News About Our School
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.
Sustrans Big Wheel and Walk
This week, the children (and parents) have been encouraged to walk or wheel to school taking part in Sustrans Big Wheel and Walk event. Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel inspires pupils to make active journeys to school, improve air quality in their neighbourhood and...
Gymnastics Fun
On Wednesday 26th March, several children from across the school took part in a gymnastics competition at Hadleigh Stars. We are delighted to announce that our Under 7s team came first; our Under 9s came first and our U11s teams came second and third. Well done to...
Explanation Writing
This week in English, the Year One children have been focusing on explanations. The children were asked to write an explanation on how Jack got rich based on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. They wrote cause and effect sentences using 'because' and 'so' to explain...
Textiles – Forest Fun
This term in Design and Technology we have been working with textiles and creating our own pouches, we finished these last week and thought it would be fun to explore a variety of textiles further in the forest area. The children enjoyed weaving fabric on the large...
Year 4 Fractions
Today we used Mrs Harvey's lemon drizzle cake to help the Year 4s understand equivalent fractions!
Using shade to create a sense of form
In Year 6, the children have been looking at the artists Aurelie Bouquet and David McEown and their paintings of icebergs. They used shading techniques to try and give a sense of form to their work.
Cloud Forest Terrarium
The Year One children became Geographers. The children continued focusing on the question - What is life like in the Jungle? The children thought about the enquiry question - Can we identify the locations and features of cloud forests? The children found out all about...
Exploring Light
In Science, the children in Year 6 have been learning that light travels in straight lines. They had to draw scientific diagrams to show their understanding of this and had great fun using the torches to aid their understanding.
Road Safety Poster Competition
Gill, a councillor, from the parish council came and spoke to the children about a very exciting competition. Stratford St Mary Parish Council wanted the children of Stratford St Mary Primary School to design slow down posters so they could be displayed in Stratford...
Forest Fun Growing
The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark, Debs and Miss Jones. The children sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children the colour matching game. They where asked to search for items and match the same colours as their...