The Children in Nursery, Reception and JC had a surprise visit just now from a shoe box of one day old chicks!! They have been chirping happily as the children held an stroked these fluffy little chicks.
Thank you to Mrs Kirk for bringing in this last minute treat for the children.
Thursday 21 July 2016
Wednesday 20 July 2016
Home Grown Beans for Lunch
As you may have seen, class AB have been growing runner
beans in their outside area. We have been lucky to get some beans before we
break up from school. The class decided that they would like to try the beans
and wanted to have them for their lunch, so we asked Mrs Aldred whether she
would cook them for us. Here are some pictures of us enjoying our runner beans.
Thank you Mrs Aldred for cooking our runner beans! We ALL enjoyed them and
thought they were yummy!
Monday 18 July 2016
Olympian Sculptures
As part of the current project on ancient Greece, clases JA & VW have been creating some fabulous sculptures of olympic athletes in action. They used twisted newspaper to shape their design, then covered in foil to keep the shape then added layers of modrock to build up a solid figurine, finally standing on a clay display stand. Just a few images below - can you spot the Olympic event they are taking part in?
SRH Firebirds - Wow the school with their singing
Our terrific boys choir, who have been coached this year by Drew Cantrell, the professional choirmaster from the Phoenix Singers, sang some spine tingling songs to the school in the assembly, this morning. They performed some wonderful renditions from well know musicals including The Sound of Music and Oliver. Well done boys!
Friday 15 July 2016
Why don't birds get wet when it rains?
Today class AB created an experiment to see why birds don’t
get wet when it rains. We dripped water onto the feathers and observed what
happened. We talked about how the feathers could be waterproof or water
resistant. We also talked about what could happen if the feather were
absorbent.
Cornets & Singing
The Year 4 pupils who've been learning the Cornet this year, gave a lovely concert today combining singing and playing to delight the audience with some well known songs.
Mr McDowell, our brass tutor from the County Music Service will be back with us in September to teach next year's Year 4 pupils and also some of these pupils who have decided to 'Play-On'.
Mr McDowell, our brass tutor from the County Music Service will be back with us in September to teach next year's Year 4 pupils and also some of these pupils who have decided to 'Play-On'.
Teddy Bear's Picnic...
On Friday last week we decided to take our bears on a Teddy
Bear’s Picnic. We made our own sandwiches and labelled our sandwich bags. As it
had been raining we then decided to go exploring in school to see if we could
find a good place for our Teddy Bear's picnic. We looked along the corridor and
saw all the pegs and the toilets for classes KM and CH and looked in their
classes. We then went upstairs and found some lovely blankets in one of the
year 6 class rooms, perfect for our picnic and we found our bears there too! We
enjoyed our sandwiches, fruit and tomatoes and had some cucumber that Mrs Eyles
had grown in her garden.
Bear Hunt in Nursery!
Last Wednesday we decided to do some exploring and go
on a bear hunt! We shared the book 'We're going on a bear hunt' by Michael
Rosen, joining in with the words and exploring the feel of grass, water, mud,
being in a forest and a snowstorm before finding a cave in the outdoor area
that was full of bears! Some of the bears actually belonged to our children
which was very exciting. We then had a picnic snack outside with the bears too.
Thursday 14 July 2016
Foxburrow Farm Visit - Year's 3,4 & 5
Over two days, the Year 3,4 and
5 children enjoyed visits to Foxborrow Farm. Everybody had a great time
and learnt an enormous amount. The children and adults managed to dodge the
rain, most of the mud and everybody had a great time. The learning was
cross curricular and the children developed their understanding of
conservation, their local environment and sustainability. This is what
the children had to say:
‘We found lots of
creatures when we did the pond dipping. I identified some newts, a back
swimmer, a water boatman, a pond mite and some dragon fly nymphs.’
‘I discovered that the pond was
really healthy due to the diversity of life in it.’
‘Our group were amazed to see
how much water we use each day when we did a task about this. I am going to not
have such long showers.’
‘I can now use a compass really
easily and direct people around an orienteering course.’
‘I can now also use a compass
for taking bearings.’
‘It was all a lot of fun and I
really enjoyed everything (including my packed lunch). ‘
‘We got to work with different
grown ups and children. I liked it.’
‘In the Community Wood, we used
bearings to find clues and then there was a sequencing game to open a treasure
box. We managed to find the treat.’
‘A robin was about 4 centimetres
away from me when I ate my lunch in the barn. It was really cute.’
‘I am going to go there again
with my sister.’
The children were congratulated
by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust Staff for the fantastic attitude and behaviour
and the school staff are incredibly proud of the pupils too. Thank you to our
volunteers who gave up their time to support this field trip; we are extremely
grateful.
Tuesday 12 July 2016
Girls Kwik Cricket Finals
On Monday the Girls Cricket Team travelled to Woolpit Cricket
Club to compete in the Kwik Cricket County Finals. The competition featured the
top 12 primary schools in Suffolk who had qualified for the tournament by
winning their respective district rounds earlier in the Summer Term. After a
slow and unsuccessful start in their first two matches the team made fast
improvements and rallied to achieve comfortable victories over Forest
Academy, Horringer and St Mary's Ipswich. The team also achieved a notable draw
against a very strong Kingsfleet side from Felixstowe who finished in the top 3
places of the competition.
Much praise and congratulation must go to the
players for their outstanding performances, efforts and improvements in
training, teamwork, fast decision-making and fantastic ability on the day.
Very well done indeed! Special thanks also to all parents who attended as well
as Mr Trimby and Mr Skeggs for their excellent support, encouragement and
advice on the boundary throughout the days play. Thank you.
Report by Mr B-K
Whitwell Camp 2016
The speech is written by Mr Brook, who sadly could not be at camp this year, and read to the children round the camp fire last week:
“This year we
celebrate 40 years of Sir Robert Hitcham’s and Whitwell Hall – the longest
running relationship with any school.
Mr Byer started this
tradition way back in 1977 – the year the Queen celebrated 25 years as the
Monarch (Silver Jubilee) and a British woman won Wimbledon. Mr Brook was only
13 years old!
Over those 40 years
the experience of being at Whitwell has not changed much. Some of you will have
had parents who came here. Indeed a few years ago there were 10 children whose
parents had been to Whitwell with Mr Byer.
Whitwell is meant to
be basic: camping, fresh air, open fires, no electricity, TV or other
electronics. And no shop! There have
been some improvements: the food is much better, the shower block did not exist
10 years ago and there is now a broader range of activities including the seal
trip and day at the beach. The t-shirts and hats were introduced by Mr Brook 9
years ago who joined us when Mr Byer ‘retired’ as a
teacher after 31 year 6 camps.
Traditions like year 6
camp are not easy to keep up. They rely completely on having staff and
volunteers that are willing to camp and work for 24 hours a day. Most schools don’t run
trips like this anymore because they can’t get the staff to do the extra work.
Why then does SRH still do this? It is because the staff involved really enjoy
it as well and because they all think it is a brilliant thing for you all to
experience.
Whitwell is special
and I hope that you have all enjoyed it as much as all the 39 other year 6
groups before you.”
Framlingham Castle Visit - Year 3, 4 & 5
Year 3, 4 and 5 had an educational morning in and around the
Castle on Friday exploring three different activities. Unfortunately due
to the weather, we were not able to go ahead with the planned KS2
assembly on the castle meadow as the rain was trying its hardest to ruin
our morning… however… best of British!! We were determined not to be beaten and
enjoy our morning, we headed off en masse.
There were three activities:- a treasure hunt inside the
castle looking for clues about the history and learning about the importance of
the castle; Mr Bennet-King adapted the planned rounders game to enable a safe
activity that all the year groups enjoyed to enhance teamwork and there was
also a drama-based activity, where the children were able to rehearse and
perform their favourite Ancient Greek myths to each other.
Everyone really enjoyed the morning enhancing their learning
about the various areas of the curriculum. Thank you to all
the parent helpers and volunteers who made this possible.
Gardening club – What a feast!
Gardening club have been busy weeding the beds and
harvesting the crops on the school vegetable plots at the Community
Gardens. Radishes, lettuce, red onions and garlic were harvested last
week for salads. This week, the potatoes were harvested with ample
supplies being shared amongst our keen and hardworking gardeners.
Mr
Duggens and Mr Seeley provided a small picnic of home-grown mange tout, sugar
snap peas, carrots and home-made broad bean humus which everyone
enjoyed. Yum yum!!
We would also like to say a huge thank to Mr Duggens and Mr Seeley for giving up their time to share their expertise and knowledge with the
gardening club. It is really appreciated and we look forward to seeing
how all the crops have grown over the summer when we return in September.
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