FOREST SCHOOL

CLASS LH-Week 5

This morning the children re-capped on their senses by enjoying a five senses scavenger hunt. They explored and found natural items such as: a heart shaped object, something that makes music, something warm, something an animal might eat and a scented leaf.

 

We discussed woodland management and the children helped to remove some shrubs to make room for a large group shelter. They enjoyed learning how to use secateurs and loppers safely.

 

 

Some children planted a conker as we decided we needed to replace the shrubs we cut down.

The children learnt that a conker grows in to a horse chestnut tree not a conker tree!

 

 

Great perseverance was shown when lighting fairy fires.

 

 

On going activities were enjoyed during the morning.

 

Crumblebots - Year 6 visit to BT Adastral Park

A few photos from a very exciting day for our Year 6 children. Hosted by the STEM team at BT's Adastral Park.

 The report is by Isabella from class PASB

Girls School Games 5-aside Football Tournament 2018

On Thursday, eleven girls took part in a tournament with eight other teams. All of the girls showed incredible resilience, perseverance and bravery. We thank: the School Games team, parents, teachers and Mrs Berry for their support. Both teams played in the semi-finals which lead to penalties. We were awarded second and third place in the tournament, a great result. Well done girls!

Periscopes Up!

Today, Class VW constructed periscopes using either Lego or Polydron. 

They had to think about the position of the mirrors carefully and had to think about the law of reflection. Ideally, the mirrors should have been placed at 45 degrees because light always reflects away from a mirror at the same angle that it hits it.

Long Division in Year 6

This week, Class VW have been getting to grips with long division. 

Here are some of them working diligently today…

Year 6 Visit the Church

On Thursday, Year 6  visited St. Michaels Church to look for evidence of Jesus which points to the fact that Christians believe Jesus is God incarnate. 

They looked at stained glass images, paintings, etc and were able to ask the Reverend Mark Sanders a range of questions in relation to the topic. 

Mrs Rowles also talked to the children about the food donations and who they would eventually benefit.

VW Share Session

On Tuesday, Class VW enjoyed their Mexican- themed Share Session. 

There were four activities to take part in: making clay pinch pots, making worry dolls (small, hand-made dolls that originate from Guatemala and are also found in Mexico), designing their own Mayan god and some ‘Day of the Dead’ mindfulness activities. Everyone seemed to have a really lovely afternoon!

OPEN DAY FOR PROSPECTIVE PARENTS - FOR ALL YEAR GROUPS

Do come along to see us in action and have a tour of the school.

This event is not just for parents with children due to start in Reception in 2019, 

but also for those with children in any other year group.

We currently have spaces in some year groups and would welcome you visiting us.

Hitcham's Head Chef

Another week of amazing cooking by the remaining Year 6 children today. Incredibly complex and ambitious dishes were prepared for us of Australian Zucchini slice, Cottage Pie, Chicken soup with noodles and vegetables, Chicken and potato gratin and Meatball melt with linguine. The children excelled themselves again and should be so proud. It was a pleasure to see them at work demonstrating their organisation and cookery skills. The smells were amazing and tempted a number of the staff to pop by at tasting time too. 
Thanks again to Mrs Lawley for helping with the judging, an unenviable task!

Next week we welcome the Year 5 chefs. We can't wait.

 

FOREST SCHOOL

WEEK 4 - CLASS LH

A lovely morning spent at Robin Wood, Class LH enjoyed experiencing a campfire. They helped to prepare drop scones, and stewed apple and blackberries while accessing ongoing activities in the woodland.

 Little owls enjoying their own mini campfire.

 Watch out for the laser beams!

What an amazing den.

A mud kitchen feast.

 Everyone enjoyed campfire cooking before reflecting on the morning, by extinguishing the fire.

Nursery visit the field

Today we decided to take advantage of the beautiful sunny weather and visit our field for PE. 
The children walked very sensibly following our rules for Be Safe and doing Stop, look, listen and think as we crossed the driveways. 
At the field we enjoyed running in the big open space and practising going up and down our slopes. We were also looking for Autumn treasures and found lots of crunchy, crispy leaves to scrunch up and listen too. We spotted blackberries and Mrs Cooper shook the branch of one of the trees so that we could watch the leaves float, twirl and swirl to the ground. We shared some words to describe our Autumn leaves and then practised moving as some of the words, whirling, twirling, tumbling, floating, twisting and turning!

Year 6 presented with illustrated dictionaries from Framlingham Rotary Club

Early in each autumn term, the Rotary Club of Framlingham presents an illustrated dictionary to every student in Year 6 at Framlingham Sir Robert Hitcham’s CEVAP School.  Each copy has the name of the student inscribed.  This year’s Rotary Club President, Richard Corbett, presented the dictionaries during school assembly today.

The school and pupils are very grateful to the Rotary Club for this generous donation.

Framlingham Rotarian, Hilary Clemence-Mann has given a word challenge to the pupils and prizes will be awarded to the winners in the summer term in 2019. Only words found in the dictionary are counted, so the internet is not allowed. Over recent years, there have been a variety of competition themes, for example, ‘animals’.  Bonus points can be won for words discovered with double starting letters and words which spell the same word forwards and backwards (palindromes). Pupils are usually surprised to find out they already know two palindromes very well indeed – mum and dad.

The topic for 2017/18 was extremely popular – ‘parts of the human body’. There were many very well researched pieces of work, with some getting bonus points for a word with both a ‘y‘ and a ‘z’ in it – enzyme! The outstanding quality of the work resulted in ten prizes being awarded.

For 2018/19, the subject will be ‘birds’ – perhaps it will spark off an interest in ornithology amongst the Year 6 group.