Class DR Share Session

A fabulous afternoon with our families. We spent the afternoon decorating Easter eggs, making our very own ‘cress heads' and enjoying the delicious Easter nests we had prepared. Thank you to everyone who was able to make it. 

"EGGCITING" EASTER EN FRANCE

Today, a group of our KS2 children enjoyed a fun session, learning French with Mr Cory from Thomas Mills High School.

They all attempted a quiz about the new vocabulary and enjoyed speaking in French about Easter traditions in France.

They were fascinated to hear about 'the flying bells 'that fly off from France and then appear back for Easter and distribute Easter eggs to the children. 

MERCI to Mr Cory and  all our French speakers . FANTASTIQUE.

Thank you also to Mrs Lavery (our MFL/French governor) for joining us.

 

Class JT Share Afternoon

 

Class JT had fun today being artists and making ‘spring in a box’ with family and friends. It was lovely to see everyone engaged together in creativity. The class also enjoyed performing their poem about the ‘Great Fire of London’ to a welcoming audience. What a lovely afternoon. Thank you to everyone that joined us and helped to tidy up!

Nursery Admissions for September 2025

Our Nursery can take children from the beginning of the term following their third birthday.   Children may have up to five terms of free part-time early learning with us before they join the Reception class.  The Nursery aims to create an environment where children can have a variety of experiences through play.  This means we can develop their knowledge and understanding of the world around them and give them a strong foundation upon which we can start to build the curriculum.

Nursery Application forms can be downloaded here for 2025/26 or pop into the office to collect a printed form.

Applications for September 2025 should be returned to the school office by Wednesday 23 April 2025, please, for us to allocate places in accordance with our Nursery Admissions Policy.  Admission forms for a start date later in the academic year should be returned to the school office by the following deadlines: for Jan 2026 by early Sept 2025 or for April 2026 by early January 2026.

In addition, we have a chargeable lunch club that runs until 1.30pm. Nursery children may have a school dinner or bring a packed lunch.  During this period and for their playtime in or outside, the children remain fully supervised.  We do not offer 30 hours of funded childcare, but you may use extended hours to cover the additional cost of the lunch club (up to 8 hours 20 mins) if you are eligible.

For enquiries regarding Nursery admissions, please email us @ Nursery Enquiries or visit our website.

Netball Tournament

Yesterday, our school took part in a Netball competition at Framlingham College Prep School in Brandeston.

We entered 2 teams into the competition with 1 team coming 2nd on the compete side of the competition and the other team coming 6th out of 22 teams in the develop side of the competition. 

All the children have worked very hard every Wednesday lunch time to get ready for the competition and it really did show on the day. The children showed fantastic team work, great attitude and made the school very proud.

House singing competition uplifting

Wow! Wow! Wow! - what a treat we had this afternoon!  Key Stage 2 held their singing competition performing to the whole school.  The roof was lifted by the wonderful singing as all the houses sang their hearts and souls out - the happiness on their faces and clear enjoyment was abundant when they were singing.  

All the houses started with their own version of "Joseph's coat" which were all so different in their own way.  Then Bulstrode sang "Any dream will do”; Mills, sang “Jacob and sons"; Howard sang "Close my eyes” and Hitcham’s sang "Go, Go, Joseph".  All the performances were truly stunning.  Our judges from our Governors, Rev Chris Davey, Mr Glasse and Mrs Lavery, found it incredibly difficult to choose but in the end they decided that Mills were the winners.  Well done to everyone and as Miss Whipps said “Everyone was a winner!”  Thank you to all the teachers for preparing the children to such a high standard with the harmonies and melodies that were truly uplifting.

The performances were videoed and details will follow. 

Springtime has sprung in class MB!

This week class MB have been looking for signs of spring. We have had some caterpillar visitors join our class and it has been fascinating watching them grow and start to change into a chrysalis. Hopefully they will turn into butterflies by the end of term! In Maths, we have looked at symmetrical patterns and created out own butterfly symmetrical wing patterns. We have also looked at the butterfly life cycle and learnt the names of each stage. 

 

SECOND DAY OF SPRING - DAFFODILS !

 Class JA have done an amazing job of designing and constructing these 3D daffodils in their art lessons. They drew the petals and parts of the flower freehand and they used their knowledge (from Science) to design and make the different parts of the daffodil.The flowers were fiddly to construct but everybody produced a fantastic flower and foliage. 

We think that they look amazing with the sunlight shining on them on this second day of Spring.

This text from Wordsworth's famous poem is displayed next to the classroom display of the daffodils.

Well done JA

Cake Stall TODAY!

 Come along after school to pick up a sweet treat! Thanks to Class RJKH & JT for their baking!

KS1 poetry competition

Key Stage 1 and Reception recited some beautiful poems for their poetry competition.  Some of the nursery children popped in to hear them too.  Reception performed their poems about Springtime whilst Key Stage 1 classes wrote and delivered their poems using some great rhyme, rhythm and actions about the Great Fire of London.  What a great way to remember the facts about the Great Fire of London! Well done to each and every child who performed Our judges, Rev Chris Davey and Mrs Akerman were astounded at the quality and found it really hard to decide the winners but Class DR won by a very small margin!  Rev Chris then finished the assembly with a prayer said as a poem. 

KS2 House Singing Competition TOMORROW

DON'T FORGET TO WEAR YOUR HOUSE PE KIT TOMORROW!