Visitors
Last week our timetable was dedicated to Healthy Living Week; the children were involved in many different activities. These included our sports day, some Paralympic games, a visit from PC Di and PCSO Denise who talked to the different classes about a variety of things including drug and alcohol awareness & theft, Mr Andrews from Suffolk […]
Last Thursday, our school had the pleasure of welcoming Mrs Carney and a team from BT. After enjoying a school lunch, they worked tirelessly in our school grounds for a few hours; chopping trees, weeding, digging and clearing. The school grounds look much tidier as a result of their work. Thank you BT for spending […]
On Thursday afternoon, our school hosted a Dodgeball Tournament. Shotley and Capel St Mary schools brought 2 teams each of Year 3 & 4 children to join 2 teams from our school. The children enjoyed three different types of dodgeball games and played really well both individually and as teams. Thank you to our Year 5 […]
The JRSO’s felt the need to run a scooter ability club as many children bring their scooters to school and need some reminders of how to travel safely. The weather was fine this Friday so Scooter Ability Club took place. Children from Kingfisher and Woodpecker class took part. The JRSO’s did a quick safety check […]
The children in Kingfisher Class hosted the assembly this week and told the parents and the rest of the school what they had learnt about Spring. The children shared their work, which included checklists of items found in spring, sentences about what they see in spring, ‘what am I’ poems of spring items, measuring daffodils with rulers, paintings […]
We were very lucky to have James Harris visit our school. He brought along his tractor which seemed very big on our playground. James explained the type of work his does with his tractor and what crops are planted and harvested; the children also had the opportunity to ask lots of questions and some of them got […]
Mrs Simmons brought the children from Abc Pre School to visit Kingfisher Class. These children will be starting school in September 2016. These sessions give the children the opportunity to become familiar with the school environment and get to meet their teacher. The children will visit every Monday afternoon for the rest of the school year. The children had lots […]
Stratford St Mary hosted a football tournament which was run by Premier Sport. As well as 2 teams from Stratford St Mary, three other local primary schools brought a team who battled it out against each other in a series of matches. Capel St Mary were the eventual winners (on goal difference), but we were extremely […]
The JRSO’s attended the speed check with the Community Speed Awareness Team on Wednesday. The JRSO’s wrote down the registration numbers of the cars which went past. They kept an eye on the speed camera to see if the cars were speeding. The JRSOs really enjoyed it and caught two cars speeding!
The children in the Kingfisher Class performed their assembly on Friday. The work they showed was on the theme of ‘Ourselves’. They named body parts, they spoke about the visit from Sue Hunter the Dental Nurse, they showed collages of their favourite foods, said the letters sounds of the alphabet and sang the ABC song. […]
Today the children in the Kingfisher class and their family member took part in the transport challenge afternoon. They designed their vehicle and used lots of recycled materials to create it. When they had finished they had to evaluate their vehicle. The children really enjoyed the afternoon and I think the adults did too! The […]