WHATS ON
CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY
This year's Christmas jumper day is Friday 15th December.
Children are invited to come into school wearing non-school uniform along with a Christmas jumper.
There is a suggested donation of £1 for Save the Children.
Remember, there’s no need to buy a new jumper.
You could upcycle an old jumper, get crafty or head to your local charity shop to buy a pre-loved festive knit.
If you want to get creative and decorate a jumper, the Christmas jumper day website contains lots of fun craft ideas.
If children do not have a Christmas jumper, they may still come in non-uniform and the suggested donation.
Please refer to the parent mail that went out for more information.
CHRISTMAS LUNCH
This year’s Christmas lunch will be on Friday 15th December.
You can order your child’s Christmas lunch using the link that was provided in the parent email.
If you have more than one child at Freeman wishing to order a Christmas lunch a separate form will need to be completed for each child.
The cost of Christmas lunch is the normal meal price of £2.35.
Children who are entitled to free school meals or are in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 will receive their meal free of charge as usual.
No payment is needed at this time, as Christmas lunch payments can be made as normal the week beginning 11th December.
Please be aware that the deadline for ordering a Christmas lunch is Thursday 30th November.
No other school dinner or school packed lunch will be served on that day so if your child does not wish to have the Christmas lunch, please arrange for them to have a home packed lunch.
YEAR 2 CHRISTMAS NATIVITY
Fireside Nativity by Maple class will be performed to parents on Thursday 14th December at 9:10am and 2pm
On Wednesday the 13th December there will be a performance to the rest of the school, where we hope all siblings that are in school and the pre-school will be able to join us.
Tickets are limited to two tickets per family, for each performance.
Children under 5 will require their own ticket.
Ticket forms were handed out with your children.
Please ensure ticket forms are returned to the school by Friday 1st December.
Top of the Rocks - CET Winter Tournament
Children in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 have been entered in to an inter-Trust times table competition using the TT Rockstars platform against all of the schools in the Trust.
The competition starts on Monday 27th November and ends on Friday 15th December.
It is based on the whole school, not individual children, so we need as many children as possible to answers times table questions during this time!
To take part, all they need to do is log in to TT Rockstars, and complete any of the single player games.
They can log in as many times as they like during this time.
Plenty of opportunities will be on offer, to come in at lunch time to use the school laptops and tablets.
We look forward to letting you know how we do!
GO FREEMAN!!
FoF CHRISTMAS HAMPERS
Thank you to everyone who kindly donated treats and gifts to the recent Non-School uniform day. Stowupland Friends of Freeman have put together 7 hampers from your donations and these will be available to win in our Stowupland Friends of Freeman Christmas raffle.
All monies raised go directly into our charity to support the school.
Tickets are on sale (£1 a ticket) until Monday 11th December and the raffle will be drawn on 15th December 2023.
Tickets may be sold to anyone over 18, so if you would like tickets for friends or family, additional books are available from the school office.
SO FAR THIS YEAR...
CHILDREN IN NEED
Children enjoyed a day of dressing in spots or as their real life super hero on Friday 17th November for Children In Need.
All classes were encouraged to bring loose change in to fill up a pudsey bear outline.
Lots of change was gathered up and a grand total of £322.48 to donate!
FoF SCHOOL DISCO
Friends of Freeman held their Autumn school disco on Thursday 16th November.
There was a lot of excitment in the lead up and throughout the night from all children.
Everyone did really well and lots of fun was had!.
THE NASAL FLU VACCINE
Thursday 16th November
Flu vaccine on offer for all children in the school. Reception though to year 6.
A parent email will be sent out with more information and a consent form link.
YEAR 6 DUXFORD TRIP
Wednesday 15th November year 6 enjoyed a trip to Duxford as part of their World War 2 history topic. They learnt lots of new information, enjoyed looking at all the exhibits and even went on the Concorde!
YEAR 4 - WOODBRIDGE TRIP
Monday 6th November year 4 visited The Longshed in Woodbridge to start their History Topic on the Anglo-Saxons.
The children had a fabulous morning learning lots of information and getting a chance at being hands on with plenty of activities on offer.
FoF DRESS DOWN
Friday 3rd November will be a dress down, non-uniform day.
FoF are creating christmas hampers to be raffled at christmas time, with each hamper being based on a colour of the rainbow.
Children are asked to bring in a donation of something that matches the colour of their class to go towards the hampers.
What a great outcome!
Raffle tickets are now on sale.
SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR
We had our first book fair of the school year at the beginning of November and what a roaring success it was!!
A grand total of £1200 was made in sales, 50% of which the school can spend in free books for our school library.
Thank you so much to everyone who popped in and purcahsed any books.
POPPY APPEAL
Year 6 did a great job taking the poppy appeal collection box around to all the class rooms, the week leading up to Remembrance Day.
In total as a school we raised £244.78
Which is incredible! Thank you to everyone that purchased something and donated to such a great cause.
