News About Our School
World Book Day
The children celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book character. The children joined everyone in the hall to see everyone’s costumes and they found out the winners of the story jar competition. The winners were awarded a £5 gift to spend at...
Kingfishers Class Assembly
The children in Kingfishers performed their class assembly. The children were confident to stand up and speak to the audience. The children told the audience about Mothers Day and sang a song. A great assembly Kingfishers!
Geography – Mud Mountains
Today we have been learning about mountains in India and their mountain ranges; we learnt that there are 5 types of mountains and created a catchy rhyme to help memorise these. We focused on fold mountains and plateau mountains. To make our learning even more...
Rainforest Dioramas
Year 6 have been learning about the Amazon rainforest and thinking about why the Amazon matters. We started off the topic by looking at the difference between a temperate rainforest and a tropical rainforest. In Science, we looked at the different layers of the...
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....
Y5 Photo Day
On Wednesday 25th February, the Year 5s took part in a Photo Day. They went outside to create their own natural images and photographed them with professional cameras. They then developed their own cyanotype prints. The children really enjoyed the day and spoke...
Immersion Session – Transport
The children began exploring their new topic for this half term. The children went for a walk to the village sign to see what vehicles came through the village. The children were given a clipboard and pencil and they listened and looked waiting for the vehicles to...
Kingfishers Toy Museum
To finish this terms topic the children welcomed their family members to Kingfishers Toy Museum. The children took on the role of tour guide. The children showed their family member around the toy museum. Thank you for coming, the children really enjoyed showing...
Derrick Thomas (Windrush Elder) visits our school
Year 5 and 6 had a wonderful afternoon listening to the life story of Derrick Thomas, a Windrush Elder. Not only did they learn about the Windrush Generation, they also learnt about the core values of resilience, self-belief and determination. The children had an...
Instructions for Making Tea
Here is some of our published work from our instruction writing this half term. We used imperative verbs, adverbs ending in -ly, the simple present tense and some of us also used adverbials of time. [gallery...
Farmer James and Tractor Visit
The children were very excited to see the tractor arriving at school. They went outside to see the tractor and met Farmer James. Farmer James spoke to the children about his tractor and about what he does on his farm. The children were able to answer questions that...
Year 6 Art
As part of our Evolution topic, we have been looking at how different artists portray monkeys and have begun to explore ideas in preparation for our final piece.
Forest Fun – Birds
Today the children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session and Miss Jones and the children talked about birds. The children played What Am I? The children tried to work out the What Am I clues to guess the bird. Miss Jones reminded the children of the forest fun rules and the...
Traction Man
In English the children in Kingfishers Class have been focusing on the story ‘Traction Man is Here’ written by Mini Grey. The children have been writing their own adventure for Traction Man, deciding on what would happen when he visited school. Great work Kingfishers....
Woodpeckers – Bird Feeders
In Forest School this week, we used toilet roll holders to create our own mini bird feeders. We smothered out toilet roll in lard, then rolled them in the oats and seeds to cover all the lard up. Some of us added cocktail sticks so the birds can land on our feeders....
Science Investigation
Year 6 have been learning about Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution. We looked at how different finches on the Galapagos Islands have different shaped beaks and thought about what this told us about their diet. We carried out an investigation to see which type...
Penguin Awareness Day
Miss Jones and the children talked about Penguin Awareness Day in their forest fun session. The children played penguin pairs. The children had to find the match half to make a complete penguin. Miss Jones reminded the children of the forest fun rules and the children...
Book Club
The children enjoyed another book club session. They listened to the story called ‘Supertato' and then created their own 'Supertato'.
Young Voices 2026
On Friday 23rd January, several of our children from Years 3-6 took part in the Young Voices choir concert at the O2 in London. Our children joined over 8500 other children to sing a range of songs to a packed audience. Thanks to Mrs Marshall for preparing the...
Music – Chinese New Year
Today we practiced Pentatonic Scales! We have been exploring the musical sounds of Chinese New Year, here are some of our own.
Making Gear Systems
Owls Class's DT topic this half term is Gears and Pulleys. In our first lesson, we made gears in different ways. We used corrugated card, playdough and paper clips and evaluated which ones worked better. The children showed really good practical skills to demonstrate...
Did Medieval Migrants become Integrated within their Suffolk Communities?
In History, we looked at the names, origins and professions of different Medieval migrants who came to Suffolk. We then used historical data to draw conclusions about whether they were welcomed and became fully integrated into our society.
Forest School
Every Friday for this half term, we have Forest Schools. Our curriculum link for these sessions is D&T, with a focus on cooking. Today we all had a turn at making salt dough; we measured the flour and salt, carefully poured in water then mixed it using our hand....
Night Owls
The children welcomed the Night Owls team into school. The children watched the Bird of Prey demonstration which included a talk and flying display. The children also had the opportunity to have their photograph taken holding the beautiful Barn Owl Dottie. The...