History Timeline

Class SC have been working on a visual timeline in their outdoor area this afternoon placing where the Ancient Greeks fit on the timeline.

Year 6 Sewing afternoon

Thank you to the Friends

Class KM are thrilled to be using the new role play frame that the Friends very kindly purchased for The Foundation Stage Classes. 

It has been lovingly constructed and varnished by Mrs Free and Mrs Mawson and is being used by an excited class KM as a story telling magic emporium. 

It is beautiful!  Anyone who would like to pop their head into Class KM can come and admire it. 

A huge thank you from KM ( and on behalf of the other Foundation Stage classes) to the wonderful and very supportive Friends of SRH.

LH light up the world!

LH have studied and evaluated different designs of torches and their use.  As a result, the children then designed and planned their own torches.  In addition, they examined different switches using split pins, paper clips and the conventional switch.  After tweaking their designs, LH had an industrious day; firstly making their own circuits before fitting them into the housing made from kitchen rolls.  The children then decorated their torches and evaluated them against their original designs.  Mrs Hall was so proud and impressed by the way that all the children worked together and helped each other when they became stuck.  Fantastic work LH!

The photos show:  LH industriously making their circuits;  3 different examples of the reflector part of the torch and a selection of designs.

House Cricket

Just a few images from last night's House Cricket matches on our school field.  
The next match is Friday 13 May from 3.15-4.30pm, families are welcome to come along to watch - bring a rug to sit on.

Art on Display

All the posters created by our pupils for the Queen's 90th Birthday Town celebrations are on display in the Co-op entrance.  Do pop in to have a look!

Co-op Token Scheme

From 1 May until the end of July when you shop in the Coop you will be given a 

green token to put in the collection box of your choice. 

Our school will have one of the three boxes in the Framlingham Co-op 

(& in Eye and in Debenham).  

More tokens in our box means a bigger share of the £1000 from the Coop.

Fairytale Mash-Up!

Our super confident Reception children from Class KM delivered a wonderful Celebration Assembly today to the whole school and to their own parents.
Several favourite fairytales were mixed up in a story that delighted the audience.  
What a lovely way to end the week, thank you Class KM.

Orchestra Flash Mob!

Coming to school this morning was surprising for many children - as they walked onto the playground they were greeted by our school orchestra performing a 'Flash Mob'! 
What a great way to start the day!
Well done for braving the cold (& some nerves) to perform so well.  They played the Theme from Handel’s Water Music beautifully and with real musicality. 
Mrs Mawson says "A big thank you to all of those in our school orchestra who turned up for the “pop up” event,  I am very proud of you all."
Of course, we must also thank Mrs Mawson, for her commitment to the orchestra and to the enhancement of music in school.

Seeds from Space

On 2 September 2015, 2kg of rocket seed travelled from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on the Soyuz 44S rocket to the International Space Station (ISS).

The seeds have been stored in microgravity by Tim Peake (the first British ESA astronaut) before they recently returned to Earth.

Classes VW and JA were lucky enough to receive some of these seeds.

The red and blue seeds were sown and will be grown for a period of 35 days.

Children will need to measure and record similarities or differences in plant growth between the two seed packets and record this on a Measurement Chart.

At the end of the experiment, we will enter our results on the national database where the findings will be analysed and published.

We'll make a prediction based on the evidence as to which packet contains the space seeds, red or blue.

Wriggle and Crawl!

This term Key Stage 1 started our new topic 'Wriggle and Crawl'. As our memorable experience we went on a mini-beast hunt near the community gardens. 

In these pictures we were identifying mini-beasts using a reference sheet, after carefully catching them using the correct equipment.

Hockey County Finals

On Wednesday the School Hockey Team travelled to St Joseph's College, Ipswich to compete in the County Hockey Finals. The competition featured the top 16 schools in Suffolk who had qualified for the finals by winning their local competitions respectively. Framlingham continued its high performances at the tournament by achieving notable wins against Exning (2-0) and Helmingham (3-0) and well-earnt draws against East Bergholt (1-1) and Leiston (1-1). The only two losses came against a strong Wells Hall side (1-2) and Bawdsey (0-1) who finished eventual winners. 

I would like to thank all players for their efforts and good displays of teamwork and also all parents for supporting the event. Special thanks to Mr Shakeshaft and Mr Freeman for their excellent support on the touchline.                                 Report by Mr B-K

Who's been sitting in my chair?

The reception classes were treated to a live action fairy tale yesterday!
Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Mawson, Mrs Waddell and Miss Harrison brought the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to life in the hall for the children.
They thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience, laughing (in all the right places!) and considering the moral of the tale.

 

Chess Tournament Champion

Calves Close Up!

On Wednesday,  Roger and Emma from ‘Farm2Form’, Iken caused great excitement in the playground at Sir Robert Hitcham’s School in Framlingham when they arrived with three six month old Lincoln Red calves in the outdoor ‘learning zone’.    

The focus of the day was to support the current Geography topic of farming and the year 3 and year 4 children were able to spend time with the calves finding out about their welfare and asking questions to find out more about other livestock on the farm. 

Alongside this hands-on practical experience, three other class-based activities were used providing agriculture as a resource.  

The children were able to explore the seasonal crop rotation discovering what products are made from which crops; to examine the stages of milk being produced from a dairy herd addressing the vital processes needed and what other farm animals provide, and finally, to consider “A day in the life of a farmer” in which many children were amazed at the 4am start for most farmers finishing mid-evening!   

Foundation Easter Service

A few lovely images from the Foundation children's service for Easter.

Perfect Portraits - Reception Class KM

Mrs Mawson's class have been painting some wonderful portraits of each other. 

What talent!

Forensic Science Workshop

On Thursday and Friday last week, we were lucky enough to transform classroom VW into a crime scene!

The Forensic Science workshops allowed children to practice skills such as observing, exploring and asking relevant questions.

A crime had been committed and it was the responsibility of each class to work together to piece together the evidence.  Our scientists had to tape off the area in order to protect any evidence that was found. 

Clues and evidence were  identified and interpreted. This included characterising fingerprints, investigating tool marks and other impressions, identifying hairs and fibres and investigating blood, bones and DNA. 

The Queen's 90th Birthday Celebration Poster Competition

We are delighted with the huge response by the children to the Framlingham Business Association poster competition.
There were some wonderful entries and the judges found it difficult to chose, but here is the winning entry, by Jade in Year 6, which will be made into the poster advertising the town's celebration event on 12th June.

The KS2 runner ups were Angelo in Year 6:

and Flora from Year 5

The KS1 runner up was Angus in Year 2:

The Foundation runner up was Patrick: