Wow - what a great day Year 2 had in London!

To launch our new topic 'Bright Lights, Big City', Year 2 have enjoyed a trip to London (albeit a virtual trip!).  

The children came dressed in red, white and blue and have completed a variety of activities based in and around London throughout the day.  

Both classes enjoyed finding out how to do a cockney dance, the 'Lambeth Walk'.  Learning the routine, slapping our legs and shouting the 'Oy' at the end of each section was great fun.   (See the video posted earlier in the day).   There was some great strutting going on as we all enjoyed the dance routine.  

Both classes were given their own 'Oyster' card for the day and so had to scan into the computer suite to be allowed on the underground to go to the London Eye.  From here, the children enjoyed panoramic views of London, both day and night views, but were also able to visit a wealth of famous landmarks and find out more about the insides of some of these beautiful buildings looking at their ceilings, furniture and other exciting things such as the artefacts in some of the museums. The "wow" when the children found the night views was magical and they really enjoyed seeing the night lights and the panorama.

Scanning in to the suite using the Oyster cards.

The children used the tablets and computers to find their way around London using a virtual London website.  Maps were used to help give the children an idea of where things were in relation to the London Eye. 

The children have all made models of one of the London landmarks.  True resilience was needed and all the children persevered and were able to finish, or nearly finish, their models.  They proved a little trickier than originally planned but great teamwork was shown and those that finished went to help their friends.  

                    

              Preparing London Eye and Big Ben                                  Buckingham Palace

The Tower Bridge

After such a busy day in London, I think we'll all sleep well tonight!!  It was great fun and a fantastic way to start our new topic for this term.  

WOW! Year 2 are ‘going’ to London

Classes LH and LC went on a 'virtual visit’ to London today, for the start of their new project, ‘Bright Lights, Big City’.  

The children explored London by 'visiting' famous landmarks, sites and even went 'inside' some of the historical buildings.   

The children came to school in non-uniform wearing red, white and blue clothes, to link with London being the capital of the United Kingdom.

Part of today's experience was learning to dance to 'The Lambeth Walk'!

We hope they have found it an enjoyable learning experience to start this project.

Wonderful Work

Just a few images from the great displays around the corridors in school at the end of this half term.

Some terrific art and research work by the children.

Rainbow Coats

We spotted a perfect array of rainbow coloured coats on a few of our Year 2 children at breaktime today, so had to capture them on camera!

Our Children Question Ed Sheeran!

Recently some of our children in Classes MV & AJ took part in BBC Radio 1’s Kids Ask Ed Sheeran feature.

They recorded questions for Ed to answer and we are delighted to let everyone know that the feature will go out on air on Radio 1 this Saturday (29th May) around 13:40 as part of the Radio 1 Big Weekend of Live Music 2021.

A visual version will be made featuring Ed & Jordan recorded at Snape Maltings. This will go out on Friday 4th June on their You Tube channel and social media.

If you can, please tune in on Saturday to listen.

Class LH are coming up roses!!

Class LH have been doing observational art of a variety of flowers and have then used these drawings to inspire them and to create a 3D model out of clay.

The first thing we did was to understand how we could manipulate clay by extruding it, rolling it and carving it.  Once we were confident with this we then created our own flowers adding the detail of petals, leaves and the stem. We used slip to attach these parts of the flowers to the clay.

After that we painted our flowers.  The children worked really hard and were all really pleased with their finished tiles after all the perseverance and patience in creating them.  They do look beautiful.

Thank you to Mrs Rolfe for guiding them through this process. 

EXCITING SCHOOL NEWS

We are delighted to announce that after significant planning within school we are making a number of changes to some of the rooms which will allow us to create a wonderful new library in the centre of the school.

We are converting our current SEND room into a small group room to enable more efficient catch up teaching to groups of up to 16 children, our SEND and nurture room will relocate to the current library room by the school office.

In addition, the ICT suite is being partially re-configured to have some PCs in the centre of the room, we are delighted to say that funding from the Friends will help us to replace the old PCs in the suite, so that within the year we will have 17 brand new PCs in this space – thank you so much to the Friends and the families that contributed to their fundraising.

By making these changes it means that our new library can now take pride of place in the area in front of the ICT suite, with direct access from the corridor and opposite the Reflective area in the Gilder Garden.

The new bright and colourful Library design has to accommodate a large volume of non-fiction books (over 30 metres of them) for the children to access for their class topic research. The fiction libraries will remain in bookcases in each classroom.  The new space will include a reading nook for the teacher to read to their seated class for F/KS1, or just to be used as a 1:1 space for a child and adult to read together.

We are pleased to be able to fund this transformation through our school budget.

If parents would like to make a donation of any amount for us to put towards some new seating for small groups in the library and some book display accessories then we would be absolutely delighted for you to do so. We have set up a ‘Library Donation’ option in ParentMail which you will find in the ‘shop’ section, this will be accessible from 26 May to 30 June, thank you.

We look forward to sharing the launch of the library with the children in the summer term.

Class MV’s hybrid invertebrate clay models!

 

This half term in MV we have been exploring classification in Science. We have learnt about the different classes of vertebrates and invertebrates. We have linked this to our work in DT. We began by researching different invertebrates and picking our favourite features. Next, we planned our new hybrid mini beasts. In the last few weeks we have used different techniques to mould the clay and paint it to create our very own mini beasts!

Have a look at our creations, we hope you like them!

Class MV

Year 6 Dictionaries from The Rotary Club of Framlingham

Each of our Year 6 children were very lucky to receive a wonderful illustrated dictionary kindly donated by the Rotary Club of Framlingham.  

During today's assembly, Mrs Picton handed out the dictionaries which have a personalised book plate for each child.

The Rotary Club of Framlingham generously gift these to our children every year and we are very grateful to them for their ongoing support in this way.

Deaf Awareness Week

As part of Deaf Awareness Week which was at the beginning of May Class KVJA learnt their BSL Alphabet (also known as finger spelling).  

We learnt how to say ‘my name is …’ in BSL, we were so proud of how quickly we picked it up and started learning how to count from 1-20 and beyond.   

 

Class LH are still buzzing around!!

Class LH have been learning about the importance of pollination by bumble bees in and around the flower meadows.  We understand the vital role that they play and we learnt how how the pollen travelled from flower to flower by bees 

By using a velcro cap and balls (although, due to restrictions, we couldn't wear the cap on our heads, so we carried it instead!) we went out onto the playground to create a flower meadow where by all the children were flowers but some children were specific flowers, which the bee then pollinated. One of the boys commented about the fact there were no weeds in the garden!

The bumble bees travelled around all the flowers picking up the pollen (above) before finally landing on a tall sunflower plant and was able to pollinate the pollen she had collected from the other plants (below)

We repeated the pollination process to show the number of bees travelling around a variety of plants,  picking up the pollen and leaving it on another plant. 

 

Heroes Stamp Design Competition

 Thank you to all those who entered the Heroes Stamp Design Competition.  

Your designs are fantastic and fingers crossed we will hopefully have a winner.    

Worship in School

The children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children were delighted to have their bubble Worships with Reverend Chris Davey from St Michael's Church, today.

Rev Chris spoke to the children about his role in the Church, as this was the first time they had been able to meet him in school.  

He also talked about the different occasions and services that happen in church.  He wore some of the garments that he would wear in Church for services.
The children had lots of questions for him and were able to answer his questions too!

Class LH are buzzing around

In the 'Scented Gardens' topic, Class LH have been beginning to investigate how the pollination  of plants works.  

We used the bee bots to demonstrate how the bees need to visit as many plants as possible in their travels around the garden to pollinate the flowers.