Recently, Y3 visited Southampton City Art Gallery as part of their curriculum learning question: ‘How can I visit an art gallery?’ Ishika, 3T Q: What did you learn ? A: When you go to a precious place you don’t touch anything unless told to. Q: What did you think about the art? A: It […]
We are Mount Pleasant pupils and we meet once a week as Arts Council. We learn about different types of art forms and help people in our brilliant school think about the arts around them. We would like to tell you about a creative project in our Bibliotheca. Birds have landed in our tree! They […]
As part of their history learning question, ‘What impact did the Titanic have on Southampton?’, Y5 visited the Seacity Museum and worked with expert Southampton historian Andy Skinner. ‘I really liked the trip, it was fun! I enjoyed steering the wheel and even found out the captains name.’ – Subhan ‘I found out that all […]
As part of their History learning learning question, ‘Was Henry a selfish King?’, Year 6 visited Hampton Court Palace. They got to experience life as a royal, walking thorugh the palace and taking part in a workshop. Here’s what they thought: ‘We learned all about Henry VII wives and how many there were. Plus, we […]
As part of their history learning question, ‘What happened when the Romans invaded Britain?’, Y4 visited Fishbourne Roman Palace. ‘I found it really interesting that we saw a model of a Roman kitchen and there were Roman games and activities. We were able to discover what artefacts there were and worked as historians to put […]
As part of their history learning question, ‘Would you rather live in the Stone Age, Iron Age or Bronze Age?’, Y3 visited Butser Ancient Farm. It was interesting that there were only sheep and goats as farm animals. We got to see some at Butser. – Anabia The interesting thing was the size of the […]
Recently, Y6 went on a trip to our local art gallery to answer their learning question ‘How can I read a portrait?’ Let’s see what they did on there trip and what they learnt. “I learnt that art is not just paintings, it can be different shapes and sizes. I liked the sculptures because they […]
On 22nd September, we celebrated World Rhino Day. We were joined by Care for Wild Ambassador, Mrs Amanda Smith, who shared her rhino expertise and experiences with the children as they worked to answer Rhino related Learning Questions. The whole day was inspired by a rather tired looking fibreglass rhino that we had been donated. […]
To bring our 125 Celebrations to a close, we were very lucky to welcome our Deputy Lord Lieutenant, Lena Samuels visit our school and be part of a special assembly. Our bloggers took the opportunity to sit down with the Deputy Lord Lieutenant to ask some questions. What do you think is exciting about our […]
Mount Pleasant took part in The Hares of Hampshire this year, creating a beautiful Hare, that resided for 10 weeks in West Quay shopping centre. We then sold it to auction for the charity for £2400. Our bloggers asked the teachers what they thought about our Leveret. “I was incredibly proud of all the hard […]
