Tenterfields Primary Academy Dudley

“Learning together, growing together”

Tenterfields Primary Academy is a one-form entry primary school catering for children from two to 11 years old. Dating back to 1909, Tenterfields Primary Academy prides itself on being a familyorientated, community school. We work closely with our parents, families and community to provide the finest, all-round education possible for our children, sharing in our statement of learning together, growing together.

Our Rockstars!

We were delighted to have won the Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) competition across the Windsor Academy Trust primary schools. Going up against bigger schools didn’t stop us and Tenterfield pupils smashed it. Not only did we win the overall school competition, we also won the overall individual winner. With nearly 1,000 pupils taking part, Tenterfields pupil Kyle-Jin rocked hard and beat everyone.

Executive headteacher, Lisa Buffery, commented: “What a fantastic achievement for our school and Kyle-Jin, who we are incredibly proud of. Times Tables Rock Stars is an award-winning maths programme that takes all the worry out of learning their times tables. Pupils can access it on their iPads, at school and at home, and it has a proven track record of boosting children’s fluency and recall in multiplication and division. The questionbased games automatically adapt to each child’s unique learning needs, helping them to recall times tables in record speed.”

Our 2022 Highlights

• Year 4 went back to the Stone Age for the day and made spears using twigs and twine and produced cave art on slate using charcoal. They also pretended to be Stone Age hunters and chased a woolly mammoth around the school hall (pics 1, 2 & 3)

• Recognising the positive effect that music and the arts can have on mental health, we joined many other local schools and Dudley Performing Arts to learn the song ‘Connecting Together’ to put on a live performance with other participant schools via a live feed at the end of the week

• We thanked all the mums, grans and special people in our lives by hosting a Mum’s Royal Tea Party to mark the Queen’s Jubilee. Year 2 mums hold the record for the most tears! (pics 4 & 5)

• A group of Year 1 and Year 2 children represented Dudley at the Black Country School Games, which took place today at The Institute of Sport, University of Wolverhampton. This involved the children competing in a selection of team multi skill games. We are delighted to announce that Tenterfields came third to win the Bronze medal

• Year 4 were lucky enough to go to the MAC Theatre in Birmingham to watch their animation films brought to life as part of the ‘Artsmark Award’

• Year 6 headed off to the Pioneer Centre for our joint residential with Manor Way. The children participated in a wide variety of exciting activities including: abseiling, archery, caving, challenges, high ropes climbing, low ropes climbing, team building, and zip wiring to name but a few

• Our curriculum knowledge has been deepened helping us to know and remember more through our school home projects and competitions (pic 6)

• A new forest school programme is a curriculum favourite in all weathers (pics 7 & 8)

• Students enjoyed participating in a dance celebration at Stourbridge Town Hall (pic 9)

• Raising money and collecting donations for the Black Country Food Bank on National Elf Service Day (pic 10)