Category: Pre-Prep News
Year 6 have now had a chance to calculate their final profits from our Stepping Into Business Market Day just before half term. In total, they made just over £1500 profit, which is a phenomenal achievement!
This money will be split between prizes for all the children, experiential prizes for the group who made the most profit and the group who demonstrated the best teamwork throughout, as well as a sizable charity donation. More information on the above will follow in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I am very pleased to announce the group prizes awarded below:
Best Teamwork – 10x Crazier
Most Profitable Business – Busy Bombs
Most Units Sold – Poppety Keyrings
Best Branding – Smileys
Resilience Award – The Freezers
Best Financial Planning – Smoothshakes
Best Service Industry Award – Tearoom Delight
Most innovative Product – Sharp Fire
Excitingly, lots of these stalls will be reopening for the Summer Fete on Sunday 17 June so the Year 6 entrepreneurs look forward to welcoming back to their stalls then.
It is so important that children understand the correlation between the creation of Art work and seeing that art on display for people to enjoy. Our “Woodbridge Views” exhibition was a great opportunity for children to celebrate their creations and share them with friends and family. It was so lovely to see so many parents and grandparents talking about the Art work with their children!
At Woodbridge our children are lucky enough to experience a diverse range of media; sculpture, ceramics, painting, collage, drawing and digital art to name but a few. We even had parents asking to purchase sculptures; this is indicative of the standards our little artists are capable of achieving!
Thank you to everyone that came along, we hope you enjoyed the afternoon.
The town was out in force to celebrate the efforts of its citizens young and old competing in the Woodbridge Shufflers’ junior race and 10k last Sunday. The sun was out in force as well – glorious if you were there to support, and revel in the pre-event entertainment provided magnificently on the Chapel Lawn by the wonderful Swing Band. Sunshine and Swing – a perfect combination, and the music rolled richly over the verdant grounds, relaxing tense muscles and filling nervous hearts and minds with positive thoughts. The applause flowed for Mr Shepherd and his virtuosos, and then the scene shifted to the highways and byways of Woodbridge.
The Junior Race was an extraordinary endorsement of our fantastic running programme. Resplendent in Woodbridge tops, our boys and girls dominated proceedings as the results couldn’t fail to show:
In a field of 140 athletes, Woodbridge School Pupils filled 4 of the top 5, 6 of the top 10 and 12 of the top 20 positions. With some 30 athletes in total we accounted for almost a quarter of the field and the sea of red running through town was a sight to behold. All of our athletes finished in the top half and the running group were particularly proud of Rufus Davis, who in his first year with us, finished a credible 40th completing the 1500 m in 6:01
Medal winners were:
C.Turner – Overall race winner in his pink socks and Gold u16B
K.Evans Lombe – Second in the race, also in pink socks and silver u16B
A.Hill – Third overall, first lady and gold u16G
R.Vinton – Fifth overall, second lady and Gold u12G
M.Marshall – Silver u16G
E.Rufford – Silver u14B
A.Goddard – Gold u14G
J.Hattan – Bronze u12B
A.Jackson – Silver u14G
R.Jackson – Silver u12G
O.Ripman – Bronze U8B
And then in the Senior 10k itself, it was time for the most extraordinary moment of the day without doubt: Nathan Goddard, not yet 16, finishing fourth from a field of over 650. Fourth! In 35:10! Needless to say winning the under 18 pennant to boot! And not too far behind in 20th (38:05) Alex Evans Lombe ran a marvellous race as well. Chris Long, with just over a year of running behind him deserves a special mention as he was almost in the top 10% finishing 84th in 42:36. These three were our school’s undoubted highlights, with parents and school running club regulars, Mr Turner winning the Over 50 category in a very quick 36:04 for 9th place, closely followed by Mr Rufford in 13th in 37:17.
Some fantastic staff results included Mr Smith (39:49) and Mr Garvie (41:10) both making it into the top 100, as well as Mr Streat (51:44), Mr Lubbock (57:32 )and Ms Start ( 51:25).
With so many athletes competing on the day we may well have missed some names and we apologise in advance if that is indeed the case.
One more incredible highlight. Our Marketing Team put a massive effort into the day and decided to raise funds for one of the official charities of the race. We are extremely proud to announce that pupils and staff have raised over £500 for the East Anglian Air Ambulance, an outstanding conclusion to a great day!
Many congratulations to all of our runners: pupils, staff, parents and OW’s.
The Head Boy and Head Girl for next year are Harry Hobday and Lily Proudfoot. From a very strong field of candidates, they were chosen for a number of reasons. Both have been great enthusiasts during their time at the school and balanced an excellent work ethic with a huge range of extra-curricular involvement. Both have had leadership experience and were able to talk with great insight about the nature of leadership in their interview with Mr Tetley. Both are also superb role models and very approachable to younger students.
Year 2 recently went to the Minsmere Nature Reserve, in Saxmundham, to look at animals living in their habitats. A truly idyllic place for the children to visit with a variety of different habitats. Some of the UK’s rarest wildlife can be discovered and there are plenty of activities to get involved in.
The children thrived on what was in store for them. They became adventurous in the ‘Wild Wood Adventure and Build a Den’ area (collecting wood and making nests), then made their way to the Discovery Centre to search out minibeasts – they found a selection of them and even got to hold them!
Further trails led them into areas where they could spot deer and other wildlife. The children then took shelter, out in the marsh areas, in the nature hides where they used their binoculars to spot different birds.
A great day in the outdoors had by all.
The children in Queen’s House have been taking part in science week. This year the theme is “Exploration and Discovery”.
On Tuesday they took part in science workshops led by Miss Cousins, a science teacher from the senior school. This was an opportunity for the children to learn through hands on experience. As well as making their own rockets, which they sent into the air using air pumps, they also enjoyed making ”alka seltzer” popping rockets that went so high they had to launch them outside! They explored the properties of slime and created exploding volcanoes using vinegar and bicarbonate of soda.
As you can imagine the children had great fun trying out all these activities.
The visit from the police coincided with our postponed World Book Day and Graham and Sally-Anne were amused to find tigers, Little Red Riding Hood and the Gruffalo in the classroom instead of Reception children.
The children had prepared some questions to ask the police officers and the one that was the most interesting was, “Do you use booby traps?” The answer was yes! Sally-Anne described ‘stingers’ to an intrigued audience. The children tried on uniform and then had a look around a police vehicle – Burglar Bill enjoyed sitting in the driver’s seat, attempting to make a quick getaway.
The final thrill was listening to the siren which we learnt has four different sounds.
Year 2 had an exciting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) workshop at the Senior School.
The children had to build buildings using K’NEX that would be able to withstand an earthquake.
We tested the buildings using a special earthquake simulator and all of them were strong enough to stay standing!
The children at Queen’s House have been having fun on World Maths Day solving puzzles and mathematical problems.
Year 1 looked at Wizard coordinates, while children in Reception enjoyed a maths session with their parents decorating fairy cakes using as many different combinations using a restricted number of toppings.
World Book Day was celebrated this week at The Abbey and at Queen’s House. The day began, at each location, with a celebration assembly and the children all enjoyed spotting their favourite characters.
There was a fantastic array of costumes and the children spent the rest of day exploring their favourite books and characters.
Thank you to all parents for, once again, providing such wonderful costumes!