Year 6 Memento Tiles
This week, Year 6 have been designing and crafting clay memento tiles as part of saying goodbye to their time at Tiverton. We can't wait to see them once they are painted!
Barbara Hepworth Inspired DT and Art
This week Y1 have been taking a look at the work of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Barbara Hepworth was born on 10th January 1903 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. You can find out more about her here: https://barbarahepworth.org.uk/biography/ Take a look at…
Stan’s Cafe visit Y4, 5 and 6 for a day of creative joy.
Years 4, 5 and 6 had a very creative day today when drama group “Stan’s Cafe” came for a creative writing inspiration day. After first listening to professional Grand Prix commentators, children had opportunity to try it out for themselves;…
Refugee Shelters – Year 6 DT
After exploring existing shelters and their features, we created a set of design criteria for our own emergency refugee shelter. We also had to consider where our refugee camp would be: Turkey or Poland. Next we had a go at…
Year 6 Self-Portraits
As you will have seen earlier in the term, we have been learning about facial proportions and representing these using drawing. We took these skills and turned them into fantasy self-portraits inspired by Frida Kahlo. We used paint and…
Year 5 Refugee Songs
This term, Year 5 have been working on songs about displaced people, and written their own lyrics in their Kagan teams. After learning to sing a traditional Native American piece, they then used the music from this to inspire their…
Refugee Songs from Year 6
This term, Mrs Baker has once again worked her magic and Year 6 have achieved fantastic results! After learning to sing a traditional Native American piece, we then used the music from this to inspire our own lyrics. As we…
Year 6 Self-Portrait Explorations
Year 6 are thinking about the idea of "self", and exploring self-portraits. First, we learned about proportion by drawing generic faces. We then took a more focussed approach using a scaled grid to test our observation skills. It was…
Moving Storybooks – The Final Books!
This week, Year 6 completed their storybooks with moving mechanisms! Each table worked as a team; creating pages individually then putting it all together to make their myths and legend storybook. All ready to share!
Christmas Countdown Begins in Year 6
Year 6 were in festive spirits this week; the classroom Christmas tree arrived and so did our annual tradition of creating decorations for our hoop. This is year we combined our maths knowledge with our creative skills to produce festive…