Worlingworth CEVC Primary School

Penguin class was very excited when PC Norman Drew arrived to talk to the children about his role as a Police Officer. The children asked questions and were given the opportunity to try on different uniforms and police helmets. Next the children were allowed to see the police car and even sat inside the vehicle. This really helped to bring our ‘Transport’ topic to life. Finally PC Norman Drew put on the flashing lights and even the sirens! It was very loud and very exciting! We now know more about police cars and the role of the police and can’t wait to start playing ‘Police Officers’ outside in the garden.

We were lucky enough to have an art student (Lily Hammond) to visit us this week. She showed us her incredible multicultural art which included graffiti, children’s book illustrations, acrylic paintings, marker pen images, printing, graphic design and line drawing. She is a very talented young artist and is inspired by famous activists, Nigerian, Japanese and Mexican artists and motivational quotes from famous people that have made a difference in the world.

In Penguin class we were fascinated by Lily’s animal art and especially her incredible flamingo, peacock and under the sea designs.

Panda class learnt about street art, graffiti and the techniques Lily uses to create such large images on the walls in a special place in London where she is allowed to display her work with famous street artists.

Panther class were really impressed with Lily’s detailed drawings and designs and were particularly in awe of her snake design and the commission that she did for a celebrity comedian.

After the presentation the children asked lots of questions and are really keen to improve at their own art skills and were already planning their next art lesson with their teachers. I cant wait to see how you have all been inspired!

How wonderful to see so many supportive, positive, influential male role models within our children's lives come to our special lunch today. We know the children are very grateful to have you support them and they wanted to thank you for your love and care. We hope you enjoyed a lovely meal with the children at Worlingworth and we wish you a Happy Father's Day to all those looking after and raising such great kids, you're doing a superb job!

The last meeting that Mrs Ryan and the SNAG children organised was about reminding children and adults to drink lots of water during the day. It was decided that they would design posters informing everyone the importance of staying hydrated especially in warmer weather. The chosen poster was designed by Henry and featured a very catchy slogan and some brilliant facts. Look out for his poster around school and in book bags next week and don’t forget to drink lots of water. Congratulations Henry on your winning design!

WOW! What amazing effort made by all at Worly to dress up as animals from all walks of life in order to raise money for a brilliant charity and to end writing week with a fun filled day. We had giraffes and bees, dragons and sharks, sloths and elephants, lizards and monkeys, flamingos and owls, panthers and leopards, dogs and many more even a whole zoo on Mrs Gascoyne-Cecil’s onesie! We had animal themed lessons, animal themed spelling bee and even animal themed games to end our writing week. Thank you for your support and donations to a very worthy cause, as we work hard to teach our pupils about helping to look after our wonderful planet and all that lives upon it.

To promote a love of writing and engage young writing at Worly, we have had a whole week focused on super writing. We started our week with a trip to Africa Alive to learn about the animals, their habitats, their diet and how to help with endangered species. We then spent the week writing, poems, recounts, stories and information booklets all about animals and conservation.

Penguin Class -wrote an amazing story all about a flamingo that eats different foods, his feathers then change colour to the colour of the food he is eating. It was fascinating and really imaginative, followed with some lovely handwriting and drawings.

Panda class- have written interesting and detailed recounts of our trip to Africa Alive and advertising the trip by writing opinionated reviews for trip advisor.

Panther class – wrote poems about animals that are at risk of extinction in order to inspire people to help save the species for the future generation.

We will end the week with a fun filled fancy dress day on Friday for the charity WWF – ‘Wear it Wild Day 2019’ with lots of animal themed lessons, games and activities. Do keep that inspiration of writing and we look forward to reading more of your work soon. Well done wonderful Worly writers!

Very well done year 6 what a successful first Worly World Record event! Year 6 help to organise and run an event after school today where we attempted world records and set records for next year’s pupils to try to beat. We had sticker challenge, cracker challenge, marshmallow challenge and a tower challenge. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and lots of money was raised towards leaver hoodies. Well done year 6 and well done to all who entered.

Worly World Record Holders 2019:

-Marshmallow challenge- Keeley

-Cracker challenge- Jamal

-Tower challenge- Leo, Evelyn and Ross

-Sticker challenge – Millie, Oliver, Katie and Daisy

What a wonderful way to start our writing week! As a whole school we took on the adventure of visiting Africa Alive to learn about all the animals, their habitats, their diet and how to help look after them and other animals on our planet. We saw everything from rhinos to ostriches, fennec fox to meerkats, giraffes to tarantulas and everything in between. The pupils were fascinated to see these animals with their own eyes and in well maintained enclosures that show off their natural behaviours as best as possible. Thank you to Africa Alive for having us visit and well done to all children who came along for showing superb behaviour and proudly representing our school. We look forward to the 

What a fun filled day of swapping uniforms, some roles swaps and seeing the average school day from a different perspective. Year 6 arranged a pupil teacher swap day to raise money for their leaver hoodies (raising nearly £50.00... SUPER). Thank you to everyone who joined in and for all the effort made to look professional, smart and teacher-like. Some children dressed as specific teachers adopting the finer details of staff such as; specific hair styles, pens in hair, specific dress sense and handmade teacher badges!!! Teachers joined in by wearing school uniform and taking on some of the children's responsibilities for the day. Great fun had by all....well organised year 6!

Penguin class have been learning about the animals and plants around us and on our travels.  After a discussion about the ‘Yellow Submarine’ and what they might see if they travelled underwater, we talked about animals that live in salt water and animals that live in fresh water. We went to the pond to investigate what we might find in this fresh water environment. Whilst pond dipping we discovered and observed frogs, newts, diving beetles, pond snails, pond skaters and water boatman. Very exciting!  I think we can say that pond dipping is now a favourite activity for Penguin class!

We are so very proud of our year 6s and the effort, resilience, perseverance and positive attitudes towards smashing through their SATs this week. Very well done! Here's to a celebratory cake and residential away in a few months time!!!!

Wow so many wonderful portraits were entered with great detail and effort put into every single portrait!! It was very difficult for the year 6s to choose winners, but please see the winners of Penguins, Pandas and Panthers who won a certificate and art modelling clay each to enjoy. Well done to everyone and so lovely to see all your efforts. 😊

Years 4 &5 have been very busy during their music sessions and gave a mini performance for the year 6 today showing off their brass learning and talents. It was so brilliant to see our pupils reading music and playing in an ensemble with different brass instrument sounding so professional together and complimenting each other well. Well done year 4 & 5, we look forward to hearing more of your pieces soon.

Worlingworth held their annual Easter assembly on the last day of term, where the whoel school put on a performance to guest parents and adults. The children proudly showed off their Easter bonnet,s hand made in class. Penguin class - Bunny ears matched with bunny tail, Panda class - chick beaks and eyes, Panther class- upside down carrots and bunnies. Each class performed a song or poem on the theme of Easter and the Christian Easter story. Well done for all their hard work, thank you to all involved in putting the assembly together and to all those who attended. We wish you all a Happy Easter and a lovely break, see you in April.

Congratulations to Alivia Sharp for her wonderful art work that was exhibited in the Peter Pears Gallery in Aldeburgh last month. The standard of art work was amazing and the exhibition raised an impressive amount in aid of Cancer Research UK. To find out more about this event and keep updated on the overall amount raised, please visit www.youngarteastanglia.co.uk

On Monday morning we welcomed our friends from Homestart  for a ‘stay and play’ session. We had multicoloured playdough to make eggs, rabbits and other Easter shapes. We decorated foam egg shapes with stickers and had Easter Bunny crisps at snacktime for a special treat, along with our usual fruit and milk etc. Then we played on the climbing equipment and searched for insects in the bark. Finally we explored the school field and all played together. Thank you to the mums that came along and shared the morning with us. It was lovely to see you and already Penguin class have asked when you will all come back again.

As we head towards a special time for Christians, Worlingworth Primary learned more about the Easter Story in an interactive and thought provoking morning. We started with a whole school collective worship and then separated into groups, each group travelled around the school to different stations (lead by the teachers) to learn more about different parts of the Christian Easter story. Our 6 stations focused on: Hopes and Dreams- Palm Sunday, Servant King - Jesus tending to others, Remember Me - The Last supper, Alone - In the garden of Gethsemane, Sharing of our suffering - Good Friday and Resurrection - Easter Sunday. The children were invited to observe different displays and representations of each station then to discuss and reflect on the different parts of the Easter Story. We then finished our morning with an Easter trail; KS2 hunted for answers on paper Easter eggs that needed to be matched with the Christian Easter questions and KS1 hunted for paper Easter eggs with letter that, when placed in the correct order, spelt 'Jesus is alive.' The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and had lots of opportunities to reflect on their own lives and religious beliefs. A big thank you to all the teachers involved in organising a wonderful Easter morning. 

Here's to a 'Hoppy' Easter in a few weeks time :)

The children in KS2 have been working really hard at improving their swimming and life saving skills this term. They have learnt how to; float unaided, swim a variety of strokes for a variety of distances, jump in safely, use floats to support swimming, tread water, swim through hoops, pick up objects, breathe correctly when swimming to conserve energy and have recently completed their distance swimming challenges. The children had a super growth mindset attitude to their learning and every child has progressed with their swimming skills. Certificates were given out by their swimming teachers at Stradbroke Swimming Pool and the children should be very proud, as are we of them! A huge thank you to our swimming teachers Lindsey and Denise for supporting their learning and long may the swimming progress continue for the children outside of school hours. Happy swimming!!!...just keep swimming... just keep swimming...

Worlingworth would like to send lots of love and thanks for all those wonderful females with mothering roles in our pupil's lives this weekend. We held a special lunch here at school where many of our pupil's mother figures came to celebrate. We had mummies and nannies, aunties and female family friends all who have loved, cared for and nurtured our pupils. They were treated to enjoy; table service cooked lunch, flowers on the tables, special place mats and homemade gifts from the children. We hope you had a lovely lunch, it was wonderful to see so many faces at our Mother figure lunch and we wish you a very lovely weekend....enjoy it while it lasts :) Happy Mothering Sunday!

Year 5 and 6 had a fantastic day out in London. From Tube to River Bus to windy walking on the Millennium Bridge they explored the capital city in many different ways. In the morning, they focussed on the Tudor history of London, observing Shakespeare’s Globe and exploring the Golden Hinde to learn more about life on board a Tudor ship. Then after lunch, they headed to Westminster to see democracy in action with a tour around the Houses of Parliament . They sat in the House of Commons and stood in the House of Lords and ended their tour with a question session in a select committee room!  After a sing-along with their tea at McDonalds, the children headed home for a surprising train journey in a dark carriage. Uno in the dark anyone!

Super effort from all that attended the Orienteering competition at Haristmere High School. No-one got lost, all Worlingworth teams managed to find most, if not all, the markers and use a map correctly; ensuring North was always facing North and using the landmarks around them to support their orienteering quest. Everyone seemed to enjoy their time and experience. A big thank you to those who helped organise the event and we will continue to improve our orienteering skills ready for next year. 

Well done Worly!!

Worlingworth supported Comic Relief by having a backwards day. School uniform was abandoned and home clothes were worn backwards, the routine of the day was backwards, registration was taken backwards, the children even had an opportunity to read backwards! 

yad eson der yppah- read backwards is - happy red nose day

Penguin class had a brilliant time at Ipswich Museum on the 13^th March. We learnt all about ‘Wool-I-am’ the Woolly Mammoth found in Suffolk, as well as being fossil and bone explorers looking for Prehistoric animal remains. We even found out that a Woolly Mammoth’s tusks could be curly and grow up to five metres long! The children behaved beautifully and Mrs Ryan is very proud of them!

Penguin class have been very busy writers as always, so Mrs Ryan entered their class poem to the ‘Young Writers’ competition. They all thought of ways to describe winter and created a riddle......they were awarded a special certificate and the riddle will be published in a book called ‘My First Riddle 2019-Norfolk and Suffolk.’ Well done Penguins! Mrs Ryan will keep you posted about the arrival of the published book.Here is a photo of the poem and the certificate .

A super World Book Week filled with Explorer fun. Dressing up as Explorers, taking part in an adventure, cosy reading and writing our own Pocahontas story! 

06.03.19 - Book Trail Exploration

The children of Worlingworth Primary school completed a book trail exploration adventure after school today, inviting their family to join them in being active, wearing their wellies and putting their orienteering skills to the test. The mapped out adventure took our Worly explorers through the village, across bridges, in shallow ditches, over stiles and through muddy fields. Along the way the explorers collected clues all linked to famous books, with the last clue back at school. Upon their return the excited explorers received a well deserved snack and drink, for they were thirsty after their adventures, and an extra special bookmark to remember their expedition by. Thank you to all those who took part and to those who planned such a brilliant active Book Week explorer trail challenge.

The School Council and SNAG joined forces to organise a Christmas Party. We enjoyed games such as musical chairs, pass the parcel and the chocolate. The whole school joined in as part of our Christmas Celebrations. Well done to the School Council and the SNAG for organising such an excellent party! 

This term we have been reading Gruffalo stories and finding out about woodland habitats. We collected natural materials and made clay Gruffalo faces!

In Phonics we are learning to word build and write cvc words.

We love using mathematical equipment to solve number and measure problems.

This week Penguins and Willows have been researching the Arctic and learning about the North Pole in particular. Apart from Father Christmas we know that polar bears, arctic foxes and reindeer live there!

We have been finding out information from books and websites to help us with our writing.

In phonics we are learning to read and spell  sh, ch, ng and th words.

In Maths we have been learning how to tell the time so that we can help Father Christmas with his time keeping!

We have also been exploring what happens when you add salt to watercolour paint and we have created some very effective backgrounds for our collage Arctic foxes.

We have been very busy learning about Winter weather this week. We looked at the amazing winter sky colours and mixed our own tones of blue. We added black silhouettes of trees and used printing to add snowflakes and stars. We are continuing our topic on the North Pole next week by finding out about polar bears and Arctic foxes.

Well done Worlingworth, with your support and donations we raised £60+ to Children in need 2018.

We can now join in the helping of children who need our help, a very worthy cause and close to our hearts. We also raised £60+ for bags for school, so again thank you for your donations. The children wore a silly hat and bought in their beloved teddies to join in for the school day. The  teddies helped the children in guided reading and spellings and watched them during Maths, English and during the afternoon. The teddies even joined in the fun at break and lunch time! Thank you again for your continued support.

Years 4,5 & 6 have been working hard to learn some lovely, but also challenging, songs to perform to the composer herself and special guests at Snape Maltings concert hall. They did superbly, we are very proud of their voices and their enthusiasm. What a wonderful sound we made, congratulations year 4 ,5 & 6 on a powerful performance. The composer Errolyn Wallen mentioned how moved and pleased she was, so all our hard work obviously paid off

Unfortunately the organised cross country even was cancelled at Framlingham college due to bad weather, however Worlingworth did not let this stop us!

We took a trip to the local community field and completed our own cross country event, including a warm up lead by the Year 6 Sports Ambassadors and year group cross country races still with sports kits and coloured professional chest labels. All children showed super growth mindset and positive attitude towards the unfortunate news of cancellation and the exciting news of our own cross country events.

Well done to all who tried their best and many who helped each other with words of encouragement and celebration.

Remembrance 09.11.18 

100 years since the end of World War 1.

'The guns fell silent and the birds were heard again- Lest we forget, we will remember them'

Worlingworth commemorated and celebrated the bravery of those involved in WW1 with a history week. Children learnt about how WW1 began and how it ended, which countries were involved and why Great Britain got involved, life in the trenches and life after the war ended. Each class created beautiful poppy art which was a part of the Worlingworth Church Remembrance service on Sunday 11th November 2018. 

Nursery and reception made clay and printed paint poppies, KS1 used their sewing skills to create fabric poppies and KS2 used their abstract technique to create mixed media 2D poppy art. All of which looked brilliant as a display for our remembrance assembly and tea held at the school and then for the church service on Sunday.

A special thank you to Rev Burrell for speaking and bringing in a 'death penny' given out to families who had a bereavement in WW1, to share with the children during our school remembrance collective worship assembly on Friday.

Here's to all those who were brave for our country in the past, the present and the future.

A super week focusing on computing, programming and problem solving skills.

Nursery and Reception worked with beebots and directional language, KS1 really got to grips with word processing, saving and finding files, KS2 investigated and created own games using the software scratch.

All children enjoyed improving their computing skills, debugging skills (fixing programming mistakes) and challenging themselves to think more logically, like a computer.

Worlingworth would like to give a special thank you to: Bedfield Primary and University Campus Suffolk in Ipswich, for lending us beebots and Stradbroke and Debenham High Schools, for lending us laptops etc. All borrowed equipment aided such success during the week, so it was much appreciated.

Harvest festival at Worlingworth Primary School

A big thank you to all those who donated food for Harvest Festival, the display in the Church looked wonderful. The contributions were auctioned and the money raised will go to the Matthew Rusike Charity. 

http://www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org/

Thank you for your continued support.