Goodbye
22nd July, 2008
As always, the end of the year is time for sorrowful but sweet goodbyes: sorrowful because saying goodbye is always sad, but sweet because we know that things must change, and that new and exciting things lie ahead. Year Six, thank you for your amazing assembly, and Mrs Morgan, thank you for so many years of dedicated hard work. Goodbye, also, to Mrs Yarham and Mrs Whisken - you will be missed!
Another year ended, and please - look back over the website to remember some excellent moments throughout the year; our residential visits, one or two extra-special classroom events and plenty of good hard work! Have a wonderful summer break, and return refreshed after the holidays, ready to explore those new and exciting things...
Billy's dad Daniel, a local fisherman in Wells, visited France Class with a lobster, some crabs and starfishes as part of our community fishing project. The Reception and Year One children were very excited about meeting the sea creatures, but not as excited as one of the crabs which jumped out of the tray and tried to escape across the classroom floor! Luckily Daniel was able to catch it before it got too far away!
The children had lots of questions for Daniel which they had written during their Literacy lessons and we found out so much information about lobsters and crabs. Mrs Stratton was amazed at how much there was to find out about lobsters! Did you know that lobsters can have ten thousand babies? Many thanks to Daniel for giving up his time to come and see us.
France and Germany Classes had a fantastic day out at the Sea Life Centre in Hunstanton. They watched the penguins, otters and seals being fed and then were joined by some hungry ducks at lunch time! In the shark lagoon they found out some amazing facts about sharks. The Centre provided a Touch Pool session for us where everyone got the chance to hold a giant spiky starfish!
In our photos you can see a very tolerant giant Spiky Starfish, and look - there were some rather unusual creatures lurking at the bottom of the Shark Lagoon!
Mr Frary, Stephanie's dad, kindly came into Nursery to show the children how to dress a fresh crab. Mr Speck's class came to watch, too. The children also had the chance to taste the crab meat and ask questions about crab fishing at Wells-next-the-Sea. A big thank you to Stephanies Dad for coming in!
Year Four had a wonderful time at Salthouse on Friday. Our luxury coach took us right to Salthouse village hall where Jane Wells and her friend Mark met us. Only an hour later, and we'd already thought of the first verse of our sea song, and worked out part of the melody.
Back to the village hall, and we broke out the ocean drums, violins, guitars and all manner of other instruments. Everybody played something - even Sian's mum was equipped with a drum! Mark impressed everyone with his guitar, and recorded the whole thing for us. It's being mixed over the weekend, and we'll hear the finished product for the first time on Monday... fingers crossed!
On Friday, Year 5 children spent a half day session with 
The children had to listen very carefully to Andrew's instructions to enable them to produce their pictures and were thrilled with their results. It was very enjoyable and the children were amazed at what they were able to produce without using modern technology.
We were very lucky in the Nursery to have Zak's Dad come into Nursery to make us special ice creams for our 'Ice Cream Day!'
Zak's Dad is a chef at Fakenham Garden Centre and he kindly brought in special cones, ice cream, flakes and toppings for us all. Thank you very much Mr Moore!
We made a pretend ice cream shop in the Nursery. We dressed up for a day at the beach and bought an ice cream at the ice cream shop with out pretend money. Yum yum!
It was only last week that Year Six waved goodbye to their friends from the Gallions Primary School in London, and not long now until they hop on a coach for another visit.
Year Three were joined by Katie from the Norfolk Dance Group for a two hour workshop. We had great fun imitating crabs, jellyfish, shoals of fish and sea monsters. Our picture shows Daniel's group being a fearsome sea monster.
Well, it's been a busy time for Italy class. We have been getting fully involved in the fishing project.
The Mural is beginning to look fantastic.
Our visit to the lifeboat station was great fun. Allen, the coxswain, was asked lots of questions by the class and set he them a challenge. Well done Jessica, Luke, Samantha, Kieran... and Mrs Jennings, for being ready and able. Thank you also to Allen for his time.
After our visit we went back to the beach and made coastal creatures. We had to think about where they would live, how they would move and what they would eat. There was a suggestion that they might eat teachers. Fortunately teachers natural habitat is the classroom, not the beach... so we got away with that one!
Finally, thank you Rozzie for showing the class how to make felt, these pieces are going to really make our fabric collages stand out.
Year Three had a wonderful time when Cyril Southerland came in to show them how fishing nets were made. They even had a go themselves...
Once again, our violinists performed for us in assembly. It's hard to believe that they've made so much progress since September.
Year 4 had a wonderful time on Monday afternoon with Geoff Youngman, an expert in tying knots of all kinds. If you want to see the kinds of wonderful, decorative knots Geoff can tie, visit his website 
Harriet, Josh and Abbie represented Wells Primary school in the North Norfolk Junior Triathlon on Saturday the 14th of June, at the Alderman Peel High School. They did extremely well, and took part against members of Triathlon clubs from all over England. Well done!
On Thursday 12th June Y6 from Wells Primary School spent a morning at Alderman Peel High School. Some members of Y6 joined five Y9 Food Technology students and Miss Davies. The rest of Y6 joined Mr Thompson in an ICT lesson.
Did you see that Wells-next-the-Sea has been 
Our Fishing Project has begun! One of the earliest events is the book fair. Everyone had a great time looking at the books this afternoon, and those who'd saved up some pennies were able to return after school and buy a little something to take home.
Well done to our cricketers, who once again did the school proud. Excellent work...
A surprise for four of our children in assembly today, as mysterious white envelopes were handed out. Finlay opened his and read out to us that he had been chosen as one of the Carnival Queen's attendants for 
Year Five told us all about their recent trip to Brancaster. The farm was a clear favourite, and we were particularly delighted to find out that Ben thought the piglets were so cute he 'just wanted to pick them up and dip them in his coffee'. Charlotte and Mrs Gates waved their knitting at everyone, and Nathanial described the cycling to us. It sounded like great fun!
Billy brought two hermit crabs to school today. They've become quite famous and have visited most classrooms. Did you have a visit from Danny and Chloe the wandering hermits?
Year 6 presented 'Silver And Gold', a song about friendship. The children choreographed it themselves and organised the percussion, main singers, backing singers and dancers. Reception, Year One and Year Two enjoyed the performance very much.
Year 1 and 2 came down to the Nursery today to give us a short assembly about the story of Noah and the ark. They showed us their fantastic moving pictures that they had made in technology.
Year Three and Four had a great time at Sennowe Park learning all about the outdoors life. We found out about fishing, beekeeping and forestry. There were gamekeepers to talk to, arable farming equipment to see and a cow and her calf to visit. We munched our picnic at the edge of a field, and went to see the hounds and the retrievers. Great fun!
On Friday 9th May 2008, Norman Lamb visited Wells-Next-The Sea Primary and Nursery School to watch a five-a-side football match between the Year Six children and to see the school's new football kit in action. The school purchased the new kit in a variety of different sizes with a £400 grant from the Football Foundation. Norman Lamb wrote to the school to say that the grant was available and his visit was the school's way of saying 'thank you' to him for this information, without which we would not have known about the Football Foundation grant.
During his visit to the school, Mr. Lamb met with the school's PE Co-ordinator and Primary Link Teacher for PE, Miss Rachel Vincent, who made the initial grant application, and Mr. David Baldwin, the school's Deputy Head Teacher and Year Six teacher. Mr. Lamb watched a five-a-side football match involving the Year Six children and commented upon the quality of football displayed and the children's good sportsmanship. Mr. Lamb also showed us his own football skills, taking several well-placed penalties against our two goalkeepers and joining the team for the last five minutes of the match. Miss Vincent also tried her hand at taking a couple of penalties, but was thwarted by the skills of the two goalkeepers.
Year Five gave a most impressive display of their musical skills in assembly today. They've been hard at work learning the clarinet every Thursday afternoon, and their hard work has really paid off.
Did you hear our poets reading their work on Norfolk Radio this morning? Wally Webb visited our school to find out about our work with the 
The new School Council recently had their second meeting of the half term. Don't forget to see your School Council representative if you have any suggestions or comments about how you could make our school better. They're eager to help!
Year 5 were thrilled that their letters had been responded to, but were even more pleased to see the crossing lights flashing!
You may remember our Mathletics wizard, Sian, getting a certificate in assembly on Friday for her hard work battling away at mental maths with opponents from around the world.
We hope everyone enjoyed our How Hill assembly as much as we enjoyed going to How Hill! It was nice to be able to tell everyone about the fun activities we did, including our sighting of an otter.
Table Tennis Club started again today. Everyone had a great time over in the Hall, and we think we might have one or two champions in the making!
Lots of certificates to be handed out in assembly today for parents, grandparents and carers who have taken part in our maths course for adults. Everyone has done really well, learning all about the ways we teach maths now which might have changed a little since some of us were in school!
You might remember Year 4 taking part in the Norfolk Libraries' Children's Book Awards earlier this year. They had a box of books to read, emailed Dawn at the Library with their comments, and voted for their favourite books. They also drew their own versions of the book covers, and sent them off to the Library.
Welcome back from the Easter holiday! Did you manage to play in the snow on Easter Sunday before it all melted?
The Wells-next-the-Sea Fair Trade website now has poems on by Lola, Fletcher and Luke from Year Five. 
Parents and children from Key Stage 2 made Easter cards and gift boxes during our Easter activity workshop. There was a good turnout and everyone was pleased with the crafts they'd made.
The Nursery have been working hard during Environmental Education fortnight. They've used twigs to make beautiful mobiles for their tree. Why not find a moment at playtime to admire them?
Hi everyone! It's that old Mrs Morgan keeping in touch, and letting you know how things are going. As most of you know, I went into the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital on Tuesday of last week to have a brand new knee fitted to my right leg. Isn't it amazing what the medical profession can do these days? They gave me some medicine to send me off to sleep and, when I woke up again, I found myself in a hospital bed, hooked up to more medicine to stop things hurting, and with a bandaged knee.
They let me have quite a good sleep on Tuesday night, but on Wednesday they really began to boss me about. I expect that's quite a funny picture isn't it? Bossy Mrs Morgan being bossed about by young nurses, and having to do as she was told! I was a very good patient and listened carefully to instructions. I felt extraordinarily proud of myself when I made myself get out of bed on the Thursday and walk to the loo using my ultra-cool walking frame. I got a round of applause for that! If I'd been at school I would probably have deserved the Worker of the Week award.
One or two cards and presents exchanged hands at the Valentine's Disco - we have the photographic evidence! Of course, we're far too nice to reveal all; your secrets are safe with us, Year 6!
Year 4 were finally able to launch their rockets after windy weather postponed their launch two weeks ago. Meanwhile, Year 3 had been hard at work making their own launchpads and rockets. Whose rockets would fly the highest?
Everyone enjoyed the assembly from Germany class, which featured a dancing Chinese dragon, lots of noisy drums and lucky red packages. We also heard the story of how the animals had years named after them, acted out with beautiful masks. A peaceful song finished off the assembly perfectly. Well done, Germany class!
Lots of excitement going on as everyone tried out different musical instruments in the beautiful, newly-extended Nursery garden. What fun!
The Lions have kindly donated this wonderful weather board to the Nursery so they can learn all about the different seasons. Thank you, Lions!
France and Germany classes have been learning about old and new toys in History this half term. To help them with this topic they had a visit from Megan Dennis from the Town House Museum in King's Lynn. She brought lots of old toys for the children to handle and play with. The children were taught how to play Jacks and how to use a whip and top. One particular favourite was the pop gun!
Well done to our violinists, and their teacher Mrs Coleman, who entertained us in assembly with their skills. You sounded really good!
Lots of fun down at the Nursery for Pancake Day as they tried their hand at tossing pancakes and enjoyed fun pancake races. Mrs Whitaker needs some practice before next year, we understand!
Every class was visited by our local Community Police Officers on Friday. We had a wonderful time trying out various bits of police equipment, and everyone got a chance to sit in the police car and try out the siren. Excellent fun!
On Monday Shakespeare4kidz visited Year 6 and acted out the play 'Hamlet'. All the children played some part in the play, and Hamlet senior was played by Adam. Jack played Hamlet, Joe played Claudius and James enjoyed the part of Gertrude. Arianne ended up as the king of Denmark after everyone else had been killed off!
Welcome back to school, everybody! The teachers have already been in school last Thursday and Friday, working hard to get everything ready in the classrooms, and learning a little bit about how 
On a frosty Friday morning, Year 5 trekked to the enchanted garden and gathered pine branches and ivy to decorate their classroom. Everyone from Year 5 wishes you a fantastic midwinter break and a fun-filled new year.
Well, the weather may not have been brilliant, but the gentle glow of our wonderful paper lanterns really brightened up
the night.
Did you visit our Art Exhibition on Friday? Every child in the school has had a piece of work framed and displayed. It really made a beautiful exhibition, and everyone was so excited as they tried to find their own picture and those of their friends. So many children were planning to buy their framed artwork, and there were people buying copies for Granny's christmas stocking, too. What a success!
A
big 'thank you' to the Nursery, France and Germany classes for their brilliant play called, 'It's a Party!' All the children performed really
well, but special 'well dones' have to go to Navana who really was a First Class Angel and Kimberley, whose rendition of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star was truly memorable!
You're sure tohave seen our beautiful new mural by now, and you may even have seen it in the newspaper. It really brightens up the dining room - many
thanks to Marilyn Jefferies for all her hard work!
Have you heard about the
puppet-making workshop run by Arianne, Lucy, Abi and Kyle? They have helped some KS 1 children make sock puppets. They are wonderful!
Year 5 presented their class assembly to us on
Thursday. They had chosen a theme based around Animal Rescue centres, and their stories, explanations and models kept us entertained and
educated. Well done, Year 5, and a special thanks has to go to Ella, who somehow managed to keep her unpleasant tale just within the bounds of
good taste!
On Tuesday 13th November, three members of the fire service came and visited
France and Germany class. The children were allowed to go on the engine and use the hoses. Miss Vincent even had a fireman's lift!
Have you seen the display of work from the Computer Club?
It's just inside the door of the ICT suite, and it's very appropriate for the time of year!
Barnaby has been in touch with more 
Have you seen the new mural inside the Crusty Crab? We can't wait until it's all finished - it'll really brighten the place up.
Year Five are having great fun on a Thursday afternoon - the whole class is learning to play the clarinet. Remember, Year Five - practice makes perfect!
Year Six treated us to a hearty chorus of Singing In The Rain, today, as they told us all about the fun they had during the Year Six Challenge. The torrential rain didn't dampen their spirits at all, and in the photos some of them even seemed to be smiling as they munched their soggy sandwiches.
Year Four are considering going into competition with
the Crusty Crab after they designed and made delicious sandwiches during their Design and Technology lesson. They particularly enjoyed tasting all the shop-bought sandwiches as part of their research.
What a wonderful assembly from Key Stage 1. Handa
certainly got a surprise when she found all the fruit in her basket! Well done, Key Stage 1 - a very professional and interesting assembly.
That's right -
we've been chosen to read and vote on ten different children's books. After the hard work of reading every book we have to award stars to our
three favourites. The results go off to Norfolk Library Service to be mixed with results from other schools, and the final winner is
announced!
Lots of parents and children at the first ever computer
club. After school on a Tuesday, computer club is the place to be. Thank you for your feedback, Computer Club users - we've already re-organised
the 
We're not sure what Year Six did to
deserve the awful weather that arrived on Monday for their challenge, but it didn't dampen their spirits one bit. Mr Baldwin was extremely
pleased to report no moaning or groaning, and a good show of team spirit from the whole class.
On Friday, during Mr Baldwin's first ever Celebration Assembly, the whole school joined thousands of other pupils across the country singing the Song For Peace.
Well done to our team, featuring children from years four, five and six, who visited the Alderman Peel High School today to take part in the 'Aquathlon' sporting event. You did really well!
At the Norfolk Archery Association's County Championships, Ben from Year 5 won his age section - a Metric lV, with 936 points, which also was the highest score of all junior males shooting recurve
bows.