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Kingfishers Assembly

Kingfishers Assembly

The Kingfishers performed their first assembly of the school year. The children were confident to stand up and talk to the audience. The children retold the story of ‘Farmer Duck’ and sang ‘Big Red Combine Harvester’. A great assembly Kingfishers, [gallery...

Contrasting Colours

Contrasting Colours

This half term, the Owls are developing their painting skills. So far we have explored texture and colour mixing. Our most recent lesson focused on contrasting colours. The children had to 'overpaint' their existing work with contrasting colours. They were able to...

Gymnastics Success

Gymnastics Success

This year, the gymnastics festival was held virtually.  These children worked with Mrs Allum on some floor and apparatus routines. These were then recorded and sent for judging. Our youngest children came first in their age category and the older teams both came...

Young Voices 2022

On Friday 6th May, 19 children from the Owls and Swans class joined approximately 8000 other children for the Young Voices concert at the O2 in London. It was fantastic to hear all the children singing together and everyone had an amazing time.  Our seats were amazing...

Tudor Times in Stratford St Mary

Tudor Times in Stratford St Mary

The Swans have been learning about what Stratford St Mary would have been like in Tudor Times. Last week, we looked at how our village is linked to the Suffolk Wool Towns. We learned about a man called Thomas Mors who was a cloth manufacturer who died in 1500. He gave...

Woodpeckers Class Assembly

Woodpeckers Class Assembly

Tuesday 10th May was the turn of The Woodpeckers to share their work with parents and the rest of the school for their class assembly. The children retold the story of The Ant And The Grasshopper using actions and performing in unison. They showed off their brilliant...

Art Painting

Art Painting

This half tem in Art, Kingfishers Class are focusing on painting. The Year One children responded to a story as a staring point for developing painting techniques. The Reception children used thick and thin paintbrushes to write letters. The children were able to...

Lemon Battery

To mark British Science Week, and as part of our work on electricity, the Owls tried to see whether they could use lemons as batteries to light a bulb in a circuit. They worked together as a class to see how many lemons it would take to light the bulb and to make sure...

Books For Schools

Books For Schools

The children have been enjoying the new books they received from the ‘Books for Schools’ campaign in the Evening Star and East Anglian newspapers. Thank you again for collecting the tokens and supporting us.

Travel and Transport

Travel and Transport

This half term in Science the children have been exploring materials. The children were asked to make a boat using suitable materials - which they explored last week. The children selected the materials they needed and got busy creating their boats. The children...

Happy Easter

Happy Easter

The children were asked to decorate an Easter egg for the residents at Black Brook care home to wish them a Happy Easter. Miss Jones made a display of all the Easter eggs the children had decorated. Miss Cousins has taken the display to Black Brook care home. The...

Exploring Texture

This half term, the Owls art focus is painting. For our first lesson, we explored using and creating different textures and then painting over them. Later in the term, the children will be creating their own textured versions of some of John Constable's masterpieces,...

Scooter Ability Club

Scooter Ability Club

The children were very excited as it was the first Scooter Ability Club. The children listened carefully to the instructions that were given and the safety rules they needed to follow. The JRSOs asked the children questions about how to travel safely on a scooter. The...

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Cards

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Cards

Miss Jones spoke to the children about the Queen. They found out that the Queen is going to be celebrating her Platinum Jubilee at the end of the month. Miss Jones told the children she thought it would be a lovely idea if the children could design and create a...

Owls French Cafe

In French, the Owls had been learning some language for ordering food and drinks in a café. To practise what they had learnt, we created our own café in the classroom with real food and drinks. Certain children were waiters and took everyone's orders. All the...

Potatoes

Potatoes

The children were very excited to receive a parcel. Mrs Clark showed the children the parcel and opened it to find potatoes. Mrs Clark read the instructions and the children looked and helped Mrs Clark to place the seed potatoes on the chitting tray. Mrs Clark said...

Planting Potatoes

Planting Potatoes

The children helped to fill the planters with soil and plant the potatoes. Some of children wrote a label for the potatoes that we are growing, they are called Casablanca and Sarpo Una. We talked about how the potatoes grow underground in the dark and if we see a...

Roadworkers Poster Competition

Roadworkers Poster Competition

Peter Ingram from Suffolk Highways visited our school on Thursday 17th March to present a voucher to the winner of the competition and to the school. Peter told the children that the winning poster will be displayed on roads in the near future so please keep a look...

Kingfishers’ Toy Museum

Kingfishers’ Toy Museum

The children created their own toy museum. The children wrote descriptions about their toys, wrote labels and created posters which they displayed in their museum. The children became tour guides and showed their grown up around the ‘Kingfishers Toy Museum’. They told...

World Book Day 2022

World Book Day 2022

The children celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book character. The children were challenged to look for different things within a text or picture book, such as a bear, a witch and a frog. The children were asked to record which book they...

Science Club

Science Club, for Years 4 and 5, has been running for a few weeks now, and is proving very successful. The children are working towards their Crest Super Star award and are getting stamps in their Science passports for each challenge they complete. Challenges so far...

Still Life Drawing Inspired by Pattan’s Pumpkin

Still Life Drawing Inspired by Pattan’s Pumpkin

This week the Artists in Woodpeckers class have been using their knowledge of mark making techniques to create texture and tone to sketch their own still life drawings. In the centre of the classroom Mrs Thornton put together a Pattan's Pumpkin inspired still life...

Safer Internet Day

Safer Internet Day

Miss Jones explained to the children it was 'Safer Internet Day'. Miss Jones told the children Safer Internet Day 2022 celebrates young people's role in creating a safer internet, whether that is whilst gaming and creating content, or interacting with their friends...

Mental Health Week

Mental Health Week

This week celebrates Children's Mental Health Week.  The children focused on how they have grown and how they can help others to grow. The children thought about who supports them to grow. The children created their own support balloons and considered the people in...

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