Miss Jones

Cloud Forest Terrarium

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Geography, Kingfishers

The Year One children became Geographers. The children continued focusing on the question – What is life like in the Jungle? The children thought about the enquiry question – Can we identify the locations and features of cloud forests? The children found out all about a cloud forest in Costa Rica. The children were able […]

Road Safety Poster Competition

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Community, JRSO, School Events

Gill, a councillor,  from the parish council came and spoke to the children about a very exciting competition. Stratford St Mary Parish Council wanted the children of Stratford St Mary Primary School to design slow down posters so they could be displayed in Stratford St Mary to encourage drivers to slow down. The Parish Council […]

Forest Fun Growing

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Forest Schools, Kingfishers

The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark, Debs and Miss Jones. The children sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children the colour matching game. They where asked to search for items and match the same colours as their colour card. The children returned to the log […]

Computing Digital Imagery

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Computing, Kingfishers

The children in Year One are learning about Digital Imagery in Computing this half time. Miss Jones introduced the children to the idea of telling a story without words. Miss Jones and the children read the story ‘Flotsam’ together. They discussed why it is important that pictures are in the correct order. The children were […]

World Book Day

by | 3 Mar 2025 | English, School Events

The children celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book character. The children joined everyone in the hall to see everyone’s costumes and they found out the winners of the book cover competition. The winners were awarded a £5 gift to spend at Dial Lane Bookshop. The children also took part in […]

Forest Fun – Birds

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Forest Schools, Kingfishers

The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark, Debs and Miss Jones. The children sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children the bird and worm game. The children were encouraged to either be a hungry baby bird by the nest, or a mother bird searching for ‘worms’ […]

Immersion Afternoon – Jungle

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Geography, Kingfishers

The children in Kingfishers Class were introduced to their new topic – Let’s go in the jungle. The children received a letter from Cheeky Chimpanzee who was playing hide and seek with some of his other animal friends! The children became animal explorers and all joined in and found Cheeky Chimpanzee and all his friends. […]

100 Days At School

by | 2 Feb 2025 | Kingfishers, School Events

The children in Kingfishers Class celebrate 100 Days of School. To celebrate our 100 days of school, we had a piece of cake and wore lovely 100 Days of school T-shirts and outfits! The children made a crown and took part in lots of challenges to complete in 100 seconds – writing their name, pegs […]

Mental Health Awareness Week

by | 2 Feb 2025 | Kingfishers, Visitors

In assembly the children welcomed the Mental Health Team from East Bergholt High School to their school. The team introduced themselves and told them all about Children’s Mental Health Week. This year the theme was Inside Out – Know yourself, grow yourself. After the assembly the children focused on emotions and used the film ‘Inside […]

RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch

by | 2 Feb 2025 | Environment, Kingfishers, Science

Today the children took part in the RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch. The children became bird watchers and went into the Forest Schools area to see what birds they could see and to count how many. They completed an RSPB check sheet and spotted seagulls, sparrows, starlings and pigeons. When they got back to the classroom […]

Kingfishers Sharing Session – Dinosaurs

by | 2 Feb 2025 | Art & Design, Design Technology, Kingfishers, Parents

This afternoon the children in Kingfishers Class took part in their sharing session with their adult/s. The children and adults were challenged to work together to create a dinosaur using recycled materials. The children and adults had lots of fun! The dinosaurs were fantastic. Well done everyone! A big ‘thank you’ to all the adults!

DT Textiles Bookmarks

by | 1 Jan 2025 | Design Technology, Kingfishers

In DT the children in Reception thought about the question – Can we practise and apply threading skills with specific materials e.g. hessian and wool? The children listened to Mrs Clark, Mrs Jones and Mrs Vogel as they explained what to do. The children followed the instructions and tried hard to thread the needle. The […]