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END OF YEAR CELEBRATION SERVICE

The End of Year Celebration Service at St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church on Friday was a really special moment. Each class contributed with a song or a dance or with an entertaining reflection on the year, and the service was punctuated with memories of this year and key moments from their journey through our school provided by the Year 5 and Year 6 children in Yangtze Class.

As well as celebrating the achievements of the children in the school as a whole, the service was also an opportunity to celebrate some individual achievements, and those are listed below. Well done to them and well done to all.

Mrs Tuthill’s Award for Good Manners: Adaline and Emily-Aliza

Mary Lewis’ Award for Reading: Jude, Rosa, Alby, Daniel, Luke, Caleb and Bella

The Pastor Steere Cup for Contribution to School Life: Tobie

The Elliot Hopkinson Cup for 100% Attendance: Ella, Daisy, Jayden and Oscar

The Lomax Trophy for Sports: Oscar

The Mary Webb Award for Art in the EYFS: Eva

The Mrs Spice Award for Art in KS1: Theo

The Mrs Spice Award for Art in KS2: Lydia

Mrs Fennings Award for progress in the EYFS: Iris

The Fox and Goose Cup for progress in KS1: Barclay

The Chase Cup for progress in KS2: Niall

The Year 6 vs Staff Rounders Match and the Water Fight

We had a such a fun afternoon on Thursday when the Year 6s took on the Staff in the traditional Leavers’ Rounders Match. The children started the game full of confidence and quickly notched up an impressive first round innings of 26 thanks to some dubious fielding on the part of the Staff. The staff were only able to come close to this in their own first innings, scoring 23 rounders. But, with their pride somewhat dented and their tails up, the fightback started in the second innings with some impressive fielding which limited the children’s second innings to just 47 in total. It all came down to the teachers’ last innings, and the children’s own fielding display, which was, admittedly, impressive. However, helped on by a magnificent display by Mrs Tooley, the teachers eventually (as is customary) won.

The water fight needs no further report. Everyone got, as you can imagine, very wet.

JRSO Speed Check

The Junior Road Safety Officers were excited on Thursday to invite Mr Green to our school. Mr Green, who retired from being a Police Constable earlier this year, still works for Suffolk Police but in the capacity of a Speed Reduction Officer. He led an assembly on the importance of driving within the speed limit which the whole school found very interesting.

Following the assembly, Mr Green took the Junior Road Safety Officers to check the speed of vehicles on the Stradbroke Road. Thankfully, they didn’t record any incidents of drivers exceeding the limit.

NORWICH CITY FOOTBALL CLUB PENNANT RAFFLE WINNER

The school librarians yesterday drew the prize for the Norwich City Pennant that had been signed by members of the Norwich City Football Team. The raffle had been hugely popular, with many people buying large numbers of tickets in an attempt to win the extremely desirable prize. The prize was drawn by our special visitor, Speed Reduction Officer Mr Green and the winner was Norwich City fan Ella, who was absolutely delighted (and, by all accounts, so was her dad!).

The money raised is being put towards the School Library Project. This project, which has been launched by the Year 5 and Year 6 Librarians, aims to transform our tired-looking library into an inspiring space that will help instil a love of reading in all our pupils.

We are very grateful to Norwich City Football Club for their generous donation, and to the Framlingham and Halesworth Book Shops who donated the second and third prizes, won by Oliver and Eden.

Rock Bottom

Wow! What a great couple of nights! The children of Congo and Yangtze Classes really gave us a treat on Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th July with their fabulous performances of Rock Bottom, a caper through the Stone Age.

The Tuesday evening’s performance seemed to walk a delicate tightrope between control and chaos which added to its charm. The audience enjoyed watching the children navigate their way through the very ambitious production and there were some very funny moments when things seemed to almost go wrong. Wednesday evening’s show was far more polished and just as entertaining. On both nights, the children performed magnificently: the singing was heartfelt and lusty, the acting fantastic, the delivery of the jokes very well-timed, and the physical comedy all worked really well too. We absolutely loved it, so thank you children.

We’re keen to say thank you to all who helped make it such a success: the children, of course; Lydia and her mum for the fantastic dinosaur, mammoth and sabre-toothed tiger; parents for helping their children learn all their lines and for the costumes; and the staff for staying on late and helping with make-up, props, back-stage support and all the other little things that made the show successful. Thank you.

Footgolf Tournament 2024

Yesterday, we took an enthusiastic team of 14 children to the HSSSP Footgolf Tournament at Hartismere High School. The children, selected from each year group from Year 1 to Year 6, were split into pairs to complete with a randomly selected pair from another school. As very few of the other schools chose players from across their schools, this made for some interesting mixed-age match ups! Harry and Amber in particular, had the pleasure of being picked to play against a sporty pair of Year 5 children from Mellis. Needless to say, the Fressingfield pair gave them a real run for their money because they are both incredible at kicking the ball really, really, really far!

The game was played over 18 holes. The children had to kick off towards a point a hundred or so metres away being careful to avoid the water features and the sandy bunkers on the way. Pairs had to take alternate shots, so it was really a good team effort. And the team that got around in the fewest number of kicks was the winner. The whole event was managed by the Hartismere Sports Leaders, and we were really impressed by them. At the end, the Sports Leaders awarded many of our children sporting values awards. Well done to each pairing: Rory and Stanley, Florence and Verity, Dexter and Alfred, Eden and Amy, India and Sol, Harry and Amber and to Archie and Niall who finished in second place overall.

Hinduism

Sights, sounds … and the heady smell of incense; welcome to Congo and Yangtze classes, Mrs Rughani, and thank you so much for your amazing, multi-sensory talk on Hinduism. A practising Hindu, Mrs Rughani brought in a variety of Hindu artefacts to enhance her lesson. Following a ‘questions brainstorm’ from the children before the event, Mrs Rughani talked to the children about Hindu gods (and how similar they are to the Christian Trinity) and also about Hindu shrines. 

The children made books to record their work in. They also drew some Hindu symbols and found out about their meanings. Lots of the children also enjoyed trying on the Rakhi bracelet, which has some similarities to the friendship bracelet, which most of the children are familiar with. 

Thank you, Mrs Rughani, for a really interesting and informative talk.

DANUBE’S CLASS VISIT TO BANHAM ZOO

Danube class really enjoyed their trip to Banham Zoo! Highlights of the day included visiting the meerkats, travelling around the zoo on the zebra train and learning some really interesting facts about giraffes. Did you know that giraffes have black tongues because it stops their tongues from getting sunburnt whilst they’re chewing the leaves off the trees!

CTS DONATION

We are really pleased that CTS have agreed to support the Library Project. This builders’ merchants have generously offered to provide building materials for the project. The Library Project will include the construction of a low wall in the atrium to better-define the space. The partitioning will help create a cosy quiet space, a more purposeful working space and it will tidy up an area that is trying to serve too many purposes (cloakroom, corridor, library, workspace, prayer table, etc). Mr Scott, the Director of CTS, was impressed by the quality of the persuasive letter he received from Eden and so decided to support the project. Needless to say, Eden is delighted with the contribution and pleased to learn her letter was so powerful. The Library Newsletter, which can be found on these pages, explains the details of this project so far. If you would like to contribute, or if you know anyone who might like to be involved, please contact the school.

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