News About Our School
Year 4 Science Day
On Wednesday 12th July, all the Year 4s, along with those from other schools in our pyramid, attended a special, rocket-themed Science day at East Bergholt High School. Over the day, the children learnt how to build and launch their own water rockets. I'm proud to say...
Latitude!
On Friday 14th July, the Owls class visited the Latitude Festival. For the first part of the day we explored the Kids' Area, where we took part in art and craft activities, painted our faces, handled snakes and had our faces painted. We then split into two groups. Mr...
Dinosaur Egg
After lunch the children came into the classroom and discovered a note and an egg on the toadstool. The children read the note and discovered it was a dinosaur egg. The note told the children they had to follow the instructions to help the baby dinosaur to grow. With...
Swans Residential Trip to PGL
On Monday 10th July, Mr Bassett and Mrs Bilner accompanied 19 Swans to PGL - Caythorpe Court in Lincolnshire for their 4 night, 5 day residential trip. After setting off at 9.15am, we stopped at Hinchingbrook Country Park in Huntingdon for our picnic lunch and a run...
Teddy Bears Picnic
Children from ABC Pre - School, Kingfishers and Woodpecker Class carried their teddies to the field for a teddy bears picnic. The children had their own box with sandwiches, sausage roll, carrot and cucumber sticks, grapes, bear biscuits and a carton of juice. The...
Robots, Potatoes, Space and Father’s Day
On Friday the Kingfishers performed their last assembly of the school year. The children were confident to stand up, talk and sing to the audience. The children proudly showed their work and talked about what they had learnt. The children talked about their non...
Forest Fun Fire
The children were looking forward to their final session of forest fun, which they knew would involve a fire. They made some dough with Miss Jones in the classroom and moulded it into their own shape. The children then got their wellie boots on and followed Miss Jones...
Happy Reading
Many thanks for supporting our Book Fair. We raised £271.10 which gives us £68.44 to spend on free books for our school. We hope the children are enjoying their new books.
Sports Day 2017 – Gallery
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Trees, Forests and Re-cycling
Friday was the turn of the Woodpeckers to share their work from this half term. They talked all about Arts week and showed their finger paintings of seasonal trees and their forest. The children from construction club showed their tree models that they'd made and...
Rocket and Aliens
The children in Kingfishers class were very excited to find a rocket in their garden. They secured the area with tape and looked carefully at the evidence around the rocket. The children wrote about what they could see and kept an eye on the rocket for the rest of the...
Arts Week – Day 5 & Exhibition
Today was a day of finishing off our art work and preparing for the exhibition. There are now several boards in the school hall, all adorned with art work, pictures, photographs and children's writing. The school hall will be open tomorrow between 10.30am & 4.00pm...
Gold Award
Today the JRSO's attended the Junior Road Safety Awards Event at Endeavour House in Ipswich. The JRSO's met the Councillor, the cabinet member for Highways and Transport, listened to presentations from other JRSO's and participated in a question and answer session....
Arts Week – Day 4
Today Kingfishers and Woodpeckers joined together again to produce the foreground and background for their final group piece. They used sponges and paintbrushes to print and dab sky and bush patterns using different colours. This afternoon they have looked at a...
Thank you Halfords!
On Wednesday 21st June, Robin and Bob from Halfords in Colchester paid the school a visit. They worked with the Swans class to discuss cycle safety. The children learnt how to check different parts of their bike, how to repair a tyre puncture and one lucky child had...
Arts Week Day 3
Today the Owls class started creating their own versions of Constable's 'The Haywain' ready for the exhibition at the end of the week. The children had to select the medium of their choice, from sketching pencils, oil pencils, watercolour paint and collage, to...
Christchurch Mansion
Today the children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers class visited Christchurch Mansion. The workshops and activities were based around one of Constable's paintings, 'The Mill Stream'. The children used their imagination and creative skills to interpret the painting in...
Kwik Cricket
On Tuesday 20th June, a selection of Swans took part in the Kwik Cricket tournament at Chantry Park. It was a very warm afternoon, but all the children played well as a team; there was some fantastic batting, some amazing fielding and great fun had by all. Well done...
Arts Week – Day 2
The Kingfishers and Woodpeckers class joined together again to create seasonal trees. The children worked in groups to create a tree. They mixed the paints to make different colours. They painted leaves using their fingerprints. They used this technique to finish...
Quadkids Fun
On Wednesday 14th June, 10 Swans took part in a Quadkids competition at Northgate High School. They joined approximately 60 other schools and 600 competitors competing in a variety of events : 75 m sprint, standing long jump, vortex throw and 600m run. There was an...
High 5 Netball
Tuesday 23rd May saw some of our Swans children taking part in a High 5 Netball competition at Ipswich High School's Eaton Place. High 5 Netball involves children changing position after each half, so everyone gets a chance at playing in a different position. We came...
Walk To School Week
Staff, children and parents put on their walking shoes this week and took part in Walk to School Week. The JRSO's organised the event and the children designed posters to promote it. Staff ran a 'walking bus' so children who travel to school in a car could be dropped...
Favourite Footwear
The JRSO's asked the children to wear their favourite footwear on Wednesday 17th May to raise money for our Action Aid Child (during Walk to School Week). The children wore an assortment of footwear including trainers, sandals and slippers. Thank you very much for...
Around The World Assembly
The Kingfishers Class took to the stage for their class assembly. The children were confident to stand up, talk and sing to the audience. The children proudly showed their work and talked about what they had learnt. The children talked about their Maths, counting back...