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

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.

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.

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.