After being snowed off last term, we finally got to put our exploring and adventuring knowledge to the test on Thursday. We spent the day in our Kagan teams, working cooperatively together to achieve more than we could have done…
Year 6 have used Kagan cooperative learning structures throughout their time at Tiverton, and now they are putting these skills to great use. Over the last few weeks, they have been getting ready to tackle the SATs arithmetic paper by…
In Science we have been learning about habitats and we made our own local habitats. We researched what animals lived their and what their surroundings looked like. We made an urban habitat, pond habitat and city habitat. We worked in…
During the Spring 2 term we have been learning about mechanisms and levers in DT. We made our own to see how they worked and over the weeks we planned our Easter cards which included a lever! 🐣
For this year's Safer Internet Day, Year 4 focused on the theme 'Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online'. The children discussed different scenarios they might encounter while online, for example a stranger asking for…
This year's theme for Safer Internet Day was "Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online." So in Year 6 we made sure we did just that! We often spend lots of time talking about the…
Today some of the boys worked incredibly together to make the longest train around the classroom pretty much using all of the train track pieces. They were under the tables, squeezing under chairs, around corners and between their peers to…
Today, we were practising our quick retrieval skills by answering questions on our new text, The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll. Rather than writing our answers in our books, we wanted to practise our speed and comprehension…
Today, Year 5 and 6 were excited to invite their parents into the school to share in a workshop, focussed around different aspects of the writing curriculum: spelling exception words, using fronted adverbials, effective descriptive writing, and using the Kagan…