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It’s Another Harvest Festival…
What a fabulous morning we had at St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church this morning for our Harvest Festival. Thank you to Revd Susan, her team and her parishioners for making us all feel welcome.
One of our curriculum drivers is the phrase, ‘At The Heart Of Our Community.’ We are proud of the role we play representing and serving our community and keen for the children to play their part in community life. This never seems so true as at this time of the year when we are celebrating the Harvest together with our families. It was a lovely service too. The children sang beautifully, thanks to the expert tuition of Mrs Clarke; and each class’ presentation was wonderful. I was so impressed with the their enthusiasm, enjoyment and confidence.
The generous Harvest Donations have been given to the Trussell Trust, the organisation responsible for our local Food Banks. As we said in the church, the cost of living crisis is having a profound effect on families across the UK including in our community. If you are suffering and you need food for yourself and your family, please contact Revd Susan in confidence on 01379 388493.
I hope you all have a lovely half-term holiday.
Success on the Football Field!
We are very proud of our Girls Football Team who won the Sports Values Award at the tournament on Monday. The Award, which is voted for by the teams we played against, celebrates the team that best-displayed the values of Honesty, Passion, Determination, Self-Belief, Respect and Teamwork; and our girls had each of those qualities in abundance.
We talk about that ‘Fressingfield Feeling’ all the time and we’re really pleased that, when they pulled on the Fressingfield shirt, they carried our Fressingfield values with them to the tournament. I was particularly impressed with their teamwork: the girls communicated excellently – they were clear and encouraging; they each knew their roles and how to back each other up; and they played with enjoyment and enthusiasm.
Not only that, but they were successful in their matches too. Having drawn their first match against Debenham (who later finished in third place), the team went on to win 3-0 against Laxfield. The girls lost to Mellis, but played with determination, respect and passion throughout. Well done girls!
And now we look forward to the mixed football competition in November. Let’s hope we can be just as successful there.
THE GREAT CHARITY SHOP BOOK SCAVENGER HUNT!
The Great Charity Shop Book Scavenger Hunt is now ON and books are being sent in across the school. Thank you for your contributions so far.
Last year, with the Walk on the Wild Side, we raised £1,500 to buy as many of the books on the Essential Guides as possible, but we still have more to do to complete our collections and we need your help.
So this year, we have launched the Great Charity Shop Book Scavenger Hunt. We would like you to scour the book shelves of charity shops wherever you go to find as many of the books on the Essential Guides as possible, buy them and donate them to the school. The books on the lists highlighted in yellow are the books we already have in school. (Children’s books in charity shops normally sell for about £1, so please don’t spend more than this.) The School Librarians will monitor how many books from the lists we have managed to collect and will keep track of our progress with a special display. If we manage to meet our target by the end of term, there will be a special treat for everyone during one of our Book Worm Sessions on Friday afternoons.
We will add a special sticker to the inside of all donated books to read, “Kindly donated by the _________ family.”
We hope you can help us with this initiative. The local charity shops are full of fantastic children’s books that would make a huge difference to the quality of our class libraries. With your help, and with the money raised earlier this year, we hope to be able to complete our collection of every book on the Essential Guide. How good would that be?!
Team Building
Congratulations to some of the key stage 2 children who attended a recent Team Building event at Hartismere School. Using a range of equipment, and led by Hartismere team leaders from Years 10 and 11, the children undertook a range of challenges, alongside around ninety children from other local schools. Niall even won a prize for great team skills. Finn said his favourite activity was the blindfold game. Maisie liked the ladders game, which involved working together and trusting each other. Once again, Fantastic work, Fressingfield Primary!
World Mental Health Day
Congo Class children have been celebrating World Mental Health day by creating dances to show different scenarios, reflecting feelings of worry or anxiety, which might be natural when we go through change. The children have worked hard on varying the dynamics to show moods. Great work, Congo Class!
