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Wall of Fame

This morning's Wall of Fame assembly was a little different to usual, owing to an unexpected fire alarm. Thankfully the weather was lovely so we took our assembly outside. 

Mr Pearce just loves having his photo taken so much he wanted to be in this one twice!

The Persistent Chaffinch

Keeping 31 children on task and concentrating at the end of term, when they are tired and really just want to play outside in the glorious sunshine, can sometimes seem like an impossible task. And it seemed that even nature was conspiring against me today as a friendly chaffinch spent most of the day desperately trying to break through the window, apparently as eager to get into the classroom as the children were to get out of it.

It even posed for me when I got the camera out. Oh well, only one more day until the holidays!

Hunting for Eggs

This afternoon, the Easter Bunny (pictured below centre) and his team of helper bunnies, distributed cards, golden coins, eggs and even a golden chicken, around the playground and meadow. The children then worked in pairs within their colour groups to hunt them down for a mini-egg reward.

The weather was perfect and everyone had a fantastic time. Happy Easter everyone!

Quicksticks Hockey Tournament

For some of our older children this has been an extremely busy sporting week, what with cross-country, tag rugby and after school dance club all yesterday, and you could have been forgiven for thinking they might have been a little tired today! Not a bit of it! We set off for Debenham wondering what it would be like, never having entered a Quicksticks tournament before and the first few minutes of the first game were a little hairy, going one nil down. BUT - we soon got into our game and ran out winners 2-1. There then followed another win, and another.. and another! Did we dare hope?
Looking at the match schedules I was thinking - eight games without a break, on fast astroturf, only 4 players in a team, we'll surely run out of steam.
However, the team were SUPERB! They worked as a team, no-one 'hogged' the ball, they passed brilliantly, defended well when they had to, and the tally of victories went up to 6 in a row.
The seventh match - against Mellis - was the toughest yet, but we were going well right up until the end when they scored from a corner. Hopes were dashed at this point, but we didn't have time to be down for long as we had one more game to play. We won that one, so 7 wins out of 8 was pretty impressive, but was it enough? We weren't sure.
Moving over to the presentations, 3rd place was given out as Fressingfield, the suspense was building,
2nd was given as Mellis, hooray - yes - Earl Soham were the winners! Fantastic!
I was so proud to be there this morning to witness a great team effort. WELL DONE!!

TAG Rugby Tournament

On Wednesday afternoon, following on from the exhausting cross-country, Earl soham took part in the TAG Rugby tournament at Thomas Mills High School.

A rather punishing schedule of 8 games in 90minutes saw Earl Soham record 2 wins and a draw. This put Earl Soham in 7th place overall.

Year 2 Mini-Olympics

On a very warm March afternoon our 10 Year 2 children joined the other local primary schools for a fiercely contested 'mini-olympics' competition, organised by the Debenham High Sports Leaders. There were medals to be won in cupstacking, sprinting, low hurdles, bean-bag boccia, and triathlon. After the appropriately named 'heats', we had enjoyed several successes and qualifications for semi-finals.

At the end of the afternoon we returned to school with 2 silver medallists who received their medals in true olympic style on a podium, and several children with near misses finishing in 4th place.
Everyone ran/jumped/threw and stacked extremely hard, and judging by their faces had a great time.
Once again, thank you to the team of parents who transported and stayed to spectate. We'll make cheerleaders of you yet!!