Classes
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 children were asked to donate £1 in return for wearing their favourite shoes. We raised over £50 which will […]
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 providing a ‘walking bus’ from both ends of Strickmere. The […]
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 competition entry, which will be shown at the Suffolk Show during half […]
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 children represented our school in the High 5 competition at East Bergholt High […]
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 that their wheels would enable their cars to move. They printed camouflage patterns […]
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 and give lots of fun facts about the animals that live there. They demonstrated and talked about the […]
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 landing on them, it was very, very hot in there. The Kingfisher Class listened to a talk […]
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 created called ‘Walking through the Rainforest’ was well received! The […]
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 own cress diary. The children cannot wait to try their cress.
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, ticking off the animals they had found on a checklist. They have also enjoyed […]
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 the UK Space Agency so we are very lucky to be […]
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 assembly.