Scoot, Cycle, Smile!

It’s so brilliant to see so many children using their scooters and bikes to travel to school.  It is a fantastic way to stay healthy and active and it is also good for the environment because it reduces traffic and air pollution around the school. By choosing to walk, scoot, or cycle whenever possible, children can help keep our planet cleaner while enjoying fresh air and an active start to the school day.  Thank you to Framlingham Town Council  and the East Suffolk Council who made a contribution towards our second bike/scooter rack.

Reception Applications for September 2027

Applications for children joining a Reception Class in September 2027 are now open through Suffolk Admissions.

If you are considering where would best suit your child for their education, then we would love you to visit us to take a look around.

We are a successful and well-resourced CEVAP School of up to 350 children, in the delightful market town of Framlingham. We have a dedicated team of staff and enthusiastic pupils who are confident and motivated. Our teachers support a wide range of extra-curricular activities which enhance the breadth of opportunities available to our children. We have an intake of up to 50 Reception pupils in each academic year.

Please contact us to arrange to join one of our small group or private tours in September, October or November, where we can show you around our wonderful school.

On your visit, you’ll have the opportunity to see our extensive school facilities including our fabulous school field with our Robin Wood area, our magnificent Music Ark, our curriculum kitchen, our two large playgrounds and of course our super Reception classes and their dedicated outside areas.  You’ll also get to meet the terrific team that we have in Reception and see the children in action in the classes.

We were delighted that our last Ofsted inspection, again, we were graded as ‘Good’, defining us as “a happy and friendly school”, where “pupils enjoy their learning and the time they spend together”.

Specifically, they noted that in Early Years the adults “guide children’s learning through thoughtful questions that help children extend their thinking and their play” and our “well-chosen books and stories expose children to rich language from a young age” and that our Early Years team “support children well to use accurate and precise sounds when learning to read”.

Contact us on 01728 723354 or email c.miller@hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk to arrange your visit – we look forward to hearing from you.

More information can be found on our school website at https://www.hitchamsframlingham.org.uk/

or Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Fram.SRH.Primary/

or application information from SCC Admissions: Admissions to schools in Suffolk for the 2027/2028 school year - Suffolk County Council

Chrissie Sains - author visit

As part of our new literacy curriculum with "Literacy Tree", we have been lucky to enjoy a range of books this year and also welcome some great authors and today, was no exception, where we have had a very inspirational and uplifting day with Chrissie Sains, the author of such books as ‘Alien in the Jam factory’,  ‘Slugs in Jam’ and others.  The children heard about Chrissie's first attempt at writing, which she shared and was proud of as it went on the classroom wall!!  She spoke honestly and openly about her struggles with writing as a child.  She also shared that “Alien in the jam factory” was inspired by her god-daughter who had Downs Syndrome and so she helped Chrissie write this first novel.

After this introduction, year 3 and year 4  were invited to create their own ‘creature’ using a variety of ideas from her “Treasure chest of ideas”.  See the picture below which the children helped to draw and was designed by voting for each part from a choice of features.  Reception and nursery enjoyed singing a song all about strawberry, banana, orange and apple jam with actions.  Year 1 and year 2 designed their own jam:- “Strawberry jam with chocolate sprinkles, pink icing and flying dust” all voted for by the children from certain features. They then each designed their own jam.   Year 5 and year 6 – see separate blog post.

Some of the comments from the children:- “she was so good – I’m going to go home and write my own story”; “I loved listening to her and loved the magic that came out of treasure box”; "I loved designing my own beast” and “It was so good – I can’t wait to start drawing”.  Some of the teachers were also in awe of her inspirational box of ideas!  It was such a lovely day.  

Thank you to “The Friends” who kindly supported this event and thank you to Chrissie for being so inspiring to us all!

Reception Clay Day

The talented Reception children have been creating some beautiful clay plaques today, don't they look amazing!  

Guess where we've been...

The reception children had a lovely morning up at Robin Wood!

How EGG-citing!

To celebrate our upcoming book 'The Odd Egg', Key Stage 1 have welcomed some egg-cellent visitors. Watch this space for some egg-ceptionally cute updates. Thank you to The Friends for providing us with this egg-citing opportunity. 😀🥚🐣🐤

Admissions for Reception 2026 and other Year Groups

If your child is due to start in Reception next September, please do not miss the application deadline of 15 January 2026.

In addition, we have spaces in a number of other year groups, and we are very happy to give tours to families considering a move for their child, so you can see what our school can offer your child,

Please contact us in the school office on 01728 723354 to arrange a personal tour.

Wonderful Nativity Week

What a delight we have had all week, with every Foundation & Key Stage 1 class performing their individual Nativities, not just once but twice! Each afternoon we have had the dress rehearsals to the other children and then each morning the parents & grandparents have come along to watch.

Here is a snapshot of a few photos from each Nativity, but do take a look on our website gallery page to see some more: Framlingham Sir Robert Hitcham's CEVA Primary School - Photo Galleries

The Bear & the Piano Special Menu on Thursday

We're looking forward to our special menu on Thursday celebrating our new book that Year 1 & 2 are reading 'The Bear & the Piano'.

Fantastic 'Journey'

What a fantastic ‘JOURNEY’ we have been on throughout the first few weeks of term. The whole school has been inspired by our book by Aaron Becker and our new curriculum. Be sure to ask the children about the stories they are writing this week. Here’s a sneak peek of some work the children shared in assembly.

Don’t forget you can find out all about the new curriculum on Wednesday 1^st October at 2pm.

Reception Class KM

A huge well done to all of Class KM for making such a fabulous start to their Reception Year. Here is a little glimpse of some of the activities we have been involved in during our first week in class. At the beginning of the day, when we come into school we are enjoying gathering on the playground for parachute games, ball and traditional playground games.

Each morning, when we go into school, we hang up our bags, unpack snacks and water bottles and place our book bags into our drawers. Then we get very busy in our indoor and outdoor environments.

This week in PE we enjoyed showing off hopping, skipping, jumping, throwing and catching skills. We also played Grandmother’s Footsteps and the Stop & Go game. 

In phonics we have already learnt the sounds for the letters s, a, t & p.

Class KM have settled in beautifully. They are a fabulous class!

Sporting Day

On Wednesday 16th July Sir Robert Hitchams took part in a whole school sporting day. The day started off with an assembly on high standards in sport and for the rest of the day the school was on a rotation of sports which was Handball, Tennis, Dance and Playground games. The children came dressed as their sporting heroes and really did make the school proud with their positive attitude and stamina throughout the day.

I personally wanted to say a big well done to all the children for their PE over the 2 years I have been at the school.