News About Our School
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!
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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...
PTA Evening
The PTA are holding an information evening on Wednesday 10th October. All welcome!
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!
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
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!
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
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
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...
Kandinsky and Banksy Inspire Stratford Artists
In Art club, the children have been learning about different artists and their style of work. The first week we looked at Bansky and created some graffiti art using stencils (Banksy's preferred methods) and the second week we looked at Kandinsky and his abstract art...
Magnet Games
In Science, the Owls have been learning about Forces and Magnets. The children had to work in pairs to design a game that would work using magnetic force. They really enjoyed the task, working well in their pairs and enjoying the chance to demonstrate their scientific...
Retelling A Story Using Actions.
This half term in literacy, the Woodpeckers have been looking at Traditional Tales. The children have learnt the story of The Three Little Pigs and worked in groups to retell part of the story using actions. They worked as a team in unison to retell their part of the...
Owls Dance
This half term, the Owls class are working on some dance activities on the theme Extreme Earth. We started by looking at Volcanoes. The children worked in pairs to show the four stages of a volcanic eruption (still volcano, gentle rumbling, explosion, lava trickling)....
Book Club
Children from Year One and Two joined Miss Jones for their first Book Club session on Thursday after school. The children listened to a story called 'Jake's First Day'. The story was about a boy called Jake and it was his first day at school. Jake's teacher had...
Forest Fun
Kingfishers Class enjoyed their first Forest Fun session of the school year. The children looked for signs of Autumn as they walked to the outside classroom. Miss Jones set the children a challenge to work with a partner and to find as many creatures as they could....