Library Launch

Our school Library has been revamped and was officially launched on 17th July. We were lucky enough to have Kathy Henderson join us for the afternoon. Kathy Henderson has wrote a number of children's books and the children were able to talk to her about the books and her life as an author. She also did a talk about the first ever book and showed children stones that she had borrowed from teh British Museum with teh first writing carved on them. Pictures from the event were in The East Anglian newspaper on Saturday 19th July.

Tempest takes Easton by Storm!

Our musical version of 'The Tempest' was a fantastic success with all the parents and families enjoying a lovely summer evening a the children performed outside. All 68 children played thier part and the end result was fantastic. Well done everyone. Romeo and Juliet next year?

Playground Games

We have bought some new equipment for the playground.

The school council are in charge of how the games are used and they opted to try a class 'bucket of euipment' system. We will discuss how successful this has been at the end of the term but indications are that it has been a great success.

Garden July 2008

The garden has progressed hugely since it was started in April. We had hoped this year just to grow a few things to 'wet people's appetite' for gardening. It seems we were successful! Lots of landscaping and building work as well as planting has taken place and the garden is really taking shape.

A Greener School

Focus week - caring for the environment

This week has been our focus week looking at how the school and all the people who use it can be 'greener.'

Class 1 have been focusing on wildlife and gardens and have been tending their vegetables as well as focusing on the abundant wildlife in our school grounds and how we can take care of it. They also made mini gardens (see photo above)

Class 2 have been looking at the three 'R's' Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. They have managed to get some free recycling bins for all the classrooms and have produced leaflets to help their parents become recyclers.

Class 3 have investigated the idea of carbon footprints and have each made a pledge to try and reduce theirs for the week. Little things count and the pledges range from cutting the hours of TV they watch to switching off lights when they leave a room.

A clothing bank has been permanently installed in the school car park and the community have been invited to use it whenever they need to. Our school garden is being developed at a much quicker rate than we could have hoped for thanks to willing and very able parents.
We also had a visit from the county waste service and they got involved in making paper with the children as well teaching them about composting and doing some weaving work using old bicycle wheels!

As a school we did an audit of what we can do to be as green as possible then we gave ourselves a traffic light score. There were a lot of green and amber but a few on red. This will give us our targets as a whole school and will ensure that the focus on caring for our environment doesn't disappear.

Bowling

Bowling at the Village Bowling Green

Years 5 and 6 have enjoyed lawn bowls at the village bowls club. A grant gained from the High Sheriffs award, through the Suffolk Foundation enabled the school to buy some junior woods for the children to use. Members of the bowls club have been tutoring the children and next week we hope to have the score boards out for a mini tournament.

Sports day 2008

Sports Day

All our children took part in, and thoroughly enjoyed our school sports evening. We had a fantastic turn out of mums, dads, friends and grandparents to watch the games. The summer evening was complimented by a barbeque and liquid refreshments very kindly set up by the Easton School Association (ESA)