This week, class VWh are learning about coordinates and are working in all 4 quadrants confidently this is trickier as the values of both x and y can be either positive or negative.
We’ve been getting to grips with accurately drawing axes and plotting points in readiness to move onto translation and reflection later in the week.
The Friends of Framlingham Sir Robert Hitcham's annual Christmas Hamper draw is back for 2021!
With the success of last year's draw, even though we are back at school we are using the same online raffle company to manage the ticket sales and draw, and again instead of individual class hampers we have combined all together to create 21 even bigger hampers than last year!
So there will be a whopping 21 winners across the school when the draw is made!
The draw will be on Thursday 16th December at 12:30pm so you have up until Thursday morning to buy your tickets!
The link to purchase tickets is:
Remember that all the money raised goes to the Friends to allow them to fund things for the children like school trips, visiting productions, class donations for art and DT, and supports our recent and ongoing support of replacing the school IT suite, as well as wide range of other smaller projects throughout the school.
Many thanks and good luck from the Friends!
Some of our children from Class MV & AJ helped decorate our Christmas Tree in the reception area by the office today.
FRIENDS THANK YOU
The Friends are delighted with the wonderful donations all our fabulous families made today to create the Christmas Hampers. Thank you to everyone for your generosity.
The Friends have managed to create 21 beautiful hampers, stuffed with Christmas Goodies.
Candidates will demonstrate:
In addition you should be passionate about children’s learning, have high expectations and be supportive of the Christian ethos of the school.
For further details please contact the school on 01728 723354.
Completed forms should be returned to admin@hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk.
We were delighted to be successful in our application to sing at Snape Maltings as part of their Big Sing project on Friday. Not only were we successful, but due to Covid Protocols, our pupils were especially selected to be the only school actually singing in the world famous concert hall!
This was a huge compliment and an honour and our pupils in
Classes VWe and VWh really enjoyed and relished this opportunity for music
making in such an incredible and special venue.
The day was led by professional musicians Naveen
Arles and Charlotte
Brosnan and was organised by Britten
Pears Arts.
The children were taught the songs at school, working with our
specialist music teacher Mrs Johnson and received two workshop events run by
vocalist specialists from Snape prior to the event.
On Friday, these amazing 55 children were relayed out live across
to the other participating schools in a communal singing session as part of
this project and parents were also able to watch the live stream. They were magnificent and we are extremely
proud of how well they performed,
Here are some photos taken by the teachers at the event, and screen
shots supplied by Mrs Hall (one of our parents who watched the live stream).
More
details about the event can be found at https://brittenpearsarts.org/take-part/schools/big-sing
Earlier on the week, class VWh conducted their own version 'COP26'.
In pairs, the children looked at the speeches which had been delivered by various leaders, identifying the pledges their countries were making.
We analysed speeches from LEDCs and MEDCs (less/ more economically developed countries) and talked about the impact wealthier countries potentially have on poorer ones with fossil fuels extraction, etc.
Each pair had to present the main points of their country's stance and seemed to enjoy the challenge.
Children also studied speeches delivered by David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg for extra dimension.
This week Class LH have been finding out about the importance and significance of Greta Thunberg as part of the 'Movers and Shakers' topic.
We started by sharing the book "Greta and the giants" and had a great discussion about how Greta wanted to do something to help save the planet. We shared her ideas about deforestation and the R's - reduce, recycle, repair and reuse. We realised ourselves that the weather is changing around the world and we were more aware of more wild fires and severe floods.
We talked about COP26 and what and who is involved and also why it is such an important meeting. We all shared our ideas about how we would want to make changes in order to help save the Earth.
Even small changes that we, here in Framlingham, make will have a huge impact such as:-
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Today, the children in JT have been learning about Remembrance Day.
They have worked together to create a wonderful painting, made individual drawings, constructed Lego poppies and made poppies using peg boards. Furthermore, a display of poppies was created in the outside area.
After a moving whole school service, the children reflected on the morning's events.
During the last week the children have been learning about the meaning of Remembrance and why on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month we have two minutes silence.
As part of our new topic, Movers and Shakers, Year 2 are finding out about significant people through history and the impact that they have had on our lives.
We started off the topic studying Sir Robert Hitcham, who was very important and a significant local person as the impact of his donations and work is still seen in the town today. We found out about his generosity and the charitable donations he made to our town of Framlingham. We have been able to look at the Almshouses, which were built from the bricks inside the Castle that he owned at the time, he left money for a poor house to be built inside the castle and we talked about our school and how he originally set it up for poor boys.
We now understand how he wanted to help poor people and enrich their lives with better living and a better education.
We have today visited the church to see his tomb and talk about his life in more detail.
