To celebrate #Diwali, @lakshmitvi.bsky.social with some helpers retold the story of Diwali, with the triumph of light over darkness! Here are some pictures of the return of Rama and Sita 🕉. @tvi-families.bsky.social @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social

Followed by a wonderful dance to celebrate! How brave!

Creative sparks were flying today! 💥 Our Gorillas 🦍 teamed up with grown-ups to decorate stunning Diya lamps 🪔✨Huge thanks 🙏 to everyone who joined in the fun! @tvinfants.bsky.social @tvi-families.bsky.social

Poppies joined Year 1 listening to a parent who volunteered to talk about Windrush. All children were engaged in his story and enjoyed joining in with phrases. This was all part of our learning in Black History month. @tvinfants.bsky.social @lakshmitvi.bsky.social @tvi-families.bsky.social

What an exciting week! Tomorrow is our last special “superhero” assembly for #BHM. On Friday, we’re asking everyone to come dressed in cultural clothes or bright colours as we mark the end of #blackhistorymonth and welcome #Diwali, with a special lunch menu and assembly @lakshmitvi.bsky.social. 1/2

Year 1 have been busy creating their Diya lamps today!They’re getting ready to decorate them with their grown-ups this Friday as part of our Diwali 🪔celebrations. We can’t wait to see them shining bright! @tvinfants.bsky.social @rebeccaolleytvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

We had a lovely ‘Cooking Together’ session with 🦍 today! Thank you to all the parents who joined and made it a great success! 🙏 @tvinfants.bsky.social @tvi-families.bsky.social

We’re Cooking Together in Gorillas 🦍 Please remember to join us tomorrow morning 🌅 from 8:45 to 9:45 am🙏 @tvinfants.bsky.social @tvi-families.bsky.social

Today 🦍 were busy celebrating BHM! After learning all about the amazing Maya Angelou, they turned into poets and artists 🎨✍️ Some wrote powerful poems, drew portraits, others painted her as a performer 💃 @tvinfants.bsky.social @rebeccaolleytvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

Our book in Writing this week is Ten in the Bed. Today I spotted these children during their choose time role playing the story. They collected the teddies and even made their own bed! 🔟🧸🛏️ @tvinfants.bsky.social @lakshmitvi.bsky.social

Thank you 🙏 to all the parents who joined us for our afterschool Literacy Meeting today. Here are some phonics websites that you may wish to use with your child to support with their reading 👇 phonicsplay.co.uk/resources topmarks.co.uk/phonics/balloon @tvinfants.bsky.social

Due to a technical fault @lakshmitvi.bsky.social had to abandon her online literacy meeting this evening. Apologies for that. We’ll reschedule as soon as we get the problem rectified.

Please join us for the Year 1 Literacy Meeting after school at 3:15pm. Come along to hear how we support reading and writing, & how you can help at home! @tvinfants.bsky.social @tvioffice.bsky.social @tvi-families.bsky.social @rebeccaolleytvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

🎉 🚨 Big news from today’s assembly! 🚨Our brand new School Councillors have officially been elected! 🎉Announced with pride by @chloetvi.bsky.social and Rosa — and don’t they look incredible in their new School Council hats? 🧢✨ @tvinfants.bsky.social @tvijames.bsky.social @tvioffice.bsky.social

In Year 1 Science, children explored the bones in their bodies, learning all about the skeleton! 🦴 They had fun making skeletons and discovering X-rays of human and animal bones @tvinfants.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @rebeccaolleytvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social @tvijames.bsky.social

Year 1 children are building confidence by working independently on personalised Maths 🧮 tasks, with support from Year 2 buddies in the corridor when needed @tvinfants.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social @rebeccaolleytvi.bsky.social

Is it a fruit or a veg? In D and T,Year 1 is exploring fruits and vegetables 🌽 🍆 by feeling, smelling, tasting and discussing the differences between them. Here’s Gorillas 🦍 identifying and sorting them… @tvinfants.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social @rebeccaolleytvi.bsky.social

Year 1 had a fantastic first day! 🏫 Gorillas had a great time exploring their new classroom and diving into fun activities. Here’s to an exciting year ahead! 🦍✨ @tvinfants.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social @rebeccaolleytvi.bsky.social

Huge shoutout to these amazing Squirrels who’ve been at school every single day since September! 🐿️👏 So proud of you!!🥇Well done 👍 🥇 @tvinfants.bsky.social @tvioffice.bsky.social

🚨breaking news🚨 the results of our head teachers election have been counted. It was a very close call and with only 1 vote in it the winner is…The Rainbow 🌈 Party. They will be supported by runners up the blue 🔵 party @tvinfants.bsky.social well done to silver and gold too it was a tough election!

We had a great Father’s Day celebrations in Squirrels 🐿️ Thank you to all the Dads and Mums who joined in with the celebration 🎉 🙏 @tvinfants.bsky.social @tvi-families.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

In D&T today, Squirrels 🐿️ designed their own playground slides and put them to the test! A fun, hands-on session exploring creativity, structure, and problem-solving. 🎢👏 @tvinfants.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

This week, our adorable young chickens are getting VIP care from our Year One children before they move into their coop in the playground! 🏡💛 @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social @tvijames.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

We had so much fun roleplaying ‘the seaside’ in Year 1 today—splashing, playing in the sand, and enjoying a yummy ice cream! 🍦☀️ Thanks Billy, @tvioffice.bsky.social and @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social for your help @tvinfants.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

Here’s an insight to a wonderful Sports Together with Foxes! 🦊 Thank you to all the grown ups who came, it was lots of fun☺️ @tvinfants.bsky.social

Children in Year1 have been learning about the Seaside this term. This week Snakes learned about the features of a Seaside Holiday @tvinfants.bsky.social @lakshmitvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

Owls had such a great morning! A big thank you to all of the grown-ups who joined us for Sports Together. We danced, explored the gym equipment, played hockey, and so much more!💃🏻🏑🏃‍♂️ @tvinfants.bsky.social @lakshmitvi.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social

Some talented artists in Snakes drawing animals this week in Art. Next week, they will be making sculptures of the animals. @tvinfants.bsky.social @lakshmitvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social

What great fun doing sports together with Squirrels. Thank you 🙏 to all the grown ups for joining in and enjoying the activities. It was a great day! It’s 🦉 @chloetvi.bsky.social and @fizatvi.bsky.social 🦊next week! @tvinfants.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social

Year 1 is learning all about plants in Science. Yesterday, Squirrels explored the stages of plant growth. They even planted their own seeds 🫘 and made predictions about what will happen next! @tvinfants.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

Squirrels 🐿️ had a fantastic time celebrating VE Day with fun activities like making hats, waving flags, dancing 💃dancing 🕺, street partying, and playing games both indoors and outdoors! A big thank you 🙏 to all the parents for donating food for our street party 🎉 @tvinfants.bsky.social

Children @TVI had a fantastic time celebrating the VE Day! 🇬🇧🎉 Here is Paul doing assembly by taking them on an insightful journey, sharing stories and experiences from the war times, helping them understand the significance of this day and the sacrifices made for peace @tvinfants.bsky.social

Today we held our 100% Attendance Assembly & here are our bike winners! 🚲 Congratulations to all of our children who gained 100% attendance last term 🌟 @tvinfants.bsky.social @laurenskeelstvi.bsky.social @lakshmitvi.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social

It was lovely watching Squirrels dancing around the maypole in the bright sunshine, having so much fun and trying their best!Please remember to join us tomorrow for the finale @2:30 pm @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

Squirrels had a fantastic day! 🐿️🎉 They looked wonderful in their Easter bonnets and had so much fun hunting for eggs in class! 🥚🌸A perfect way to end the term on a high note @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social

Yesterday, our Year 1 children had an egg-citing time on their big Easter 🐣 Egg Hunt! Guided by playground signs, they eagerly searched for hidden eggs—all thanks to our amazing Dinner Staff, who made it such a fun! @tvinfants.bsky.social @tvioffice.bsky.social @tvi-families.bsky.social

A special Thank You 🙏 to all the parents, who joined us for the Eid Celebrations in 🐿️Squirrels’ Class. We had lovely food and a great time! @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social @tvi-families.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

Big thanks to all the wonderful grown ups who joined us 🐿️for a special Mother’s Day Golden Time! The children had so much fun playing games and sharing laughs with you! @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

Squirrels 🐿️ enjoyed the Red Nose Day celebrations with their grownups too. There were lots of funny and silly ones. Here are some to share… what’s your favourite ? @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

Squirrels visited the Thames View Library 📚 to explore how books are organized. They checked out both fiction and nonfiction sections, learning how libraries classify different genres @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

The children had such a lovely assembly learning all about Holi from @lakshmitvi.bsky.social Look at how engaged they are! Afterwards, some of the children wanted to try having some ‘gulal’ on their faces too ☺️ A beautiful celebration at @tvinfants.bsky.social 💙❤️💛🩷💚🧡

Families from our Hindu Community will be celebrating the festival of Holi on Friday. @lakshmitvi.bsky.social will be leading a special assembly and we invite our children to dress up in bright colours to acknowledge this joyous festival of unity, spring and new life. youtu.be/I8IBZdZTAzs

Our Year 1 children have been developing their Maths skills by following directions and writing instructions for movement. A great way to build spatial awareness and logical thinking! 👇 @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social @fizatvi.bsky.social @chloetvi.bsky.social

World Book Day over for another year! We had the best week celebrating! Here are some winners with their boxes. We had some beautiful ones and it’s so hard to choose. Have a lovely weekend and please look out for Paul’s ‘letter of everything’ for what’s happening next week ☺️ @tvinfants.bsky.social

Tomorrow is the final day to bring in your story boxes for #WorldBookDay Here are some of the wonderful creations we’ve already had in! We can’t wait to see the children (and staff) dressed up as their favourite book character tomorrow too! @tvinfants.bsky.social

Tomorrow, it’s Year One’s turn!

Our Year 1 children are diving into non-fiction texts and exploring toys this term! Look at them hard at work, crafting their own captions for their favourite toys- plus a helpful Year 2 buddy supporting @tvinfants.bsky.social @adamdobsontvi.bsky.social @tvijames.bsky.social @azizatvi.bsky.social