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Dance East Workshop

On Thursday afternoon, we were visited by Lily from Dance East who gave an excellent cross-curricular dance workshop based on 3D shape. The children worked both individually and in pairs and small groups, preparing a sequence of moves to describe a chosen 3D shape. The resulting performances can be seen in the videos below.

Small Schools' Unihoc Tournament

Eight Year 6 children travelled to Stradbroke for the annual small schools' unihoc tournament. There were a total of nine teams taking part.
Earl Soham started off with a 3-2 defeat against ner-neighbours (and eventual winners) Bedfield. Goals coming from Tom and Darren. This was followed by a 5 - 1 victory against Occold, with Tom scoring 4 and Arran the other. The next match against Thorndon saw Earl Soham victorious again, this time winning 4 - 1, with Tom scoring another 3 and Miriam completing the scoring.
The crunch match came next against Helmingham, and although having taken an early lead through Tom, Earl Soham were finally beaten 3 - 1. In the play-off for 5th place, opponents Dennington were defeated 2 -1, with goals from Tom and Darren.
It was a hard-fought and entertaining morning of sport, where all children involved should feel proud of their efforts.

Red Class - SHARE Writing

This morning, Red Class parents joined us for an interesting morning of writing based activities. The support received from parents was fantastic with over 3/4 of parents able to join us. The children took part in phonics sessions, handwriting and letter formation sessions, building up sentences using VCOP and then applying their phonetic knowledge to write a list of ingredients required to make a gingerbread man.

We were delighted with the outcome of the morning's activities and hope that it has given our parents a greater insight into the development of writing at our school.

Task Tacklers - Fireworks!

The 'Task Tacklers' from Earl Soham, Bedfield, Debenham, Stonham Aspal, Wetheringsett and Helmingham met at Debenham High School for their latest challenge.
During the morning, the children experimented with a variety of compounds to produce the colours for fireworks. They discovered that green is made by using copper chloride, red by using lithium chlorine, purple by using potassium chloride and orange by using sodium chloride. They found this out by dipping the tip of a wooden splint into the substance and then setting light to it using a Bunsen burner.Iron fillings were then added which saw the creation of 'sparks' to the flames.
After more experimenting, Mr Rockett and Mrs McBurney showed some fantastic 'explosions' using gas, washing up liquid and magnesium! Then it was time to design sparklers, followed by the making and testing!
There were some fantastic ideas as the children worked hard to get the mixture of glue, iron filings, magnesium powder and compounds right to have the desired effect. This meant a continual cycle of making, testing and evaluating as the children tried to improve on what they had done previously.
It was a simply great day.

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