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The choir who will be representing the school at the Sing Out Against Cancer on the 24th April have had their photos taken for the display that will be set up on the day. Parents of Choir pupils please make sure reply slips have been completed. Tickets for the event are available from Mrs Matthews.   Trimley St Martin Primary School have been asked to provide a choir for the 'Sing Out Against Cancer' charity concert on 24th April 2015.
We've decided to select around 20 pupils and have 6 solo sections. In today's assembly children were invited to audition for the solo parts in front of the judges (Mrs MacFarlane, Mrs Hayter & Miss Winton). I know they say this a lot on 'The Voice' and 'X Factor' but it was so difficult to choose! Trimley's Got Talent! The singing was amazing and the confidence shown by the children was fantastic. Over the next week or so, we'll allocate the children the specific lines that they will sing and provide them with a copy of the lyrics as a whole. We'll then create our choir who will perform alongside these children on the day. Will K (Year 3) Joseph (Year 5) Ewan (Year 5) Temperance (Year 3) Alphonsine (Year 4) Mollie (Year 6)
Just an update on where half of the money we raised from Children in Need day has gone. Paula Goodson (A friend of Mrs Ross) has travelled to Sri Lanka to help build a school and work with the children there. Above are some more pictures of Paula with the children.
well done cain & grace! 2nd & 4th place in Felixstowe family of schools business card competition!1/12/2014
At 10am on 1st December, the result of the Felixstowe Family of Schools Business Card competition was announced. All schools in the Felixstowe and Trimley Family of Schools took part. The competition was designed to raise awareness of the shared Family website at www.felixstoweprimaryschools.com . The video below was shared with all the pupils at 10am LIVE across all 9 schools! Well done to all of the children who entered and well done to Cain Yr6 and Grace Yr5 who were in the top five entries chosen by the Felixstowe Head teachers.  Today, children from TSM travelled to Duxford to compete in the Lego Robotics Competition.
The children completed in a number of rounds which involved programming the Robots to complete specific tasks, a presentation and a discussion and questioning around core values. The presentation was perfection! Mollie, Ellie, Grace, Daniel, Lauryn, Travis, Edward and Mazden were a million times improved since Monday's run through! Superb! Children clearly took away the comments and the feedback and modified the presentation to produce a presentation that was so perfect the judges struggled to think of any challenging questions to ask the children. In the programming rounds, Daniel and Travis were exceptional under pressure. An issue with the light sensor on the school's robot meant that the children were put under additional pressure in the initial 2 rounds. By the final robotic round, it appeared that the robots issues had been addressed and the two boys gave an excellent performance in the final round. The final result didn't go in our favour. We finished second meaning we just missed out on a place in the National Final at Loughborough as we didn't win the overall trophy. I know our children were incredibly disappointed by the result but all of the children worked so hard today and for what its worth I know I was so proud of our children and what they did today. Today just wasn't our day and in any competition there is always an element of luck! On this occasion, luck was not on our side. We are resilient! We know that we gave it our best and on the day there were other teams that were better than us. We'll dust ourselves off, pick ourselves up and give ourselves credit for the fact that we were one of the youngest teams there and one of very few mainstream schools that were competing. Thank you to all the parents who came along and supported including the ex pupils who came along to support younger siblings, Mr Edwards and the rest of the team. The biggest thank you must go to Mr Edwards. Mr Edwards is a volunteer. He works tirelessly with our children, he purchases the equipment with money from his own pocket, he pays the entry fees and had paid for the children to have Robolab t-shirts. I am extremely grateful for everything he does for our children and just want to say 'Thank you Sir - we really appreciate everything that you do!' You may remember that we said we were spitting the money raised for Children in Need this year; with half being sent to Children in need and the other half sent to a friend of Mrs Ross (Paula Goodson) who was taking the money out to a school she is helping to build in Sri Lanka. We chose to do this because we were so keen to ensure that our children got to see first hand the impact their fundraising could make. Below is a photograph sent from the school this week. More information to come soon!  An excellent day had by all, fundraising for a good cause! Even the staff at the school, dressed up as a superheroes! Well done though to the children, who came up with a different interpretation of what it is to be a superhero! Some came dressed as soldiers, doctors and some came dressed up as member from their family that they deem to have super hero status in their eyes. It was great fun watching the confusion on the children's faces when Mr Childs (dressed as me!) opened the gate in the morning! I heard though, that despite looking like me, he hasn't quite mastered the walk yet! Most children could guess who I was... but a few asked who I'd come dressed up as! Perhaps if the wig had been a little more convincing it may have worked! Anyway... today was about raising money and awareness for a good cause and that we did! Mrs Simpson is in process of the totalling up the money raised and half will be sent off to Children in Need and half will go to the charity run by Mrs Ross's friend who travels out to Africa to help build schools for children. Thank you to all!  To commemorate Armistice Day we had an Armistice Assembly; year 6 read out the War Poetry which they wrote in class and is display and presented around the school. We also sang our song about soldiers who fought in the wars... Children across the week have also shared experiences and those who have visited the Tower of London to see the poppies also brought in photographs to share of their experience. At 11 am, we will have our two minutes silence!  During todays RE curriculum afternoon each class found out about a particular celebration connected to the religions the children are currently studying in class. The children learnt about a celebration, the traditions surrounding that celebration, the purpose and in some cases they re enacted parts of the celebration to experience it first hand. As promised I did wear my Hindu outfit and had a great time teaching the Reception Class some super Bhangra dancing ready for Diwali. The whole purpose of the afternoon was to bring R.E. to life. Hopefully children will remember the activities they completed today in years to come as well as developing a greater understanding of the religions in the world in which they live. The children learnt about the following celebrations. YEAR R – Hinduism ‘Divali’ YEAR 1 – Judaism ‘Passover’ YEAR 2 – Christianity ‘Baptism’ YEAR 3 – Christianity ‘Weddings’ YEAR 4 – Christianity ‘Holy Communion’ YEAR 5 – Christianity ‘Christmas’ (Comparing varying traditions around the world) YEAR 6 – Buddhism ‘Vesak’ The event was attended by the Vice Chair of Governors, Lorna Adamson, and the feedback I received from both Lorna and the parents in the playground afterwards was very positive indeed. These curriculum afternoons take a lot of extra preparation and planning and the teachers spend a lot of time creating resources and setting up the rooms ready for parents to come in and work alongside the children. The super positive comments received along with seeing the enjoyment had by children makes the time and effort all worthwhile. I spoke to a few parents during the event about things we could improve on next time and so we have some tweaks that we can make to the next curriculum afternoon.  Me and Mrs Ross showing some Bhangra dancing! Teachers were asked to think about children in their class who most represented the values of the class they have taught this year. E.g in Reception who most represented the happy, independent and friendly values connected with the Hughes Class. The winners were:  Hughes Class Winner Beatrice Bloomfield  Armstrong Class Winner: Phoebe Lenson  Nightingale Class Winner Grace Avery  Edison Class Winner Luke Baker  Pendleton Class Winner Edward Matthews  Mandela Class Winner
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