RH, LC AND KVJA FOOTBALL FESTIVAL 2019

On Thursday 22nd November, Seventy-eight pupils competed in a house football festival. This was a much anticipated event. The children looked forward to playing. We noticed lots of encouragement, team-work and positive comments. The results were close, with Mills breaking ahead of Bulstrode in the final round. 

SPORTS LEADERS AT SRH 2019

On Thursday 22nd November, eight sports leaders from year five officiated a Football festival. Between them, they prepared, organised and closed the event for Seventy-eight pupils from RH, LC and KVJA. We thank them for their excellent role-modelling. 

FOREST SCHOOL

WEEK 4 - Class JC

We started the morning discussing fire safety. The children were able to recall the three elements needed to ignite a fire - heat, fuel and oxygen, we call this the fire triangle.

We laid and lit the fire ready for cooking.

Some of the children then helped to prepare some apples and drop scone mixture to cook ready for snack time.

The children then enjoyed making perfumes, being creative with sticks and other ongoing activities.

To round the morning off we gathered around the fire circle to enjoy drop scones and stewed apple before safely extinguishing the fire. 

SCHOOL GAMES 6-ASIDE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT 2019

On Wednesday 7th November, seventeen boys from year five and six represented the school in a six-aside football tournament at Hartismere Academy. James commented, "we started really well". Tommaso thought, "it was very fun". The boys noted Freddie played excellently. We are very proud of their efforts. 

A-Team Results 

• 4-0 (W) v Fressingfield

• 1-0 (W) v Stonham Aspal B 

• 2-0 (W) v St Boltoph's 

• 0-2 (L) v SRH Debenham B

• 2-1 (L) v Stonham Aspal A 

• 0-2 (L) v SRH Debenham A 

• 0-2 (L) v Mellis
  Outcome: forth place overall 

B-Team Results 

• 1-1(D) v Stradbroke

• 1-1 (D) v  Bedfield

• 1-1 (D) v Easton

• 3-0 (W) v Wetheringsett

• 0-0 (L) v Bedfield 

Outcome: Third place in group 

New Recruits to the Worship Team

We are very fortunate to announce some new recruits to the Worship Team in Upper KS2.  They are looking forward to working with Year 3 /4 group and have some great ideas for our Worship Team.

Home Learning Gets fun!

Year 3 have been producing thoughtful homework on our new 'Tremors' topic. The highlights of this week have been a volcano cake as well as an erupting volcano (baking powder and vinegar provided). We have also had a beautiful mountain range made of clay, Earthquake Survival Kits along with a fact file on a female paleontologist Mary Anning. Thank you for supporting your children in their learning journey!

FOREST SCHOOL

WEEK 3 - CLASS JC

We started the morning by searching the wood for animals and recording whether we thought they hibernated or not. We learnt a lot about our woodland animals including baby animal names, whether they are nocturnal or diurnal, what they eat and their shelter names.

Some children attempted to light their own fairy fire, lots of perseverance and patience was needed.

Lots of free play was accessed throughout the morning including the children using their imagination to transform a stick.

Here are some of the fantastic spider webs that the children have made and are now decorating our shelter.

We finished with the children sitting quietly in their own space reflecting on the morning.

Poppies at the Church

The Year 6 pupils visited St Michael's Church earlier this week to look at the town's Remembrance display of poppies made by the local residents.  

Author Visit to Year 4,5,6

On Tuesday, the author Andy Briggs came to talk to us about creativity of ideas and writing. 

This children had a really informative session and a couple of reports are below
Mr Briggs also introduced his most recent book, Drone Racer, his other books include Iron Fist; Gravity; Black Night; Winter Storm.

'Super Splash Heroes' drop into SRH!

EYFS, KS1 and Year 3 had a special assembly from ‘Essex and Suffolk Living Water’.  It was a very engaging, interactive and fun assembly with a very important message about how to save water.  The Super Heroes acted out a variety of scenarios using songs, rhymes, dancing and music to show us how to USE WATER WISELY. 

The children were taught how to use water wisely in the garden, the kitchen, and the bathroom. 

Super Heroes talking about how much water we can save in the kitchen. 

 There were also factual clips used to show the children where water actually came from and scientific vocabulary, such as clarification and evaporation, were used to explain where water came from and how it was cleaned for our domestic use. 

Top tips included:-

                 Turn off the water when cleaning your teeth           

                 Spend less time in the shower

                 Use an aerator inside the tap

                 Use a ‘save and flush’ bag in the cistern of the toilet

                Use containers of water rather than free flowing water such as a bowl in the                      kitchen sink to wash up or a bucket when cleaning the car and not a hose.

At the end of the assembly, a short question and answer workshop was held to recap the children’s new learning and for them to learn about how much water we can actually save by being ‘Water Wise’.   Every drop counts and it is important to work together to spread the message about what we can do to save water.

Children holding up the answers to the quiz

The “Super Splash Heroes” explained to the children that there are free water saving kits available on line from www.eswater.co.uk.