News About Our School
Woodpeckers Class Assembly.
Today was the turn of the Woodpeckers to share their hard work. They shared their knowledge of beat and rhythm and played different beats that they had made up in their groups. Some children shared their alternate endings to the traditional tale of Red Riding Hood...
Fencing Fun
Our Swans have been learning some new 'fencing' skills. Mr Banner taught them 'en garde', about footwork, advance, defence and lunge. After having the time to practise these skills, they had the opportunity to 'teach' our reception children how to 'fence'. It was...
Bike To School Week
The JRSOs encouraged the children to take part in Bike to School Week which was held from 13th - 17th June 2016. Despite the weather lots of children took the challenge and came to school on their bike or scooter. The JRSO's also held a competition to design the bike...
Money Week
This week the children have taken part in 'My Money Week' which is a national activity week for primary and secondary schools across the UK. The aim of the week was to increase the quality and quantity of financial education for all young children across the UK. The...
THANK YOU!
Many thanks for your kind donations. We raised £75.00 from wearing our favourite footwear to school; the money was sent to Action Aid to our sponsored child - Velonika in Malawi.
Kate Greenaway Awards
Four children from the Swans class travelled with Mrs Smith to East Bergholt High School to take part in the Kate Greenaway book awards event . The idea of the morning was to choose a favourite book out of a possible seven . The children mixed with other primary...
Father’s Day Food and Football
Over 40 dads, granddads and male relations joined us for a delicious Father's Day lunch. Rachel and Georgina prepared roast beef with all the trimmings followed by fruit crumble and custard. Some of the dads then joined the children outside for football, badminton...
Quadkids Athletics
10 children from the Owls and Swans class joined approximately 650 other Suffolk school children for an afternoon of Athletic events at Northgate High School. Our chosen country for the day was New Zealand; there was a samba band, opening ceremony (where the children...
Art and Craft Club
Children from the Kingfishers and Woodpeckers Class joined Miss Jones and Mrs Kite for Art and Craft Club. The children produced their own designs of Kandinsky's painting of circles. The children used felt tips, wax crayons and paints to create the circles. The...
Birthday Lunch Fit for a Queen (or King)
On Friday, Rachel and Georgina prepared a 'picnic lunch' school dinner, with sandwiches, fruit, sausage rolls and cream scones to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday. The hall was decorated with Union Jack flags and tablecloths and a fun time was had by all. Thank...
Potatoes
The Kingfisher Class were very excited to be picking out their potatoes that they had planted weeks ago. They searched the soil picking out the potatoes. When they had found them all they counted how many they had. Some pots had over 100 potatoes. Great counting by...
A Whoopsey-Splunkers Day!
Today the Swans and Owls kiddles went to London for a Roald Dahl experience. First stop was the South Bank Centre to see ‘Wondercrump’, a magical interactive journey revealing the secrets of Dahl's extraordinary life. With a fair amount of frothbugglingness it was a...
Suffolk Show Success
On a very wet day at Trinity Park, some of our students, staff and parents (& grandparents) braved the weather to see our 3m x 3m garden at the Suffolk Show. We met and talked to the judges and awaited the results; we were delighted to receive a 'gold award'...
School Council Update
The School Council met on Thursday to talk to Mrs Ellingham. Mrs Ellingham has been working on improving the play area in the village. All the children in the school completed a questionnaire giving their ideas and thoughts on what they liked and disliked about the...
Suffolk Show Garden
Swans have been busy designing a garden for the Suffolk Show based around the theme 'A slice of Suffolk history'. The chosen design featured Boudicca's trip through Suffolk en route to Colchester. Two children from Swans class and a parent helper joined Mr Wheals to...
Dodgeball Fun
On Thursday afternoon, our school hosted a Dodgeball Tournament. Shotley and Capel St Mary schools brought 2 teams each of Year 3 & 4 children to join 2 teams from our school. The children enjoyed three different types of dodgeball games and played really well...
Fruit Art!
This week in DT the Woodpeckers have been designing their own rainforest animal made out of fruit. They have thought about healthy eating and chosen a rainforest animal each to recreate using just fruit. The children looked at lots of different types of fresh fruit...
Mini-Tennis Tournament
Four children from the Owls class represented our school at the recent mini-tennis competition held at East Bergholt High School. Each child had 3 singles matches and some doubles matches too. The children played well and came away with the Bronze certificate.
Kingfishers Animal Challenge
Today the Kingfisher children took part in an 'Animal Challenge Afternoon' with a family member. The children and adults worked together planning what animal they would make from the rainforest or jungle. They made their animals from recycled materials. There was lots...
Woodpeckers Are Minibeast Detectives!
Woodpecker class have been learning about habitats and micro habitats. They have looked at different world habitats, and compared the animals that lived there. They have been learning about microhabitats, paying particular interest to the mini beasts and other animals...
Favourite Footwear Day
The children and staff were allowed to wear their favourite footwear to school, as they participated in 'Favourite Footwear Day' part of 'Walk to School Week'.The children and staff wore lots of different footwear including slippers, trainers, shoes and boots. The...
Walk To School Week
The children, parents and staff joined together to participate in 'Walk to School Week'. The JRSO's organised the event asking for children and parents to try and walk to school and to make Strickmere a car free zone for the week. Everyday this week staff have been...
Gardening in the Swans
On Monday afternoon, the Swans spent the afternoon doing some gardening around the school grounds. The children got stuck in to planting, weeding and watering, as well as collecting wood for a bonfire. They also worked on finishing the design for our garden...
High 5 & Handball
This week was rather busy for our sports teams. On Tuesday, 8 Owls class children took part in a handball tournament at Inspire Ipswich. We didn't win the tournament, but all the children showed great skill, team work and determination. On Friday 8...