UNICEF rights respecting school

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 […]

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It’s only been 4 weeks!

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 […]

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Year 1 and 2 Maths Inspire Workshop

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…                                                       […]

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Maths INSPIRE workshop

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!

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The Winners Are…

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       […]

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Chinese New Year – The Year of the Dog

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. […]

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Year One Goes to Forest School

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!

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Merry Christmas From Year 1

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 […]

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Movie night

Shhhhhh…. it’s KS1 and Receptions movie night 🎬 Mmmmmmm snack time

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The owl who was afraid of the dark

We had another treat today – we are being so spoilt this week! We watched The Owl who was afraid of the dark  

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Santa workshop

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 😃

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Mathletics in the snow!

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

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Elfis the Elf Comes to Year One!

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.                  […]

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Children in Need: Best Dressed Bear Competition

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 […]

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KS1 reading INSPIRE

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…  

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The Magic Porridge Pot – Book Review

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. […]

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Magical maths is back!

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. […]

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What a busy half term!!

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 […]

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McMillan coffee morning

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 […]

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Welcome to Year One!

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 […]

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World Book Day 2017

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?

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Number words

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!

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Birmingham Royal Ballet

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 […]

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New Year New Topic

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! […]

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Elmer – it’s ok to be different

We had a wonderful time today watching an Elmer performance from an amazing theatre company. It’s ok to be different, embrace it!

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A BUSY CHRISTMAS WEEK IN YEAR 1

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 […]

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Magical Christmas show with Flip

We’ve had a lovely Christmassy magic show with Flip the Clown this morning 🎄 We even face timed santa 🎅🏼

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Jangle the Elf

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! […]

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We were all INSPIRED!

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 […]

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Children in Need

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Super Scientists

In Science this week year one have been learning about materials. We have been learning the names of different materials and exploring their properties. Can you see the different materials we have explored? Chloe made a circus tent using different materials in the art studio. We also looked on the ipads to learn about other […]

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Amazing apparatus

Year one were very excited during PE this week. Miss Meah helped us to learn how to use the apparatus. We climbed up safely – some of us even got to the top!

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Eid Mubarak!

It’s party time in year one! Year one had a wonderful afternoon celebrating Eid ul-Adha with our friends on Friday afternoon. We learned that Eid ul-Adha is a day of happiness and forgiveness. Check out our dance moves to the song Happy – its one of our favourites! We also made some Eid crafts during […]

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Circus Day!

Year 1 and year 2 were very lucky to have Juggling Jim join us for a fun filled day. He taught us many circus skills. We learnt how to spin plates – it was very tricky to keep the plates level! Next we practiced a balancing trick with cups and boards – we had to keep […]

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Busy bees!

Wow! What a start to the new school year! Year 1 have already been busy working hard all last week! During Literacy we have been practising writing sentences about our holidays.   In Maths we have become measuring experts! We have been learning how to use metre sticks to measure some really long objects around our school. […]

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We’re MAD about science!

We had a great assembly when Mad Science came in to do a fantastic assembly for the whole school. It was such fun science experiments. Some children have now joined the Mad Science Club after school. Watch this space for more information about their progress!  

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Y1 Drama Production: the Enormous Turnip – 26th May 2.30pm

You are invited to join year 1 for their own drama production. Y1 Drama Production: the Enormous Turnip – 26th May 2.30pm We hope you will enjoy it!

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KS1 Dates for the Diary

Dear parents,   We are looking ahead to an exciting term. Here are a few dates for your diaries.   May May is the month for the testing period of Y2 SATS. Year 2 will be taking their tests in the reading, writing and maths papers. 12th – Y2 Football Training with Aston Villa Football […]

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Our sunflower seedlings have arrived!!🌱

Last week we planted sunflower seeds and since then we have been giving our seeds lots of love, care and water! Just look at how much they have changed! Some have begun to shoot up and others are just beginning to sprout. We can’t wait until they are fully grown sunflowers 🌻

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Testing materials

This week Year 1 have been testing materials they think would be suitable for a garden apron. We had great fun investigating the properties of materials and were surprised with some of our results. Keep up to date about our investigation into materials right here on our blog!    

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