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This half term, the Woodpeckers have been learning about Pirate Paddy and the problems with his lunch box. They had to design a lunchbox that could be passed across a rope, withstand waves and rain from the sea, withstand being pecked at by seagulls and deliver the lunch safely to the other ship without damaging […]
The JRSOs attended the annual Junior Road Safety Awards Event at Endeavour House in Ipswich. The JRSOs listened to presentations from other JRSOs and participated in a question and answer session. The JRSOs were awarded a gold award for their scrapbook which informed others of what they had done to encourage and promote road safety […]
This half term, the Woodpeckers have been learning about climate change. They have been learning about the effects of greenhouse gases on the environment and took part in an experiment to see if our world is heating up as a result of greenhouse gases. Too many green house gases are making our world hotter and […]
Elmer’s Big Parade Suffolk trail went live this weekend (Saturday 15th June 2019)! There are 55 Elmer sculptures out in Ipswich as well as 84 young Elmers. Our Elmer – ‘Swanning Around in Constable Country’ is in the Mansion Herd (Christchurch Mansion). Try and go and have a look and do the trail – all […]
The Woodpeckers have been training to become secret agents! They had to complete a series of Secret Agent Training Sessions (SATS) to become secret learning agents and have enjoyed their secret missions! Today, as the children had finished their missions, a letter arrived labelled: ‘CLASSIFIED! TOP SECRET!’ The letter was from Secret Agent HQ and […]
Our Elmer ‘Swanning around Stratford’ will be at the Suffolk Show on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th May 2019. If you are going, make sure you pop in and have a look at all of the young Elmer’s on display. They will be on Stand 247 (blue). You will also be able to pick up […]
This half term, the Woodpeckers have been learning about healthy diets. They have learnt about where food comes from and how to have a balanced diet. They designed their own healthy pasta salads and thought about the ingredients that they would like to use. The children chopped and prepared their ingredients to make their own […]
Recently, the Woodpeckers shared their learning of position and direction with their parents. They have been learning about quarter, half, three quarter and full turns; going clockwise and anti-clockwise. Some children used the Ipads to programme the beebots to reach the correct flower using positional language, some children had to cut and stick gruffalo pictures […]
The children in Kingfishers Class have been celebrating the arrival of the royal baby. The children were given the challenge of naming the baby. The year one children thought of a name for each letter of the alphabet and the reception children thought of their favourite name. The children found out the weight of our […]
This half term The Woodpeckers have been focusing on ‘Shape, space and measure’ in the Maths and have been measuring different things. They used cm and m to measure the distances cars travelled along the floor; g and kg to measure objects and ml and l to measure how much water was in the jugs. […]
This half term the Anti Bullying Buddies have been going out on ‘Kindness Watch’ at break times and lunch times. They have been helping Miss Kluge identify children who are doing kind things such as turn taking, letting others join in with their games, playing nicely and helping each other. The Anti Bullying Buddies have […]
The Woodpeckers have continued their learning about Kenya by learning about The Maasai Tribe. The children learnt lots of facts by looking at different photographs and artefacts about the Maasai Tribe. This is a tribe of people living in the planes of Kenya. They learnt all about tribal culture and ways of life. Then they […]