The Tiverton RRSA Steering Group took over yesterday’s assembly to teach us all about UNICEF’s role in disaster relief. We also had the exciting news that our Bronze Award certificate has arrived. Congratulations to everybody on your hard work!
Published Date: 13th February 2019
Category: KS1 blog, KS2 blog, Rights Respecting Schools Steering Group, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
During Autumn Term and the beginning of Spring term Year 1 have been completing their topic – All Dressed Up. As part of our Design Technology project we designed and then made our own hats. We learned lots of new skills and tried to add them to our hats. Then Mrs Matthews and Mrs Ward […]
Published Date: 3rd February 2019
Category: Arts blog, KS1 blog, Rights Respecting Schools Steering Group, Science Blog, Year 1
Year 1 had a dancetastic afternoon with Birmingham Royal Ballet. Mrs Matthews and Mrs ward thought we were amazing – we listened, joined in and had so much fun! Check out our beautiful Ballet moves. Year
Published Date: 30th January 2019
Category: Arts blog, KS1 blog, sports blog, Year 1
We practised a new kagan skill last week during Guided Reading #Kagan skills We were in mixed groups and we had to read a sentence from our class text Millie’s Marvellous hat 🎩. Then we decided in our teams whether the sentence was true or false!
This week we have been learning about time to the hour and half past with Miss Baugh our student teacher. Can you see what times we have made? We even decorated some time biscuits.
We have been busy planning and teaching lessons this week. In our meeting, we explored different activities using the RRSA Wants and Needs cards. Which of the images show things which are essential to our survival and wellbeing, and which are extras, or ‘wants’? Some pictures had us discussing different situations, for example the bicycle. […]
Published Date: 25th January 2019
Category: KS1 blog, KS2 blog, Rights Respecting Schools Steering Group, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
This afternoon Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are enjoying a performance of the Rainbow Fish. We loved the singing and dancing!
Published Date: 11th December 2018
Category: Arts blog, eyfs blog, KS1 blog, Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2
We have been busy bees 🐝 this week. Look at our wonderful trees all ready for our Christmas hoop to go on display in the hall.
This week year one have been writing their letters to Santa. We are trying really hard to use our phonics in our writing. Can you see what we would like for Christmas? Off they go! Ho ho!
Year One had a sensational Science lesson today. We learned all about how the 5 senses work. Some of us were even smelly experts!
Published Date: 26th November 2018
Category: KS1 blog, Science Blog, Year 1
Tiverton Academy is now on its way to become a UNICEF rights respecting school. The class votes have been cast and we now have our first ever steering group! There are 2 children from each class (year 1 to year 6) We all had to attend our first meeting together on Thursday – it was […]
Published Date: 30th September 2018
Category: eyfs blog, KS1 blog, KS2 blog, Nursery, Reception, Rights Respecting Schools Steering Group, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Year one have had an amazing start to their Autumn term. We have continued our work on The Flower 🌺 by John Light in Literacy. During our Maths lessons we have been learning about place value and one more and one less. In Science lessons we have been studying flowers 🌺 and looking at the […]
Published Date: 30th September 2018
Category: KS1 blog, Science Blog, Year 1
For our latest Inspire workshop we focused on money and time. Lots of parents and carers were able to attend and share in the fun learning activities with the children. Everyone had a great time… […]
The atmosphere today was amazing in our Year 1 and 2 INSPIRE workshop. We focused on money and time and had activities in the hall and both classrooms. Thank you to all the parents that came!
We held a competition for the best dressed character from Nursery to Year 6. Take a look at our winners: Ladybird in Nursery Tiger in Reception Cat in the Hat in Year 1 Mary Poppins in Year 2 Goth Girl in Y3 Willy Wonka in Year 4 Hetty Feathers in Year 5 […]
Published Date: 1st March 2018
Category: KS1 blog, KS2 blog, Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
In Year One we have been learning all about Chinese New Year… We enjoyed the Chinese Zodiac story and it was fun putting the animals into the correct order. This was a good opportunity to learn our ordinal numbers. We worked out that the dog came eleventh in the race. We tasted Chinese food. […]
Today we took our learning outside… At forest school we learned new skills and had lots of fun. We used nature to make self portraits. We roasted marshmallows on the fire. We can’t wait for our next forest school session!
After a busy half term we enjoyed some festive fun during our last week. On Monday Mrs McKenzie led us into the school hall where we were amazed to meet Santa! He kindly gave us presents and we were able to ask him lots of questions… Thank you Santa! We also enjoyed and participated […]
We had another treat today – we are being so spoilt this week! We watched The Owl who was afraid of the dark
Published Date: 19th December 2017
Category: Arts blog, eyfs blog, KS1 blog, Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2
EYFS and KS1 had a lovely surprise this morning. One of Santa’s elves came to visit and performed a magic show for us! Oh no Mrs Ward… you were chosen for the cream pie game 😃
Published Date: 18th December 2017
Category: eyfs blog, KS1 blog, Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2
Dear Year One, While the snow is keeping us all away from school, why don’t you spend some time practising your maths on Mathletics? There are new activities available for you to work on – go on, have a try! Best wishes, Mrs McKenzie
Today we were amazed to discover that we had been visited by an Elf! Elfis Presently left us a note and a gigantic gift bag containing a Christmas tree and lots of shiny decorations. We had so much fun decorating the classroom and now it looks ready for Christmas. […]
This year, to raise money for BBC Children In Need, children from every year group dressed up their bears in all sorts of different outfits. We were SO impressed by your creativity and imagination, and awarding prizes was verrrrry difficult. Thank you all for your generous donations – we hope to have the total added […]
Published Date: 21st November 2017
Category: Arts blog, eyfs blog, KS1 blog, KS2 blog, Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
What a fabulous, inspiring morning we had today. The classrooms and hall were buzzing with reading excitement and everyone got stuck in. Come and take a look…
This week, Year 1 completed their work on The Magic Porridge Pot – a traditional tale from Germany. This included writing their version of the story with their chosen food. Children were very imaginative and had some great ideas. Some parents had the opportunity to view and enjoy this work at the recent Parent Consultation. […]
Today we had a magical maths assembly and the clubs will be starting again in January. The clubs will be after school every Wednesday for 6 six weeks. You can join by visiting the website or calling the telephone number on the flyer that was handed out today. There is a cost for the workshops. […]
Published Date: 7th November 2017
Category: KS1 blog, KS2 blog, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
In Maths we have covered several topics, including place value, calculation and geometry. We demonstrated our understanding of place value by, for example, using dienes blocks and ordering numbers. We performed addition calculations in different ways, including outside on the field using natural objects. We learned about geometry in a tasty way by making 2D […]
The McMillan coffee morning was a success this morning – thank you to Mrs Matthews for organising it and all the staff that helped set up. A huge thank you to all the parents/carers/staff and children who donated cakes and biscuits in order to make it successful. We had a good turn out and we […]
Published Date: 29th September 2017
Category: eyfs blog, KS1 blog, KS2 blog, Nursery, Reception, Rights Respecting Schools Steering Group, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
This half term we moved from Reception into Year One. We have a new classroom and have been getting used to our new routines and responsibilities. In Maths we have been focusing on a number of topics including 2D shapes, counting and place value. In Literacy we have been developing our handwriting and learning what […]
We had a wonderful world book day in year one! Lots of us dressed up as our favourite book characters. We enjoyed reading in the book corner. The big books were as nearly as big as us! Arabella the story teller came to visit us. Can you guess which story she read?
This week year one have been learning to read and write number words! We have been practising writing them in sand. And in paint! We even had a challenge to find, read and match the number words!
On Tuesday year one had some special visitors – real ballerinas! They showed us how they learn to perform ballet. We practised pointing our toes. Ballerinas stand with their feet together. We even had to put the soles of our feet together. It made our legs ache! They came from the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Have […]
Published Date: 18th January 2017
Category: Arts blog, KS1 blog, sports blog, Year 1
Year 1 have been excited to find out about our new topic! We had to look at pictures from around the school to find where the clues would be. Where could they be? We decided to talk in our groups about where the clues might be. Some of us even drew a map to help! […]
We had a wonderful time today watching an Elmer performance from an amazing theatre company. It’s ok to be different, embrace it!
We have had a busy week in Year 1. On Monday, Jangle the elf rewarded us for our beautifully written letters to Santa. He placed a gold coin in our empty water bottles… What a surprise! Later that morning we joined EYFS and Year 2 to watch the magic of Flip the Clown. We enjoyed the […]
We’ve had a lovely Christmassy magic show with Flip the Clown this morning 🎄 We even face timed santa 🎅🏼
Published Date: 12th December 2016
Category: eyfs blog, KS1 blog, Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2
It was a very strange start to our afternoon in year 1. We found a trail of green glitter leading into our classroom! Jangle the Elf was sitting on Mrs Matthews chair with a big bag full of goodies! We had the magical green sparkles all over us! He gave us lots of exciting treats! […]
Year 1 and year 2 welcomed parents today for our reading INSPIRE workshop and it was a great success. The children and parents had the best time circulating around the year 1 classroom, year 2 classroom and hall. We provided the children and parents with lots of different reading activities such as reading sacks, non […]
Published Date: 9th November 2016
Category: eyfs blog, KS2 blog, Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
