Harvest service

Our Harvest Service at St Michael's Church was a wonderful celebration of gratitude and giving. We were delighted to welcome Matt and Michelle from the Waveney Foodbank, who collected the many generous donations brought in by our school community. Rev Chris Davey shared a meaningful Harvest Blessing both for the donations and for the school. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who donated and helped support local families in need. Thank you as well to our talented Worship Team for leading the service and helping to make it such a special occasion for all.

European Languages Day

Each class chose an artist from a European country and focused on a collaborative piece of art focusing on this.  During the creativity time, the classes found out more about the artists along with some information about the relevant European country.  Several classes linked their artists to the whole school literacy book -  ‘Flower Block’.

·   Class VW recreated a collaborative version of ‘The Last Supper’ by Leonardo da Vince with each child being given a section to paint to create a new picture.

·    Class SB Netherlands – Ambrosius Bosschart linked to Flower Block.

·    Class MS  Netherlands – Vincent van Gogh “The Starry Night” adapted with a silhouette of Framlingham Castle.

·    Class MBu – Norway – Edvard Munch “The Scream”  which was adapted to create their own feelings picture.

·    Class KN – Spain – Joan Miro  the class designed their own mathematical drawings using 2D shapes

·    Class RJ – Spain Picasso enjoyed recreating self-portraits

·    Class KHLH – France – Henri Rousseau linked to Flower Block.

·    Class JT – Netherlands – Piet Mondrian the class recreated their own masterpieces using simple colours and simple designs

·    Class DR – Spain – Juan Jose Garay enjoyed “Splatting” their piece to replicate the style

·    Class KM and Class MB were inspired by the German artist,  Paul Klee, and produced their masterpieces using different 2D shapes.

·    Nursery – Netherlands – Van Gogh – ‘Sunflowers’  where the children created observational drawings and decorated them around the nursery tree. A

Year 5 and 6 Explore the Light of Christingle.

Year 5 and 6 have been busy learning about Christingles in class. Together, they made a few Christingles while exploring the special meaning and symbolism behind each part. It was a lovely, hands-on way to learn about this Christian tradition, and the fresh oranges made our classrooms smell wonderful too!

 

 

 

 

Scoot, Cycle, Smile!

It’s so brilliant to see so many children using their scooters and bikes to travel to school.  It is a fantastic way to stay healthy and active and it is also good for the environment because it reduces traffic and air pollution around the school. By choosing to walk, scoot, or cycle whenever possible, children can help keep our planet cleaner while enjoying fresh air and an active start to the school day.  Thank you to Framlingham Town Council  and the East Suffolk Council who made a contribution towards our second bike/scooter rack.

Inspirational visit from Sophy Henn

We were delighted to welcome children’s author and illustrator Sophy Henn to the school for a truly inspirational assembly. Sophy shared how she creates her wonderful books and showed the children that drawing can start with just a few simple shapes and quick ideas. Through live drawing demonstrations, she encouraged everyone to be creative, use their imagination and have confidence in their own artistic abilities. The children were captivated by her enthusiasm and left feeling excited to write, draw and create their own stories. 

Thank you to Julia from "Ottie and the Bea" bookshop on the Market Hill for helping arrange and organise the visit.  It was a very motivational session - the children didn't want it to finish!!

Friendship Assembly at Church

We gathered together in church for a special assembly to mark the start of the school year.  Mrs Cann focused our current value of friendship and encouraged us to reflect on the importance of being kind, supportive and caring friends. 

Mrs Nunn shared the story of the Good Samaritan, reminding us that friendship is shown through kindness, compassion and helping others. Our Year 6 pupils displayed the qualities that make a good friend:-  being kind, honest, helpful, supportive, respect, helpful, inclusivity and forgiveness. It was a wonderful opportunity for us all to think about how we can strengthen friendships and continue to build a caring school community.

Rev Chris Davey finished the assembly with a blessing for the school and talked about the importance of friendship not just in school but also in the community and globally. 

Year 6 Leaver's Service

Year 6 presented a lovely service packed full of their memories and their time at SRH including personal, sporting and musical achievements; class based achievements; privileges and responsibilities amongst others.  Reverend Chris Davey gave them a special blessing and Mrs Cann reflected on the children and their time at SRH. 

As the pupils have reached the end of an important chapter in their school journey, we would like to congratulate them on all they have achieved during their time with us.

Throughout the year, they have shown determination, resilience, kindness, and a positive attitude towards learning. They have embraced challenges, supported one another, and worked hard to achieve their goals. We are incredibly proud of their many accomplishments, both inside and outside the classroom.

As they prepare to move on to their new schools, we would like to thank them for the wonderful contributions they have made to our school community. They leave with many happy memories, valuable skills, and friendships that will stay with them for years to come.

We wish every member of Year 6 the very best for the future. Good luck in your next adventure, and remember to be confident, aim high, and always believe in yourselves. We are proud of you all and look forward to hearing about your future successes. Well done, Year 6!

Bright Smiles Ahead!

Sarah from Dentaid visited all the children from Nursery up to year 4 to remind them about the importance of looking after your teeth.  The children had some very engaging conversations and were shown the right way to clean their teeth.  Some of the children in year 1 and 2 reported “I found it good to find out about cleaning twice a day”; “it is important to go round and round with the toothbrush” and “we need to use a pea size amount of toothpaste, and we mustn’t swallow it.”  

Some of the older children said “we need to drink through a straw so that the drink doesn’t go on our teeth as much” and "I didn't realise that there was so much sugar in squash!"  Sarah showed all the classes terrible pictures of an adult and a child who didn’t look after their teeth.  Some of the children (and staff) were very shocked!  All the staff felt the children had learnt a lot and it was so good to have the reminders.  They all went home with a new toothbrush and some toothpaste.  Thank you to Sarah and Dentaid for providing this useful opportunity for the children.

Water safety assembly

With the holidays fast approaching, we turn our thoughts to holidays and days out by the sea, rivers and lakes.  We were extremely grateful to Emma from Stradbroke Swimming Pool who visited us to give the whole school valuable skills and strategies to use if they were to get into difficulty.  She shared about the "float to live" and also told us about which flags to look out for at the beach and their meanings.  Thank you to Emma for sharing such important facts with the children. 

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!

A little bit of Courage.....

This week the Worship team and the year 6 house captains led our whole school assemblies around the value for this half term - courage.  The year 6 house captains told the school about personal experiences where they had to show courage.  The worship team shared three bible stories and explained how courage was shown in them.  The story of Jonah; David and Goliath and Daniel and the Lions.   We continue life around school showing courage and also following our vision of Learning, Caring and Inspiring in the Light of Jesus. 

Dance Workshop Tomorrow! Wear PE Kit!

Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God

During assembly on Monday the children sang the hymn 'Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God' in a round. This was inspired by the Year 5 Easter service when the children had performed it in the church. 

Lead by Mrs Brown, Years 5 and 6 sang together whilst years 1, 2, 3 and 4 joined to sing the staggered verses. The effect of the children singing together in this style has really resonated with staff and left a lasting impression. We hope it connects and resonates with you all too. 

Here is a recording of the hymn featuring our SRH pupils. 

Music Assembly - Senior Choir recording

 

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.