Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Lamb in School

What a treat today for the Nursery children and those in class VW.  
Ms Chesman, mum of Erin in class VW, brought in an orphan lamb to school today.  The Nursery children had an exciting time feeding and petting the lamb, while the older children asked questions of Ms Chesman and heard about what she has to do to care for the orphan lamb. 


 
 


Monday, 13 June 2016

Girls Cricket Triple Success!

On Thursday 3 Girls Cricket Teams travelled to Stradbroke Cricket Club to participate in the HSPSSA Girls Kwik Cricket Tournament 2016. 
The competition proved to be a very successful outing for the school with the 'A' team finishing 1st, the 'B' team finishing a close second and the 'C' team finishing a very commendable 3rd. 
Every pupil played with great ability, confidence, enthusiasm and skill and are to be congratulated on their fine achievements this season as well as their outstanding efforts and commitment in training. 
I hope that every player continues to enjoy their cricket for many years to come.
Report by Mr BK

Friday, 10 June 2016

Happy Birthday to the Queen!

LH class assembly was packed full of new and interesting facts about the Queen and her life which the children found out from their research.  They also included some of their portraits of the Queen and the bunting that they made for the Queen’s celebrations.
The children performed confidently and clearly and the audience learnt lots of new information.   Well done LH! 



Feel the Force

Class VW have been learning about Forces in Science. 
Forces are powerful and are everywhere – they can start something moving, stop something moving, speed something up, slow it down, change the direction of something or even change its shape!  Everything that moves has had a force applied to it; even objects that aren’t moving are still under the action of forces!   We measured the force acting on different common classroom objects by hanging them in a bag from a force meter.



Thursday, 9 June 2016

Bressingham Day

The children in Foundation - classes CH, KM and Nursery enjoyed a wonderful trip to Bressingham Steam Museum and Gardens on Wednesday.
They were thrilled by the huge engines, wowed by the royal train and excited by the rides on the trains and the carousel. They spent time looking at the old vehicles in the Exhibition Hall and talking about how things had changed, particularly enthralled by the fire engine and postal train. The miniature railway was a huge hit, especially when the children recognised the characters from Thomas the Tank Engine coming round the track, and the children even got the chance to visit an old signal box and to see a steam roller caravan.
The beautiful gardens were a joy to explore and a wonderful place for lunch. We had a fabulous day together, huge thanks to everyone concerned.

Mrs Mawson, says “Our children were wonderful ambassadors for our school and I had an amazing day with them all. We wanted to see how many of our class it took to hug a tree – all of us, in fact!... and we discovered a tiny little frog underneath the bridge in the stunning gardens.”










Healthy Teeth

Today Years 3 and 4 had a visit from Mrs Rice, who is an oral health educator. 
She talked to the children about the structure and functions of different types of teeth. We also looked at some animal skulls and discovered what teeth they have, and why.

Mrs Rice will be visiting the children twice next week, to talk about the correct way to brush our teeth and how what we eat affects our teeth.   


Yoga Wow!

The children at school have thoroughly enjoyed their yoga sessions this year with the delightful and most relaxing 'Yoga Jo'.  This term the Reception class are excited that it's their turn. 
"Hooray, it is our turn now"
The yoga sessions have been really popular with the children and their parents, and we've had some lovely feedback about it.  You'll be pleased to know the school will be funding this again for next year.



Jubilee Opera

Jubilee Opera were in school yesterday teaching songs from the opera The Rattler – “The True and Original Story of Rumplestiltskin” (being performed at The Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh on July 3rd)

A big thank you to Mish Kelly and Sue Knight from Jubilee Opera for an engaging and most enjoyable afternoon which the whole school (apart from Foundation) thoroughly enjoyed. The children were singing the songs all the way back to their classes and even home!


Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Smile please!

We must congratulate the 2 crew from Tempest photographers today for the superb work in getting everyone on their rig for our school photo on the field... we look forward to seeing the finished photo.





 

Parents Cricket

The Friends raised an impressive £192 at the parents cricket game at Worlingworth Cricket Club on 28 May verses a few staff, ex staff and volunteers. It was a great day with Mr Bk's team putting in an impressive victory. Rupert Durrant, Chair of the Friends, would like to thank all those that turned up to play and support.


Monday, 6 June 2016

The Minotaur seeks revenge!!

Class LH were set a challenge over half term to invent and create their own new mythical creature as part of our Ancient Greek learning.  
We have examined the story of Theseus and the Minotaur through role play, fact files and video.   The remit was to be as creative as they wanted to be in their own design  – and what a range of creativity we had – various models from clay, salt-dough, and cardboard boxes, a knitted/sewn creature, some children used Minecraft, there was a variety of posters, someone sang a song to describe their creature and somebody else even baked a cake!!  Well done class LH on letting your creative juices flow!!!




Thursday, 2 June 2016

Have you spotted these?

More amazing displays around the school ...
School Clubs...

Foundation corridor...

 KS2 Art...
 KS2 Writing...
 
 Junior Road Safety Board...


Friday, 27 May 2016

Planets in scale

VW visited the school field with trundle sticks to investigate the movement of the Earth and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system. We looked at the relative distances of planets from the Sun and discussed the word 'scale' . 
They worked with a scale of 1cm ≡ 1000km. The children had to work together and make sure that the Sun was the point from where all measurements were taken.







Hitcham's Hundreds - Class AB

100
... minibeasts!...
In class AB we have been drawing, painting and collaging 100 minibeasts.
We also designed our own background so the minibeasts could all go up onto the wall.




Hitcham's Hundreds - Year 6

100
...pieces of art to create a 'Peace Child' montage


Hitcham's Hundreds - Class JC

100
...matchboxes filled with 100 things...
some wonderful ideas like - fingerprints on sellotape, a dream, a cocoon, a dab of nailvarnish, rape seed, mosquito wing, spray of perfume, a secret, a sim card... and much more.
Top score is 126!



Minibeast Creations

As a part of our express week, class AB have created their own minibeasts using junk modelling. They started by designing their minibeasts, thinking carefully about how they could create each of the body parts. Then, they started to build their minibeasts and decorate them. Each child thought about what colour theirs needed to be as well as all the different body parts. These are some of the finished products. Please come and have a look at all of them, in Class AB!




Hitcham's Hundreds - Class PL

100
... pieces of art...
in 100 pieces

still in progress... more photos to follow...


Hitcham's Hundreds - Class VW

100
...cupcakes to design and produce...
IN SILENCE!!