Celebrating World Book Day!
We have been celebrating World Book Day with a variety of activities today and the children enjoying creative arts and crafts in their classes, focussing on a traditional tale. A whole school assembly at the end of the day celebrated the day and stories were shared.
Everyone looked absolutely amazing in their costumes, dressed as their favourite traditional tale characters. Well done everybody, what a great day and we even had the sun shining too!
The children had a fantastic time with i-rock School of Music in today, enjoying a fun taster assembly led by a very talented, professional musician. It gave the children the opportunity to choose an instrument to play in a band with everyone joining in and singing along to rock songs. They were rockin’ it and it was lovely to see a love for music!!
The whole school took part in this year’s Art festival. During the week the children had great fun and enjoyed expressing themselves through painting and creating some wonderful pieces for us to share
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We are very proud that children from Wickhambrook Primary Academy took part in a Cathedral production of Flooded last weekend, celebrating local history and talent.
The children have been rehearsing for weeks and more than 240 pupils from schools in Suffolk took part in the wonderful production about a historic flood in Bury St Edmunds!
Congratulations to everyone who took part in this fantastic production, well done!
Wickhambrook Primary Academy is celebrating after earning three ‘Outstanding’ grades following an Ofsted inspection.
Personal Development, Leadership and Management and Early Years provision at Wickhambrook all received the highest grade while Education and Behaviour and Attitudes were rated as ‘Good’.
Inspectors said community played a key part in the success of the school while “children get off to a flying start in Early Years”.
Headteacher Rosie Kerr said she was delighted with the report, which was testimony to the hard work of everyone involved.
Rosie said: “We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the success of the school – and this report.
“It really is a reflection of everyone pulling in the same direction, from pupils to staff, leaders, governors, families and our entire school community.
“We were delighted that inspectors paid a strong reference to our community feel and our Early Years provision, as we are very proud of those features within Wickhambrook.”
In the Ofsted report, inspectors noted how the size of the school meant pupils of all ages mixed happily, made friends and benefitted from a buddy system that created “lasting bonds between the oldest and youngest pupils”.
The report said: “Children get off to a flying start in the Early Years. They settle quickly, thanks to strong routines and attentive adults.
“Throughout the school, there are warm relationships between pupils and adults. Attendance is high because pupils are happy to come to school.
“Classrooms are calm and provide an environment conducive to learning. In the core areas of reading, writing and mathematics, many pupils achieve highly.”
An extensive range of “high quality” extra-curricular activities, an ambitious curriculum that places a high priority on vocabulary and literacy and effective training for staff also came in for high praise along with strong pastoral support and effective safeguarding.