Chrissie Sains - author visit

As part of our new literacy curriculum with "Literacy Tree", we have been lucky to enjoy a range of books this year and also welcome some great authors and today, was no exception, where we have had a very inspirational and uplifting day with Chrissie Sains, the author of such books as ‘Alien in the Jam factory’,  ‘Slugs in Jam’ and others.  The children heard about Chrissie's first attempt at writing, which she shared and was proud of as it went on the classroom wall!!  She spoke honestly and openly about her struggles with writing as a child.  She also shared that “Alien in the jam factory” was inspired by her god-daughter who had Downs Syndrome and so she helped Chrissie write this first novel.

After this introduction, year 3 and year 4  were invited to create their own ‘creature’ using a variety of ideas from her “Treasure chest of ideas”.  See the picture below which the children helped to draw and was designed by voting for each part from a choice of features.  Reception and nursery enjoyed singing a song all about strawberry, banana, orange and apple jam with actions.  Year 1 and year 2 designed their own jam:- “Strawberry jam with chocolate sprinkles, pink icing and flying dust” all voted for by the children from certain features. They then each designed their own jam.   Year 5 and year 6 – see separate blog post.

Some of the comments from the children:- “she was so good – I’m going to go home and write my own story”; “I loved listening to her and loved the magic that came out of treasure box”; "I loved designing my own beast” and “It was so good – I can’t wait to start drawing”.  Some of the teachers were also in awe of her inspirational box of ideas!  It was such a lovely day.  

Thank you to “The Friends” who kindly supported this event and thank you to Chrissie for being so inspiring to us all!

Reception Clay Day

The talented Reception children have been creating some beautiful clay plaques today, don't they look amazing!  

Guess where we've been...

The reception children had a lovely morning up at Robin Wood!

How EGG-citing!

To celebrate our upcoming book 'The Odd Egg', Key Stage 1 have welcomed some egg-cellent visitors. Watch this space for some egg-ceptionally cute updates. Thank you to The Friends for providing us with this egg-citing opportunity. 😀🥚🐣🐤

Admissions for Reception 2026 and other Year Groups

If your child is due to start in Reception next September, please do not miss the application deadline of 15 January 2026.

In addition, we have spaces in a number of other year groups, and we are very happy to give tours to families considering a move for their child, so you can see what our school can offer your child,

Please contact us in the school office on 01728 723354 to arrange a personal tour.

Wonderful Nativity Week

What a delight we have had all week, with every Foundation & Key Stage 1 class performing their individual Nativities, not just once but twice! Each afternoon we have had the dress rehearsals to the other children and then each morning the parents & grandparents have come along to watch.

Here is a snapshot of a few photos from each Nativity, but do take a look on our website gallery page to see some more: Framlingham Sir Robert Hitcham's CEVA Primary School - Photo Galleries

The Bear & the Piano Special Menu on Thursday

We're looking forward to our special menu on Thursday celebrating our new book that Year 1 & 2 are reading 'The Bear & the Piano'.

Fantastic 'Journey'

What a fantastic ‘JOURNEY’ we have been on throughout the first few weeks of term. The whole school has been inspired by our book by Aaron Becker and our new curriculum. Be sure to ask the children about the stories they are writing this week. Here’s a sneak peek of some work the children shared in assembly.

Don’t forget you can find out all about the new curriculum on Wednesday 1^st October at 2pm.

Reception Class KM

A huge well done to all of Class KM for making such a fabulous start to their Reception Year. Here is a little glimpse of some of the activities we have been involved in during our first week in class. At the beginning of the day, when we come into school we are enjoying gathering on the playground for parachute games, ball and traditional playground games.

Each morning, when we go into school, we hang up our bags, unpack snacks and water bottles and place our book bags into our drawers. Then we get very busy in our indoor and outdoor environments.

This week in PE we enjoyed showing off hopping, skipping, jumping, throwing and catching skills. We also played Grandmother’s Footsteps and the Stop & Go game. 

In phonics we have already learnt the sounds for the letters s, a, t & p.

Class KM have settled in beautifully. They are a fabulous class!

Sporting Day

On Wednesday 16th July Sir Robert Hitchams took part in a whole school sporting day. The day started off with an assembly on high standards in sport and for the rest of the day the school was on a rotation of sports which was Handball, Tennis, Dance and Playground games. The children came dressed as their sporting heroes and really did make the school proud with their positive attitude and stamina throughout the day.

I personally wanted to say a big well done to all the children for their PE over the 2 years I have been at the school.