Welcome to Pakefield Primary School

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.

Facebook / 16 Oct

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! 😊🦋

Facebook / 16 Oct

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. 🐨

Facebook / 16 Oct

Yesterday evening was Y4's turn to represent the school in the North Suffolk Schools' ALT Cup Football Championships at Red Oak Primary. Both teams played really well with great teamwork. Pakefield Primary are very proud of you all!

Facebook / 16 Oct

Otters class 🦦 have had another fantastic week full of learning and creativity! In Art, we’ve been exploring tone, texture and proportion, while in French, we made puppets to bring our ‘Two Little Kittens Visit Paris’ rhyme to life. We’ve been putting our trading and bartering skills to the test in History and getting creative in Computing by making animations with backgrounds using 2Animate. In English, the children have been busy writing their own ‘How to Wash a…’ instructions, and in PE, we’ve been developing our cricket fielding skills. The children have also done brilliantly in Maths, building their confidence with column addition before moving on to column subtraction. We’re so proud of all their hard work, enthusiasm and progress this week. Well done, Otters!

Facebook / 16 Oct

Foxes Class have had a busy and exciting week! 🦊 We started the week with a Geography field trip, collecting data to investigate the effects of population on our local area. In PSHE, we enjoyed debating whether certain actions are acceptable or unacceptable based on our own personal values. In English, we have been consolidating our understanding of coordinating and subordinating clauses, while in Science we explored and tested the effects of water resistance. A fun-packed week full of learning, discussion and investigation. Well done, Foxes!

Facebook / 15 Oct

Today, in Science Turtles have been exploring their sense of touch. We felt different objects and thought about how they felt. We then went round the classroom feeling objects and recording what they felt like. Some things were bumpy, sticky, smooth and hard.

Facebook / 14 Oct

Butterflies have been very busy creating Yom Kippur sorry stones. in PE we have been working hard on our team building skills.

Facebook / 14 Oct

🐝 Bumblebees had a lovely walk to the beach this morning for their first Beach Schools Session! We looked for signs of autumn on our walk and enjoyed throwing the sycamore seeds in the air! At the beach we made sandcastles, made stone towers, did some painting and made some transient art! The children loved throwing stones in the sea and going for a scavenger hunt, where they found stones, seaweed, feathers and driftwood. They used their senses and listened to the sounds on the beach and described what they could see. We noticed the sun shining on the sea and the waves splashing on the sand! ☀️ 🌊

Facebook / 14 Oct

SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT Well done to: Farran is a defender in his team so doesn’t often score, but this week after a solid first half in defence, his manager played him as a striker where he scored 2 goals. He also won player of the match. We’re very proud.

Facebook / 13 Oct

SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT Well done to: Cole who got man of the match on Sunday, scoring 5 goals and 2 assists!

Facebook / 13 Oct

Our new Sports Leaders jackets have arrive and we are very excited! I'm sure you will agree our Sports Leaders look very smart and are looking forward to wearing these on the playground when running active lunchtimes.

Facebook / 12 Oct

It’s that time of the year again…Year 6 learning about BODMAS in maths. We have learnt the song and the actions…and now it is never leaving our heads 😲

Facebook / 12 Oct

The Pandas class enjoyed their field trip this morning for their geography unit on ‘Population’. We looked at traffic, people and litter in two different areas in Pakefield, and compared.

Facebook / 12 Oct

If your child represented the school last week in a fixture, please can I ask the kit is returned by the end of the day so we can have this washed and ready for the fixtures this week. Many thanks for your support with this, Mrs Woodrow.

Facebook / 9 Oct

This week in Foxes Class 🦊 We started our new biography writing unit and had lots of fun trying to identify our teachers from their baby photos! In Science, we made paper helicopters to investigate air resistance, while in Maths we bravely conquered long division. Our tennis skills are really coming together too. This week we learned the underarm serve and started scoring our games. Well done, Foxes, on another fantastic week of learning. Have a great weekend!

Facebook / 9 Oct

🐨Koalas are composing their own nature inspired chord patterns in music today. 🐨

Facebook / 9 Oct

This Girl Can Club- Today we focused on This Girl Can be RESILIENT. In the session the took part in yoga exploring how to use physical activity to help mental wellbeing too.

Facebook / 9 Oct

This week in Otters class 🦦 🔬 Science: We collected soil samples and became scientists, investigating the different parts of the soil, labelling what we could identify and working out which type of soil we had found! 🌱🪴 🏏 PE: We’ve been developing our cricket fielding skills, practising our techniques and improving our coordination. 🎨 Art: We’ve been getting creative with collage, experimenting with different materials, colours and textures to bring our ideas to life. 🇫🇷 French: We’ve been exploring emotions in French, using our puppets to help us learn and practise new vocabulary in a fun and engaging way! 🎭😊😢 We’ve had a busy time full of investigating, creating, learning and developing new skills! 🌟👏

Facebook / 9 Oct

This week Ducklings class have been teaching the class puppet to find out how many things he has in his basket. We reminded him he has to make sure he touches each object as he says the number name, to make sure he doesn’t miss any objects out or count them twice and finally he needs to stop when he gets to the last one and that tells him how many.

Facebook / 8 Oct

Well done to Olivia who completed her handstand badge at gymnastics! We are very proud of you!

Facebook / 8 Oct

In science this week, Dolphin class have enjoyed collecting soil samples from around the school grounds, identifying what they were made up of and the type of soil they were.

Facebook / 8 Oct

This evening, it was KS1 turn to represent the school at Red Oak Primary in the North Suffolk Schools' ALT Cup Football Championships. They all played amazing and with this being the first time some of the children had represented the school they did Pakefield Primary very proud! Well done KS1 we are very proud of you!

Facebook / 8 Oct

Today Turtles went on a senses walk using their sense of sight and hearing. We heard children playing, trees rustling and the wind blowing. We could see birds, children and trees.

Facebook / 8 Oct

🏉 Year 3-6 Girls Rugby Club 🏉 This week, the girls worked hard on developing their speed and evasion skills, showing fantastic determination and effort throughout the session. We finished with plenty of game time, where their teamwork, communication and growing confidence really shone through. Great teamwork, girls - well done!

Facebook / 8 Oct

Turtles enjoyed wearing their bright clothes for Mental health day! We talked about how we can look after our mental health and what we can do if we are in the red, blue or yellow zone.

Facebook / 8 Oct

🐝 Bumblebees have enjoyed learning about the harvest this week and they used puppets to retell the story of “The Little Red Hen.” We followed a recipe to make our own bread, developing our fine motor control as we did lots of mixing and kneading! 🍞