Christmas Decoration Day 2016

I can't believe this has come around again, and another year has passed.  We shook out the tissue paper, collected the paper plates and rustled up some googly eyes ready to make Kelsale 'Christmasy'.  After an early morning wrestle with the Christmas tree, we were ready.
As you can see from the photos, the children were fully focused on the tasks and produced some beautiful pieces to decorate the school, all ready for the Christmas Fayre on Saturday (10-12pm).

We look forward to seeing you all there.

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Apple Harvest 2016

The apple trees on the school field produced a glut of fruit this year.  Mrs Taylor and groups of children went out onto the school field and picked the apples and collected the windfalls.  The children then spent some time peeling and chopping the apples to give to Lucy in the kitchen to incorporate into puddings. This sounds delicious.  We can't wait.

Year 3/4 walk along the Smuggler's pathway

Despite the possibility of poor weather,  years 3 and 4 wrapped up in their wet weather gear and took the coach to Snape.  Here they walked the pathway, as local smugglers would have done many years ago, visualising what it may have been like in the cold of night.
They then moved onto Sizewell and Dunwich, stopping in at the Dunwich museum to discover more about the ever changing (and diminishing) coastline.
Well done to Mrs Rolfe and other members of staff for giving the children a try insight and a huge thank you to the parent helpers for taking the time to help us out.

Double Trouble School Disco 2016

A huge thank you to both Fiona Wilson and Charlie Mann for organising such a fab disco last night.  Both KS1 and KS2 had a brilliant time, aided by Double Trouble Disco (Thank you Lee).  Some excellent tunes, outrageous dancing, foam, bubbles, games.
What a night!

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Link for Lee Wells (Double Trouble)

Theatre Trip to see Michael Rosen

Years 3, 4 and 5 were delighted to attend Children's Bookshow 2016 at the Marina Theatre in Lowestoft, to see Michael Rosen perform some of his stories and poems.  We have all spent time enjoying and giggling at his work at school, and were bubbling with excitement as we waited outside the theatre.

And enjoyed our snacks inside the theatre...

We were definitely not disappointed.

Particularly Mrs Mansell...

Inspired, we returned to school to draw our brains (you had to be there), before enjoying 'Eddie and the car'.
A fab day.

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Guy-Making Afternoon 2016

Despite the threat of rain, and a much cooler afternoon than we've experienced recently, Classes 5 and 6 took the donated clothing out to the car park to produce guys for the Kelsale Fire work and Bonfire night (Saturday 5th November).

As you can see from the photographs in this link, the results were superb.

We all had lots of fun!

Harvest Festival 2016

A few photographs from our beautiful harvest festival. Thank you to all those who donated generously, to those who gave their time to package the goods and to those who joined the children to deliver the goods to the local community.

Please click here for KS1 photos...

and here for KS2 photos.

Everlasting Light

Just a huge apology.  It has taken me a little while to get around to organising photos from this amazing event.
It was astonishing to see so many volunteers sharing their expertise and time out of the goodness of their hearts.  It was also an amazing experience to be a part of, and certainly a new experience.

A huge thank you to all the parents who took time out of their weekend to drive their children to the recording.  The CD and DVD will be released soon and we have the performance at the Spa Pavilion to look forward to.

Please click here to see more photographs.