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🪡Designing and Making Waistcoats🧵
🪡Designing and Making Waistcoats🧵
Over the past term, Year 6 learned what a waistocat was, what a design criteria is used for and then combined this knowledge in order to produce a suitable design for a waistcoat.
They learned vocabualry such as templates, running stitch, tacking and fastenings along the way. The sewing "learning curve" was quite steep for some, whilst others tackled sewing seams and attaching buttons (securely!) in their stride.
The next step is to find some willing models to show off their final designs!
🌍 Earth Day 2026 🌍
🌍 Earth Day 2026 🌍
Wednesday 22nd March 2026 was "Earth Day" and all round the planet different groups of people were taking part in events highlighting the need to take care of our precious world.
This year's theme was "Our Power, Our Planet" so Year 6 decided to take action. They started with our immediate area and collected 4 bags of rubbish from the perimeter of our playground and field!
They are planning to keep this good work going with a regular little pick.
"Every action counts. Every voice matters."
What could you do?
🌍 Find out more about Earth Day here. 🌍
🚯 Geography Field Trip
🚯 Geography Field Trip
How does litter affect our local area? 🚮
How does litter affect our local area? 🚮
Our geography learning has focused on marine environments and how humnas have been affecting these environments. As our only local water is the canal, we took ourselves there to conduct our fieldwork study.
To complete this we had to:
create a class risk assessment to keep everyone safe around water - and litter!
collect our equipment: litter pickers, bin bags and clipboards.
carry out a litter pick in different areas on the canal.
record it in a tally chart.
Weigh our bags of rubbish! Mr Sangha's group collected the most.
We made many observations including the fact that most of the litter was related to food packaging and most bits had broken down into small scraps. We found lots of cans!
Once back at school, we analysed our findings and used software to present them into pie charts!.
We so much enjoyed using the litter pickers that we are thinking of carrying out some active citizenship by starting regular litter picks on the road outside our school. Watch this space!
Tiverton's Ten Word Tiny Tales - inspired by Joseph Coello and Friends
Tiverton's Ten Word Tiny Tales - inspired by Joseph Coello and Friends
Year 6's First Tiny Tales
Earlier this year, we launched our whole school writing for pleasure challenge: can you write a tiny story that is just ten words long?
Each class has its own illustration to inspire them and strips which help them to make out their ten words.
A challenge indeed! Some people found it tricky to squeeze all they wanted to say into ten words, whereas others found that they couldn't stop writing them!
🐟🐠Sea Life Centre Visit🐟🐠
🐟🐠Sea Life Centre Visit🐟🐠
To enhance their understanding of what they have been learning about in geography - marine environments and the threats they face - Year 6 took a trip to the Sea Life Centre to find out more.
We are so lucky to have this venue on our doorstep. The children got to see precious coral reef habitats up close and learn about the important work that the sea life centres are doing to help raise awareness of plastic pollution.
Most importantly, they got to see a whole range of creatures that live in a totally different environment to our own - up close! Some struggled to believe that what they were seeing wasn't Ai!
"No...they are real penguins!" 🐧🐧🐧
Year 6 Visit the Courtauld Gallery in London
Year 6 Visit the Courtauld Gallery in London
🎨🖼️🎨
At the end of last term, Year 6 travelled to London to experience a series of mini art workshops at the world-renowned Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House.
Upon arrival, the students explored a vast range of works, from medieval religious paintings to the masterpieces of Impressionists like Paul Cézanne and Pointillists such as Georges Seurat. At each stop, they sat on the gallery floor to immerse themselves in the artists' styles before creating their own mini artworks.
It was a truly memorable experience for the children. Although the journey was long, it was a fantastic way to round off a successful term of collaboration with the Barber Institute at the University of Birmingham.
Come Dine with Me -Tiverton Academy style!
Come Dine with Me -Tiverton Academy style!
As part of their design and technology project, Y6 learned about "Farm to Fork" and designed their own menus using three hero ingredients: bell pepper, salmon and pineapple.
They then had to prepare the ingredients, assemble the dishes and then cook them.
The best bit? Taste-testing of course!
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