Year 6 spent the week away at Grenville House for their residential. Whilst there, they took part in many adventurous activities such as abseiling, caving, canoeing, raft building, archery, orienteering and indoor climbing. They also had the opportunity to see seals close up, try new foods, some learned to make beds and wash up along…

Elder class had a visit from a physiotherapist to talk about her job and to make links to their science learning from last half term. The children showed great listening skills and joined in with some practical activities related to our heart and breathing rates. Luckily, they all found a pulse and discovered that they…

Year 1 went on an adventure to Torquay Museum. Whilst there, they took part in a Toys from the Past workshop to enhance their learning in their topic ‘Toys Through Time’. They were shown lots of different toys from various time periods and even made their own thaumatrope and cup and ball game. They also…

Our pupils love sharing their talents with the local community. Last summer, the children helped plant and sow sunflower seeds for the Friends of Teignmouth Orangery. Today, some of our Year 6 pupils came along to see the results of their gardening. It’s fair to say that they were impressive! These beautiful sunflowers, planted by…

How gorgeous are these self portraits of our reception children. We absolutely love them!

We’ve all enjoyed getting back to school and doing some outdoor learning in the lovely autumn weather. All classes, from nursery to year 6, have had lots of fun exploring, building dens, hunting for invertebrates, cooking in the bark kitchen, working together to build a dome, sketching and much more. We have all shown our…

Our school was over-run by Matildas, BFG’s, Wonkas, Fantastic Mr Foxes, Oompa Loompas and so many other wonderful characters! We had a phizz-whizzing, swashboggling day in aid of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity.

Year 3 at Teignmouth Primary School have taken part in a whole-day workshop led by Daisi artist Monica-Shanta and funded by The Helen Foundation. The sessions focused on exploring perspective and tone in drawing, using pastels, chalks and charcoal. It nicely complemented recent learning completed by the class on one-point perspective. The children loved the…

Year 5 and 6 made ceramic poppies to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. They then took their poppies to Teignmouth Cemetery and laid them on the Commonwealth War Graves as an act of remembrance of those Teignmouth service personnel who lost their lives during both World Wars. This was particularly poignant for two of…

Nursery went to the woods and used double-sided tape to make journey sticks – a record of their journey through the beautiful summer woods.

Nursery are learning about Pirates this half term. We have been adventuring in our own pirate ship in the classroom, and spotting and counting fish in our outdoor play area, so there was great excitement when we went to see some real fish. There is even a pirate ship on the ‘ocean’ floor! We will…

Look at all of these wonderful fairytale characters that came to school! To celebrate the end of our topic ‘Once Upon a Time,’ the children came dressed up as a fairy tale character. We had a tea party, read fairytale stories and played party games. Which characters can you spot?