Christmas Dinner

On Thursday 17th December the children, staff and governors joined together to celebrate Christmas with a delightful Christmas dinner. 

The children made hats and Christmas crackers (including some very corny jokes) and dinner was served by the Year 6s.

Governors enjoyed a joke...

...and everybody tucked in to a really lovely meal. 

Due to a small technical hitch, some of us even had two dinners!

Thanks to Claire, our cook, for her hard work cooking the meal, and to everyone who helped to make it a really special occasion.

Christmas Carol Service

On Monday 14th December parents and children descended upon St Mary's Church in their droves for our Christmas Carol Service. The church was packed to bursting, with standing room only at the back. 


The recorder group opened the service with a rendition of Coventry Carol and Good King Wenceslas.

Children in Red Class came dressed in costumes as angels...

...shepherds...

...Mary and Joseph...

..the three wise men...

...and the star.

We enjoyed some traditional carols and Red Class made a tableau of the Nativity during Little Donkey.

Each class gave a performance:

Red Class sang Ten Little Snowflakes...

Yellow Class sang While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night...

...and Blue Class performed Good King Wenceslas on a variety of instruments.

Even the staff were on show, with a performance of Rise up Shepherd and Foller.

All of this was interspersed with readings and poems from the children and an address by Reverend Brian.

The evening was topped off with talk and laughter back at the school hall, along with a good dose of mulled wine, mince pies and Stollen.

Control Technology with K'nex

Children in Blue Class have been working on a project which combines DT, Science and ICT, to create controllable vehicles using K'nex.

The children began by following instructions to make a simple K'nex vehicle. They then worked out how to connect a motor to make the vehicle move.

Alongside this work, they were also learning about circuits in Science lessons, and how to write computer programs using flowcharts (control technology) in ICT lessons.

The children were set a final task of combining all that they had learnt to create their own vehicle, which would hold a FlowGo box.

These boxes could be programmed using Flowol software and have various outputs (e.g. motors and lights) connected, to bring the vehicles 'to life'.

Here are some of the resulting vehicles. Click on the pictures to see larger versions, and scroll down to watch some videos of the vehicles in action.

Christmas Wreath Competition Winners X2!

Children from Red Class were informed earlier today that they were winners of the Key Stage 1 category for their entry in the Suffolk Recycling Christmas Wreath Competition. Their design included a great deal of 'packaging' included in boxes recently delivered to the school.




There was further good news in the afternoon when Yellow Class were informed that they too had won a prize for their wreath which used a number of unwanted cds.


Well done to all children involved - really clever use of materials which would traditionally be 'thrown away'. For more details please visit www.suffolkrecycling.org.uk

Getting Ready for Christmas

Plans are well under way for Christmas. We've looked at the meaning behind Christingle.

We've looked at Advent.

Yellow Class have made wreaths of of recyclable materials and entered a Suffolk County Council competition.

Children have written gift tags for what they'd like for Christmas - well worth reading...

And children have made decorations for the tree, at home, having used recyclable materials. These have been absolutely brilliant so far and are still coming in.

Lunchtime Tchoukball Starts!

A new lunchtime club for children in Years 5 & 6 has recently started. Organised by the Fun At Breaktimes (FAB) team and Mrs Cardin, the first round of matches have been played.


There are 5 teams of 4 who play on a round-robin basis. Games last for a total of 10minutes.


Tchoukball is an attack-minded team game with few rules which makes it a high-scoring and end-to-end game.

Teams: Pack of Aces, Bolt Champions, Terminators, Girl Power and Bat Girlz. Looks like everyone is enjoying this so far...

Suffolk County Schools' Cross-Country 'A' Race

The fantastic exploits of our two cross-country finalists continued this morning at the Royal Hospital school, Holbrook. With nearly 90 finalists (from Years 6 & 7) who had qualified from all four corners of Suffolk, our two girls yet again did themselves, their families and school proud.

It was a beautiful winter's morning with a clear blue sky and the air filled with a mixture of muscle rub and bacon sandwiches!






Both children did tremendously well to finish in the top 50, with Imogen putting in a fantastic burst over the last 200metres to finish 8th.
Girls, we are so proud of what you have achieved, running against children older than you and from much larger schools. Thank you for your efforts - a really great start to the weekend.