Headteacher Blog

We have been celebrating Earth Day (22nd April) in the Infant Class!

We watched a performance of Dr Seuss's 'The Lorax', streamed from The Old Vic Theatre in London - it was fantastic! It made us think of the importance of looking after the planet and how we can make positive changes to be…

This term in PE we have been developing our teamwork skills through different challenges.

Week 1: Yesterday, we were ‘Sheep and Shepherds’. The children’s challenge was to work together to help move the ‘sheep’ into a pen. To create further challenge, our ‘sheep’ were blindfolded and the…

We have been exploring instruction writing in English this week. Mrs Quayle started by giving us all instructions to make a 'Thing-a-me' which led to us making some very strange creations because the instructions were so badly written! Thankfully, we have since followed some well written…

It has been so great seeing everyone back in school! In Geography, we have been learning about the different Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden and Denmark). In order to find out a plethora of interesting facts, we had a scavenger hunt. Miss Webster hid fact cards outside; we had to find the…

We continue to be super impressed with the way all the children in Years 3 and 4 have accessed their learning through February, whether they were joining us through live classes at home or were physically in the classroom. We want to say a massive well done to all the children and a big thank you…

It’s been another busy month in the Infants - everyone has worked hard and continued to show a wonderfully positive attitude to learning at school and at home. 

Reception continued their work on traditional tales, predicting what type of plant might grow from a mysterious magical bean and…

Wow! What a strange start to 2021, but we are so proud of how well the children have settled into their new way of learning. We've tried to stick as closely as possible to what we would have done with the children if they had been in school this term and it's great that we're able to deliver live…

January has been a very busy month for us in the Infant class, and we've had to adapt to a new way of working with everyone at home!

In English, we have been exploring traditional tales, creating our own stories based on The Elves and the Toymaker. Our Reception children have been super…

What a busy term we have had! Although things look slightly different this year for a December in school, we have still been very busy making sure we are all prepared for a wonderful Christmas. We managed to finished out English unit about the Green Children and have written our own versions of…

This month the Infants have been exploring the stories of Dr Seuss! We had a visit from the Cat in the Hat and his Things, and wrote our own stories about what might happen if the Cat came back. 

In Design Technology we have also been working hard on our glove puppets, based on another Dr Seuss…

What another fantastic month we’ve had in Years 3 and 4. Our new class reader is 'The Nothing To See Here Hotel' by Steven Butler which we're loving. Folk-tales has been our topic in English and we’ve been investigating different versions of the Suffolk folk-tale all about the Green Children. This…

This half term in Year 3/4 we have been busy little bees learning lots in our Autumn topic ‘Monsters, Dragons and Invaders’. As part of our English curriculum we have been exploring Narrative Poetry by various poets like Michael Rosen and have had a go at writing our own. We’re poets and we…