Dovery Academy

A selection of photos from our fantastic PGL trip!

The children had a fantastic visit to Rushmere Country Park last week! They explored trees, listened to 'Little Red Riding Hood' in the story hut and went on a woodland walk. They also matched nature's colours with colour cards and wrapped up with 'The Three Little Pigs'. 🌳📚

Some highlights from Year 2's trip to the National Space Centre on the 2nd of July - the children had a great time and behaved like stars! 🔭🚀✨

We are so proud of how hard our pupils worked to get this amazing result!

Leighton Buzzard school celebrates 100 per cent pass rate for phonics test

Our first Colour Run, organized by DAPA, was a success despite weather challenges. Children declared it their best day ever at Dovery. Thanks to DAPA, 'Happy Helpers', staff, and all who helped clean up in the rain, especially the children who assisted—they were amazing!

Congratulations to the Reading Gladiators in Year 3 and 4 for all the work they have put into being Shadowers for The Yoto Carnegies Children's Book Awards. This is the first year we have done this and the children have read all the books on the shortlist, adding reviews to the Shadowers Platform and sharing their views with other children around the UK.

Today we watched the Award Ceremony https://yotocarnegies.co.uk/take-part/stream/
and discovered that Aaron Becker won the Medal for Illustration with his book 'The Tree and the River', a beautiful wordless books about civilisation and changes over history. All the shortlisted books, including this one, will be in our library for everyone to enjoy from September.

The Yoto Carnegies To the Other SideI like this book because some people are at war .I think the pictures really tell the story.I like that this story had a happy ending because some wars don’t have a happy ending and some one has to lose .

This half-term pre-school have been looking at Heroes and Adventurers – a lot of this has involved space! Their craft activities have centred around – making rockets and fantastic aliens from junk modelling!

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Some photos from Year 3/4's trip to the Globe Theatre and Tate Modern! They had an excellent time learning about the history of the theatre and seeing the stage before each class took part in a theatre workshop. They later took a trip to Tate Modern and looked at some amazing art

🌟 In recognition of all their hard work on getting 100% on the phonics screening check, Year 1 enjoyed a teddy bear's picnic on Friday. Everyone shared their ideas of how we could make this the best celebration ever. Well done Year 1, you are stars! 🌟

Dovery Academy are so proud to share the outcomes of our Year 1 children's phonic screening check this year!

In 2023 the pass rate nationally was 79% pass rate and we were really pleased to have exceed this with 83%, but this year... 100% pass!

We are so proud of the children who were super keen to show their skills and told us 'it's just sounding and blending' ! It was a joy to watch them putting into practice their learning from the year. Essential Letters and Sounds, our phonic programme, prepares the children so well and they can apply their learning efficiently and read with confidence, clearly very proud of their achievements.

Year 1 had a wonderful trip to Rushmere County Park where they learnt about trees and plants and when they came back they were so excited to share their knowledge. They can now identify lots of different trees just by looking at their leaves!

Our wonderful musicians entertained many of our families with such confidence and joy! Everyone sang with energy and the songs were lots of fun, with some of the audience taking part too! A big thank you to Miss Pughe and Mrs Blessing for putting the concert together!

Thank you to all our parents and families who have donated plants for the Pre-School garden. The children have been busy, carefully planting wellies and our Site Agent has hung up all the wellies on our newly painted brightly-coloured fence – they look fantastic!

Year 3 had an amazing day at Waddesdon Manor learning about myths and legends and looking at the Avery. Staff at Waddesdon commented on the children's impeccable manners, good listening and great knowledge of the myths and legends! Here's some of the incredible stuff they got up to:

Chance to Shine who are teaching our children every Monday at the moment spent the day filming the coaching at Dovery Academy! They are promoting the charity 'PlayTheirWay' which promotes the child's voice in the hope of developing a lifelong love of sport in all children. Take a look!

Play Their Way - Chance to Shine | Our Partners | Play Their Way Explore the partnership between Chance to Shine, a national charity for youth cricket, and the Children's Coaching Collaborative

Year 4 pupils took part in the Leighton Linslade Sports Partnership netball tournament on Thursday, Well done to everyone taking part and congratulations to Leni and Darcey on being recognised for excellent teamwork!

The Y3/4 Reading Gladiators have signed up to be Shadowers on The Yoto Carnegies Medal Award for illustration! We've been enjoying the shortlisted books and have starting posting reviews and art work online. The books will be available in the library soon!

The Yoto Carnegies LostMy alternative ending is that the boy goes in the cupboard and gets a stamp and box with holes in it.He puts the polar bear in the box and puts the box in an Amazon plane .When the plane lands all the bears crowed around him and starts asking questions like “where were you “and”we missed y...

We recently carried out a parent survey and here are some of Dovery Academy's results in comparison to other similar schools.

Our Year 4 class has been training with the Leighton Linslade Sports Partnerships to become Sports Leaders. They now lead activities confidently at lunchtime and last week they ran a sports festival for the KS1 children!

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Our Year 4 eco-councillors have been doing some planting around the school, hoping to attract some bees and butterflies! Here's what they've been up to:

Don't miss the chance to visit our lovely Pre-School!

Reminder! We're inviting all parents/carers of children starting in September to visit our Pre-School Open Mornings! For more info contact our school office:
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Our Stay and Play offers children a dynamic range of after-school activities, from Arts and Craft to Friday Cinema Nights! Booking is now made through SchoolMoney and if you need more information, contact the office at 01525 377233 or doveryoffice@doveryacademy.

We have recently had two visits from 'Friends of the Earth’ who are supporting the children in beginning some Ecology projects around the school to promote biodiversity. Here's a sneak peek at how they're encouraging wildlife to flourish around the school.

If you're a parent/carer of a young child starting in September, we'd love to show you around our Pre-School! If you're interested in attending an Open Morning or you'd like some more information, contact our school office:
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Holly Class were very excited to receive some visits from firefighters from Leighton Buzzard Fire Station. They talked to the importance of children about fire safety and the children explored the fire engine and got to have a go at using the fire hose!

Before Easter, Years 1 to 4 showcased their creative DT projects! Year 1 crafted delightful sock puppets, Year 2 designed and sewed pencil cases while Year 3 made impressive pop-up books on plants, and Year 4 constructed funfairs with light-up features, applying their knowledge of electricity circuits!

Well done Woody for your excellent submission to the Rebecca Adlington Design a Swimming Hat Competition! Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre

Amazing hat designs at the Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre including some entries from our pupils.