Events
Science Poster Competition Winners
Well done to everyone who submitted posters for our recent science competition. It was a very tough decision, but well done to our phase winners!
Under 9's Hockey
We took part in another hockey competition this week, with year 4 this time and Abbot's remains undefeated in hockey. Go Team Abbot's!!
Stone Age Day
Year 3 were taken back into the stone age, enjoying their hands-on day back in history. They learnt about what a stone-age village would have been like and how they made tools and what they would have eaten, amongst many other exciting things. Photos from their day are in the gallery.
World Book Day Mask Competition
We would like to thank everyone who took part in our mask competition for World Book Day and for coming to the book fair.
We have earned over £400 in Scholastic rewards from the book fair, which is fantastic news and will supply the school with some wonderful new reading material for our children.
World Book Day
Everyone had a wonderful day for world book day today. Take a look in our gallery at some of the wonderful costumes
U11's Mixed Hockey Competition
Our year 6's recently competed in a mixed under 11's hockey competition and won! Well done to all those who took part and getting another trophy for the Abbot's Hall collection as well as showing all their sports values such as teamwork, passion and determination.
Mad Science
We had a visit from Dr Dee Enay to coincide with science week starting next week. Children across the school were able to take part and see real life science experiments right before their eyes 
Needless to say, they all enjoyed it very much.
Year 5 and 6 UV Dodgeball
We were lucky to have a game of UV dodgeball on our last day of term. Everyone had a fantastic time and enjoyed being able to do a different fun style of dodgeball. Thanks to our PE leads and GVTSSP for arranging this!
More photos are available in the photo gallery section.
Colchester Zoo
Year 4 had an amazing trip to Colchester Zoo to help with their Rainforest learning. Everyone had a great day 'monkeying around'. Photos of their day have been uploaded to our photo galleries.
U11's Basketball Competition
Children from years 5 and 6 took part in a basketball competition at Thurston Community College on Wednesday 12th February. Everyone gave it their all and competed very well and showed the true Abbot's spirit and qualities throughout.
U9 Basketball Competition and KS2 UV Dodgeball
5 of Abbot's children took part in a Year 3 and 4 children basketball competition and all the children had a lot of fun. At this age, they are developmental games, so no winners, but well done to all those who attended. Children from years 5 and 6 also took part this week in a UV dodgeball event. More photos are in the photo gallery.
KS1 Basketball Festival
Pupils in KS1 took part in a Basketball skills festival at Thurston Community College on Tuesday 28th January. They took part in passing, receiving, dribbling and shooting. They all had a great time and learnt lots whilst there.
Year 5 Trip To It's Rocket Science
On Friday 24th January 2025 year 5 went on a once in a lifetime trip to 'space' courtesy of It's Rocket Science in Claydon! This is a great interactive discovery centre full of hands on science! I'm sure all the children came home full of 'space facts' to share with their grown ups.
Photos are in the photo gallery
U9 Sportshall Athletics
Pupils from year 4 took part in an under 9's athletics festival at Stowmarket Leisure Centre on 23rd January 2025. The children all tried very hard at the different events and all had such a fab time!
Photos from the event are in the gallery.
U11 Sportshall Competition
On 14th January 2025 13 year 5's took part in the U11 Sportshall Competition at Stowmarket Leisure Centre.
All the children showed off their amazing skills and out of 5 schools, Abbot's Hall came 3rd!! Well done to everyone who took part and our PE leads for giving our children these opportunities. More photos in the photo gallery.
Duxford
Year 6 recently visited Duxford museum as part of their learning about WW2. Everyone had a great day and have all learnt lots whilst there. More photos from their fantastic day in the photo galleries section
Spring Term Clubs
Please see our clubs information for Spring Term. If your child is interested in any of these please sign up by tomorrow. This is to be completed on Arbor and the clubs start from next week (week commencing 13th January 25)
This is a great opportunity to learn new skills or further develop old skills in a fun environment.
Thank you
Children in Need
We are pleased to announce that we raised an amazing £297.13 for Children In Need! Thank you to everyone who donated and for taking part in wearing spots for this fantastic cause.
Languagenut
Students from Abbot's Hall and other schools nationally have taken part in a Languagenut Christmas Competition.
Abbot's are pleased to announce that 4 of our pupils were winners and received a certificate and a £10 Amazon voucher each
Nolan L (year 4) – 21st place
Walter C (year 5) – 31st place
Charlotte H (year 6) – 42nd place
Hollie M (year 6) – 47th place
As a school, we also came 11th out of 1900 schools that participated, so this was a great achievement as a whole school too!
Girls Football
Girls from Abbot's Hall have been taking part in a school football competition this term. They came first in the first round and then were put through to the next round, playing other schools within Suffolk. The girls played really well and were very unlucky, but came third out of the whole of Suffolk, so still an amazing achievement! The final took place on 28th November at Needham Market Football Club. We would also like to say thank you to Mr Healy for helping coach the team.
Go Team Abbot's
Year 5 Sports Visitors
Our year 5 pupils were very lucky to have two guest visitors join them for their PE lesson. We had the pleasure of Maria Lutua a professional Fijian netballer who has competed in 3 netball world cups and Cole Skuse, a former captain of Ipswich Town Football Club.
The children were able to take part in both netball and football skills sessions, followed by a question and answer session where they were able to find out what it is like competing at a professional level.
Congratulations to Rory S, Rory C, Luna J and Lucy H for being trainers of the day and receiving a small reward from our guest coaches.
Everyone had great fun this morning. Thank you to Mrs Cook for being able to organise such a great experience for our children.
Please see our photo gallery for pictures of this event.
Concert for Jim
Students from years 5 and 6 took part in celebrating Stowmarket veteran, Jim Grant's, 100th birthday as part of the Jam Community Pot!
Jim Grant is a WW2 D-Day veteran who regularly attends the Jam Pot at the United Reformed Church, in Stowmarket. They wanted to celebrate this momentous occasion and originally wanted 300 birthday cards from the local community to be given to Jim. Mrs Childs decided it would be great for Abbots Hall to be involved, so all year groups across the school designed cards. The Abbot's Hall choir had the privilege of attending Jim's birthday celebrations at the URC singing 'Happy Birthday' and 'Step into Christmas'.
Representatives from the Armed Forces were also in attendance to celebrate.
More photos from this event are in our photo gallery.
Violin Concert
Our year 5 and 6's had their violin concert for their parents and guardians on 10th December. They all played amazingly and were able to showcase how much year 5 has learnt so far this year and our year 6's continuing to develop with their 'play on'. Thank you to those who were able to come and support.
U9 and U11 Dodgeball Competition
On Tuesday 3rd and Thursday 12th December our U9 and U11 dodgeball teams took part in the GVTSSP Dodgeball tournament, although there were no winning positions given at this event, all teams played well and showed great dodging skills
Well done both teams!
Road Safety Week
Well done to all of our Road Safety Week competition entries. Make sure you look out for posters as you walk around Stowmarket, you might spot yours attached to one of the lampposts!
Enterprise Day
All the children had great fun making all their gifts for their grown ups on enterprise day with the help from all the Abbot's Hall elves. We hope you all loved them and managed to pop some pennies in the donation buckets.
Thank you for the friends of Abbot's Hall for being able to do this for the school.
Photos are in our photo gallery
Brass Concert
Our year 5 and 6's had their brass concert for their parents and guardians on18th December. They all played amazingly and were able to showcase how much year 5 has learnt so far this year and our year 6's continuing to develop with their 'play on'. Thank you to those who were able to come and support.
Last day of term assembly
On our last day of autumn term we had a very special assembly to celebrate the up-and-coming festivities, including a visit from Father Christmas himself to deliver gifts to the school. Every year, the friends donate money to each year group to buy a gift the children can use in their break times.
Everyone was super excited and well done to all those pupils who received the BTBYCB certificate this term.
Photos of our assembly are in the photo gallery.
Mid Suffolk Rotary Club Donation
Abbot's Hall have been very lucky to have a book vending machine donated to the school on behalf of Mid Suffolk Rotary Club.
A book vending machine is a creative way to use a vending machine to supply books to pupils of Abbot's Hall. Pupils can be rewarded for being 'the best they can be' and given a token that can be inserted into the vending machine for the book of their choice.
Thank you to the President of the Rotary Club, Guy Wiltshear, for coming along to present this to Mr Pettitt and Mrs Flory.
