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Fantastic Fireworks

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

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

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

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

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!

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...

House Challenge Session

House Challenge Session

This morning the children worked with a family member and created a model of their house. They planned what they were going to do and what they were going to use. They constructed their model using recycled materials. The children used their cutting and sticking...

Tense Table Tennis!

Tense Table Tennis!

On Friday, 8 children from Swans and Owls class travelled to St Jo's College in Ipswich to compete in the U11 Table Tennis Tournament. The children played against Beaumont, Morland, St Pancras, Brittania, St Jo's College and Holbrook Primary. All of the children...

Woodpecker Sharing Afternoon

Woodpecker Sharing Afternoon

On Friday afternoon, the Woodpeckers had their parents and relatives into school to share their learning. They showed their parents their research into The Great Fire Of London and chose three pieces of work they were most proud of to sit and share with their parents....

Fantastic Football!

Fantastic Football!

On Thursday, it was the girls' turn to compete at the U11 Football Tournament at Whitton Sports Centre. They had a great time, gaining confidence after every match and playing some excellent counter-attacking football. Unfortunately we didn't manage to score, but we...

History Detectives

History Detectives

In History, Woodpeckers Class have been learning about The Great Fire Of London. They have travelled back in time their time machines to 1666 and learnt all about what life was like. Then they took ownership of their own learning by being challenged to use research...

Walk To School

Walk To School

On Wednesday 10th October, children, parents and staff took part in Walk to School. The staff provided a walking bus from both ends of Strickmere so children could be dropped off and then walked safely into school. It was lovely to see so many walking to school and to...

Autumn Trees

Autumn Trees

The children created their own autumn tree. They went outside to look at the colours of the trunks and decided on green, brown and black. Back inside they tried very hard to colour inside the lines of the picture of the tree trunk. The children discussed what colour...

Leaf Person

Leaf Person

The children listened to and watched the story of Leaf Man. The children got their waterproof trousers and wellies on and walked sensibly to the outside wild area following Miss Jones. The children were given the task to collect different natural objects so they could...

Super Conker Worm

Super Conker Worm

The children enjoyed another Forest Fun session focusing on 'Superworm'. The children listened to the story before making a class 'Superworm' and walking to the outside classroom. Miss Jones explained to the children that they were going to make their own ‘Superworm’...

Football Fun!

Football Fun!

On Thursday, 14 children from Owls and Swans class made the trip to Whitton Sports Centre to participate in the annual U11 Football Tournament. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience, battling hard in each game, showing a great attitude, sportsmanship and...

Owls Shared Learning Session

Owls Shared Learning Session

On Thursday 4th October, the Owls class were joined by their parents for a shared learning session. The children had to work with their parents and family members to research and produce information posters about the Vikings to tie in with our History topic. The...

Confusing Computing!

Confusing Computing!

On Friday, a selection of computing enthusiasts from the Swans class spent the day working with Chris Calver from Rapid Electronics Ltd, who is a Vex Robotics Expert. The children worked together building, coding and practising manoeuvring their robots to complete...

Thank you!

Thank you!

On Friday, the PTA hosted a coffee morning and cake sale in aid of the McMillan Cancer Charity.  Thank you to all those who attended, donated and bought cakes and coffee.  The first count is that we made at least £100.00.  Thank you very much for your generosity!...

Target Throwing

Target Throwing

During the PE session with Mr Bassett, the children took part in challenges relating to targets. They rolled the ball to each other trying to get the ball between their friends legs and then they threw the bean bag trying to get it into the hoop each time. All the...

Crime Scene in Swans Class!

Crime Scene in Swans Class!

This week in maths, Swans class were shocked to learn of a 'murder' that had taken place in our class. The children had 45 minutes to solve the mystery using their rounding and problem solving skills. They did a brilliant job and solved the case within the time limit!...

Books For Schools

Books For Schools

Following the success of the spring campaign in the Ipswich Star and East Anglian Daily Times, Sports Equipment For Schools, the newspapers are now  planning an equally exciting Autumn campaign which will see them give away over £20,000 worth of new books to primary...

Comparing Numbers

Comparing Numbers

The children used the Numicon and the scales to work out which Numicon shape was ‘more’ and which was ‘less’. They then correctly put the greater number shape in the more column and the lower number Numicon in the less column. Great Maths work Kingfishers. [gallery...

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