Community Links
The school is an integral part of Stratford St Mary village and the wider community.
St Mary’s church, about half a mile from the school, is regularly visited by the children. Likewise Reverend Paul from the parish is a regular visitor in school, conducting assemblies and spending time with the children.
Next to the church, is Hall Farm. The children make visits to the farm, to walk around the various trails, see the animals during lambing time and to sing carols to their visitors at Christmas time.
Our school is a ‘Friend of Ipswich Town’, linking the school with one of our local football teams.
Premier Sport are regular visitors to our school, providing specialist coaching, after school clubs and also ‘Enrichment Days’.
On our doorstep, about eight miles from the school is the Suffolk Ski Centre. Here our older children are given the opportunity to learn to ski on the three slopes.
Community News
Christmas for the Community
Miss Jones made a display of all the Christmas Baubles the children had decorated. Miss Jones will take the display to Black Brook House care home for the residents, to brighten up their Christmas. Great teamwork Kingfishers! The children also made cards for the...
JRSOs
The JRSOs are very happy with their Hi Vis Vests. The JRSOs wrote to the PTA asking if they could buy the vests so they could be recognised when doing their road safety duties. The PTA kindly supported the JRSOs with their request. A 'Thank You' to the PTA. [gallery...
Hey Ewe!
The children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers Class took part in their nativity performance of ‘Hey Ewe!’ to their family members in Stratford St Mary Church. They sang their songs beautifully, said their words clearly and were very well behaved whilst the other...
Sweeting Swing Band
On Friday 5th December, we were very pleased to welcome the 'Sweeting Swing Band' into the school. They played a variety of instruments such as the saxophone, clarinet, trombone, electric piano, drums, bass guitar and 'wowed' the children and playing songs from 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...
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...