Music Showcase

What talented musicians this school has! Friday's special Music assembly was a truly inspiring experience for the whole school.

Seeing children confidently stand up and perform in front of an audience of 300+ on violins, clarinets, recorders, flutes, trumpets and saxophones was fantastic. 

Thanks to our wind and brass tutor Mrs Blouet and Mrs Fell our violin tutor.

Not only that but we were treated to some wonderful singing from Class SBr who have been working with Megan Peel all term.

Hamper Raffle Draw

24 lucky winners were drawn at lunchtime today and all winners have been notified through a ParentMail email.  Please collect your hamper from the school office by Wednesday.

Thank you to everyone who donated items and bought tickets - this is a superb fundraiser for the school through the Friends.

Look out for an update from the Friends in tomorrow's newsletter.

LAST CHANCE TO BUY RAFFLE TICKETS IS ON SUNDAY!

Would you like to win one of our fabulous 24 Christmas Hampers, overflowing with delicious festive goodies?

Raffle tickets can be purchased in the Payments > Shop section of ParentMail you can buy as many tickets as you like to increase your chances of winning!

LAST CHANCE TO BUY TICKETS IS ON SUNDAY!

The draw will take place on Monday 18 December - winners will be directly notified from the Friends. 

Proceeds will go directly into the Friends fund to buy much needed equipment for the school and experiences for the children.

You can also buy on behalf of family and friends (we are sorry they cannot buy directly through ParentMail)

Many thanks,  The Friends

Thank you to the Friends!

 Thank you to the Friends and the volunteers who helped serve refreshments at all of this week's five Nativities.

We hope that the parents and families enjoyed having a hot choc or coffee with a mince pie treat before the curtain went up!

and that's a wrap!

The final Nativity was truly magical, and the children in Mrs Brady's Class, MB, put on a simply perfect performance.

Parents, siblings, grandparents and other family members were excited to see their Reception children in their first school Nativity. 

We are super proud of how well they did on the stage in front of a big audience! Brilliant!

Look out for the link to the video that we'll send next week and the photo gallery that will be on the website soon.

Happy Christmas everyone!

Nearly There!

Our penultimate Nativity this morning was delivered with joy and delight from the children in Mrs Mawson's Class, KM.

Their singing was beautiful as it echoed around the hall for the parents, siblings and other family members to hear.  

Well done to everyone, it is very daunting to stand up age 4 or 5 in front of spotlights and an audience of 100 people, we are very proud of you all!

More Nativity fun from Class DR

We're on a roll!

Today's splendid Nativity was delivered with so much enthusiasm from Mrs Roger's Class, DR, that even the parents were dancing and singing in the audience!

Well done everyone! You really bought a smile to everyone's faces :)

We'll be loading photos to a gallery next week and also sending families a link to the recordings of the dress rehearsals.

Here is a taster of the Class DR photos.

Key Stage 2 Poetry Recital

Key Stage 2 had their half termly poetry recital today which was judged by Julia from "Ottie and Bea" bookshop.  The theme was ‘Children’ and there were a lot of different styles of poems. The poems recited were Messy Room; Please Miss Butler; Bedtime; Peeking past the curtain; Christmas Legend and Class MS wrote their own.

All the children performed with great confidence and showed a good improvement on presentation since the last poetry competition in October.  

Well done to Class SBJA who won this half-term’s recital performing “Storytime” by Jon Kitching – a very clear and well performed recital using great oracy.

Thank you so much to Julia who had the hard choice of deciding the winning poem.  A huge thank you also to Julia very kindly donated a beautiful poetry book called; "A Whale of a time".

 

Class KH Nativity

Mrs Hewer's class were having so much fun yesterday performing their awesome Nativity! They were brilliant! 

The audience was packed with parents and family, along with the siblings from other classes in school.

We'll be loading photos to a gallery next week and also sending families a link to the recordings of the dress rehearsals.

Nativity from Class JT

Miss Turner's class, JT, performed a simply fabulous Nativity! What a star cast! 

The parents and family watching today were truly delighted by the children.

We'll be loading photos to a gallery next week and also sending families a link to the recordings of the dress rehearsals.

Here is a taster of the Class JT photos.

Nativities - what a joy so far!

It has been delightful to see two classes, so far, deliver the most wonderful Nativities.

The Nursery performed last Wednesday and Class JT performed today. 

Both really were magical experiences and we are sure all the families watching loved them!

We'll be loading photos to a gallery next week and also sending families a link to the recordings of the dress rehearsals.

Here is a taster of the Nursery photos

Carols on Market Hill

Well done to all the children who turned up to perform a selection of Carols on Friday evening at the Framlingham Christmas event on Market Hill, you sounded beautiful.

Thank you to all the families who came along to join in.

Beautiful Singing!

In today's assembly the whole school sang the Christmas Carols that we'll be singing on Market Hill tonight at 5.25pm. The children have been practising every lunch time and they all sounded wonderful in the school hall.

Do come along and join our singing tonight as we celebrate the lighting of the Town Christmas tree following the Lantern Parade from the Castle.

We would also like to say a big thank you to Miles in Year 6, for playing "Happy Birthday" on the piano every Friday in our assembly for the children who have a birthday that week.

Christmas Cake Sale Today!

 

Christmas Cake Stall

Come along for some Christmas treats at the Friends Cake Stall on Friday after school at the front playground pavilion.

Classes KV & SBJA are baking for the last Cake Sale of the year.

Wonderful Biblical Puppet Shows

 KM were very fortunate to be treated to a collection of Biblical Puppet Shows given by the talented Year 5 pupils in Class KV. 

We all really loved hearing stories from The Gospels about Jesus performing miracles.

We were all very impressed by the puppets and backdrops that the children had made and thought they were very clever. Very kindly, we have been allowed to use the puppets, puppet show and backdrops in Class KM and feel inspired to have a chance to retell these wonderful stories ourselves. Here are just a few photographs from the session. 

We want to say a huge thank you to Mrs Colchester and Class KV for a really special morning.  

Happy First Day of Advent

A couple of helpful children decorated our Christmas tree in the office reception area this morning - it looks beautiful!

Floodline Support

After Mr Corke presented the dictionaries to our Year 5 & 6, he gave a talk to the Key Stage 2 children about the Framlingham Flood appeal.  Mr Corke works with the Hour Community team and he shared stories about some of the hardship that he had seen in and around Framlingham, and about how devastating the effects of the flood have been.  

He thanked the School Council for suggesting this appeal as our charity this Christmas.

The funds will be raised at the forthcoming Nativities and Christmas  Jumper Day on 19 December.  We hope you can support this local charity at these forthcoming events, thank you.