 Garden Village
Primary Academy
Newsletter
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Issue No. 18
13th June 2025
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Reception Maple is excited about entering the final term of their Reception year.
Personal development is the theme for this newsletter. Oracy, self-confidence, being determined and resilient are a few personal development skills that our children have fully embraced through the opportunities they have been provided. We are very proud of every child.
Our attendance continues to be a fantastic 96.18%. Thank you for your continued support.
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In Drawing Club last week, Reception Maple were highly inspired in their writing by the brilliant book - Superworm, by Julia Donaldson.
Using the new vocabulary - heroic - the children used their imagination creatively to plan and write about a party for Superworm to say thank you for saving all the insects.
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On Monday, the children celebrated World Ocean Day. Linked to this, Miss Matthews read another Julia Donaldson text - Tiddler - to inspire the children's writing.
Highly motivated, the children wrote many sentences and challenged themselves to use the new vocabulary word - reunited! We are immensely proud of every child's writing.
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Little Wandle - Phonics and Reading
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In phonics, Reception Maple continue to develop their blending and segmenting skills for multi-syllabic words. Miss Matthews and Mrs Guild are delighted with how every child is applying their phonic knowledge to their writing. For example, the use of -ed when writing words such as 'looked' and 'reunited'. In reading, fluency continues to be a skill that children are challenging themselves to read with.
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Look at our independent writing using our phonic knowledge!
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In Mathematics, Reception Maple has become fluent in identifying odd and even numbers. Thank you to Odd Todd and Even Steven for helping us!
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The children have also extended their knowledge of patterns. We are now able to make our own patterns rules!
This week, throughout the provision, Miss Matthews and Mrs Guild have been teaching and encouraging the children to apply their knowledge of 'positional language'. Using vocabulary such as besides, next to and beneath, we can now describe the position of an object in reference to another.
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This term, Mrs Burke, in her assembly, has taught us about the importance and virtue of being honest and forgiving. As a class, we are excellent at telling the truth, and we're developing an understanding that the word "sorry" means that we will try not to do something again.
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Last week, we were delighted to welcome the owner of Vision Football Academy - our after-school club - to deliver a PE lesson to Reception Maple. As ever, the children were incredible, listening and following instructions and had a great time progressing through the lesson. A huge thank-you to Charlie Jones for your lesson. We cannot wait for our very first Sports Day at GVPA!
Thank you, Mr Jones!
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On Wednesday, Mrs Burke invited Ellie, the Environmental Superhero, from 'Ray of Stars' to deliver a drama workshop in school. Every child had a great morning, developing their speaking and listening skills, vocabulary and confidence in a fun-filled workshop. Enhancing every area of the curriculum, Ellie captured the children's attention and imagination in a truly magical way.
Thank you Environmental Superhero!
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The workshop started with the children entering the hall to see the Environmental Hero sleeping on the floor. Listening to her story introducing herself, the children were buzzing and super excited to wake her up!
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Once awake, Environmental Hero played a drama warm-up game with the children.
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 The children then explored how super-heroes move, developing some good descriptive vocabulary.
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 The children decorated a super-hero mask and slap-band.
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 Thank you, Ellie at Ray of Stars. We had a great drama workshop with you.
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Tamworth Festival - 5th July 2025
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Reception Maple are super excited and busy preparing for the Tamworth Festival at the Castle Grounds on July 5th 2025.
A huge thank you to Miss Phoebe - Pip's daughter - for your incredible dance teaching skills. We are busy learning our modern dance to perform on the festival stage. We might be biased, but we are so good!
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On 8th June, it was World Ocean Day. Reception Maple were fascinated during Mrs Bukre's assembly about the ocean, what it is, how it helps us and what we need to do to protect it. Miss Matthews was delighted to see us link this learning to our previous learning about the text - There is Something About Stanley.
As a result, we were so inspired to apply our new knowledge in the provision.
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Father's, Grandad's and Brother Day Assembly
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A huge thank-you to everyone who attended our very special assembly this morning. We would like to wish you all a wonderful day this Sunday.
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There is a vacancy for a governor starting September 2025. If you are interested in this role, please speak to Mrs Hand in the school office.
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25th June - Sports Day
1st July - SEND Individual Learning Plan Review and Target-Setting Meeting
3rd July - Whole School Transition Day
5th July - Tamworth Festival Day at Castle Grounds
7th-11th July - Fierte Arts Festival Week
18th July - Family & Friends Celebration Assembly at 11:30am
18th July - End of Year picnic with parents
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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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