News About Our School
Level Two The Royal Horticultural Society School Gardening Award
We have achieved our Level Two 'The Royal Horticultural Society' School Gardening Award. We have shown that we all contribute to our gardening plans, we are learning new gardening skills and using gardening to support our wellbeing. We are now working towards Level...
Forest Fun – Mini Creatures
The children in Kingfishers Class had another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Miss Jones. They sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children they were going to play Kim’s Game. The children had to remember the items Miss Jones had on...
RHS School Gardening Awards
We have achieved our Level One The Royal Horticultural Society School Gardening Award. We have shown that we understand the benefits of gardening, our growing space is accessible and we have started gardening. We are now working towards Level Two. [gallery...
Year R – Ice Cream Kiosk
The Reception children worked together to create an ice cream kiosk. They made balls of ice cream and helped put the signs up. They took turns to be the ice cream seller and the customers. Lovely turn taking Kingfishers. [gallery...
The Swans have been learning about blood!
The children in Year 6 have been learning about the function of blood and it's composition. They made models to represent the different components.
Year 5 Trip to Kinetic Adventure
On Thursday 8th May, the Year 5s visited Kinetic Adventure. The day began with a workshop about the solar system where we used playdough to represent the relative sizes of the planets. Later in the day, we had a fascinating talk about life on the International Space...
Heart Dissection Year 6
The Swans have been learning about the function of the heart. They were extremely lucky to receive a dissection lesson from Mrs Harvey who is a trained high school Science teacher. Every single child took part and this really helped embed their learning about the...
Kinetic Adventure
On Monday we went to Kinetic Adventure in Claydon (near Ipswich). We learnt all about the sizes of planets, the International Space Station and even had a go at a few science experiments. We had a lovely day and would recommend everyone to look out for the offers they...
History – Why did people travel to the seaside years ago?
This half term in History the Year One children are focusing on the question - Why did people travel to the seaside years ago? The children became historians and thought about the enquiry question - Can we use photographs to find clues as to what seaside holidays were...
Astronaut Bags!
In a recent Woodpeckers computing lesson, we looked at Sketchpad on the Chromebooks. This is a free website that allows you to draw, write and colour. We thought about what astronauts might take onto the International Space Station and then drew our pictures of items...
Owls Forest School Week 1
On Monday 28th April, Owls had their first session of Forest School for this term. They had access to a range of activities including making clay rabbits (and other creatures), an alphabet scavenger hunt, the mud kitchen and using pooters to collect and examine...
Seaside and Shells
The children in Kingfishers Class were introduced to their new topic - Seasides. The children received a letter from Becky the Seagull. Miss Jones read the letter to the class and they found out Becky the seagull had hidden shells round the classroom and the children...
Community Speed Check
The JRSOs joined the Community Speed Check Team to carry out their weekly speed checks in the village. The Community Speed Check Team carry out the checks in different locations around the village encouraging drivers to drive carefully and to keep to the speed limits....
Benin (Year 6)
Year 6 have been looking at images of Benin to deduce why Benin might be a significant society, worthy of study. They learnt that: This was a civilization of cities and towns, powerful kings and a large empire which traded over long distances. Craftsmen were skilful...
Schools’ Farm and Country Show 2025
On Thursday 24th April, Years 3 and 4 attended the Schools' Farm and Country Show at Trinity Park. The children moved round different zones throughout the day: Conservation, Livestock, STEM and Food. In each zone there were lots of activities to get involved with. A...
Sustrans Big Wheel and Walk
Thank you to all the children and parents who took part in the Sustrans Big Wheel and Walk event. The JRSOs logged each classes journeys and we came 314 out of 1196 small schools with a daily average score of 62.25%. Thank you for your support. [gallery...
Easter Assembly
On Thursday 3rd April, we held our Easter Assembly. Thank you to all those who came. It was lovely to share some Easter and Spring time songs and also the Easter story - read by the Owls.
Craft Nursery Visit
The children in Kingfishers Class enjoyed a visit to Craft Nursery in Ardleigh. The children were shown the planting area and looked at the seedlings and the plants which had been planted. They were shown the potting machine and watched the pots being filled with the...
Road Safety Poster
The winners of the road safety poster competition recently welcomed in Peter and Sarah from Kingsley Estate Agents (Dedham) to show them their winning designs. Kingsley Estate Agents are kindly sponsoring these winning designs to be made into signs to be displayed in...
Forest Fun
This week in the forest, we were very busy planting sunflower seeds, recapping our clay skills from Autumn term, building ships and checking the progress of the frogspawn!
Tallest Sunflower Competition
We have been working with Craft Nurseries in Ardleigh and they have kindly donated seeds for the Forest Fun area and sunflower seeds, pots and compost for the children. So we thought we would hold a ‘Tallest Sunflower Competition’ for all the children to enter. Each...
Easter Wishes
Miss Jones made an Easter display for the residents at BlackBrook Residential Home with the Easter Eggs the children had coloured. Mrs Cousins will deliver the Easter cards the children have made to the older residents in the village. Well done Kingfishers. [gallery...
Hockey Fun
On Friday 28th March, several children from the Owls and Woodpeckers classes took part in a hockey skills session. The children spent some time at various stations learning some skills useful for playing hockey. Thank you to the adults for taking them and all who came...
Icebergs in Watercolour
In Year 6, we have been learning different watercolour techniques. We then tried to use some of the techniques in our iceberg paintings.