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"Learning, Caring and Inspiring" assembly

2026-05-15T12:47:01.373+01:00

Rev Chris Davey joined Mrs Cann in our assembly to share the "School Vision " and to talk about spirituality and how this affects us all. The children gave some great examples including how they have been inspired and have a sense of awe and wonder of events in their lives including previous inspirational speakers we have had to visit us.

The Key Stage 2 children, who are doing Robin Wood as their enrichment at the moment, presented a beautiful, huge collage that they all helped make to celebrate Sir David Attenborourgh 's 100th birthday. This really was an inspirational piece of work and will adorn the walls in the hall shortly. Thank you to Mrs Skeggs and Miss Eliot who have created this with the children.

How EGG-citing!

2026-03-03T16:11:00.000+00:00

To celebrate our upcoming book 'The Odd Egg', Key Stage 1 have welcomed some egg-cellent visitors. Watch this space for some egg-ceptionally cute updates. Thank you to The Friends for providing us with this egg-citing opportunity. 😀🥚🐣🐤

Wonderful Nativity Week

2025-12-12T12:00:00.011+00:00

What a delight we have had all week, with every Foundation & Key Stage 1 class performing their individual Nativities, not just once but twice! Each afternoon we have had the dress rehearsals to the other children and then each morning the parents & grandparents have come along to watch.

Here is a snapshot of a few photos from each Nativity, but do take a look on our website gallery page to see some more: Framlingham Sir Robert Hitcham's CEVA Primary School - Photo Galleries

Fantastic 'Journey'

2025-09-25T08:15:00.003+01:00

What a fantastic ‘JOURNEY’ we have been on throughout the first few weeks of term. The whole school has been inspired by our book by Aaron Becker and our new curriculum. Be sure to ask the children about the stories they are writing this week. Here’s a sneak peek of some work the children shared in assembly.

Don’t forget you can find out all about the new curriculum on Wednesday 1^st October at 2pm.

Reception Class KM

2025-09-12T14:28:00.004+01:00

A huge well done to all of Class KM for making such a fabulous start to their Reception Year. Here is a little glimpse of some of the activities we have been involved in during our first week in class. At the beginning of the day, when we come into school we are enjoying gathering on the playground for parachute games, ball and traditional playground games.

Each morning, when we go into school, we hang up our bags, unpack snacks and water bottles and place our book bags into our drawers. Then we get very busy in our indoor and outdoor environments.

This week in PE we enjoyed showing off hopping, skipping, jumping, throwing and catching skills. We also played Grandmother’s Footsteps and the Stop & Go game.

In phonics we have already learnt the sounds for the letters s, a, t & p.

Class KM have settled in beautifully. They are a fabulous class!

Arts Festival 2025

2025-07-17T14:24:00.002+01:00

What a truly splendid afternoon we had last Friday showcasing our talented children to a delighted audience on the back playground.

From singing and dancing, to poetry and Shakespeare, our classes displayed some wonderful work. With music played by our cellist, guitarists and recorder players, as well as some fabulous Maypole dancing, it really was a special afternoon, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all the parents.

Sporting Day

2025-07-17T14:14:00.008+01:00

On Wednesday 16th July Sir Robert Hitchams took part in a whole school sporting day. The day started off with an assembly on high standards in sport and for the rest of the day the school was on a rotation of sports which was Handball, Tennis, Dance and Playground games. The children came dressed as their sporting heroes and really did make the school proud with their positive attitude and stamina throughout the day.

I personally wanted to say a big well done to all the children for their PE over the 2 years I have been at the school.

Brushing up on good dentistry!

2025-07-03T13:15:00.002+01:00

Sarah from the Dentaid Charity and Brightbites visited the school today to deliver workshops about keeping your teeth healthy. She visited Nursery, Years 1, 2, 3 and 4 to talk to the children about cleaning teeth; naming teeth, advice on toothbrushing, exploring sugar awareness and the importance of visiting a dentist regularly. They learnt songs too to help sing when looking after the teeth and they were all given a toothbrush and toothpaste. The children all listened really well and had some great questions that Sarah was able to answer.

Sunny days!

2025-04-04T12:19:00.002+01:00

What a lovely morning on the field .... rolling around in the grass, the "happy crocodile" game, daisy chains, hairdressers, tag, mums and dads, just sitting around chatting....

Easter Assembly

2025-04-04T12:07:00.005+01:00

On this gloriously sunny morning, Year 5 lead a wonderful Easter assembly at St Michael’s Church. The story of Easter along with various other facts and information relating to Easter were shared. The singing was uplifting and Rev Chris Davey acknowledged this too as he said the Easter blessing at the end.

Every single child in the school made a daffodil which the church will use to decorate the porch ready for the Easter service. The whole school walked up through the Market Hill to the Church each carrying their daffodils.

KS1 poetry competition

2025-03-21T11:52:00.001+00:00

Key Stage 1 and Reception recited some beautiful poems for their poetry competition. Some of the nursery children popped in to hear them too. Reception performed their poems about Springtime whilst Key Stage 1 classes wrote and delivered their poems using some great rhyme, rhythm and actions about the Great Fire of London. What a great way to remember the facts about the Great Fire of London! Well done to each and every child who performed Our judges, Rev Chris Davey and Mrs Akerman were astounded at the quality and found it really hard to decide the winners but Class DR won by a very small margin! Rev Chris then finished the assembly with a prayer said as a poem.

Library Art Exhibition - Creative for Climate Justice - Foundation & KS1

2025-03-10T08:29:00.001+00:00

For those of you that didn't manage to get to the Libary at the weekend for our Reception, Nursery & Key Stage 1 Art Exhibition here are the displays our staff team set up on Friday.

Next weekend our Key Stage 2 work will be exhibited.

Nursery & Reception Open Morning - Friday 14 March

2025-03-07T16:00:00.001+00:00

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House captain assembly

2025-02-28T16:42:00.001+00:00

Bulstrode and Hitcham's house and vice house captains delivered a wonderful assembly today to introduce science week which starts next week on 7th March. They shared lots of information about "adaptation and change" and gave us some lovely examples.

They also told us about the upcoming "Science Fair" and the "Selfie Scientist". Watch this space for further details.

Nursery & Reception Open Morning - Friday 14 March

2025-02-21T13:57:00.001+00:00

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Online safety

2025-02-14T16:07:00.000+00:00

This week Mrs Hall, online safety lead, has visited all the classes to discuss how to stay safe online. There were three main areas that were focused on with the children:- cyberbullying; private information and passwords; and sharing photos. Each year group had a bespoke lesson and it was good to know that many more families appear to have screen restriction times and safety measures in place.

Please do ask your child about these and if you need any further help around this, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We also discussed all of the positives that the internet can also be used for.

Nursery & Reception Open Morning - Friday 14 March

2025-02-11T12:46:00.001+00:00

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Dragon Dance

2025-01-31T13:35:00.003+00:00

Our two Reception Classes had fun this morning as part of their Lunar New Year learning.

The children created two fabulous dancing Dragons in the hall.

Take a look at their dance here.

It's never too late for Christmas Dinner.....

2025-01-08T13:56:00.000+00:00

With the festive music playing and turkey, roast potatoes and Brussel sprouts adorning the plates of the children, we were finally able to celebrate our school Christmas Dinner. We welcomed some of the Governors to join us for this special occasion. Some children wore their festive snowman hats. The year 6 donned their aprons and stepped up brilliantly to help the MDSAs in distributing the food to the teachers, teaching assistants, visitors and children too. Thank you to the kitchen staff who made the magic happen and all the MDSAs who helped. Happy New Year to everyone!

Festive Food Fun!

2024-12-20T13:39:00.008+00:00

Each class has enjoyed a festive lunch in their classrooms today. Many classes made eco-friendly hats to celebrate too.

What a wonderful week of Nativities we have had!

2024-12-13T12:33:00.002+00:00

All this week the children in Reception, Year 1 & 2 and Nursery have been delivering their own take on the Christmas Story. Not only have they performed for other classes in the afternoons, but they have also performed for parents and grandparents each morning.

We are so proud of these children, for their confidence in standing up on a stage with the bright lights shining down on them, for their amazing recollection and delivery of their lines, and for the beautiful singing of their Christmas songs.

These Nativities remind us of the magic of Christmas, and the reason we celebrate it - the birth of Jesus, son of God.

Here are a few images from the class Nativities this week, there are many more on the website gallery, and parents will be sent a private link to the video recordings next week.

Well done to all the staff who worked so hard to pull the wonderful nativities together.

Thanks too, to the Friends for hosting refreshments at the start of each performance, and to all the families who donated to the leaving collections for EACH.

Sporting Day

2024-07-18T10:52:00.002+01:00

On Wednesday, Framlingham Sir Robert Hitcham's celebrated sports with a new event - our Sporting Day.

The children came dressed as their sporting hero’s and experienced a whole day of sports - Handball, Dance, Tennis and playground games.

A highlight for a lot of the children was the 'Waka Waka' Dance. They had a well-deserved break in the middle of the day back in their classrooms where they spoke about the Olympics, Euros and Wimbledon.

It was a really successful day and the children thoroughly enjoyed it - we hope we can make this an annual event.

Picnic on the field

2024-07-12T08:54:00.000+01:00

Our new reception children for September enjoyed a picnic on the field together. It was lovely to see so many families and we are very excited about welcoming the children into the school family.

Key Stage 1, Foundation and Nursery Sports Day

2024-06-27T13:28:00.003+01:00

Key Stage 1, Foundation and Nursery enjoyed their events in the afternoon. We enjoyed watching running races, hurdles, “beach race”, sack races and egg and spoon races. The children all did so well and all looked like they were enjoying themselves. They were cheering each other on and thank you to the year 6 pupils who helped set up the races.

Key stage 1 were also treated to a well-earned and well-received ice pop at the end of their afternoon. Thank you to the “Friends” for supplying these – they were very well received by everyone. There are a few photos on here but do check out the gallery for others.

https://www.hitchamsframlingham.org.uk/News/Galleries/?SSID=13462&password=#GalleryListHolder

Africa Alive

2024-06-06T17:44:00.001+01:00

Nursery, Reception and Key Stage 1 had a fabulous day out at Africa Alive yesterday! Everyone loved their coach journey to and from Kessingland. As there has to be, there was a lot of singing in each bus - all the way there and all the way back again...

Once there, everyone loved seeing all of the animals, eating picnics and just being together in a beautiful setting on a sunny day. It was a wonderful day.

A huge thank you to everyone who made this day possible and to all of our wonderful volunteers who were able to accompany us on this trip. We are sorry we couldn't take everyone with us.

Today we have been hearing all about the children's favourite memories of the day and enjoying some of their Africa Alive inspired artwork and writing.