The children at Garden Village Primary Academy continue to flourish daily in their own unique ways.  

Last week, the Year One Class Teacher was successfully appointed for September 2025; we are busy resourcing the classroom in readiness for this.

Over the last four weeks, we have had the privilege of working with Mrs Newman from Two Rivers Primary. Thank you, Mrs Newman, for your support and kindness. The children and staff are going to miss you!

Our attendance continues to be great - 95%. Thank you parents for your commitment and support.

We hope you enjoy reading about some of the wonderful learning and experiences at GVPA.

We are delighted to present the Garden Village Pupil Leadership Representatives for 2024-2025. 

On Thursday 20th March, Mrs Burke and Mrs Hand took the children to Manor Primary Academy for their first meeting with the other representatives from the other nine Fierte Multi-Academy Trust schools. We are so proud of the children who represented GVPA. We might be the youngest, but we had a great afternoon. 

Our phonics and reading continue to amaze our teachers. Our ability to decode longer words and read many words fluently gets stronger every day. Miss Matthews and Mrs Guild have been helping us daily to write the letters (graphemes) correctly and fluently too. Every morning before the register, we practise writing two letters on our whiteboards, saying the rhymes as we write. Again, we are making great writing progress!

In Mathematics, we have been learning to identify and make more complex patterns, e.g. AAB ABB. Miss Matthews and Mrs Guild have been asking us questions including: What do you notice?, What pattern can you see/hear?, Copy my pattern – what do you hear/see? How does the pattern continue? The children have acquired this knowledge so quickly and easily - they have been making patterns everywhere in the provision!

Last week, Mrs Burke set Reception Maple a new challenge as part of their Service in the Community virtue. In the Reception outdoor area, there is a wonderful 6-space planter in need of some life. Building on their new knowledge of growing plants, the children were asked to design and plan what they would like to grown. With a little help, as some ideas were rather imaginative, we decided to try to grow some herbs, flowers to help the butterflies and vegetables. Here are some of our designs and planting...

Last week, GVPA participated in National Science Week. The theme for the week was 'Change and Adapt'. During the week, we observed the bean and cress that we planted the week before, but to our delight, twelve rather hungry caterpillars arrived too! Using our observational skills and magnifying glasses, we have loved watching and talking about the changes in the caterpillars every day. We know the Hungry Caterpillar Story well, so we cannot wait for the next stage in their life-cycle. 

GVPA's very own, hungry caterpillars!

One of the kind teachers who came for the Year One Class Teacher interview bought us some compost and sunflower seeds. We are now experts at planting! One of the boys said when he was planting that, in addition to the resources, you also need patience as the seeds will take time to grow. How incredible and factually correct this is! A great link to the 'patience' virtue.  

As part of our musical stories' topic, Mrs Burke helped us to use the percussion instruments to retell 'We're going on a Bear Hunt Story'. Listening to the story, thinking about the dynamics and pitch of the sounds, we performed the story brilliantly! This week, we applied this knowledge to everyday routines. In smaller groups, we rehearsed and performed using percussion instruments e.g. getting ready for school. 

Reception maple and OPOJ had so much fun raising money for the charity - Comic Relief. Whilst having fun, Miss Matthews also showed us how the money that we raised would be used to support other children.    

Look at Pip's apron!

Telephone: 01827 214630

Office Email: office@gardenvillage.fierte.org

Headteacher / SENCO: headteacher@gardenvillage.fierte.org