Autumn Visitor

We had a little visitor at the front of the school this afternoon, he was just passing through and making his way to the next garden - looking for somewhere cosy to hibernate.

Prickles goes camping in Rendlesham Forest

Our school mascot (PRICKLES) went camping last weekend with some SRH families in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. It is a lovely campsite - perfect for families. Follow this link to find out more FOREST CAMPING.

Les vacances de Prickles en France (Prickles’ Holiday in France)

After an amazing trip to Australia earlier in the year, it was again time for Prickles to pack his suitcase and this time, don his best beret, for a week-long camping trip to France, with Mabel and Oscar Hill (LC and Nursery).

Prickles had great fun sleeping under canvas for the week and having French croissants for breakfast – fresh from the boulangerie.

 

He particularly loved his day trip to Paris, where he had a picnic at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, played with the local French children outside Notre Dame Cathedral and ate the finest Parisian glace (ice cream) on the banks of the River Seine.  

On other days he experienced the fun and thrills of Disneyland and had a very special visit to our twin town – Coucy-Le-Château!

He loved exploring Coucy and our twin castle, which is quite like Framlingham castle, except the French castle has lots of bats!

He even found our twin school and the town’s version of Coucy Close – Avenue de Framlingham!

Back at the campsite, Prickles had a lovely surprise when he unexpectedly bumped into some more children from Sir Robert Hitcham’s: Erica, Owen and Lara Nathan were there, with their family. Quelle surprise!

On his final day in France, he had a magical day of knights and sorcery at the Château de Pierrefonds – a beautiful castle where the CBBC programme Merlin is filmed

What a busy week for a tiny hedgehog!

Prickles in Australia

Our school mascot 'Prickles' has recently got back from the trip of a lifetime with Elizabeth from Class EM.

See report below written by Elizabeth and her Mum.

Prickles had lots of fun while he was away. He has been to Palm Beach, Sydney (where Home & Away is filmed). In true Aussie style he went to the beach, did some surfing and met some lifeguards. Back in Sydney he took in some sights and used the public transport busses and ferries. One day he went to work with Elizabeth's Godfather (Mark Ferguson) who reads the news on Channel 7 TV. He sat on the newsdesk but luckily made a quick exit before they went on air. He found being in a TV studio very exciting.

Prickles then went up to Queensland and had a photo taken on the border of New South Wales and Queensland. Unfortunately the floods (see the Brisbane River in picture below) came and we thought it was better to keep Prickles sdafe so we did not venture as far North as planned.

Prickles had a quick stopover in Singapore on the way home. We took him to the night safari so that he could meet some more furry creatures. Prickles was tried adventurous and tried the local food.

All in all we think he enjoyed himself, we certainly liked having him with us on this fantastic trip.

2nd World War Museum Visits

 All of our key stage 2 children visited 2 local museums: 95th Bomb Group and the nearby Military Hosiptal Museum in Horham, Suffolk. As you can see from the pictures below the children had a great time taking part in all sorts of activities at both museums. Click on the badge above to go to the Hospital website and the B17 plane to go to the 95th Bomb group website.

Prickles Visits Rome

Over the half term holiday Prickles (our school mascot) went on holiday with Annie Smith & family to the capital city of Italy. Prickles got to see the Colesuemn, the Vatican, Spanish steps, lots of famous art work & sculptures. He also got to eat real italian pizza.

More news from Prickles in Liberia

Prickles on a school visit in the rural area of Liberia

Prickles finds a friend in an unusual place at a church site in a village up country

Mrs Elphick and Prickles having a lunch break with the local pastor and some men from the community

Children pumping water from the village pump

I have been in the city of Monrovia today and it was an exciting busy mass of people. I visited the Ministry of Education and held an interview with the Deputy Minister for Planning in the Education Department. It was good to hear all the plans that they have in Liberia for the improvement of education. Many more children now have the opportunity to go to primary school which they call elementary here but you are very lucky to get a secondary education!

Today I swam in the sea!! After a long ,very hot day it was a brilliant to cool off. The waves were really high and fun to jump around in. the sand was golden and the palm trees around the edge of the beach are really beautiful. I wish you were ALL here!