" bags. The children thoroughly enjoyed helping to keep their part of Britain tidy.

All J3-6 pupils at Rendcomb College Junior School, along with their form tutors, teachers, and works team ran over a mile around their sport pitches, in aid of Sport Relief on a very rainy Monday afternoon. They were also joined by the Headmasters of both the Junior and Senior School. The lashing rain did not deter the runners and everyone got around the course successfully, albeit a little bit muddy. The children are hoping to raise lots of money for such a good cause from all their sponsorship.

Well done everyone- check out Read More for more photos!

J4 spent a morning preparing, cooking and eating a well balanced lunch. Healthy meals on the menu were chicken pasta, meatballs and rice and ‘ Easy Cheesy Peasy Pasta’.  They also created exotic drinks such as fresh strawberry milkshake and crushed pear juice. The children were all in agreement that the morning had been great fun and the food was absolutely delicious. Oliver Jones said ‘It was the best meal I’ve ever had and we all wanted seconds!’

Over the last term J3 have been studying Roman Britain and learning Latin at the same time.
The Minimus stories are based on a real family living in Roman Britain at Vindolanda Fort.
Through these stories J3 have learnt about school and home life and how the language works.
This culminated in a fantastic assembly where J3 performed a play in Latin and English,
even singing Old MacDonald had a Farm in Latin!
J3 will be studying French again after Easter but Minimus is staying and there will be a new Latin Club for the J3-6 at lunchtime.

Rendcomb College Junior School had enormous fun celebrating World Book Day. Everyone came dressed up as their favourite book character, and introduced their character to the rest of the school. All the staff joined in with the proceedings too. Each class then either recited a poem or a rap or performed an extract from a book. It was an extremely enjoyable event.

J3 to J6 spent this morning taking part in a plethora of Maths activities. The children were placed in mixed age group teams
and it was wonderful to see older children helping younger pupils and all working together to earn points for amazing Maths tasks, teamwork and manners. The four teams were Archimedes, Pythagoras, Einstein and Newton. The children also had an opportunity to spend some time on-line competing in Maths games against students from 235 countries around the world. All children performed really well and were a credit to Rendcomb.By the end of the morning the team which earned the most points was Einstein whose members were duly crowned Maths Marvels 2010!

J4 spent an exciting morning in Gloucester Cathedral learning about the history of the monastery, why the monks had to leave in Tudor times and why the Cathedral survived Henry V111’s destruction of churches. The children dressed as monks and sang in Latin and also had an opportunity to write with a quill pen and make brass rubbings. In the afternoon, we crossed the road to the Folk Museum where there was an opportunity to dress in Tudor costume and study artefacts.

Daphne and Martin Neville brought Belinda, an asian otter to meet the Otters (the infant Department) as well as the J3 & J4 classes at Rendcomb College Junior School.  Daphne and Martin have been looking after otters in Gloucestershire for the past 30 years. Daphne taught the pupils so many interesting facts about them and had some great stories to tell too. The pupils have since been doing lots of work about otters and are in the process of creating a wonderful display.

J1 became dinosaur detectives this week when they visited the Natural History Museum, in Oxford.  They took part in an exciting workshop with Chris, who told them countless facts about dinosaurs and showed them what type of dinosaurs walked the earth millions of years ago.  The children were able to handle many artefacts including teeth and tail bone fossils, and they had a good look at some dinosaur poo!  The children also enjoyed a trip to the museum shop and a dinosaur hunt around the museum.  It was a brilliant day out and the children returned to school happy and tired out from all their adventures!