News About Our School
Glorious Gala
On Monday 5th February, 8 children participated in a swimming gala at Hadleigh Pool; they were involved in a number of races including a relay medley and a front crawl medley. After all the races had finished and the times calculated, we were very pleased with our...
Woodpeckers Share Their Creative Skills With Their Parents!
Friday 2nd February was the turn of The Woodpeckers to share their work during their sharing afternoon. The children have been learning about portraits in Art and have learnt how to draw a self-portrait as well as portraits of other people. The children were keen to...
Woodpeckers Enjoy ‘Junk Modelling’ The Great Wall of China.
This term The Woodpeckers have been learning about China. They have sampled Chinese chocolate and learnt facts about Beijing. They did lots of learning based on The Great Wall of China and brought in junk modelling materials to build their own wall! The children had...
Dips and Dippers
This week the children in Kingfishers Class have enjoyed looking at different Dips and Dippers. The children have tasted different dips and dippers. They have also designed, made and evaluated their own dips. The children have learnt about where different dips come...
Forest Fun
The children have enjoyed a variety of sessions in the outdoor environment this half term. The children have been working hard to complete activities for the RSPB Wild Challenge. The children have enjoyed doing the 'Bird Watch' and spotting different birds. The...
Pen Pals
The Kingfisher Class welcomed their Pen Pals to school on Monday. The children have been writing letters to the children in Ash Class at Eyke Primary School. The children enjoyed meeting their Pen Pal and finding out all about them. The children worked with their Pen...
Swans Make Spring Rolls!
This half term, the Swans have been learning about 'Global Food' as part of their Design and Technology topic with Miss Kluge. They have looked at different foods from around the world and thought about similarities between countries. They have looked at eating...
Singing at the O2!
On Monday 29th January, Mrs Marshall, Mrs Bilner and Mrs Martin accompanied 20 children to the O2 in London where they joined approximately 7,700 other children to take part in the Young Voices choir. After practising for many months in school and an afternoon of...
Owls Parent- Child Sharing Session
On Thursday 25th January, the Owls class held a parent-child sharing session. The adults and children worked together to create a poster about the layers of the rainforest, to tie in with the work we had been doing in Geography. Everyone got really involved in the...
Gingerbread Houses
On Friday the Woodpeckers reached their first target of 25 class points. Class points are given when the whole class has done something good or worked well as a team. They decided that they wanted to do some cooking as their reward, so today they made ginger...
A Midwife Crisis
On Thursday afternoon and evening, the children took to the stage to entertain visitors with their acting, singing and dancing in a whole school performance of 'A Midwife Crisis'. Well done everyone and thank you to all those involved in planning and preparing for the...
The Christmas Story for Advent
On Tuesday the children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers class went to the Discovery Centre at St Edmundsbury Cathedral to learn about the Christmas story for advent. The children were told the story through reflective storytelling and created their own cardboard advent...
Autumn Assembly
The children in Kingfishers Class performed their first assembly of the school year. The children talked about Autumn, sang songs and showed their Autumn trees. They also talked about road safety week, their walk around the local area and the Reception children...
Walk To School
As part of Road Safety Week the children have been encouraged to walk to school. The teachers provided a 'Walking Bus' from each end of Strickmere so as many children as possible could walk to school. Walking to school keeps us healthy and it helps protect the...
Woodpeckers’ Class Assembly
Today was the turn of The Woodpeckers to share their work in a class assembly. They sang a 3 times table song to the tune of Uptown Funk and shared lots of facts about the different continents. Some children read their 'recipe for friendship' instructions which...
Brightness Day
The children put on their brightest clothes for Brightness Day. The children donated £1 for the Brake road safety charity. Thank you very much for your donations, we raised £75. In the assembly the JRSOs awarded certificates and prizes to the brightest dressed child...
Crossroads @ ABC Pre School
The JRSOs visited ABC Pre School to teach the children how to cross the road safely. The JRSOs demonstrated to the children how to do it correctly and supported the children to walk across the road. The children really enjoyed having the JRSOs visit them. Well done...
The Green Cross Code
The JRSOs taught the reception children how to cross the road correctly using the 'Crossroads' equipment. The children listened carefully to what the JRSOs were saying and followed their instructions. The children really enjoyed the session and were able to cross the...
Road Safety Week
Today we had a visit from PCSO Denise Ford. She worked with the JRSOs looking at the parking outside the school gates this morning. The JRSOs issued tickets to cars which commented on how well they were parked. The JRSOs were pleased to report all cars got a happy...
Leaf Confetti
In craft club the children collected leaves to make leaf confetti. The children ripped the leaves in to small pieces to create the confetti. The children used their confetti to create the hedgehog's spikes.
Cross Roads
The JRSOs welcomed Mr Andrews into school today. Mr Andrews showed the JRSOs how to use the 'Cross Roads' equipment. The 'Cross Roads' equipment includes a road and zebra crossing and is used to teach children how to cross the road safely. The JRSOs are fully...
Speed Watch
The JRSOs joined the Community Speed Check Team on Friday. The JRSOs were given the opportunity to hold the speed camera and were able to see how fast the vehicles were travelling. The JRSOs learnt that the aim of the speed checks were to encourage drivers to do the...
Anti Bullying Week: Pledges, Slogans and a UNIQUE Display.
For Anti-Bullying week we started the day with an assembly looking at the question: "Is this bullying?" the children were presented with different scenarios in which they needed to decide if it should be called bullying or not. We learnt that bullying can be words or...
Autumn Leaves
This week at Craft Club the children created 'Autumn Leaves'. They coloured leaf shapes in using Autumn colours and used wool to wrap round the leaves. The children had lots of fun and were very good at helping each other. [gallery...