News About Our School
Games Club
Children from Year One and Two joined Miss Jones for games club. The children played a variety games, following the rules and taking turns. Lots of fun!
The Great Fire of London
The children began exploring their new topic for this half term. They were asked to work together to complete two puzzles. The children completed the puzzles and made a picture of ‘The Great Fire of London’ and ‘Samuel Pepys’. The children gave their ideas of what...
Salt Dough Volcanoes
To start our science topic on 'Rocks', Woodpeckers class made their own salt dough volcanoes. We then created magma and watched it as it came out of the volcano as 'lava'. This showed us how extrusive igneous rocks are made.
Henry Moore’s Shelters
In art we have begun looking at the artist Henry Moore. We explored mixing colours and different drawing media to create the different colours and effects he uses in his 'Shelter paintings'.
Testing Solubility
Owls' Science topic this half term is Properties and Changes in Materials. This week we looked at solubility. The children had to work as scientists to plan and carry out their own tests to investigate the solubility of different materials. Lots of great learning and...
Ancient Egyptian Immersion Day
To launch our new History topic, the Owls class started the term with an Ancient Egyptian immersion day. The children first had to 'excavate' some artefacts from an archaeological dig, examine them and make predictions about them. In Maths, we investigated how many...
Residential Trip 2023
In July 2023, Yer 5 & 6 visited Plas y Brenin in Snowdonia for their residential trip. They were involved in many, many activities which included gorge scrambling, canoeing and mountain walking. The scenery was stunning and very different from Suffolk. The...
Annie the Musical
On Wednesday 19th July, the Owls and Swans performed the musical 'Annie' to family, friends and staff and children in the school. The children acted and sung beautifully and confidently and wowed the audiences with their various talents, including those who helped...
Gold Award
The JRSOs have achieved the Gold award again following this years hard work. the JRSOs were asked to send their scrapbook via email. The scrapbook informs others of what they had done over the school year to encourage and promote road safety within school. Great work...
Computing Programming Bee Bots
This week the children have been exploring the unit Programming Bee Bots in Computing. The children were given three challenges - build a bridge out of bricks for Bee Bot to drive through, make the Bee Bot turn all the way round in a circle without moving off the...
Kingfishers Class Assembly
The Kingfishers performed their last assembly of the school year. The children were confident to stand up and perform to the audience. The children told the audience about what they enjoy learning at school, read Kingfisher’s Class ABC poem and sang ‘Oh I do like to...
Forest Fun in the Woods
The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark, Mrs Martin and Miss Cousins. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area. They accessed some areas of the wildlife area and then headed over to the local...
Netball County Final
On Wednesday 21st June, a group of children represented our school in the netball county final. They played really well demonstrating good team spirit and skill. Thank you to Mrs Wyncoll and Mrs Allum for coaching and accompanying them to the tournaments. [gallery...
Letter From The King
Kingfishers Class were very excited as they had received a very important letter. Mrs Clark opened the envelope and read the letter from Thomas Claridge (Head of Royal Correspondence) who was writing on behalf of the King. The letter was thanking the children for...
Investigating the Heart
In Science we dissected a heart. The children had been learning about the heart in previous lessons so this really helped embed the learning. Some of them were really brave and used scalpels to cut into the chambers! ...
Woodpeckers Class Assembly
Tuesday 27th June was the turn of the Woodpeckers to share their learning with the rest of the school and parents. The children shared their writing based around 'The Day The Crayons Quit' where they had to write letters to the chairs who had gone on strike! The...
Clean Air Day
On Thursday 15th June, the children took part in Clean Air Day. The children were encouraged to walk to school and leave the car at home. Miss Jones also told the children about Clean Air Day in assembly. The children learned about the source, affect and solution for...
Stag Beetles
The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Mrs Martin. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area. The children were joined by the September 2023 Reception children and they accessed all areas of...
MySmile Oral Health Award
In January, we were given the opportunity to work towards the My Smile Quality Mark. We felt this was an exciting opportunity as oral health is now part of the EYFS framework. My Smile is a quality mark awarded to settings which fully implement the four My Smile steps...
Bikeability
The children in Years 5 & 6 had the opportunity to take part in some Bikeability sessions. These sessions, which were delivered by John and Penny, taught the children some skills so they know how to keep themselves safe whilst out on their bikes on the road. All...
The Stolen Generation
The Swans have been learning about 'The Stolen Generation'. They wrote an explanation text about this; and one child was asked to read her work to the class. The standard of their writing has been exceptional. The children have learnt about the effects of colonisation...
Science Club
In the recent after school science club, the children experimented with different material to see which was the most effective to make 'skittles'. Great fun was had by all.
Science – Rachel Carson
Last week, the children became Scientists. This half term the focus of their Science is a Scientist Study looking at the Essential Question - Why do scientists need to look after our seas?. The children thought about the question - What is a Marine Biologist? Who is...
Forest Fun – Bees
The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Mrs Martin. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area. The children were joined by the September 2023 Reception children and they accessed all areas of...