Assembly

This morning the whole school walked up St Michael's Church for assembly which Mrs Cann lead.  We started to think about our new value for this term which is "Courage".  At first, we thought about times when we ourselves had shown courage and shared these.  We then remembered characters in in the bible and stories from the Old and New Testament which had stories of courage in - Daniel and Goliath; Noah's Ark; 40 days in the wilderness; were among others.   We then thought about people who had shown courage in their lives such as Florence Nightingale;  Greta Thunberg; Captain Tom and therefore been inspirational to us in our lives. 

For the rest of this term,  we will focusing on different areas of courage in our class and school assemblies. 

Vacancy for KS2 Class Teacher - Maternity Cover

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated class teacher to join our school team in KS2.

Required from September 2024

We are a successful and well-resourced CEVAP School of 350 children, in the delightful market town of Framlingham. We offer a dedicated team of both staff and governors, a pleasant working environment 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.

 “This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.”

Personal attributes

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated practitioner who is able to meet the following criteria:

• a secure appreciation and understanding of KS2 curriculum
• have experience of working with KS2 pupils
• expects high standards from themselves and their pupils
• a good communicator who is willing to be a key member of the KS2 team
• ECT’s are welcome to apply

You should be passionate about children’s learning, have high expectations of yourself and your pupils, and be supportive of the Christian ethos of the school.

See attached Job Description with Person Specification

 Visits to the school are welcome, or find out more about us at www.hitchamsframlingham.org.uk

 Closing date for applications:    10 May 2024

 Interviews will be held w/c       20 May 2024

For further details please contact the Headteacher on 01728 723354 or email admin@hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk.

Completed forms should be returned to the school.

Vacancy for School Business Manager

We are seeking to appoint a School Business Manager who will work closely with the Headteacher and Governors on budget and financial strategies, and be accountable for all matters relating to the school site and buildings.

• You will have an understanding of FMS and SIMS schools management systems, an awareness of the mechanisms for school funding, and an ability to produce funding applications.
• You will also have some experience of Human Resources management in a school environment.
• You will have a good understanding of premises and how to manage the day to day running of the site, and to project manage small to larger jobs in line with the Head Teacher and Governors expectations.
• You will maintain the school site and liaise with the contractors to oversee the work.
• You will be able to demonstrate good administrative skills to help the running of the day to day office.

Salary:                          Grade 5 Point 15

Job Term:                     28 hours per week, 40 weeks per year (hours can be spread over 4 days)

Appointment Type:      Permanent

Required from:             Summer term ideally, but this is negotiable 

Application forms can be found on the website.  Visits to the school are welcome, or find out more about us at www.hitchamsframlingham.org.uk

Completed forms should be returned to the school admin@hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk

Closing Date                   6 May 2024

Interviews w/c               13 May 2024

For further details please contact the Headteacher on 01728 723354 or email admin@hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk.

or see the website: https://www.hitchamsframlingham.org.uk/School-Business-Manager/

https://www.suffolkjobsdirect.org/#en/sites/CX_1004/job/14838

MB's Share Session

Today it was MB's turn to invite parents in for a 'Easter wreath making' craft session! It was so lovely to see all the different variations and imagine that went into making them. The session ended with the children eating a chocolate nest that they made earlier on. Thank you to all the parents that came, it was lovely to see so many of you.

Swimming Gala

 The year 6’s competed in a swimming gala on Thursday 28^th March at Framlingham College. Our teams came 3^rd and 5^th out of 13 teams. Out of the 24 races we competed in our teams won 11 races. The children showed great determination, team work, attitude, swimming ability and made the school very proud.

St Michael's Church welcome us for our Easter service

On this lovely, sunny morning Year 5 led our Easter service at the St Michael’s Church.  

Year 1 to Year 6 enjoyed listening to the story of Easter and singing several Easter songs.  

Well done and thank you to Year 5. 

Easter Lunch

Mrs Aldred made trays of wonderful Easter cupcakes for the Easter lunch dessert yesterday.

They disappeared very quickly!

Class KH share session

Class KH had a wonderful day baking cakes and making chocolate Easter nests where they followed recipes and used Fairtrade ingredients as part of our RE topic and Easter celebrations. Class KH really liked spending time with their families in their classroom doing creative activities. The children recited their Spring poem, decorated cakes and ate Easter nests, created Easter wreaths, made hatching chick puppets and Lego crosses. It was a really special afternoon and lots of fun!

Last Supper Art

Ahead of the Easter Holidays, Class MS and KV's Year 4s looked at  Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' painting. We discussed the significance of the Last Supper event and who was present with Jesus to dine together.

We then recreated 'The Last Supper' as a piece of three-dimensional art.

Full of the joys of Spring!!

Congratulations to everyone for their efforts in donating so much money for the “loose change” challenge where a staggering £874.45 was raised by the whole school.  Due to the exceptional amount that was raised, and as agreed with the ‘Friends’, the whole school enjoyed an extra-long break altogether on the field and enjoyed the warm spring air, playing with brothers and sisters, making daisy chains and enjoying the Spring sunshine. 

 

Class JT Easter Share Session

Class JT had a fantastic afternoon sharing Easter activities with their families.

First, the children recited the Spring poem they have learnt this term to which they received a well-earned round of applause.

After a morning of Easter baking, the children couldn't wait to share their bakes and decorate some biscuits.  We made sure to use Fairtrade ingredients wherever possible.

The children decorated palm leaf crosses with beads and a tag, and completed the session by sharing Easter story books with their families.

It was lovely to have so many visitors in the class sharing in the children's creativity, activities and most of all the cake!

Bug Hotel Building in Class HHMBr

Many congratulations to the Class HHMBr family as they made their plans of a mini beast hotel a reality.

There was a fantastic atmosphere throughout the afternoon and incredible team work to build the structures.

We were blessed with good weather which meant we could use the Gilder Garden.  To end our time together our families really enjoyed our rendition of ‘Frozen’.

Thank you to everyone involved and the fabulous feedback we received.

House Singing Competition

We started the afternoon watching Class KV performing “Standing tall” which they have been working on with Megan Peel this term and we all enjoyed listening to this.   

After this we then held our exciting house singing competition which was kindly judged by Rev Chris Davey and Megan Peel; both said it was not an easy decision at all. Each house sang their own version of “Let it go” and then each of the four houses chose another Disney song.  Hitchams sang “Bippety, bippety boo”; Bulstrode performed “Bare Necessities”; Mills gave a great rendition of “You’ve got a friend in me” and the winning house Howard performed “Under the Sea”.  Howard performed their version of ‘Let it go’ in the acapella style too.

Well done to all the teachers and children for the effort in the rehearsals.  The hall was resounding with the singing and every child showed so much happiness and joy when performing.  

 

Bikeability

Thanks once again to the Suffolk RoadSafe team for their excellent Bikeability training session to our Year 5/6 pupils. 

The children have completed their two days intensive training. During the training they learnt how to look after their bicycles, spent time learning key cycling & indicating skills on the playground, spent a day and a half on the roads around the school in Framlingham.  By the end of the course, the children will have gained confidence on the roads and learnt the skills needed to become safe cyclists.  

There will be further Bikeability training in September for next year's Year 5 & 6.