DT in Y6: Designing Playgrounds
After lots of Kagan work using structures such as Round Table Consensus and Round Robin, we explored what we thought a good playground should have, before refining this into a set of must-have design criteria. Then we learned measuring, marking…
✂️ DT: designing and making pavilions! ✂️
This half term, Year 4 have been designing their own pavilions in DT. We looked at existing examples from around the world and decided on a design criteria based on what we saw. The children designed their own pavilions and…
✨ End of Year Showcase! ✨
This morning, Y1 - 6 visited Encounter Church to perform an end of year showcase that highlighted many talents we have here at Tiverton. We had a beautiful multi-cultural dance, dad jokes, the Year 6 band, soloists, and many more.…
DT: finished Egyptian collars
Today, we finished our sewing projects in DT. We had some helpers from Y6 to assist with threading needles, tying knots. Look out for techniques including running stitch, cross stitch and appliqué. We had to draw on our reserves of…
⚽🏉🏓🏀 Year 5 – Olympic Games at KES 🏀🏓🏉⚽
Last week some of Year 5 got to attend the KES Olympic Games at King Edward’s School. Children participated in table tennis, basketball, shot put, javelin, rugby, football and relay race events. Was a great day of sport and fair…
Keyboard concert
This afternoon, students from years 3-6 performed for an audience of parents and families. Mr Ross, head of keyboard for Birmingham Music Service, teaches at Tiverton on Friday afternoons and these talented children have been practising hard for the concert.…
🎼 Y3 and Y4 visit KES to watch a concert 🎼
Last Thursday, Year 3 and 4 visited King Edwards to watch a lunchtime concert. We watched James Gooding play double bass, Connie Zhang play the flute, Harry Green sing two beautiful songs and Brendan Priest play the violin. It was…
🧵 DT in Year 6: Making Waistcoats 🧵
This week, Year 6 started work on their latest DT project: waistcoats! Working with their Kagan partners for support, Year 6 followed the process of evaluating existing products, developing design criteria then designing their waistcoats before laying out the pattern…
🧵🧵 DT: Textiles in Year 4 🧵🧵
This half term, Year 4 have been learning how to sew a pouch using felt and a needle and thread! We designed our pouches independently then joined up with a partner for the creating part! Lots of the children found…