Classes

Road Safety Workshop

by | 10 Oct 2024 | JRSO, Kingfishers, News

The children joined Holly the Road Safety Officer for a Road Safety workshop. Holly asked the children how they travelled to school that morning. They discussed what they already knew about Road Safety – look both ways, keep your seatbelts on, look out for fast cars. The children watched a video about Road Safety showing […]

Clarice Cliff Circle Tree Plate

by | 10 Oct 2024 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The children became ‘artists’ and continued focusing on – Painting and Mixed Media. The children thought about the question – Can you apply your painting skills when working in the style of an artist? Miss Jones showed the children an image of a Clarice Cliff’s Circle Tree plate design. Miss Jones asked the children to […]

Owls’ Food Waste Workshop

by | 10 Oct 2024 | News, Owls

On Tuesday 8th October, Sam from the food waste team at Babergh Council visited us in school. She did a whole school assembly, a parent drop in session and a workshop with each class. In Owls’ workshop, we looked at whether thrown away food items were edible or inedible. Then we worked in groups to […]

Food Savvy

by | 10 Oct 2024 | Environment, Kingfishers, Owls, Parents, Swans, Woodpeckers

The children welcomed Sam from the Waste Department at Babergh District Council into their school. In assembly Sam spoke to the children about Halloween and about pumpkins. The children were told 16 million pumpkins will go to waste this year. The children were told how they can use the whole pumpkin to eat – skin, […]

McMillan Coffee Morning

by | 10 Oct 2024 | Achievements, Classes, Community, Fundraising, PTA

On Friday 4th October, the PTA organised a coffee morning and cake sale with the proceeds going to the McMillan Cancer Support charity. Thank you for your generosity – an amazing £219 was raised.  

Fireworks

by | 10 Oct 2024 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The reception children became artists and used ‘loose parts’ to create a collage. The children were encouraged to use the ‘loose parts’ to create fireworks. Great work Kingfishers.

Maths in Woodpeckers!

by | 10 Oct 2024 | Maths, Woodpeckers

In maths this half term, both year groups have looked at place value. We identified what each digit represented in a two or three digit number and could partition given numbers into hundreds, tens and ones.

All about tenses!

by | 10 Oct 2024 | English, Woodpeckers

This week and last week we have been learning about the simple past and the simple present tense. We found out that regular verbs add the suffix -ed to make them the simple past tense. Some irregular verbs changed completely when talking about the past, e.g. fight to fought. Usually, the present simple verb doesn’t […]

Greek Scientists – Hippocrates

by | 10 Oct 2024 | History, Owls, Science

Owls’ Science topic this half term is linked to our History topic on the Ancient Greeks. We have been looking at Ancient Greek scientists and the contribution they made to our modern understanding of science. This week, we looked at Hippocrates – “the father of modern medicine”. We watched a video, answered questions and then […]

Titanic Biographies

by | 9 Sep 2024 | English, History, Swans

In History, the Swans have been writing biographies about the different passengers on board the Titanic. They loved the creative slant to this task!

Outdoor Art

by | 9 Sep 2024 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The Reception children became ‘artists’. The children went on a walk to collect natural objects such as feathers, grass, flower buds or heads, leaves, twigs, pine cones. The children looked at the collection and discussed how they might use the objects to create paintbrushes. They also thought about what kind of pattern or texture they […]

Our Titanic display

by | 9 Sep 2024 | Art & Design, English, Swans

The Swans have been writing diaries in role as somebody on board the Titanic. They have also produced some amazing sketches of the ship.