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• Saturday 13 May 2023 Mini Monsters visit - Year 3 Last week Year 3 were visited by some mini monsters. They were all given the chance to hold snakes, millipedes and spiders and giant snails!
• Friday 12 May 2023 Coronation Picnic 2023 To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III we planned a big family picnic on our field. However, the Great British weather meant that we had to move the event inside and cancel the invitation for families to join together.
• Thursday 15 December 2022 A very merry Christmas to you all What a festive and merry time we have had here at Whitefriars this month! It has been so nice to get back to normal and to invite parents in again after a few years of having to send our Christmas wishes remotely!
• Wednesday 14 December 2022 Christmas Story Writing Competition WRITING COMPETITION WINNERCongratulations to Ted on winning the Russen and Turner Christmas story writing competition! He wrote a wonderful story called: Santa and the Pirates! Yesterday, Ted recorded his story and it will played on Radio West Norfolk on Christmas Day.Ted won £65 of The Entertainer vouchers and £200 of Waterstones vouchers for the school.Well done Ted!
• Friday 9 December 2022 Our wonderful Ofsted report November 2022 Just after half term, Ofsted visited us to complete an ungraded inspection. They spent 2 days in school analysing everything that we do. It was an extremely thorough process which involved: lesson observations, pupil and staff interviews, looking at the children’s books, examining behaviour of the children around the school and more.The report states that if it had been a graded inspection then the school would have been judged as Outstanding (which is incredible!) Ofsted will be returning to the school soon (usually within a year) to complete a graded inspection and hopefully award us an Outstanding judgement!The report is wonderfully positive with so many lovely comments which reinforce what a truly special school Whitefriars is!• Pupils flourish in this highly ambitious and inclusive school.• Pupils in all year groups behave exceptionally well in lessons and around the school. They demonstrate high levels of respect and kindness towards each other.• Pupils have
• Friday 25 November 2022 Cross Country Finals Congratulations to the children who represented Whitefriars in yesterday’s Cross Country Finals at Lynnsport. All the children did a fantastic job of challenging themselves and everyone finished in the top 20 for their age group, with 2 of the girls finishing in the top 5.Poppy certainly enjoyed her time supporting from the sidelines and may even have added some additional motivation at the finish line.Well done to all the children who participated at some level during this event, you did yourselves and the school proud.
• Tuesday 18 October 2022 PTA Meet and Greet YOUR PTA NEEDS YOU!The past couple of years have been tricky for our Parent Teacher Association (PTA) due to Covid and the many restrictions imposed.However, we hope that 2022/23 will be a great year for the PTA and we would LOVE your help to do this!If you would like to find out more about how you can help please come along to an informal get together after school (children welcome) on Wednesday 9th November at 3pm.There will be cake as well as toys from our lovely Breakfast Club to keep the little ones entertained!We hope to see you there!
• Wednesday 12 October 2022 Year 3 - Neolithic Britain Trip We’ve had a brilliant day at Gressenhall learning all about Britain in the Neolithic (new) Stone Age! Here’s what we got up to…?? Farming - hoed & ploughed fields and ground wheat using a quern stone.?? Building dens - used teamwork to build dens in the woods out of long sticks, animal hide and string.?? Hunting - learned how to sneak up on and hunt wild animals in a group with a throwing spear.?? Flint-knapping - learning about how flint was used to scrape animal hides clean.
• Friday 7 October 2022 Harvest Festival and Foodbank Donations Year 4 led a fantastic service at King's Lynn Minster and reminded us why we celebrate at harvest time.
• Friday 30 September 2022 Macmillan Coffee Morning 2022 The coffee morning was a great success. We sold cakes which had been donated by our generous families and held a raffle. Later in the day every child was given a piece of cake donated by the PTA.
• Wednesday 28 September 2022 Year 2 trip to Pensthorpe The Year 2 children had a great day at Pensthorpe learning about habitat and food chains.
• Friday 23 September 2022 Open Day for new parents
• Thursday 22 September 2022 Year 5 WW2 Evacuee Trip Wow what a day!Here are a few pictures from our WW2 day at Gressenhall. First, we met in the chapel hall and we were introduced to our leaders for the day. We went to help Mable with the Women’s Land Army. We learned about growing crops and the clothing they had to wear. We then learned about what to do in an air raid. Beware the videos are loud. The first video is an air raid siren warning us of an incoming German bombing run. The second is a warning of a gas attack. We had to take cover in the Anderson shelter! Later, we then practised and completed basic training as part of the Home Guard. We learned how to march, stand at ease and stand at attention! Then we took part in bayonet training. We learned how to hold our rifles and bayonets. We marched to our training area and practised our war cries and attacked the sacks from a tree . We then finished with a shopping trip to learn about rations and a cooking lesson on WW2 ingredients . What a wonderful day. The children we
• Tuesday 6 September 2022 Welcome to 2022-23! We would like to welcome all the children back to school. We hope you have a great year.
• Friday 22 July 2022 Year 6 Leaver's Service Our lovely Year 6's did a great job at our church service this morning. They shared their memories of their time here at Whitefriars and sang a great rendition of "Happy".
• Tuesday 19 July 2022 Heatwave 2022! Well done to all of the children who made it into school in the last few days. The children have spend the two days with their new teachers so these days are crucial for transition. Mr Tuckwood walked around the school several times and everyone seemed very settled in their new classes. The children were really sensible and stayed in the shade and drank lots!
• Wednesday 13 July 2022 Sports Day 2022
• Friday 8 July 2022 Tennis Tournament This morning some of our Year 6 pupils attended a Tennis festival at Lynnsport. There were many matches played against the other schools and victories on either side. The weather was scorching so the children earned their water today.Hopefully we’ve inspired the next generation of Norrie’s and Raducanu’s.Great job everyone.
• Wednesday 25 May 2022 Football Tournaments
• Monday 23 May 2022 Jubilee Celebrations On Monday 23rdMay, to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Whitefriars dressed up in red, white and blue and were involved in lots of different activities. In KS1, the children learned a song which they performed in assembly, made crowns and necklaces and decorated flags. In lower KS2, the children identified the commonwealth countries, designed posters using their publishing skills, created their own Andy Warhol artwork and sorted a timeline of photos of key events in chronological order. In upper KS2, the children created a collage of the Queen, took part in a 1950s Sports Day, a history and music quiz and identified where the Queen has visited in Kings Lynn.
• Wednesday 18 May 2022 Cricket Competition
• Tuesday 29 March 2022 Collection for refugees Access (previously KLARS) and The Hanse Union are collecting medical supplies for the refugees from the conflict in the Ukraine.Items can be brought to the school office after the Easter Holidays (from 20th April - 29th April).If you would like to donate this is the list of items they have requested;- Nappies- Baby wipes- Anti-diarrhoea tablets- Nurofen- Activated Charcoal- Bandages- Gauze- Antiseptic spray- Antiseptic wipes- Antiseptic cream/gel- Antihistamine- Anything with Iodine- Batteries- Torches- Candles (sticks)- First aid bags (to put items in)- First aid kits- Sleeping bags (waterproof if possible)- Plastic/polystyrene cups
• Friday 28 January 2022 Hilltop 2022 After an eventful couple of days in the great outdoors, Hilltop has definitely challengedYear 6andtaken themout oftheircomfort zone.From super swings to rock climbing to zip lining, every activity allowed the children to push beyond their own expectations and the results have been phenomenal.Every single person should be proud of their achievements.
• Wednesday 8 December 2021 Christmas Choir Our lunchtime choir visited Vancouver Quarter twice this weekto perform some lovely Christmas carols. They did a brilliant job with sooooo many shoppers stopping to pass on their compliments.They performed for half an hourin themorning and another half an hourin theafternoon (in the rain!) and raised so much money for the Night shelter! In fact the Vancouver Quarter Director liked the children’s performance so much he offered to triple the donations!!
• Tuesday 7 December 2021 Caretaker's bungalow conversion King’s Lynn primary turns caretaker’s bungalow into learning space (lynnnews.co.uk)
• Thursday 25 November 2021 Planting fun! Miss Minns & her gardening team ????? have made good use of this afternoon’s sunshine planting bulbs around the perimeter of the school field. This will help to bring some brightness & colour ?? ?? The bulbs were kindly given to the school by one of our neighbours, Mr Loveless. Thank you ??
• Tuesday 23 November 2021 Cross Country Update Well done to the children in Years 3 and 4 that progressed to the Cross Country finals. On Tuesday they were chauffeured to Lynnsport to show off their running prowess.Within both age categoriesthe childrenrepresented the school magnificently and showed real determination. Their final finishing positions are something to be proud off.Well done to all the runners ?????We look forward to the next sporting competition.
• Thursday 18 November 2021 Odd Socks Day 2021 We are all unique! Thank you to everyone who joined in our odd sock ?? day to start off our Anti-bullying week.
• Friday 12 November 2021 Cross Country 2021 Earlier this week, we were fortunate to be able to send 25 children from Year 2 to Year 6 to compete in the annual Cross Country competition at Lynnsport.The last time we entered in 2019, we had 2 children qualify for the next stage, this year we were able to secure 5 top 10 finishes, qualifying for the next stage in 2 weeks, this is fantastic.Even more impressive was that 2 of those finished 2nd in their respective races. A huge congratulations tothem!We look forward to attending in a few weeks and reporting more success from our marvellous marathon runners.Enjoy the pictures of the event.Thanks to all the children for representing Whitefriars and to Mr Youngs, Mr Major, Mr Tuckwood and Poppy for cheering them on.
• Friday 24 September 2021 Macmillan Coffee Morning 2021 Today, we raised funds for Macmillan Cancer Support by dressing in non-uniform with a green theme and selling cakes. The children were all given the opportunity to buy a piece of cake (donated by our generous PTA) at break time and the staff brought in cakes that were sold in the staff room.

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