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Reception Stay & Play

2026-10-20T16:31:00.000+01:00

Nursery Stay & Play

2026-10-19T16:30:00.000+01:00

European Languages Day

2026-10-07T14:50:01.434+01:00

Each class chose an artist from a European country and focused on a collaborative piece of art focusing on this. During the creativity time, the classes found out more about the artists along with some information about the relevant European country. Several classes linked their artists to the whole school literacy book - ‘Flower Block’.

· Class VW recreated a collaborative version of ‘The Last Supper’ by Leonardo da Vince with each child being given a section to paint to create a new picture.

· Class SB Netherlands – Ambrosius Bosschart linked to Flower Block.

· Class MS Netherlands – Vincent van Gogh “The Starry Night” adapted with a silhouette of Framlingham Castle.

· Class MBu – Norway – Edvard Munch “The Scream” which was adapted to create their own feelings picture.

· Class KN – Spain – Joan Miro the class designed their own mathematical drawings using 2D shapes

· Class RJ – Spain Picasso enjoyed recreating self-portraits

· Class KHLH – France – Henri Rousseau linked to Flower Block.

· Class JT – Netherlands – Piet Mondrian the class recreated their own masterpieces using simple colours and simple designs

· Class DR – Spain – Juan Jose Garay enjoyed “Splatting” their piece to replicate the style

· Class KM and Class MB were inspired by the German artist, Paul Klee, and produced their masterpieces using different 2D shapes.

· Nursery – Netherlands – Van Gogh – ‘Sunflowers’ where the children created observational drawings and decorated them around the nursery tree. A

Reception Applications for September 2027

2026-09-15T10:00:20.611+01:00

Applications for children joining a Reception Class in September 2027 are now open through Suffolk Admissions.

If you are considering where would best suit your child for their education, then we would love you to visit us to take a look around.

We are a successful and well-resourced CEVAP School of up to 350 children, in the delightful market town of Framlingham. We have a dedicated team of staff and enthusiastic pupils who are confident and motivated. Our teachers support a wide range of extra-curricular activities which enhance the breadth of opportunities available to our children. We have an intake of up to 50 Reception pupils in each academic year.

Please contact us to arrange to join one of our small group or private tours in September, October or November, where we can show you around our wonderful school.

On your visit, you’ll have the opportunity to see our extensive school facilities including our fabulous school field with our Robin Wood area, our magnificent Music Ark, our curriculum kitchen, our two large playgrounds and of course our super Reception classes and their dedicated outside areas. You’ll also get to meet the terrific team that we have in Reception and see the children in action in the classes.

We were delighted that our last Ofsted inspection, again, we were graded as ‘Good’, defining us as “a happy and friendly school”, where “pupils enjoy their learning and the time they spend together”.

Specifically, they noted that in Early Years the adults “guide children’s learning through thoughtful questions that help children extend their thinking and their play” and our “well-chosen books and stories expose children to rich language from a young age” and that our Early Years team “support children well to use accurate and precise sounds when learning to read”.

Contact us on 01728 723354 or email c.miller@hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk to arrange your visit – we look forward to hearing from you.

More information can be found on our school website at https://www.hitchamsframlingham.org.uk/

or Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Fram.SRH.Primary/

or application information from SCC Admissions: Admissions to schools in Suffolk for the 2027/2028 school year - Suffolk County Council

Dance Workshop Tomorrow! Wear PE Kit!

2026-06-04T11:10:24.020+01:00

"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

For Prospective Families

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

For Prospective Families

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

For Prospective Families

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.