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Oxford, what's your story
- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
Holywell Music Room - Peer Gynt
CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien were inspired by many old Norse myths. Today we are looking at a Norwegian folk tale which describes Peer Gynt a...
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Oxford, what's your story
- Jun 8, 2020
- 2 min
Making the invisible visible
In Chapter 9 and 10 of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Lucy come across some strange characters who can't be seen. They want her to help ...
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Oxford, what's your story
- Jun 5, 2020
- 1 min
Zooming off to the Kilns
If you explored places in Oxford where CS Lewis walked on Wednesday, you probably didn't make it up to his actual home in Headington. The...
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Oxford, what's your story
- Jun 4, 2020
- 1 min
There be dragons
In our readings from the Dawn Treader today, Eustace is turned into a dragon. In Science today, we're learning more about some real drago...
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Oxford, what's your story
- Jun 3, 2020
- 2 min
Walking in the footsteps of CS Lewis
In the next few days we are looking forward to going on a virtual tour of CS Lewis' old home, the Kilns. But there are many places to exp...
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Oxford, what's your story
- Jun 2, 2020
- 1 min
Holywell Music Room - The Planets
Today in the Holywell Music Room we will be looking at one of Britain's most famous compositions, Gustav Holst's 'Planets Suite'. Holst w...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 21, 2020
- 1 min
Staring into the ocean
At the beginning of the Dawn Treader, Lucy and Edmund are looking at a picture of a boat on the sea. As they look harder, they begin to s...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 20, 2020
- 2 min
Walking with Oxford Authors
Wednesday is our day for a walk and today we're on the trail of Oxford authors. Depending on where you live, you can choose the one which...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Holywell Music Room - Music from the New World
On Friday, Years 2 to 4 explored the New World in our Story of the World History course. Today we are going to the New World with Antonin...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Chess with Reepicheep
Tuesday is chess day at Emmanuel and in assembly this morning we heard about how Reepicheep the mouse would play chess, if it was in real...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Artist's Studio - Two Colour Tonal Pictures
Today in our artist's studio we'll be drawing a two colour tonal picture. Here's what the end product will look like: You will need: An A...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 18, 2020
- 1 min
Dabbling with Ducks
Today as we start our topic of 'Oxford Story Tellers', Year 1 to 4 are enjoying the Wind in the Willows. Ratty writes a poem about his ob...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 18, 2020
- 2 min
Readings with Reepicheep
Today we start a new topic looking at 'Story Tellers from Oxford'. In our morning assemblies we are looking at my favourite character fro...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
We built this city with...
As we come to the end of our topic on 'Oxford's Stories', I spoke this morning about the foundations of a city which endures. You can cat...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 14, 2020
- 2 min
Spring Green
Spring is my favourite season in England because of the life that bursts out before our eyes. When we were considering leaving South Afri...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 13, 2020
- 1 min
Walking the streets of Oxford
Depending on where you live, you could visit a number of spaces in Oxford this afternoon. You could go on the Jericho Jaunt I outlined in...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
Artist's Studio - Tonal Impression
Would you like to turn your nature photos into a tonal picture? Here we have a step by step guide to transforming your favourite photo in...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
Artist's Studio - Oxford Architecture
It's great to have Mrs Bell with us virtually to teach us how to turn our pictures of streets and buildings into pictures drawn by hand. ...
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Oxford, what's your story
- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
Holywell Music Room - Fingal's Cave
Do you remember the story of the Giant's Causeway and Finn McCool? Did you know that there is an island in Scotland with basalt columns j...
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