End of SATs Celebrations

Today marked the final day of SATs week for Year 6, and we could not be prouder of the children. Throughout the week, they have shown incredible perseverance, resilience and determination, approaching each challenge with maturity and positivity. They should all feel extremely proud of themselves for the effort and commitment they have shown.

To celebrate the end of the week, we had hoped to spend some time together on the field enjoying the sunshine. However, the British weather had other plans! Instead, the children enjoyed a well-deserved celebration in class with cake and time to relax together after all their hard work.

We would also like to say a huge thank you to one of our wonderful parents, who very kindly baked some beautiful cakes for us to enjoy. This was such a thoughtful and generous gesture was greatly appreciated by both the children and staff, and it made the celebrations even more special.

Well done, Year 6 — we are immensely proud of every single one of you!

EADT Book Tokens - please hand them in by Weds 20 May

YEAR OF READING – EADT CAMPAIGN

The East Anglian Daily Times campaign that gives all schools the chance to win a share of £12,000 worth of book tokens, closes on 16 May 2026

Please hand in your tokens to the school office by the end of Wednesday 20 May.

The more tokens collected, the better your chances of winning: 

·       1st Place: £750 worth of books, 2nd Place: £400 worth of books 

·       Bonus Draw: Any school collecting over 1,000 tokens will be entered into a draw to win one of 75 £100 book bundles 

Energising Minds: STEM Workshop

Thursday morning, Year 5 enjoyed an exciting online STEM engineering workshop all about energy and how it is created. They learned about different energy sources and were especially interested in a guest talk from a Sizewell engineer, who explained how nuclear reactors work, how turbines generate electricity, and her day-to-day role maintaining the site. The session also introduced the idea of fusion as a future energy source, inspiring pupils to think about how engineers can create more sustainable ways to power our world.

Our Schools, Our World celebrate Sir David Attenborough

As part of the Friday Enrichment, "Our Schools, Our World" group wrote a collaborative acrostic about Sir David Attenborough.  We talked about his incredible life; the global impact his TV and films had in making us all aware - adults and children - about the need to help look after the planet.  The discussion that we had amongst the group about the impact of climate change was a revelation sharing thoughts and concerns together.  

David digs deeper into learning about nature

Always passionate about Antarctica

Very little bugs are still important to the world

Inspires us not put rubbish in the sea but to dispose of it correctly

David shows and inspires us to help save the planet

 

All habitats – giant deserts, rainforests, oceans and hills are studied

TV presenter showing us what a wonderful place the world is in nature

The rainforests shouldn’t be chopped down

Endangered animals around the world are being protected

Naturalist who has encouraged people to look after the world

‘Blue Planet’ made us aware of the plastic impact around the globe

Our world matters and we need to understand the world is important

Realising the truth of the impact of climate change on the world

Our ice-caps are melting, we need to take action

Undiscovered lands yet to be found

Global warming is affecting the habitats, the animals and plants

Humans are destroying our planet but he is trying to solve the problem

David Attenborough's tribute assembly

Key stage 1 and Key stage 2 joined over one million other children from around the world in this special assembly to celebrate Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday.  There were lots of new facts shared; he gave a short note of thanks for all the kind wishes and then Steve Backshall joined the assembly and gave a really interesting talk about how Sir David has inspired him himself to become the naturalist that he is today.  Happy 100th Birthday Sir David! 

 

Visitor assembly

Major David Squirrel from the Salvation Army delivered a super assembly fitting in with our value for this half term - 'Truth'.  He shared a story with the children about a shopkeeper searching for light and discovering the truth.  After this he read a short extract from the bible. 

Dressed in blue and green, we then recognised David Attenborough's 100th birthday and shared facts that we had learnt during the morning finding out about his life and his values.  We discovered that he wants people around the whole world to know the 'truth' about what is happening to the animals and plants with regard to climate change. 

Lego Last Supper

As part of their RE unit on Eucharist, Year 6 recreated The Last Supper using Lego. The children were asked to think about the importance of the event, both at the time and to Christians in the modern day, in order to explore their unit question 'What is the great significance of the 'Eucharist' to Christians?' The children exhibited strong knowledge of the events and described why Christians take bread and wine as part of Eucharist. 

We studied how the scene has been depicted in various famous works of art before settling on Da Vinci's for inspiration. 

As well as recreating the scene using Lego brick and mini-figures, the children had to create thought and speech bubbles depicting what might have been said or thought by Jesus and his disciples during the revelations made by Jesus at the meal. 

Truthful assembly

Julia Rose led a very engaging assembly about truthfulness showing a video which the BBC aired about spaghetti trees.  The children were very engaged in finding out and discussing this but it turned out it was shown on April Fools Day 1957 and was not true!  

Harnessing the understanding of truth, Julia turned to the bible where we learnt about King David.  Julia also shared references that Jesus made in the bible about truthfulness and Jesus saying "I am the way and the truth and the life" (John 14:6). 

 

Cake Sale Today!

Come along to the pavilion on the front playground at the end of school today to pick up a fabulous sweet treat!