News About Our School
Road Safety Week
During Road Safety Week the children, parents and staff put on their walking shoes and participated in Walk to School week, even in the wet weather. The children participated in different road safety activities during the week. The JRSOs also taught the children in...
Pen Pals
This week the children were very excited as they were writing a reply letter to their Pen Pals. The reception children worked with Miss Jones. She read the children their letter from their Pen Pal and they wrote a reply to the letter with adult support. They answered...
Hibernating Hedgehogs
The children were excited to find out what they would be doing during their 'Forest Fun' session. The children sat engaged while Miss Jones made salt dough, they were able to name the ingredients Miss Jones was using. The children sat and listened to a story called...
U9 Dodgeball Festival
On Thursday 15th November, six children from the Owls class participated in an U9 Dodgeball Festival held at Inspire Suffolk in Ipswich. The children had a great time, with some excellent catching, dodging and throwing skills. We played 8 very competitive matches,...
Anti-Bullying Week #ChooseKindness
This week the Anti-Bullying Ambassadors have been very busy! They had a meeting to discuss what they would like to do for Anti-Bullying week and this weeks' house group activities were based on what they came up with. Today the children looked at the #ChooseKindness...
Germs & Waterproof Materials
This half term in Science, the children have been learning about different scientific inventors. Last week, the children learnt about Louie Pasteur and the discovery of germs. They did an experiment with glitter to see how easily germs are spread and the importance of...
Tremendous Tag
Our Year 5 & 6 children recently took part in a Tag Rugby Festival at St Joseph's College, Ipswich. The children competed well, show strength, encouragement and determination. We won 1 game, drew 2 and lost 3. We done everyone! [gallery...
Robotics @ BT
On Friday 10th November, the Year 5 children went to BT @ Adastral Park to take part in a Crumble Bot session. The children were tasked with creating a program that would enable the Crumble Bot Car to flash different coloured lights; to make it stop when it came...
Stratford St Mary School Remembers
On Monday 12th November all the children walked down to the church. Whilst there, we saw the the amazing displays which commemorated the 100 year anniversary of the ending of World War 1; we also saw the nine 'There but not there' soldiers sitting in the pews. The...
Spencer Bear’s Birthday
The children received a letter from Spencer's Mummy explaining that it was going to be Spencer Bear's Birthday and she wanted the children to plan a party for him. The Year One children wrote Spencer Bear's Mummy a letter explaining what they were going to do - the...
The Greatest Show
Saturday 3rd November saw dry and calm weather and over 1000 people enjoying music, great food and a spectacular fireworks event on our school grounds. The Stratford St Mary fireworks committee had spent months preparing for the event and an enormous amount of time...
Remembrance Day Medals
This week in school is Remembrance Week. As part of this topic, the Owls class made Remembrance Day medals. The children had to listen to Mrs Marshall very carefully and follow her instructions. To tie in with their Literacy work, the children then wrote instructions...
Poppy Wreaths
The children worked in their house groups to create a poppy wreath. They worked in pairs and drew round each hand, one on green paper to represent the leaf and the other hand on red to represent the poppy; they then cut out their hand-prints before they were arranged...
Forest Fun Fireworks
Miss Jones showed the children a clip on the computer of fireworks; she then asked the children to look carefully at the shapes they made and the colours. The children were able to tell Miss Jones what shapes they made and the colours they saw. The children put on...
Rainforest Researchers
This week, Woodpeckers Class have been learning about The Rainforest. They are going to write fact files. To find out about the Rainforest, the children had to use resources to research and answer questions in pairs and on their own which inspired them to take charge...
Bikeability Fun!
At the beginning of this half term, our Year 5 children were put through their paces during their 2-day Bikeability course. Mr Ross and Mr Hooley taught the children the necessary skills to be safe on their bikes - firstly in the playground and then whilst out on the...
Movement of the Moon
In Science, we have been looking at all things Space! We have looked at the solar system, astronomers and the Earth and Moon. To finish off the unit, we made models that show the movement of the moon and its path of travel around the Earth. [gallery...
Puzzling Prime Numbers
Recently in Swans class, the children have been investigating prime numbers. They had to work out how many prime numbers there are between 1-100, using everything they had learnt; multiples, factors and their times tables! To make it more fun, it was a competition...
Fantastic Fireworks
This week in History, the Year One children have been learning about Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot and the Reception children have been creating their own fireworks using a salad spinner. They painted fireworks while listening to Handel's firework music. Mrs Clark...
Games Club
After school some of the Year One and Two children joined Miss Jones for games club. The children enjoyed playing different games. It was lovely to see the children taking turns and playing the games according to the rules. [gallery...
U7 Futsal Festival
On Thursday 1st October, seven children from the Woodpeckers class took part in an U7 Futsal Festival at Inspire Suffolk. They played 8 matches in total against 4 other schools: St Pancras, Shotley, The Oaks and Bucklesham. There was plenty of fancy footwork, hard...
Firework Art
Some of the Woodpeckers have been very busy completing some artwork whilst the others were out at a tournament. The children watched and listened to fireworks on the Smart board and used this as inspiration for their art. The children used rulers and pencils to draw...
Harvest Assembly
On Thursday 18th October we hosted our annual harvest assembly. The children sang a variety of songs, read poems from William Shakespeare, John McCrae and Emily Bronte as well as telling us about harvest around the world. It was lovely seeing so many of you join us...
CSI Friday!
On Friday 12th October, the year 6’s of Swans class ventured out to East Bergholt High School to help solve the mystery of the disappearing watch! The children had to whittle down the suspects by trying their hands at DNA extraction using pineapple juice; blood...