Family lunches

We had a trial of family service lunches last term and it was very successful. The aim is for the older children to help the younger children at the tables, helping the older children to develop their caring and leadership roles within the school and encouraging the younger children to be confident with the older children. The idea is to enjoy a family atmosphere, also following table etiquette, like waiting for everybody to be seated before starting to eat and for everybody to be finished before leaving the table.

It was lovely today to see the new children so well cared for and the older children glowing with pride in their roles. Well done to you all...

The Blitz

Today we began our World War 2 project: Bombs, Aircraft and Evacuees. Here we are making some models of gas masks. Tomorrow we will have to hide away, wearing our gas masks when we hear the air raid siren, as people had to during The Blitz.

Here we are, hiding beneath our tables as we listen to the air raid sirens, then the falling bombs, explosions and fires, followed by the all clear siren...

This drama experience will help when we write a description of The Blitz, as well as being exciting.

DT Structures 2

Making our prototype models- photos of the process:

Some finished prototypes- can you guess what they are?

Local History and Geography Week- Visit from The Norfolk Records Office

We have been very lucky to have a visit from a local history expert, who brought copies of records about Bressingham, including maps, photographs, Census information, Trade Directories and transcripts of these, to enable us to read them more easily. 

There were lots of activities, that helped us to understand what life was like at the start of the twentieth century- about 1900:

What were houses like?

What were families like?

How many people lived in houses together?

How old were people?

What were their jobs?

Where would you go to buy soap, Easter cards, ginger beer, wheels, and many other things?

Where were these places that you could go to buy things in or near to Bressingham?

Musical- Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies

Everybody was so impressed with the show- Kestrel Class put on an amazing performance and had a standing ovation from the audience. Well done to all!

Photographs of the cast, starting with the villagers of Sherwood...

The Merry Men...

Nursie and the Skunks...

Grabbit and Bolt...

King John and Genghis, a torturer!

The Sheriff of Nottingham and his guards...

Our technical team...

What a show! Well done to all...

The Great Bressingham Bake Off- The Final!

After the preliminary rounds, the finalists spent this afternoon baking with the theme of 'Wonderland'. Here are the finalists with their cakes...

Our judge was Mrs Ann Morgan, Clerk to the Governors, who enjoys baking herself...

Mr King had been the contestants' able assistant all afternoon, as evidenced by the flour on his trousers!

But who would be the winners? 

Some passed time by eating some of their cakes...

And here are the winners for Key Stage 1 and key stage 2- but well done to you all for being the Bake Off finalists and independently baking your cakes- wow!