News About Our School
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Tractor Visit
The children were very excited to see the tractor arriving at school. They went out to see the tractor and Farmer James. Farmer James talked to the children about his tractor and about what he does on his farm. The children were able to answer questions that Farmer...
Recreating the Battle of Hastings
In History, and in Literacy, the Owls have been learning about the Battle of Hastings. To help us understand what happened in the battle, we went outside and acted it out. We then re-created it with jelly babies! [gallery...
Lunar New Year
This week the children celebrated the Lunar New Year. Miss Jones shared a PowerPoint and a story about the Lunar New Year. The children learned that red envelopes with coins are presented as gifts at family gatherings such as weddings or holidays such as Lunar New...
Artistic responses to a story
For our Art topic this half term we have been exploring different types of marks and using them to respond to different stimuli. Today we listened to the story of Pattan's Pumpkin and applied our learning of different mark making. As artists, we used paint to create...
A Royal Declaration.
The children in Woodpeckers class have been learning about The British Empire. They have learnt about the British trading triangle between England, Africa and India. They took part in a class discussion about how the slave trade began and their opinion on it. We...
Mark Making in Art
On Tuesday 11th January the children in Woodpecker class were tasked with using different tools to create particular types of mark. The children used straws, thick and thin paint brushes, glue spreaders, sticks, pipe cleaners and cutlery to experiment with creating...