Welcome to Pakefield Primary School

Facebook / 23 Oct

Ducklings have had another amazing week learning about Autumn. We have noticed the leaves changing colour, weather getting colder and wetter and learnt about hibernation. We made hibernation boxes for hedgehogs and made sure they were warm and comfy. We also needed to disguise them so that other animals don’t find them. We took them home to put in our gardens.

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Well done Dolphins for 30 super reads at home.

Facebook / 23 Oct

Butterflies had a wonderful parent share afternoon thinking about what makes a good friend. Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to join us. 😊🦋

Facebook / 23 Oct

What a fantastic week we’ve had in Otters! 🦦 We started the week by welcoming our families into school for our Parent Share on Monday, where we worked together to create some amazing Stone Age houses. It was lovely to share our learning and get creative together! On Tuesday, we had our new school photos taken and everyone looked lovely and smart! 📸 Then, on Thursday, we enjoyed a spooky Halloween disco, filled with fantastic decorations, amazing costumes and lots of Halloween fun! 🎃👻 We’ve also been busy learning. In English, we’ve been exploring poetry and rhyming, discovering how words and sounds can be used creatively. In Computing, we’ve been bringing our animations to life by adding backgrounds and sound effects, while in Music, we created our own soundscapes to accompany a short film, thinking carefully about how sounds can help create atmosphere and tell a story. 🎶💻 Well done, Otters, for another brilliant week full of creativity, collaboration and exciting learning! We hope everyone has a lovely weekend! 💙🦦🌟

Facebook / 23 Oct

Ducklings had great fun dancing and showing us their moves at the Halloween disco.

Facebook / 22 Oct

Bumblebees had a great time at the disco with their friends! We did lots of dancing, jumping, rolling and crawling! We all enjoyed playing musical statues. We also shared some spooky stories and Otis showed us his entry for the Pumpkin Competition! 🎃👻🦇🎃

Facebook / 22 Oct

Take a look at our After School Clubs on offer starting after October half-term. If you wish to book your child onto any of these, you can find the link in your Arbor app. Any questions please ask at the school office or Mrs Woodrow.

Facebook / 22 Oct

Dolphins Class are all ready for the spooky Halloween Disco.

Facebook / 22 Oct

KS1 had a great time at the Halloween disco! There was lots of dancing and some scary faces! 👻🎃

Facebook / 22 Oct

🐨Koalas had a great time at Lowestoft 6th Form College taking part in the STEMpoint challenge where they had to make a wind turbine. We enjoyed our tour of the college as well.🐨

Facebook / 22 Oct

🐨 Thank you to all of the adults who joined us in Year 5 yesterday for our share afternoon. We enjoyed learning about Black History Month and creating our competition art work with you. 🐨

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Year 2 had a lovely time at Flixton air museum yesterday. This was a fantastic end to our history of flight unit!

Facebook / 20 Oct

SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT Well done to: Maeve who passed her stage 2 swimming after conquering her fear of the deep end.

Facebook / 20 Oct

Yesterday evening, we ran our own in-house fixture at Pakefield Primary for Y5/6 boys football. Everyone played so well with great sportsmanship. Thank you to all the families that came to support and cheer on the children. We can't wait to run more in-house fixtures and host other schools.

Facebook / 20 Oct

Thank you to all the adults who came to Turtles parent share this afternoon. We listened to the story ‘Monster post’ and then completed a range of activities. We made our own monsters, designed new monsters, wrote an invitation to someone to come for dinner and describe different monsters using adjectives. We had a great time!

Facebook / 20 Oct

Thank you to all the adults who came to our share afternoon and helped the children build Stone Age shelters. The children all had a wonderful time.

Facebook / 20 Oct

Well done to Edith, completing her handstand badge at gymnastics! We are very proud of you!

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Bumblebees enjoyed their first share session with parents and grandparents and our visitor Joe, who brought his guitar and taught us lots of new songs and dances! We sang along to the guitar, played instruments and shared stories. We finished the morning with our scarf and ribbon songs. Thank you to Joe and all the adults for joining us! 🎶🎵🎸🎵🎶

Facebook / 19 Oct

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Facebook / 19 Oct

In Art this afternoon we have been exploring photography. The Butterflies have taken some excellent photos showing different emotions. They have also explored different filters to see how this changes the mood of a photo. Can you guess how we are feeling?

Facebook / 19 Oct

Thank you to all adults who came to the Year 6 share session this morning. We ran it like a Guided Reading lesson, focussing on decoding and explaining elements, using the text: ‘Little People, Big Dreams - Martin Luther King Jr.’

Facebook / 19 Oct

SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT Well done to: Callum who was awarded Coaches player and Spectators player at his football match yesterday.

Facebook / 19 Oct

SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT Well done to: This weekend Ava competed at The Chelmsford Festival of Performing Arts and placed 3rd in her category with her new lyrical solo!

Facebook / 19 Oct

SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT Well done to: Theo received the man of the match yesterday, for a brilliant defensive line and finding those passes up the pitch.

Facebook / 16 Oct

Ducklings class have enjoyed the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ by Helen Cooper this week. We have looked carefully at various pumpkins and made observational drawings, looking carefully at the shape and patterns we could see. Today we made our own pumpkin soup, adding potatoes and carrots to the pumpkin. We had to peel and chop the ingredients ready to be cooked. Miss Russell helped us the stir and cook our soup. When it was ready we tasted it, some of us thought it was yummy, but some of us didn’t like it. If you want to make pumpkin soup, come and ask us how to make it.

Facebook / 16 Oct

In PE, Dolphins have continued to develop their problem solving skills when working as part of a small team. Today they began to orient a map, identifying key symbols to follow a route.

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Today, butterflies class have ordered the points of our class text, considered the emotions at each point and the reasons behind these. They’ve also worked hard practising their subtraction. What a great day butterflies! 😊🦋

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Yesterday, butterflies class worked really hard to investigate which materials were transparent and which were opaque. 😊🦋

Facebook / 16 Oct

Today's session was This Girl Can BE BRAVE. We spoke about what could be potential barriers for girls, in the future, to take part in sports and how our mindset could help overcome these.

Facebook / 16 Oct

🐨 Another busy week in Y5 Koalas. In science, we have been investigating water resistance by making different shaped foil boats and in maths we have started our multiplication and division unit, today we investigated prime numbers to 100. 🐨