Hickling Infant School 2018/19

Another cracking week of learning!  In Maths we have been working on our addition and subtraction skills and in Literacy we read a new story called 'My Granny went to Market' and then had to write postcards to Granny from different countries. We were trying to make our postcards really exciting by using adjectives to describe things. We also had a fabulous trip to the Royal Norfolk Show on Wednesday. Each group explored lots of different activities and sights. Miss Wones' group decided they'd like to climb the tower and so up we went, only to meet a furry, friendly creature! A lovely sports afternoon, a Friday forest school morning and celebration assembly rounded off our busy week. HUGE thanks to everyone who could join us for sports day or assembly - it is always great to share the children's achievements and learning together :-) 

At the end of a very busy Thursday at our federation sports day at Sutton when tennis club was in full swing, a lorry appeared and delivered our GIANT bucket and spade!  We are designing and painting it for Break Charity's summer trail at Hemsby Beach Holiday Park from 27th July - 2nd September. Here are some of our amazing, colourful designs...

I know you will all have heard about Florence's visit to Hickling.  This is her first time travelling outside of Malawi!  During her week she has joined in with our learning, got wet in forest school, cooked nsima with maize flour for us to try and been to the farm.  Her words to Miss Wones were 'this is not a school, it is a family.' How amazing!  

Mrs Holmes, Miss Turner and Mrs. Bush took our amazing reception and year 1 children to the farm, we had a fantastic day even in the rain! It was great fun being collected by tractor and trailer.  We saw Hickling broad, walked, jumped and cleaned our wellies in the puddles (we all loved this bit!)  In the fields there were potatoes and sugar beet growing, farmer Jack pulled some up for us to see.  When we got to the farm we all had a turn sitting in the tractor and combine harvester, most of us curled up inside the wheels.  We all held chicks and found out that at the moment they have 80,000 chicks on the farm - wow!!  We looked at creatures from the pond, different moths, pictures of different birds and we found out how birds are ringed, we even had a go at throwing toy birds in to the net that catches them for ringing.  After all of this we ran down to the old mill and climbed to the top, we could see across the broad and lots of swans.  On the way home we stopped off to see the co