Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Easter Service and The Big Sing

  Tue 26 Mar 2024

  This week we have enjoyed both our Easter Service and The Big Sing at St Edmundsbury Cathedral

  

• Year 1 World Water Day

  Mon 18 Mar 2024

  Year 1 had a fantastic time on World Water Day exploring the positive powers of water. We looked at how water connects us to our community and our religion and how it can have a very positive impact on our health, creating feelings of calmness and happiness. We then wanted to find out how much we enjoyed using water so we played water games, made mud kitchen recipes and played in our water tray. In maths in the afternoon we compared the volume of different containers and created posters teaching everyone to be ‘water wise’ and save water. We  hope that all our hard work will help us to earn a green ‘Blue Peter’ badge😀

  Our thanks also to Mrs Jackson who kindly came in to talk to us about how her charity helps communities in different parts of Africa to build wells so that remote communities can have better access to clean, fresh water. There were lots of very thought-provoking photos and discussions, including the dangers of meeting a crocodile or hippo if you had to walk a long distance to visit a river to collect your drinking water!

  

• Year 3 World Water Day

  Mon 18 Mar 2024

  On World Water Day we focussed on how what we put down the toilet and down our plug holes can affect our pipes and cause flooding. We also looked at the health of our local rivers. 

  We wrote letters to Anglian Water and our local MP, made vlogs and posters with water challenges.

  

• UN World Water day in Year 6

  Mon 18 Mar 2024 Mrs Winter-Valentine

  Today we have been off timetable as a school and been acting under our global citizens curriculum driver, exploring UN World Water Day.
  
  In Year 6 we have explored water as peace and why water causes conflict.
  The children had the autonomy to create their own response to this global issues after doing some research this morning; some of the end results that are being shared in a whole school assembly are: posters, protest boards, poems, artwork and the creation of new laws.

   

  

• Year 4 Colchester castle

  Fri 08 Mar 2024

  Year 4 went to Colchester Castle as part of their Roman's topic. We looked around the fascinating museum, had a tour underneath the castle (whilst learning about Boudicca's attack on Colchester) and built a Roman villa and round house. What a fantastic day!

  

• Year 3 Cambridge Trip 14.02.24

  Mon 04 Mar 2024

  On Wednesday 14^th February, Comet Class went to Cambridge to visit both the Egyptian Gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Central Mosque.

  The children spent the morning at the museum, looking at how to decipher an Ancient Egyptian object and thinking about what the artefact could tell them of what life was like for ancient Egyptian people. The class also looked at coffins and items from Egyptian peoples' tombs. After lunch the class travelled across the city to Central Mosque, where the children had the opportunity to learn about Islamic prayer, ask questions and have a guided tour of the mosque. 

  Everyone enjoyed the day and it was great to hear the children sharing knowledge and applying facts and information.

  

• Year 2 Trip to the Farm!

  Thu 15 Feb 2024

  On Thursday 15 February we had our first class trip to Lodge Farm. The children absolutely loved this trip! They learnt about different grains and how they are used, how they are planted and cared for. They all saw tractors and were even able to sit inside them! We had a tractor trailer ride and went on a green treasure hunt! We saw some sheep from a distance, but they didn’t want to come and say hello. The children accepted this without fault and respected the space they need to give to animals. Overall, it was an incredible trip for them all.

  

• Zones of Regulation

  Fri 05 Jan 2024 Miss Miles

  This week we have introduced the Zones of Regulation. Each class will be doing work on the zones in their PSHE lesson to help them understand their emotions. There is a display in each classroom which children will be using to reflect on how they are feeling. For more information please see the Zones of Regulation page on the school website.

   

   

  

• Times Tables Rock Stars and Numbots relaunch day!

  Fri 10 Nov 2023 Mrs Winter-Valentine

  Today we relaunched TT Rock Stars and Numbots -both great mathematical apps. The children in EYFS and Year 1 dressed as a numbot robot and years 2 - 6 came dressed as rock stars! All the children had great fun exploring the apps and learning more about how they can use them at home.

  

• Year 4 Greek Day

  Fri 03 Nov 2023 Miss Ballam

  History off the Page came into school to support our learning of the Ancient Greeks. 

  We started the day with a selection of craft activities, such as pottery painting, soap carving, wax melting and making clay offerings for the Gods.

  In the afternoon we had a feast and entertainment- dancing and acting out traditional Greek myths!