News About Our School
Titanic Science
The Swans have been thinking about why the Titanic didn't spot the iceberg until it was too late. We looked at water displacement to measure the volume of the iceberg and the children were able to clearly see how 90% of the iceberg is under the water which is one of...
Large Scale 3D Drawing
In Art, the Owls looked at the work of the sculptor Magdalene Odundo and how she prepared for her sculptors by drawing in 2D but making it look 3D. We had to draw large shapes, using our whole arm. We used lots of overlapping curved lines in different colours to make...
Guy Fawkes Immersion Day
The children in Kingfishers Class began exploring their new topic for this half term. The children received a letter inviting them to a firework party. The children were asked to work together to build a Guy. Miss Jones read the instructions and the children followed...
Ancient Greece Immersion
The Owls had a great first day back at school. We had an immersion day based around our first topic, which is Ancient Greece. We learnt the myth of Perseus and Medusa. We acted out the story and then re-told it as a storyboard. We made our own Greek vine leaf...
Anglo-Saxon Newspaper Headlines
Today, the children have been learning about the Anglo-Saxons - who they were and where they came from. We will continue our learning and are hoping to produce some 'eye-catching' newspaper headlines over the next few days ready for our newspaper report. We look...
JRSO Gold Award
The JRSOs at Stratford St Mary Primary School were awarded a Gold Award for all their hard work this year. They completed a scrapbook informing others of what they had done to encourage and promote road safety within school. Great work JRSOs we are very proud of your...
London Writing
The children in Kingfishers Class have been very busy learning about London. The Year One children have been creating leaflets all about London. The children choose different London landmarks and wrote facts about them. The children shared their leaflets with the...
Caterpillars
The children had a lovely surprise, they received some caterpillars in the post. The children had a good look at the caterpillars, then started their caterpillar diaries! They wrote about the caterpillars and drew a picture. The children will continue to observe the...
Harvesting Potatoes
The children in Kingfishers Class were very excited about digging up the potatoes and seeing how many they got. The children dug through the soil with their hands collecting the potatoes. The children had to look carefully to make sure they hadn’t left any. The...
Kingfishers Assembly – Tour Of London
It was Kingfishers Class' turn to perform their class assembly. The children were confident to stand up and perform to the audience. The children took the audience on a tour of London and talked about what they had enjoyed learning at school and sang ‘The Wheels on...
Owls Dodgeball
On Wednesday 22nd May, Owls class had an inter-house dodgeball tournament. The children played well and very competitively and the Otters were the eventual winners.
Soliloquys in Swans
The Swans have been reading Hamlet. They used emotive language to write a soliloquy in role as Ophelia. They then presented their final draft creatively using which ever medium they chose. Some chose watercolours, others created a collage effect and some used posca...
Tudor Weavers
Some of the Year 6 are enjoying being Tudor weavers! We think they would have been a great asset to Stratford St Mary during Tudor times where clothiers lived in the village and became a prominent contributor to the cloth industry.
Art – Landscape Farm
This half term in art, the Year One children have been working on the unit of work - Landscapes using different Media - The Farm. The children thought about the question - Can we create details using controlled painting and other materials and objects? Today the...
Painting in Woodpeckers
This half term, in art, we have been looking at four different painters and their art styles; Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Jackson Pollock and Georgia O'Keefe and asking the question 'Are all paintings created in the same way? This week we focussed on using...
History – Grains
The children became historians. The children continued focusing on the question - Would you have rather been a farmer in Stratford St Mary in the past or now? The children recapped over last week’s learning thinking about how jobs on the farm have changed over time....
Tennis
This half term the children have been learning how to play tennis. Each week the children have been building up their skills which have included catching, hand eye coordination and movement. This has enabled the children to put the skills altogether to play tennis....
Art – Observational Drawings
The children became ‘artists’ and continued with the unit of work - Drawing: Marvellous Marks. The children thought about the question - Can we mark make using pencils to create a simple observational drawing? The children drew their self portraits using a mirror to...
Typography Art
In art, the children have been looking at the work of the multi-disciplinary artist Freyja Crow. They tried to create portraits and using a strong sense of line, then experimented with different styles of typography. ...
Chalk Mark Making
The children became ‘artists’ and continued with the unit of work - Drawing: Marvellous Marks. The children thought about the question - Can we explore making marks with chalk? The children were given time to feel the chalk and comment on what they noticed. Mrs Clark...
Schools’ Farm and Country Show
On Wednesday 17th April, Years 3, 4 and 5 attended the Schools' Farm and Country Show at Trinity Park in Ipswich. The children were able to take part in lots of different activities looking at all aspects of farming, growing and food production. First we looked at how...
Hall Farm Visit
The children in Kingfishers Class had a lovely walk to Hall Farm. The children were greeted by Farmer Ed. The children listened carefully to what Farmer Ed had to say about Hall Farm. The children really enjoyed looking at the different animals. The children were able...
JRSOs Speed Check
The JRSOs joined the Community Speed Check Team to carry out their weekly speed checks in the village. The Community Speed Check Team carry out the checks in different locations around the village encouraging drivers to drive carefully and to keep to the speed limits....
Three Little Pigs
The children joined Mrs Martin for another Forest School session with Miss Jones and Miss Bailey. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest School area. This half term the sessions will focus on the farm. Today the children...