Class Parties

The Reception children dressed up for their ballroom dancing Christmas Party today & twirled around the dance floor with style!

Guess who visited us today...

Framlingham Castle Trail photos

Two groups of pupils (from classes JT & LC) trialed a new English Heritage Educational trail at Framlingham Castle in October.
The professional photos have just been sent through to us and are now on our website gallery. Why not take a look? They are fantastic!

RiskIT week in Nursery

Nursery took part in RiskIT week this week. We used the school tablets and spent some time exploring the different apps to help with learning letters and sounds and maths, as well as mark making. The children knew what to do, knowing how to tap and swipe to choose what they wanted, and also knew to ask an adult if something came up they didn't understand, keeping themselves safe online. Well done!

Christmas Cooking

Year 6 Cookery club had a great time this week making Christmas treats..

Christmas Treat Time!

Do come along to the playground pavillion at the end of school today, to pick up some delicious teatime treats. 
Classes VW & SC have been busy baking. The look amazing.

A busy festive Thursday in Nursery

Today Nursery went to visit the church to see where Christian people go to worship and to enjoy the Christmas tree festival. The children spotted the crosses and recognised Mary and Jesus as we looked around. They loved looking at all the different trees too and talked about what they could see on each one. We met Rev. Saunders while we were there and the children sang him Twinkle twinkle and Away in a Manger using their Makaton signing. We were very proud of them. A huge thank you to our volunteer helpers too.
After we got back it was soon time for us to have our special Christmas dinner together. Everyone stayed which made it really special. Merry Christmas from us all!

Please, may I have some more?

Christmas Dinner Day was a wonderful success - piles of potatoes and peas, jugs of gravy and a delicious Roast Turkey seemed to be thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Thank you to Mrs Aldred and the kitchen team for producing an amazing 315 delicious meals, and to the midday supervisors and the teachers and TAs who helped serve and clear away, and the Year 6 children who were wonderful waiters / waitresses.

Reception Ballroom Dancing

Our Reception classes joined together this morning for a twirl around the hall during their PE lesson Steps for the Tango, Foxtrot, Waltz, Charleston and more were practised - along with the relevant facial expressions - do ask your Reception child to show you their Tango or Charleston face!!
Perhaps a theme for their Christmas Party next Tuesday?...

Worship Group - Christmas Wreaths

The Worship Group spent this morning making some wonderful Christmas wreaths with the help of Mr Duggens & Ms Owens.

LH take a risk!

Class LH started off RISK-IT week with learning how to use 'Lego Education'.  Mr Brook kindly offered to come and show the children  how use the programme and the equipment.  

Firstly, all the blocks, rods and wheels were sorted into the correct compartments.  The programme was then chosen on the laptops and the children chose to make a drumming monkey.  Everyone set to and there was an excellent atmosphere of teamwork, perseverance and determination.  The children followed the instruction video online and built their own drumming monkey debugging as they went to help resolve any problems. 
Each group had a builder, a resource manager and a computer controller.  They all took it in turns to do each job. 

Most groups were successful and managed to find a suitable pot for their monkey to drum on. 

Carefully, following the instructions for the drumming monkey.  

Advising each other about which pieces to take and working out how to debug the parts that were fitted incorrectly. 

Finally, built the drumming monkey and testing it out making it play a pot successfully. 

Finished drumming monkeys - successfully banging pots using the programme.  Some groups even added music and sounds too!

We had a great afternoon and thank you to Mr Brook for sharing his advice and knowledge - Mrs Hall learnt a lot as well as the children and it was great to share the successes around the class.   Some of the comments

Milo - "I loved it! It was an amazing activity.  I would love to do it again!"
Reuben -  "I  really, really enjoyed - I'd like to do it again!"
Sophia - "I liked it - it was a little bit tricky but I really enjoyed it!"

Nativity - Key Stage 1

Another wonderful performance from the children in classes AB, JC & LH - a truly special Nativity play.  It was thoroughly enjoyed by the whole audience.

There are more photos on the Website Gallery.

(Thanks to Molly Miller for the photos)

Nativity - Foundation

What a wonderful Nativity play our youngest children gave today.. here are a few images, there are more on the Website Gallery

(Thanks to Molly Miller for the photos)