Issue 36 | Spring 2025
Showcasing exceptional work by pupils at Crescent School
…to Issue 36 of the Minnacle.
Read on for inspiring examples of work from Crescent School. Well done to Kiran, Y5, for our fantastic front cover image, titled ‘Still Life with Vase and Flowers’, a great painting! Special thanks to Junior da Vinci Lead, Louise Symons, for collecting and sending through all the great work for this lovely mini mag.
Julia Lindsay
Kaira , R K i r a n, Y5
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Isabella and Carter were awarded a Mini da Vinci for the beautiful woven poppies they made during Forest School as part of Remembrance Day. They both displayed excellent creativity, focus and determination to complete the project, and were deservedly proud of their final pieces.
Kaira was awarded a Mini da Vinci for her independent writing which showcased beautiful cursive letter formations and super application of her phonics knowledge in order to segment and spell.
Kaira also made creative use of the Monster Phonics colour coding to show her understanding of tricky words.
Ayven created a vibrant art piece called ‘Taking a Line for a Walk’, inspired by the artist Paul Klee.
Using bold, flowing lines and bright, playful colours, Ayven explored how shapes and patterns can form from a single continuous line. His artwork captures creativity and movement, showcasing his imagination and artistic flair.
In Year 2 pupils learn how to research facts on the internet and write their findings in note form to help them create and write a nonfiction report.
They researched the key features of non-fiction reports and were challenged to see how many of those features they could include in their work. Aydin produced a fabulous report about guinea pigs looking at diet, habitat/housing and lifestyle/ health. His work demonstrated beautiful, joined handwriting, fabulous spelling and accurate punctuation.
Aydin earned himself a Mastery Junior da Vinci for his wonderful work.
Aydin,Y2
The weather and free time activities
In French the children were given two activities to complete on our online learning platform, Seesaw.
The first task was a tracing activity where they had to find their way to the Eiffel Tower by tracing a line through the correct French words on the screen.
The second activity was a word order challenge where the children had to drag the words on the screen into the correct order, translating the English sentence on the screen. Siara achieved a very high level of accuracy in both activities and she was awarded a Mastery Junior da Vinci.
Isabel and Oore were outstanding at exploring the language used in their English learning all about different cultural festivals and received Mastery Junior da Vincis.
They commented on the use of adjectives and similes to help the reader imagine what it is really like to attend an Ice Festival in countries such as Canada, USA and Norway.
Earthquake News Reports
In Year 4 the children loved filming a news report about an earthquake in Geography.
Some children chose to be the anchorman from the studio, some were in the thick of it reporting from the actual scene. Pupils reported the devastation and advice to follow if you had been affected. ‘Drop, Cover and Hold On!’.
CHARLOTTE, Y4
ALICE, Y4
MAX, Y4
KLARA, Y4
Children in Year 4 produced an earthquake information page aimed at teaching younger children all about earthquakes.
Here Jahnavi has earned herself a Creativity Junior da Vinci for her presentation, fact sharing and approach to learning.
Creativity AVA, Y5 Aria, Y5
Children in 5F have been learning about World War One in history.
They have learned about how propaganda was used to persuade men to enlist in the armed forces early on in the war. Aria and Ava both produced amazing recruitment posters as a result of their super learning, They fully deserved their Creativity Junior da Vinci awards.
Harry designed a cathedral as part of his RE homework.
He was awarded a Mastery Junior da Vinci for showing symbolism through shapes, light and colour. There was a great awareness of inclusivity. H arry, Y6
