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Woodpeckers Class Assembly

by | 12 Dec 2019 | News

On Friday 6th December it was the turn of the Woodpeckers to share their learning from the half term. They used their assembly to tell the story of The Gunpowder Plot. Each stage of the plot was explained by a child who read a part of their recount. Then this was shown through performing a […]

Hey Ewe!

by | 12 Dec 2019 | Kingfishers, News, Religious Education, School Events, Woodpeckers

On Thursday afternoon and evening, after lots of rehearsing and lines memorised, children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers Class performed Hey Ewe! to a packed audience. The Christmas story was seen through the eyes of a curious sheep! The children had lots of fun entertaining the audience with their version of the nativity and were in good […]

A Mysterious Letter

by | 11 Nov 2019 | English, History, News, Woodpeckers

The Woodpeckers have been comparing objects from the past in their History lessons (whilst learning about The Gun Powder Plot). The children have been comparing how we would send messages to somebody now, and how they would have been delivered in 1605. They learnt that technology helps us a lot now and was not around […]

Anti-Bullying Week 2019. Celebrating Difference.

by | 11 Nov 2019 | News

The theme for Anti-Bullying Week this year is ‘Change Starts With Us’. The children have taken part in assemblies across the week and discussed how we can all make small changes to the way we behave towards people we perceive as ‘different’ in order to celebrate difference and create a kinder world. We also took […]

Elmer Returns

by | 11 Nov 2019 | Community, News

Our Elmer ‘Swanning around in Constable Country’ has been returned to us after his stay in Christchurch Mansion. Elmer’s new home is in the school library. It’s great to have Elmer back and for him to be part of our school again.

Harvest Gifts

by | 10 Oct 2019 | Fundraising, Kingfishers, News, Owls, Parents, Swans, Woodpeckers

Thank you for attending the harvest assembly and for your kind harvest gifts which were greatly received by FIND in Ipswich.

Residential – A Roaring Success

by | 8 Aug 2019 | News, Swans, Visits

On Monday, 8th July, Mr Bassett, Mrs Bilner & Mrs Edwards took 26 excited Swans on a 5 day long residential trip to PGL, Caythorpe Court, Lincolnshire. Setting off just after 9.15am, we made the drive up the A14 to Hinchingbrooke Country Park in Huntingdon for a picnic lunch, a play on the park and […]

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

by | 7 Jul 2019 | News

Thursday 4th July was the turn of The Woodpeckers to share their work from the half term. They shared their Literacy learning about fables and some children read their fables. Then they based the rest of their assembly on teaching a moral to the rest of the school. The children used their Science learning and […]

Testing Pirate Paddy’s Lunchbox

by | 7 Jul 2019 | Art & Design, News, Woodpeckers

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 […]

Glorious Gold

by | 6 Jun 2019 | JRSO, News, School Events

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 […]

Investigating Climate Change

by | 6 Jun 2019 | News

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 […]

Elmers On Parade

by | 6 Jun 2019 | News, School Events

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 […]