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We had a great time in Forest School. We looked for fairies and counted how many we found. We then enjoyed delicious hot chocolate to warm us up.

This week in Reception, we have been exploring circles and triangles. We went on a Circle Hunt around the classroom and the children were fantastic detectives—looking high and low to find as many circular objects as they could. Once an object was found, children worked together to record it on a tally chart. This helped us practise counting and recording. What fun we had!

Trekkers have been exploring the theme of families. We’ve talked about our homes and the actied out family roles using the different places around our room as a ‘stage’ and building houses for our families. Through this, we’ve been discovering what important features homes need.

We’ve also been discovering the season of autumn! The children explored colourful leaves and even turned it into a dinosaur adventure. They hid dinosaurs among the leaves and learned a new word—camouflage! To make it even more exciting, the Trekkers took their own photos of the dinosaurs hiding in the leaves.

Our amazing Year 5/6 football team shone at the Nottingham School competition on Monday!  They looked fantastic in their new kits and showed incredible skills, perseverance, and teamwork throughout the tournament. Not even the rain and cold could dampen their determination! So proud of how they represented our school with such heart and effort.  Special thanks to Mr. White and Mr. Williams for their dedicated coaching!

Reception had great fun collecting leaves and making their own picture. They talked about the different shape leaves and the different colours. A great activity to take learning outdoors and developing vocabulary.

Year 3 really enjoyed their first Forest School session! They used their 5 senses to find objects to match the things in Ms Turner-Jones’s tray. They enjoyed walking on the slack line, hunting for bugs and being outdoor explorers. Finishing off with toasted apples on the campfire dipped in cinnamon sugar.

Our foodies enjoyed some delicious baked beans with their dinner. Every bean-lover got a special sticker for joining in the fun! It’s amazing how something as simple as beans can bring such big smiles to their faces. Who knew nutrition could be this exciting? 🌟

We’re loving the Big Bean Boost experience! 😊

Our pupils shone bright today in our Black History Month celebration! 🌟

From a powerful Rosa Parks drama to joyful singing of Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds”, our classrooms were filled with courage, music, and hope. 🎭🎵

Inspired by Manjit Shaota’s poetry, our young poets shared heartfelt words of unity and understanding. 📝

We’re so proud of our amazing pupils — and thank you to Mr Harvey and the No Outsiders Leadership Team for making this celebration of history and culture so special. ❤️

In assembly, children explored the power of positive thinking and learned that it’s perfectly okay to share their feelings. Our amazing children showed such empathy and understanding, reminding us that kindness starts with being kind to ourselves. 💝

Remember, just like we exercise our bodies, taking care of our minds is a super important part of staying healthy! 🌈 Ask your child about their favourite activity from today – their enthusiasm might just brighten your day too! ⭐

Our amazing House Captains spread joy and kindness today, supporting the Sanatan Community Food Bank. They delivered the many generous food and toiletry donations from our families. Our pupils have learned first-hand the value of community service.

So proud of our young leaders and all pupils, showing how small acts of kindness make a big impact!

Well done to all our Year 6 pupils who took part in the House Captain elections! Each candidate spoke with confidence and enthusiasm, sharing brilliant ideas to inspire their houses. Congratulations to our newly elected House Captains and Vice-Captains — we can’t wait to see your leadership in action!

Reception had great fun using the book Actual Size to measure parts of their body against the real-life images. Some of the pictures were quite scary!

We are delighted to share that Southwold Primary School has been awarded the Achieve Well Champion Award!

This recognition celebrates our whole-school commitment to promoting pupil wellbeing, resilience, and positive mental health. It reflects the hard work of our pupils, staff, and families in creating a nurturing environment where every child feels valued and supported to achieve their very best.

Through our Achieve Well approach, we continue to:

• Promote kindness, teamwork, and emotional wellbeing across the school community
• Support pupils to develop confidence, resilience, and self-awareness
• Ensure every child has the opportunity to flourish both academically and personally

We are extremely proud of this achievement and the positive impact it is having across our school.

✨ Watch out for further information and celebrations shared via Class Dojo!

Reception have had a busy week of learning and fun. We visited forest school and enjoyed outdoor adventures, teamwork and nature play. We met Rainbow Ted who went on his first weekend adventure. We drew our own Superheroes in Drawing Club and learnt about sorting in maths. We even started our new handwriting book.

We’ve had a fantastic week full of hands-on learning and creativity!

🧦 In Maths, we practiced matching socks — a fun way to explore patterns and pairs! We even designed our own matching socks using colours. We enjoyed using conkers, cubes, and fir cones in our matching activities. We explored their shapes, textures, and sizes, comparing natural and man-made objects. The children were especially fascinated by the spiky outer shell of the conkers –  lots of curious hands and great describing words were used like “prickly”, “bumpy”, and “hard”!  These hands-on experiences are helping us build early maths and science skills in a playful, meaningful way.

🎨 We also enjoyed making pictures from different parts, using our imagination and fine motor skills to create some brilliant artwork.

✏️ In Writing, the children worked so hard in their writing books — we saw some amazing sentence building and letter formation! 🌟

🔤 We had lots of fun with Fred in Phonics, blending sounds and learning new words together.

🏃‍♂️ In PE, we focused on learning how to throw and catch, developing our coordination and teamwork.

Well done, everyone — we’re so proud of all your hard work and enthusiasm this week!

Class 3 and 4 had a fabulous PE session called Marvellous Me. They took part in 6 activities, including bean bag throw, basketball throw and speed run. In 3 weeks’ time, the sports coaches will return, and we will do the activities again, aiming to improve our scores! Thank you to year 6 for keeping track of all our scores.

Year 6 had an amazing week at Into University- packed full of Tudor themed learning and fun! We even visited the site of The Battle of Bosworth and had our own graduation ceremony. We know that lots of our pupils have high aspirations, and a taste of university has further helped this as they explored their options for the future.

We’ve had a fantastic start to the term in EYFS! The children have loved meeting Bertie the Owl, our special visitor who helps us with our RE learning. 🦉💫

In phonics, we’ve begun learning our initial sounds and the children are already showing great enthusiasm and progress! ✏️🔤

In literacy, we explored emotions by creating our own versions of The Colour Monster – each one unique and full of personality! 🎨

We also stayed for our first school lunch – and it was a hit! 😊 We all ate pizza and flap jack for pudding.

Finally, we had so much fun developing our ball skills in PE – lots of teamwork, coordination, and giggles! ⚽🏃‍♀️🏃

Well done, everyone – what a brilliant week!

Our little Trekkers have had a fantastic start to the new school year! They’ve settled in with big smiles and curious minds, diving into all sorts of fun and learning. Last week was full of singing favourite songs, chatting in Talking Circles, and getting to grips with our new routines (we’re already becoming experts at tidy-up time!).

The children have loved learning all about themselves and their new friends, pretending to be doctors and making each other feel better, and exploring every corner of their environment. One of the biggest adventures was heading out to the Forest School area—ready for the messy, magical world of Messy Maths coming soon!

We’re so proud of how confident and happy they’ve been. Here’s to a year full of wonder, giggles, and growing together!

We spent a fabulous two days learning what it means to be a musician.

We learned Dvorak’s 9^th Symphony (think the music from Jaws) and Houdini by Dua Lipa. Two days of hard work, rehearsing and learning notation and rhythm and pitch all building to a final performance in the Music Camp Big Band Performance. This is always our favourite bit, along with the night walk! It was tiring but great fun and a valuable experience for our pupils.

This week, our creative thinkers explored the magic of wind through Opal Play. From soaring hot air balloons to swirling parachutes, the children discovered how air and movement can transform play into a world of wonder. With curious minds and imaginative hands, they experimented, problem-solved, and let their ideas take flight—literally!

What an amazing start to the school year! We have had a fantastic time making new friends and using our imaginations during continuous provision. In PE we loved the balancing and climbing activities, showing off our amazing movement skills and teamwork! 🏃‍♀️🤸‍♂️

It’s been wonderful to see everyone so eager to try new things and have fun together. Looking forward to more exciting adventures ahead! 🌈💪

This week in EYFS, we’ve been sailing off on an adventure with Jack and the Flumflum Tree! Inspired by the story, the children became little engineers and worked together to design and build their very own boats! 🧠💡

The children showed amazing teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving—just like Jack and his friends on their quest to cure Grandma!

Well done, little adventurers! 🌴🌈

During their Forest School sessions, our Year 4 children have been working towards the Bee Bronze Award from the Bee Conservation Trust. We’re incredibly proud of their efforts to learn about and support these vital pollinators.

To celebrate their achievement and raise awareness, we’d love to share a short video that highlights just how important bees are to our planet and our daily lives.

Southwold remains committed to supporting bee conservation and making our playgrounds more bee-friendly.

Today in Forest School, reception children embraced the outdoors and let their imaginations run wild! Using natural clay and the inspiration around them, they each created their own unique clay models – from animals to magical creatures! 🐾🐍🦄

As they explored the outdoor environment, the children collected natural materials like twigs, leaves, and stones to add special details to their creations. This hands-on activity helped develop their fine motor skills, creativity, and connection with nature.

Today, Year 6 children have completed the first two sessions of the GREAT Project. This stands for ‘Good Relationships are Equal And Trusting’. Throughout the day, children have discussed the differences of a positive and negative relationship before giving advice to various scenarios. The children showed their growing maturity as they discussed sensitive topics sensibly.

This morning, Key Stage 2 children attended the ‘Going for Gold’ running event at Bluecoat Wollaton. Throughout the session, children had to run or walk as many 1km laps as possible. Showing great determination, respect and teamwork, the children completed nearly 500km – a brilliant achievement. Well done to all children who participated!

A further thanks to the parent volunteers who supported the event.

This morning Year 6 have completed their final Into University session. The session was focussed on transition to secondary school. Throughout the session, children discussed subjects, homework, timetables plus much more. Children completed their transition passports and are now ready for secondary school!

Today, we’ve been little engineers! We explored materials, design, and problem-solving as we made our own boats using a variety of materials like cartons, straws, and paper.

Once our boats were built, it was time for the big test: Will it float? We had so much fun placing our creations in water and watching what happened. Some boats floated beautifully, while others needed a few tweaks – perfect opportunities for learning through play!

This hands-on activity helped us explore floating and sinking, prediction and testing, and the importance of resilience and creativity. 🚤🌊