Hitchams' Hundreds - Class LC

100

... Flags of the World...
to colour, learn and recognise

Hitcham's Hundreds - Class CH & KM

100

... decorated pebbles...
and numbered to sit on a '100 square'

Hitcham's Hundreds - Nursery

100

...Jumps...

Hitcham's Hundreds Class LH & SC

100

Runs.....Bats....Throws

in 100 minutes

Clay Day!

Class LH hosted their share afternoon yesterday, inviting parents or grandparents in to work with their children.  Following their Ancient Greek theme they created some wonderful Greek Urns from clay. A bit messy, but so much fun!
Here's what some of the children said:
"I think it was lovely to do pottery with my nanny" - Jessica
"I enjoyed doing the clay with my mum" - Jacob
"I was very happy because my mum was there and we really enjoyed it.  It was good fun" - Primrose
"It was fun to do pottery with my mum" - Freddie

 

Playground Musical Pop-Up

Class PL surprised the children and parents coming into school yesterday morning with a pop-up clarinet piece on the playground.
They played an excerpt from Beethoven’s 'Ode to Joy' and were marvelously led by Mr Mulrenan.  
Each year all of our Year 4 children have the exciting opportunity to learn a wind or brass instrument for the whole year, being given an instrument on loan to practice at home too.
Well done to Class PL!

French Club

The last Year 1 French Club of the year - we celebrated by all eating 'une glace'.  Everyone pretended they were queuing up at the ice-cream shop and said 'je voudrais une glace s'il vous plait'! 

More news from the Year 2/3 French Club.... who took on the Hitcham's Hundred challenge today by counting in 10s to 100 in French and were all given a traditional French madeleine cake as a 'bon effort'.

Framlingham Castle visited by Class LH

Class LH visited Framlingham Castle to develop their geographical skills in locating specific features around the castle and also to enhance their sketching and drawing skills.  Having examined still life within the classroom, it was an excellent opportunity to examine in detail and study the contours and textures of the building, the shadows and the shapes created by the old flint and newer brickwork walls.   

Did you see that?

We are very lucky to have a very talented team of teaching assistants and teachers who put in so much effort to making the displays around the school be exciting, interesting and eye-catching.. here are just a few of our current displays:

 

Ancient Greeks - Our Museum

Key Stage 2 are studying the Ancient Greeks. Mrs Ambrose and her class decided to make a ‘museum’ to show off some of our Greek style artefacts. The museum has several interesting artefacts on show and you will see some information about our topic. We have also written some key questions for the children to think about.

 

Super Sculptures

Mrs Ambrose and Miss Whipps are enjoying working with their classes on a special project which has been designed and led by Mrs Turner.

Under Mrs Turner’s expert guidance the children have worked really hard and are well on their way to producing some great pieces of work.

This is what the children had to say:

‘Our topic is the Ancient Greeks, who started the Olympics. So, we are making sculptures of athletes in the modern day Olympics.’

‘We had to bring in a picture of an Olympic athlete. Mrs Turner showed us to sketch the person (and the horse in some cases) using lots of skills. We had to be careful to draw it in proportion. We used a wooden manikin with moveable joints  to learn about proportion.’

‘Our next job was to make a model of our athlete out of masking tape and newspaper. It was hard and tricky but we did it.’

‘Then, we had to cover our model in tin foil to get it ready for modroc with Mrs Turner. Modroc is like a bandage which has plaster of Paris on it. You soak strips of it in water and then wrap it carefully around your sculpture. You then let it set hard. It was important to cover all the newspaper so that the newspaper and masking tape did not go soggy. We also had to keep the joints of the person and the person’s shape defined.’

The project is going to continue for  a while yet and we look forward to showing you the next instalment.

The staff are enjoying seeing the children  develop their skills and work to such a high standard.

Great Effort

Some super work produced by two of our reception boys this week as home-learning - a lovely piece of writing and some excellent maths skills.  Both deserved their Headteacher's Award sticker, and are obviously very proud of their achievements, well done!

Mini Tennis Competition

On Thursday the School Tennis Team travelled to Debenham Sports & Leisure Centre to compete in U9 HSSSP Mini Tennis competition for the first time. The competition boasted its highest attendances to date with 10 local schools participating. 

The Framlingham team comprised of four Year 3 pupils who displayed great ability, confidence and determination against older and arguably more game-ready opponents. Every member of the team were victorious on at least one occasion and would have experienced more success if a few more close decisions had gone their way. I am very proud of the team for their efforts, conduct and sportsmanlike attitude and would like to encourage them to continue playing, practising and enjoying their tennis for many years to come. Special thanks also to Mrs Ambrose and Mr Shakeshaft for their excellent support on the day.

 

Report by Mr B-K

Sound of Music

If you were in the playground a bit early for pick up yesterday, you may have heard some wonderful music coming from the hall - many of our talented musicians and singers performed for the whole school in assembly.
A terrific musical treat - well done to everyone who performed for sharing your talent with such confidence - a real inspiration to others.

Parents of PL enjoy Easter Share Session

Apologies for the delay in posting this, but there was a mix up in the office.

As you can see from our photos, Class PL had fun making Easter hats at their ‘Share’ session! 

Thank you to all the adults who joined our class for the afternoon and helped the children.

Our Pig - ‘Walkers’

Apologies for the delay in posting this, but there was a mix up in the office.

Class PL have been making a paper mache pig called Walkers, to enter a competition run by the Suffolk Agricultural Association. 

We have also made a leaflet to go with it.  We hope we will do well in the competition.  Our pig is a Saddleback and it is covered  in crisp packets!

We have found out that pigs can  eat  almost  anything. 

Under the paper mache is wire which has been shaped to look like a pig. 

... by Eva and Erin, class PL.

Thank you, Mr Gilder!

A big thank you to Mr Gilder (Headteacher here for many years) for brightening up the 'Gilder Garden' (the outside learning area used by classes LH & SC).  He's bought some colourful summer plants and has been busy potting them all up for us today - THANK YOU, MR GILDER!
The eco councillors from these two classes will keep them watered.

Is the Moon 'waxing or waning'?

Class JA have been learning about the phases of the moon.  

To help decide whether the moon is a ‘waxing or waning crescent', each child made a ‘moon wheel’ to develop their learning. This topic is very challenging and really tested the class. 

Mrs Ambrose had to have her wits about her when several children tried to trick her as to whether the moon was waxing or waning. However, two pupils very nearly managed to catch her out!

Lighting the way!

As part of their learning about electricity, Class PL have designed and made torches, which actually light up! They constructed a circuit, complete with toggle switch, and also made a reflector for their torches.