Tuesday 30 November 2021

Class VWh Maths coordinates

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. 







Monday 29 November 2021

Christmas Hamper Draw

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:

https://raffall.com/274930/enter-raffle-to-win-fabulous-christmas-hamper-hosted-by-friends-of-sir-robert-hitchams-framlingham

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!



Christmas Tree

Some of our children from Class MV & AJ helped decorate our Christmas Tree in the reception area by the office today.





Thursday 25 November 2021

Fabulous Christmas Hampers

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. 


Huge thanks go to the army of volunteer parents who came in to help sort, fill & wrap today.  
Watch the time-lapse video of them in action! 

To buy your tickets we will be sending out a separate link from the Friends & the draw for the hampers will take place on Thurs 16 December.
Winners will be notified directly from the raffle site & prizes to be collected from school by Fri 17 December.






Staff Vacancy

KEY STAGE 2 TEACHING ASSISTANT - JANUARY 2022

We are seeking an enthusiastic and flexible individual to join our friendly and supportive TA team at  our successful CEVAP school in Framlingham, working predominantly in KS2.

Candidates will demonstrate:

  • excellent communication skills
  • minimum GCSE level Maths and English skills
  • ability to work with children in whole class setting
  • ability to independently deliver interventions
  • knowledge of with the primary curriculum
  • ability to assist and support children on a 1:1 basis
  • willingness to take direction from class teacher, but able to use initiative when required.
  • previous experience preferred but not essential

In addition you should be passionate about children’s learning, have high expectations and be supportive of the Christian ethos of the school.

  • Salary:                                Grade 2 (£18,198 pro rata)
  • Job Term:                           Part time, Fixed Term to 31/8/2022
  • Hours:                                 Mon – Fri, 5.25hrs/day (26.25 hrs/wk), 38 wks/year
  • Required from:                   January 2022
  • Closing Date                       Friday 7 January 2022
  • Interview:                            Week commencing 17 January 2022

For further details please contact the school on 01728 723354.

Completed forms should be returned to admin@hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk.

  
“This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.”

Monday 22 November 2021

The Big Sing

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












Friday 12 November 2021

COP26 comes to SRH

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. 



Climate change activists in Class LH!

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:-

  • Pick up litter
  • Do not drop litter
  • Recycle carefully and correctly
  • Reduce pollution by walking more
  • Reduce the amount of food we buy to avoid wasting any
  • Reuse bottles, boxes, clothes for other things
  • Planting more plants for the bees
We designed posters to demonstrate these changes and how we need to help by doing things now
Ana-Sophia

Tabby


Joss

Ivy

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Lucas, Sebastian and Laycie

Gracie and Maddie

Viviana and Ella-Rose




Thursday 11 November 2021

Remembrance in Class JT

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. 














Remembrance Day 2021

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.

Mrs Picton spoke today in our Remembrance Service on the front playground about the sacrifices that the men and women of our armed forces have made to ensure we live in a free society.

The School Council had made a wreath out of hand prints, to represent the hands of those who have fought for us and who have protected us.

We'd like to thank Mr Beal who came down to school especially to play the Last Post.






Tuesday 9 November 2021

'Movers and Shakers' head to the Church

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.