This afternoon, Year 6 welcomed Cross Teach back for their Easter experience. Children participated in a crime scene investigation about the death of Jesus before deciding who was guilty of his murder…

Thank you to everyone who supported Comic Relief on Friday. We raised £152.70 through our cake sale and non-uniform. Pupils shared their favourite jokes, filling our school with laughter.

Your kindness and generosity will help to make a difference to others.

Wow what a wonderful day we have had!

The school was full of pupils dressed as authors, books characters or looking very cosy in their lounge wear or pyjamas!

Pupils started the day meeting author Bemma Akyeampong, who shared her story of becoming an author. They even learnt to sing a Ghanaian song about a turtle!

After, classes took part in different activities, to promote a love of reading and feel the excitement a book creates. Not forgetting the knowledge that is promoted too!

Staff at Southwold Primary started National Storytelling week off by sharing their favourite stories with their classes.

National Storytelling Week takes place every year and is a celebration of the power of sharing stories. Stories teach us about the world, they allow us to step into someone else’s shoes and feel empathy, they help us to relax and escape and they can help develop essential literacy skills.

The children celebrated Chinese New Year by creating their own dragon and parading around. We also made celebration cards. Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

Congratulations to our pupils who were awarded Achievement, Behaviour, Kindness and 100% Attendance Awards.  They have all displayed and promote our core values in many ways and are excellent Southwold role models.  We are all very proud of their achievements.

Children in Years 1 to 6 visited St Peter’s Church in Radford today. They took part in a Christingle service and learnt about the Christmas Story.

Thank you to the Rev Naeem Bahadur and Father Michael.

Our local MP Lilian Greenwood made a special visit to our school to surprise winners of the Christmas Card competition. Congratulations to our runner up winner for her colourful and detailed Christmas drawing of Wollaton Hall. Our second runner up winner, created a delightful drawing of Torvill and Dean.  Torvill and Dean were so impressed, they sent her a special card!

Such was the high standard of drawings, Lilian also gave high commendations to three pupils for their wonderful work and design. Well done to all of our entrants for their creativity and beautiful drawings.

Thank you to Lillian, Carole and Murray.

A Real Christmas Dinner Treat!

Pupils enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner with their teachers and friends. Christmas songs played, crackers were pulled and laughter filled the room as jokes were shared. All the trimmings were served and every mouthful enjoyed.

Thank you so much to our amazing cook and kitchen team.

A Christmas Tree to Delight!

Our School Parliament have been very busy! Showing great teamwork, they worked together to decorate our Christmas tree for all to enjoy. Simply beautiful. What lovely way to start the festive season!

Thank you very much School Parliament 😊

Celebrating diversity with our whole school ‘Culture Day’, celebrating the different cultures around the world with different types of dress and food and dancing. Thank you to all the parents that helped to support a very special day.

Children at school enjoyed dressing up and raising money for the annual Children in Need appeal. We had a fabulous cake sale and non-uniform day. Thank you to all our parents and carers for their kind donations.

As part of National School Meals Week, we were delighted to welcome Jacque Blake to our school. Jacquie is the past Chair of LACA (The School Food People). She enjoyed lunch with our pupils and seeing the fantastic service our Catering Team give.

Children at school have begun thinking about anti-bullying week by wearing odd socks today to celebrate our differences and what makes us all unique.

Children today have been learning about what Remembrance Day means and have observed moments of reflection with poetry and observing a two-minute silence. We are so proud of the respect shown.

The children across the school have enjoyed learning about Diwali, finding out why this is celebrated by some people and traditional ways this is celebrated.  The youngest children in the school enjoyed learning a Diwali dance and looking at special clothes worn during this time.  All children in school took part in a special Diwali celebration assembly, giving them some reflection time during the ‘Festival of Light’.