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Don't forget our first Open Day is next Monday! 19th October 2026 - come along and experience the school first hand! 🥰 Watch our Hedgehogs, Squirrels and Foxes and meet our Teachers! 🦔 🐿 🦊 👩🎓📕🩷💜🩵🖤

Come along to this weeks Extended Schools club to see Peter Pan.

What a busy week we have had in our Owl room. The children have enjoyed loose parts play being imaginative arranging the corks, acorns and stacking stones. We have been doing some really good turn taking with the rocket game, waiting our turn and then counting who had the most loops. We have also been making patterns with peg boards arranging the colours using our fine motor skills. The children have been talking about shapes and matching shapes to their pictures.

Our Nursery children have been having lots of fun during their daily Squiggle and Wiggle sessions! They have enjoyed exploring different movements and using these experiences to support their mark making with a range of exciting tools. Well done, Nursery! 🌈

Year 3/4 Hockey Festival: Some of our year 3/4 children had a great afternoon last Friday as they travelled to Ipswich Hockey Club to put their hockey skills to the test. While there, they took part in a selection of different activities and games organised for them by the 'School Games' team. Year 5/6 Boys Football: A team of year 5/6 boys travelled to Inspire Suffolk this week where they took on other teams from across Ipswich in a 7-a-side football tournament. The boys played extremely well showing great teamwork and determination throughout all four of their games. After ending the day unbeaten with 4 clean sheets, 2 wins and 2 draws, the boys narrowly missed out on a place in semi-finals after finishing joint on points at the top of their group. Well done boys - you should be very proud!

What another lovely week in the Hedgehog room! We have continued reading 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' as well as also having a strong focus on our nursery rhymes and incorporating these in to our play. This week, we have been mark making using potatoes as footprint stamps, developing our fine motor skills using the pens to help with our colour recognition, created our own sensory bags/tray as well as having a teddy bears picnic!🦔

What an amazing Space Week! Spruce class have had so much fun exploring the wonders of space this week! The children have been busy learning all about the planets in our Solar System and discovering some fascinating facts about our amazing universe. They have also taken on the exciting challenge of designing and creating a safe landing pod for their Eggnaut, thinking carefully about how they could protect their precious astronaut on landing. Our budding artists have also been busy creating their own planets using paint, collage and a range of different materials. The finished planets have come together to make a fantastic space display that we are very proud of. It has been wonderful to see so much creativity, curiosity and excitement throughout the week. We think we may have some future astronauts and space scientists in the making!

🚀🌙 What a busy week of learning! 🌙🚀 This week, we have been celebrating Space Week and taking our learning beyond Earth! 🌎 🔢 In Maths, we have been counting footsteps on the Moon, exploring numbers and patterns, and creating our own patterns. We have also been putting our fine motor skills to the test! The children carefully picked the kernels from our home-grown sweetcorn 🌽 and removed the beans from their pods. 🫘

📚 Calling All Young Storytellers! 🌟 The BBC 500 Words Competition is a fantastic opportunity for children to let their imaginations run wild! 🌈 📝 Write an exciting, funny or magical story in 500 words or fewer for a chance to become a celebrated young author! 🏆 💭 Big imaginations, little stories – endless possibilities! 🌐 Find out more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/500words #BBC500Words #YoungWriters #CreativeWriting

Today we celebrated an incredible 25 years of Ms Royall working at our school! 🎉 A huge thank you for all your hard work, care and dedication over the years. You have supported and encouraged hundreds of children and have been such an important part of our school community. Congratulations on 25 fantastic years, Ms Royall and thank you for everything you have done! 👏

💦 Make a Splash This October Half Term! 🎃🏊 Looking for fun, active ways to keep the kids entertained during the break? Our school swimming pool is open for public sessions!

👉Sign of the Day👈 'Read'

Active Parks 📅 Every Saturday 10:00am – 11:00am 📍 St George's Park, Great Yarmouth 📍 Caister Playing Field 📅 Starting Saturday 10th October These fun, inclusive sessions provide children and families with the opportunity to get active together, enjoy outdoor games and activities, and meet others in their local community.

Scholastics Book Fair is coming to Mendham next month, look out for more information.......

Winterton Years 5 & 6 Football Team Our Years 5 and 6 football team showed incredible teamwork, determination and resilience while taking part in a football tournament hosted by a local primary school. We are incredibly proud of how well the children represented Winterton, supporting and encouraging one another throughout the tournament. A huge well done to the whole team! 👏 We're looking forward to continuing to build on our skills and taking part in many more football matches in the future! 🌟

Seal Class In Seal Class, the children have been journaling and planning their collage designs, inspired by the wonderful work of artist Megan Coyle. They have done a brilliant job developing their ideas and thinking carefully about their designs. We can't wait to see their collages come to life!

👉Sign of the Day👈 'Writing'

🏫 OPEN DAY TOMORROW | 9:00–10:30am Looking for a Nursery or Reception place? Come and visit us, explore our Early Years environment and see what makes our setting special. We'd love to welcome you! 💛

🍂 Autumn Adventures in Early Years! 🍂 Today, some of our Early Years pupils enjoyed a wonderful Autumn adventure! We started by exploring pumpkins and different squashes and creating our woodland-themed sensory tray. 🎃🌿 We've also been safely exploring different tools in class, measuring and creating woodland homes to just the right size. 🔨📏 We then headed out into our local area, walking past the church and allotments towards the old church ruins. We were so busy collecting and discovering signs of Autumn that we didn't quite make it there! 🍁🌰 Being a smaller cohort means we can take our time, follow the children's interests and enjoy lots of wonderful learning experiences out in nature. 🌳💛

Pine class are having a bake sale to raise money for class toys and books Come along on Wednesday 7th October at 3pm All cakes £1

🟢 Gone Green! 🟢 A huge well done to two more Sharks who have 'Gone Green' over the weekend! 🎉👏 This means they can now recall all of their multiplication facts up to 12 × 12 in under 4 seconds! 🤩 Just 3 minutes a day on TTRS can make the difference between being secure with multiplication facts and finding them challenging. 🎸 Log in today and keep practising! Every minute counts! 💪🧮 Well done, Sharks! 🦈💙

👉Sign of the Day👈 'Number'

Here at Helmingham we are passionate about each individual pupil reaching their academic potential but we are equally passionate about their social and emotional development. We are helping our year 6 pupils get ready for the next stage of their schooling by journaling and building up their resilience, self - belief and emotional intelligence.

Super Buddies is this weeks Extended School club Movie, Puppies with superpowers!

Akenham pumpkin patch have very kindly donated pumpkins for Halloween disco. We would like to send them a very big thank you! We can't wait to see them on our steps, adding a pop of colour to the front of the school.

Mendham Primary Schools Junior Road Safety Offier's Bayleigh and Logan would like pupils to think of how they can 'Be Bright and Be Seen' when the clocks change and nights get darker. Prizes available for the best outfit.

We have had a lovely week in Owls. We have been doing lots of counting and number matching with our conkers, pine cones and leaves. We made our own autumn tree with branches and cotton wool pads which the children used coloured water to drip on the pads.

Congratulations to our children who achieved Learning Characteristic of the Week certificates. In Friday's Assembly, Miss Williams presented these certificates to children, who have been chosen by their class teacher, for either excellent progress in a particular subject or for displaying one of our Learning Characteristics. During this assembly, we also celebrated good attendance and sporting achievements. Well done everyone! 🏆

This week in Hedgehogs, we have started looking at our new core text 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt!' The children have enjoyed looking at and exploring in different activities linked to the story, in particular the different environments. The children have had great enjoyment exploring in the 'muddy' cornflakes and shaving foam, splashing in the water trays and feeling the different textures of the grass. We have created our own obstacle course in the garden also, allowing the children to go on their own bear hunt! Such as climbing over the blocks and crawling through the tunnels🦔

This week the Squirrels have been continuing to explore our core text 'The Colour Monster' Whilst reading the story, the children have been identifying and linking the feelings to the colour e.g. yellow is happy, blue is sad etc. Alongside this, we have been discussing what makes us happy and what makes us sad!. It has been amazing to see how quickly they have been able to identify these different feelings and watching them integrate this into their play e.g. baby is feeling happy now she's had food', ' baby doesn't like loud noises, it makes her sad'. This week we have also been exploring topics such as teeth brushing and using the potty! 🦷 🪥 🚽 Next week we start our new core text ' We're going on a leaf hunt' 🍁 🍂.

EYFS celebrated Harvest this week with our Harvest Festival Assembly. Thank you to everyone for the donations that will be passed onto the Rendlesham Top-up shop.

🤘🎸🎤 TT Rock Stars Dress-Up Day! 🎤🎸🤘 Our pupils (and staff!) really got into the spirit of TT Rock Stars Dress-Up Day, with some amazing rock star outfits, plenty of attitude and lots of smiles! A huge well done to everyone who took part and helped make the day so much fun. We certainly have some future rock legends among us!

🎃 Riverwalk Halloween Breakfast & Celebrations 🎃 We're excited to announce that our Halloween Breakfast will take place on Friday 23rd October! 👻 Letters with full details will be sent home soon. Please return reply slips and payment by Friday 16th October. 🎃 Pupils are welcome to come to school in fun, age-appropriate fancy dress (please avoid scary costumes as we have younger children on site). 🍬 For our trick-or-treat activities, children can bring a small selection of nut-free sweets to share/exchange with classmates. If you would prefer your child not to take part, please let their class teacher know via Evidence for Learning. Thank you for your continued support! 🧡🎃

In Silver Birch we have been learning about four amazing women who worked at NASA. Here is an example of our information text.

Such a pleasure to take part in the first session of the Rooted Rhythms drumming project, hosted by Alde Valley Academy, organised by the Leiston Education Partnership and led by the wonderful Wooden Roots. It was a fantastic opportunity for our Year 5 and 6 children to come together, make music and experience the energy and joy of group drumming. 🥁 We're looking forward to seeing how the project develops over the coming sessions!

Mars Class have been developing their sense of place and community engagement with their annual trip to Henham Park. They participated in many activities with the emergency services, including, experiencing being in a police car and van, investigating their own fingerprints and sitting high up in a fire engine. They learnt first-hand the vital role charities play including meeting the Blood Runners. We all took a step back in time to experience the sounds and smells of steam engines and to consider how technology has changed our lives. We met some fantastic role models, including Lucy the firefighter, as we consider our future careers. Thank you, Years Five and Six for a fantastic day of learning...living out the school rules to the full.

🌟 Enrichment Afternoon 🌟 Please see a selection of photos from our Enrichment Afternoons! This term, pupils have enjoyed cooking, sports, team practice for upcoming tournaments, handbells, junk modelling, and time to collect those all-important house points! 🏆 We also start each afternoon with a wonderful Singing Assembly with Reverend Howard. 🎶 It's fantastic to see our pupils enjoying such a wide range of activities and learning new skills together!

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🎸🌟 TTRockstars has officially launched! 🌟🎸 What an incredible way to kick things off! We were treated to some fabulous costumes, plenty of rock-star energy, and even a brilliant performance of the iconic introduction to "Smoke on the Water"! 🤘🔥 There was so much enthusiasm, creativity and excitement in the room as we celebrated the launch of TTRockstars. We can't wait to see everyone embrace their inner rock star and get rocking with times tables! 🎶🎸

📚 House Points! 🌟 It has been wonderful to see the pride in our pupils as they share their reading records and show us how much they have been reading at home. Each read earns a house point, and as you can see, our house point boxes are filling up fast! 🏆 Which house will collect the most house points? Don't forget, pupils can earn a house point every time they read with someone at home. They can also earn house points each time they practise on TTRS and Numbots. We check reading records, TTRS and Numbots every Wednesday during Enrichment, so keep up the fantastic effort! It is great to see so many pupils getting involved, developing positive learning habits, a love of reading and earning points for their house. Keep reading and practising!

As part of our 20th Anniversary celebrations, every class will be having a birthday party on Friday 23rd October. We are inviting all pupils to come to school dressed in their best party clothes. We will be playing party games, creating a giant 20 on the playground to be photographed, eating birthday cake (kindly supplied by FORS), and joining in with many other activities linked to the number 20.

At Helmingham we always look to acknowledge, encourage and celebrate the wide range of positive behaviours and learning characteristics that our pupils demonstrate, whether it be as class or individual achievements. Friends of Helmingham sponsor our rewards cupboard which they very kindly restocked today. I know that the prizes will be flying from the shelves very soon.

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🌟 2026 Autumn Term Parent Survey 🌟 The 2026 Autumn Term Parent Survey has been sent out today, and we would love for as many parents and carers as possible to take part. Every response helps us better understand the experiences of our families and supports us in making informed decisions for the future. Hearing from families will give us a fuller picture of what matters most to our community. If you haven't already, please take a few minutes to complete the survey: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=FfCPk_-4V0G5AXwg-Atdjgh3Xqz1vQBDvMbVmAgLeQpURFE4Njc3OFFVSjBaTlFNNDJDSEkxRURSWi4u&route=shorturl Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. Your voice matters. 😊

🏰 We had an amazing time at Norwich Castle last week! The children enjoyed learning all about the history of the castle and discovering the different roles people had within it. It was a fantastic day of hands-on learning and exploring! 😊

Human battleships, skeleton building and lots of food on European languages day - Willow class have had a busy first few weeks back. Last week we played human battleships in Scouts to help us with learning about coordinates. Today they tried croissants and crepes, focaccia and grapes from Spain and Italy.

🌭 Census Day Special Menu – Tomorrow! 🌭 A reminder to all parents that tomorrow, Thursday 1st October, is Census Day, and we have a special menu planned! 🎉 🍽 Loaded Hot Dogs with Fried Onions 🥔 Wedges & BBQ Beans 🍰 Brookie Cake for dessert If you would like your child to enjoy this special Census Day lunch, please remember to sign up via The Pantry App. We hope they enjoy this tasty treat! 😋

We're delighted to welcome you to our School Open Morning on Wednesday 7th October, 9am – 10:30am. 🌟 Come along and explore our lovely village school, meet our staff, and see what makes our school such a special place to learn and grow. 🏫 We look forward to seeing you there! 💛

We just wanted to share how fantastically our Years 3 and 4 children did when they competed in a tournament at Hemsby Primary School yesterday! 🌟 The children worked brilliantly together as a team and showed excellent sportsmanship throughout. We are incredibly proud of how they represented themselves and our school. 👏 A big thank you to Mr Saunders for taking the children and supporting them throughout the tournament, and to all our wonderful spectators who came along to cheer them on! 💙 Well done, everyone! 🏆

🎉 CHARITY FETE – SAVE THE DATE! 🎉 https://facebook.com/events/s/riverwalk-minibus-fundraiser/2167480297196269/ One of our lovely TAs, Craig Reed is organising a fun, family-friendly Charity Fete on Wednesday 17th February 2027 at The Greengage, Bury St Edmunds! 💙 Expect face painting, soft play, quizzes, music, bingo and more! 🎨🎶🎲 The venue will be SEN-friendly, with food and drinks available to buy. 🙋 Want to help? We're looking for volunteers and donations of raffle/tombola prizes. No financial donations are needed - just your time, support or prizes! 📣 Please keep an eye out for the Facebook event - Every bit of support helps. More updates coming soon – thank you!