Forest School Fridays!
Published 13/10/23
Forest School Fridays!
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Below you can see some of the things that the classes at Dennington have been doing.
There are more photographs of these events in the Photo Gallery section.
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Read MoreWrens Roman Trip!
Published 03/10/23Wrens spent an exciting day as archaeologists excavating a Roman villa! We uncovered the remains of the walls and a number of rooms, some with mosaic floors. We found quite a lot of pottery pieces which would have been bowls, Roman coins, broaches and the remains of the food they would have eaten. We were able to work out what life would have been like in the Roman villa using the evidence that we found.
Read MoreSwallows go back in time
Published 02/10/23Swallows went back in time to World War Two. We walked to the church, where we listened to a recording of the war announcement, wrote letters to our parents and posted them, as evacuees. We walked to the pill box and had our WW2 rationed picnics out on the field, before returning to school where we made some recipes using the limited ingredients available to us!
Read MoreTower of London visit
Published 02/10/23Swallows children journeyed by train to London, from Ipswich station to Liverpool Street station, and enjoyed a river trip down the Thames to see the sights. The visit to the Tower of London brought alive our learning about the Tudors, and seeing "Raleigh's Walk" was a wonderful link to our reading "My Friend Walter" by Micheal Morpurgo.
Read MoreHilltop Residential
Published 02/10/23November 2022
The School residential visit to Hilltop, near Sherringham in Norfolk, was a really great time! We love the motto "Challenge by Choice" - and that is what we all did that week! See the photo gallery for more pictures of some of the challenges and adventures we had and the memories they created.
Read MoreLion King Summer Play
Published 02/10/23July 2023 The Lion King was a huge success and thoroughly enjoyed by performers and audience alike! The choreography, singing, dancing and acting were all amazing and will be remembered for a long time to come!
Read MoreOur school play Annie
Published 28/09/22Key Stage 2 had a fantastic 3 night run performing Annie, our school play. There were fantastic performances from all actors who really acted out their parts and delivered their lines with great expression and character. We really enjoyed singing the songs, particularly 'It's a Hard Knock Life' and doing the dance routines.
Read MoreWater fight
Published 28/09/22On one of the hottest days of the year, we had a fun time cooling off in our whole school water fight!
Read MoreSports Day 2022
Published 28/09/22We had lovely weather for our sports day this year, which the children thoroughly enjoyed. After spending the morning completing different sporting events to win prizes for our house, we walked down to the village field to complete in the races. The parents cheered on as the children took part in the sprint, egg and spoon, piggies in blankets and space hopper races. Attenborough house were thrilled to have won the sports day trophy this year having collected the most points for their team throughout the day.
Read MoreDennington Summer Fayre
Published 28/09/22Our summer fare was a great success! The BBQ, tea and cakes stall proved to be popular, and the children particularly enjoyed playing splat the rat and the football stall. The highlight of the day was the dog show. So many dogs were in attendance, proudly displaying their rosettes for winning the different classes in the dog show including waggiest tail, dog most like their owner and best / worst trained dog.
Thank you so much to the Friends of Dennington School for organising the fayre. We raised a grand total of £1,461.16 for the school.
Read MoreThe Platinum Jubilee
Published 28/09/22The whole school spent a lovely day celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee on the school field with our families. All children and teachers came into school dressed in the clothing of one of the decades of the Queen's reign. After eating fish and chips and ice-cream for lunch, each class performed a maypole dance. The children entered cakes into the Jubilee cake baking competition which were judged with prizes handed out. We showed parents our Jubilee art work and time-line which was then displayed in Dennington Church during the Jubilee weekend.
Read MoreWren Experience Neolithic Britain
Published 28/09/22Wrens class had an exciting day learning about what life was like in Neolithic Britain, when we visited Gressenhall Farm. We took part in a number of hands-on activities including how to hunt and gather food, building shelters, farming and grinding wheat to make bread. We all decided that it was hard work living in the Stone Age!