News About Our School
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...
Rainforest Safari Cars!
This week the Woodpeckers have been constructing junk model safari cars to travel through the rainforest! They have measured and created their own wheel axles using kebab skewers and fixed on their wheels using plastercine. They made sure sharp ends were covered and...
Woodpeckers Share Their Work.
This week was the Woodpeckers' class assembly. The children showed off their knowledge of the Rainforest by sharing information from their fact files and Geography work based around continents and oceans. Children could talk about which continents had Rainforests...
Tropical Wings
The Kingfisher and Woodpecker Classes went to Tropical Wings Zoo. The children and adults enjoyed looking at different animals like lemurs, wallabies, meerkats, monkeys and birds. The children were able to walk around the tropical butterfly house and had butterflies...
Kingfishers Share Their Work
Kingfishers class were proud to present their work to parents and the rest of the school at their assembly today. They showed the rainforest animals that they had painted and snakes that they had cut out themselves. A performance of the original poem they had...
Sowing, Growing & Measuring
Kingfisher children have been very busy planting potatoes, peas and cress. They have been caring for their seeds and are enjoying watching them grow. The children have been observing the changes to their cress seeds and have been recording the measurements in their...
Kingfishers Explore the Rainforest
The rainforest appeared in the Kingfishers role play area over the Easter holidays, with flashing lights and rainforest noises. The children have had a fantastic time exploring it. The children have enjoyed being explorers looking for the animals hiding in the trees,...
Rocket Seeds Take Off
We are very excited to be conducting an experiment with rocket seeds that have been on an incredible journey, having travelled all the way to space and back. Thousands of schools applied to take part in the experiment organised by the Royal Horticultural Society and...
Owls Assembly
Owls Class shared photographs and explained about their recent visit to Trinity Park for the Schools Farm and Country Show. They also showed their research of where Rainforests are in the world and one member of the class played his violin. Well done Owls, a great...
Scooter Ability Club
The JRSO's felt the need to run a scooter ability club as many children bring their scooters to school and need some reminders of how to travel safely. The weather was fine this Friday so Scooter Ability Club took place. Children from Kingfisher and Woodpecker class...