Dancing The Words - Ancient Greece

Yellow Class have spent the last four weeks working on a series of dance routines in relation to Ancient Greece.

They particularly focused on the changing seasons and the story of Demeter and Persephone and how the plants were neglected whilst Demeter went to search for her daughter and how they all came back to life once Persephone had been found.

The movements had accompanying vocal chants to help with the timing of the sequence. Below are a series of pictures taking during the course of the lessons.

Year 6 Outdoor and Adventurous Day

Year 6 children from Earl Soham joined up with their counterparts from Bedfield, Wetheringsett and Helmingham for a fantastic day of activities and team building. On what was probably the hottest day of the year so far, the children readily mixed with old acquaintances and made new friends ready for their transfer to high school.

All children took part in four activities, during the day, at the fantastic Thorpe Woodlands Activity Centre. There really was something for everyone with archery, high ropes, climbing and canoeing.

It was great to see the support and encouragement the children gave to one-another as they persevered with tasks and tried to overcome their fears.

FimClub Achieves 'Star' Club Status

Earl Soham FilmClub has be awarded 'Star' club status. Due to the range of films that we've shown on a weekly basis and how well the children have been contributing with reviews and requesting films, this is thoroughly deserved for everyone.

FilmClub takes place every Friday, after school, showing a wide range of films to audiences which consist of usually over 3/4 of the entire school. There is plenty more information available on the FilmClub website www.filmclub.org

Ipswich Town v Barnsley

Twenty three intrepid members of our school community ventured to the bright lights of Ipswich in anticipation of a footballing feast. Well, that might be overdoing it a tad, but (at times) the football was quite good.
Ipswich took an early lead when the visiting goalkeeper completely lost his bearings, rushed out of his area to the touchline and let the enigmatic Pablo Counago poke the ball round him, curl a long range shot onto the post only to see it slammed home by Daryl Murphy.


However, the Earl Soham section had seen this happen before during the Middlesborough match, so whilst almost ecstatic, past memories lingered at the back of people's minds.

This time, although unable to add to their lead, Ipswich held firm (ish) to keep out the visitors and record another three points. A relatively happy 20, 588 fans left the stadium carefully taking note of all the lucky clothing they'd need to wear next time!

It was a pleasure to organise, yet again.

Sport Relief 2010

This morning staff and children alike dressed up in their sporting gear and took part in a range of sporting activities in aid of Sport Relief 2010.

Following assembly, the children began a dance-a-thon, with an hour of non-stop dancing in relay style. 
Everyone got in to the spirit and boogied along to great hits such as "Show Me the Way to Amarillo" and "Reach for the Stars".

At break time, various sporting activities took place, from games of football...

...to basketball...

...and more!

The morning was finished off (along with the staff) with a game of rounders, staff v. Y6.
After a gruelling two innings and some very creative accounting, the Y6s won the game 49-39.

But of course, who won or lost is not really important. The important thing is that our efforts helped raise some money for a very worthy cause. Check back here again soon to find out how much we raised.

Our School is...

This morning in assembly, all the children were involved in producing an acrostic for what our school stands for. There were some fantastic ideas from all of the children. This led to much debate amongst the children.

The agreed final version was as follows:

Supportive (we all support each other)
Community (we all belong and ensure that everyone feels a part of our school)
Helpful (we aim to help everyone)
Outstanding (we aim to be the best we can at all we do)
Opportunities (there are many opportunities which we need to make the most of)
Learning (learning is for life)

Other fantastic words included safe, special, cool, collective, happy, optimistic, outgoing and lovely.

Bassoon and Oboe Demonstration

Blue Class were visited today by Sue Simington from the County Music Service, who gave the class a demonstration of the bassoon and oboe. Children going to high school this year will have an opportunity to start taking instrumental lessons, and this was a great introduction to some less well-known instruments. Places are still available for instrumental tuition at Debenham High School, for anyone in year 6 who is interested in starting lessons.