Open the Book

On Wednesday, we were treated to an assembly from 'Open the Book'. The team re-enacted the parable 'The Lost Son'. There was once a man with two sons. One day, the younger son approached his father with a sad request: he didn't want to wait to receive his money/ inheritance. The man gave his son the money and he departed, without even saying goodbye. Eventually, the money disappeared so he found a job where he looked after pigs. Meanwhile, the man longed for his son to return.

Ultimately, the man's dream came true and he returned, although he was poor and hungry. His son dropped to his knees and apologised for his actions. His father responded, reassuring him that he would always be his son. The Lost Son was hailed as the returning hero, much to the annoyance of the son who had remained at home. 

There were two key messages: it is never too late to seek forgiveness and a person has to be ready to return to their faith. Christians believe that God is available whenever they are ready. 

Harvest and investigating vegetables

In Nursery this half term we have been thinking about our food and where it comes from as we have been learning about Harvest. This week we investigated a range of vegetables. Some of us were surprised by what we saw when they were cut open. We used lots of different adjectives to describe them and made comparisons between them, spotting similarities and differences. The children learnt what a parsnip was and decided it looked like a white carrot. They also told me the sprout was like a baby cabbage and that the sweet potato and butternut squash were the same colour inside. We were excited to find seeds in the pumpkin and butternut squash too.

Hitcham's Head Chef Week Three

This week we were spoilt again. The children arrived and confidently and quietly got on with making their delicious dishes. Their knowledge was again excellent! The children knew their recipes well and understood what their dish should be like at each stage of the process. We were treated to a delicious Ratatouille with perfectly cooked pasta, an incredibly tasty Thai green curry and a scrummy Sizzling salmon with bean mash. The combinations of flavours in each dish were superb. Another tough one for our guest judges Malcom Knights, who kindly joined us from the Hitcham's Trust and Mrs Wade. Huge thanks to the children for cooking, the parents for supporting and encouraging them, and to our judges and staff for giving their time so generously. Well done!

Harvest Festival at St Michael's Church

Today our children celebrated the Harvest at St Michael's Church in Framlingham.

It was great to see so many parents join us in Church and there was a wonderful feel to our service.  The Church looked lovely and we are grateful to be able to use it for our Worship and for Revd Sanders to give the blessing.

We would like to thank all the families for their generosity with food items for the Waveney Food Bank. We also raised £93 from the collection which we will pass on to Water Aid.  These charities help local communities both at home & abroad.

Thank you to Mr Owen for these super photos of the children at Church.

Harvest with Nursery & Reception

Our youngest children held their own Harvest Service in school this morning, with the children adding their food offering to the harvest collection. They listened to stories and talked about sharing and sang Harvest songs.

Year 5 trip to Adastral Park

Classes SC and JT went to Adastral park for a crumble robot taster workshop. They learnt how to program the crumble robot to turn lights on and off, change the colours of the lights and get the robot to move following a black line. Throughout the day, they used their skills in problem solving and perseverance.

Girls Football Tournament 2019

On Wednesday 9th October 2019, seventeen girls represented the school in a girls football tournament. All of the girls played with great enthusiasm and a fantastic team spirit. We thank all of the parents who came to support and Mrs Berry for managing the A team. 

Please see more images on the High Suffolk Sports Instagram page:  instagram.com/highsuffolkssp

Our Children on BBC Look East News

Watch the BBC Look East Evening News from 8 October to see their report about Music teaching in our school and to see some of our children singing and being interviewed. 

We have created a Vimeo of the report - the quality is not brilliant as it was filmed off the TV!

FOREST SCHOOL

WEEK 5 - CMRH

This week the children experienced a campfire. We talked about fire safety and the fire triangle and then the children enjoyed toasting a marshmallow. Ongoing activities were accessed by the children during the morning.

We're on TV tonight!!

We have been filmed by BBC Look East today for a news article on how we teach music in our school.
Watch the Look East News tonight at 6.30pm to see Kevin Birch's report and to see some of our classes singing.

PLEASE VOTE FOR US!!

Our school has been nominated for the Primary School PE & Sport Premium Impact Award... but we need your vote to be in with a chance of winning. 
We are sure you will agree that our school gives the children superb sporting opportunities and hope that you'll take part in the vote to give us further recognition.
Please click on either image link above (or below) to take you to the vote page, select our school and select 'Send' at the bottom of the vote page.
Thank you in advance for supporting the school with this.

https://www.activesuffolk.org/primary-school-pe-and-sport-prem

Year 5 and 6 Football club 2019

This term, twenty-eight pupils from year 5 and 6 have participated in our after school football club. 

Thank you for supporting the club so well. 

VWh PASB House Hockey 2019

On Monday 7th October 2019, forty-two pupils from Year 6 participated in a house hockey tournament. The children were, competitive, excited and enthusiastic! Well done to the four Year 5 pupils who refereed the games. An excellent effort from all! 

Story Time in Reception

Both of our Reception classes held a story time session at the end of the day today.
The event gives parents the opportunity to access our wonderful library of story books to read with their children.
Everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy spending this time together.
We will run another session in November and one in December.

Hitcham's Head Chef Week 2

It was the turn for some of our Year 5 children to cook this week. Again we were astounded by the complexity of the dishes being cooked for us by 9 year olds!
We were treated to Chicken enchiladas, Lasagne, and Crab and Fennel pasta. We were so lucky to have Mrs Lawley, our DT governor and Chris Sampson from Hitcham's Trust to be our judges, and it was lovely to see so many staff pop by to support the children too. Thank you all!
Hitcham's Trust gift the school some money each year which enables us to teach all of the children in Key Stage 2 to cook a range of dishes. It was lovely to show the positive impact this spending has through the children themselves demonstrating their confidence and skills. Wow!

Class LH investigate materials in and around school!

Class LH have been investigating the properties of materials in and around the school. 

Last week, we used the cameras to take photos in the playground of various materials and then discussed why they were made of each particular material.  We talked about the wooden shed, the metal on the slide and the trim trail, the plastic storage containers, the glass windows, the brick walls, rubber matting under the play equipment and even our leather shoes!  

This week we investigated which materials would make a good umbrella.  We used kitchen roll, fabric, plastic bags, J-cloth and cardboard to find out which was waterproof.  We all made a prediction and learnt that it didn't matter if this was wrong!  We then worked with our partners to find out which ones were waterproof. It was a fair test because we used the same amount of water on the same size of material.  If the water didn't come through,  then it was waterproof.  A lot of us thought that the cardboard was waterproof but then we realised after a short wait that actually it wasn't. 

We all decided that plastic would made a good umbrella and were able to explain why the plastic was a suitable material. Some of us made correct predictions but those of us that didn't understood that it didn't matter if these were wrong!