 Garden Village
Primary Academy
Newsletter
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Issue No. 20
11th July 2025
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Welcome to our final newsletter of this academic year - what an incredible first year it has been!
Attendance to date continues to be a fantastic 96%. Thank you so very much for your support. Every day your child attends, they are learning and this is evident in the amazing progress and achievement that every child made this year. Here are some of the highlights that we would like to share with you in this newsletter from the past two weeks.
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Maple Reception - The class of 2025
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In Drawing Club last week, the children read and used the text 'Not Now Bernard' as the stimulus for their writing. Using the vocabulary "gobble", the children designed and wrote about a monster to eat Mum and Dad. They also designed and wrote about something that the monster would eat to take away the taste of Bernard.
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This week in Drawing Club, we chose a text that would compliment the Fierte Arts Festival Week - The Day the Crayons Quit.
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Tamworth Arts Festival - A Kaleidoscope of Dreams
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On Saturday 5th July, seventeen super-excited Reception Maple dancers and their families attended the 'Kaleidoscope of Dreams' festival at Tamworth Castle Grounds. It was a privilege to watch the children dance to 'Uptown Funk' on the stage, smiling from ear to ear, bursting with confidence whilst having so much fun. A huge thank you must be said to Miss Phoebe (Pip's amazingly talented daughter) for choreographing the routine and giving up so much of her time to coming to school to teach the children.
A truly wonderful day was had by all. Thank you for supporting this event with your child.
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Fierte Arts Festival Week
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Inspired by the performance on Saturday, our learning about art, music and dance continued this week.
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In art, we recalled how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours.
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In maths, we have used colourful shapes to build patterns and make pictures.
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We enjoyed listening to various different genres of music and dancing to it using our colourful scarves.
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We watched and joined in with a live-streamed ballet from the Royal Opera House in London.
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Using patterns from around the world, we have imitated these to make our own.
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Mrs Guild, Miss Wright and Mrs Jennings helped us to make our own ribbons to dance with.
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After lots of sewing practice, we finally and independently made our very own bookmarks!
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On Thursday, Wendy from Tamworth library came to GVPA to launch the Summer Reading Challenge with the children.
Starting Saturday 5 July 2025 until Monday 15 September 2025, your child is invited to join the Summer Reading Challenge by registering with a local library.
The Summer Reading Challenge encourages children to keep reading during the school summer holidays and to choose anything they enjoy reading! It's free to take part and children can sign up at their local library or online. The children can either read the book themselves or you can read the book to them. It is a fun way to keep your child engaged with reading and books - for free!
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Visit 1: Sign up, receive a sticker booklet and 2 stickers. Choose any 3 books.
Visit 2: Visit the library to return the first 3 books and borrow 3 more. Receive 2 more stickers.
Visit 3: Return the last 3 books to complete the challenge to receive 2 more stickers, a certificate and … a medal!
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The nearest libraries to GVPA are:
Glascote Library, 80 Caledonian, B77 2ED
- Mon 9am-5pm
- Tues 9am-4pm
- Thur 9am-5pm
- Fri 9am-4pm
- Sat 9:30am-1pm
Tamworth Library, Corporation Street, B77 7DN
- Mon 8:30am-5pm
- Tue 8:30am-7pm
- Wed 8:30am-5pm
- Thur 8:30am-5pm
- Fri 8:30am-5pm
- Sat 9am-4pm
Wilnecote Library, WiInecote High School, Tinkers Lane, B77 5LF
- Mon 3pm-5.30pm
- Wed 9:15am-12/ 3pm-5.30pm
- Sat 10am-1pm
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We would like to thank the kind people who work at Natwest Bank who volunteered for two days to help clear, tidy and make our Forest School area accessible for the children to enjoy. We are overjoyed with the outcome, and you can see how much the children enjoy using this area of school by their faces. We cannot thank you enough for your time, kindness and professionalism.
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Kindness at its best from our local community.
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11th July–9:00am Parent performance of the festival dance
18th July - Family & Friends Celebration Assembly at 11:30am
18th July - End of Year picnic with parents
1st September - School is closed for children
2nd September - Children back to school
5th September - The Book Bus is back!
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06 Mar 2025
Reception Maple, OPOJ and all the staff at Garden Village had a wonderful time embracing World Book Day.
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14 Feb 2025
Using a piece of ribbon, Reception Maple measured the width of their hugs.
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07 Feb 2025
The children and staff at Garden Village Primary Academy had a great day learning about numbers. The children played dominoes, played lots of counting games and even baked their own domino shortbread biscuits!
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Telephone: 01827 214630
Office Email: office@gardenvillage.fierte.org
Headteacher / SENCO: headteacher@gardenvillage.fierte.org
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