Welcome to Northfield St Nicholas

We are a very hard working and friendly team who absolutely want the very best educational experience for the children in our care. We have effective teachers who are committed to ensuring and providing high quality learning experiences which enable the children to be reflective learners. Every day, the highest quality feedback from staff ensures our children can develop, practice and apply their skills as well as being challenged to move on and make new learning progress as soon as they are ready to do so.

We have the very highest aspirations for the children in our learning community and set high standards and expectations to challenge our children to be the best learners they can possibly be. We are unwavering in setting high expectations for the conduct of pupils and staff and are uncompromising in our ambition to improve the outcomes for all pupils at our school.

We have a broad and balanced curriculum which inspires our pupils to learn, where safeguarding is effective and pupils are listened to and feel safe. “To keep you safe and to help you learn” is our mantra.

Our school motto – Working together to achieve excellence for all – captures what we hope to facilitate for all our stakeholders, from pupils and their families to our staff and other learning partners in the wider community.  Click here to view a video of our school.

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Some of our year six girls took part in a 'This Girl Can' event at Waterlane Leisure Centre today. This was a fantastic opportunity to take part in a range of activities including cricket, tennis, orienteering, dance, netball and multi skills.There were 10 other schools there and a total of 160 children, well done girls you were all fantastic!

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Easter FISH ( Food in School Holidays Programme)

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Wow! We’ve seen the Coastguard, St John’s Ambulance, The Police and now the Fire Service! Thank you to all our community heroes for supporting our children’s learning.To round of the visits to EYFS for our topic ‘Do all heroes wear capes?’ we had the Fire Brigade from Lowestoft red watch to come in and talk to us. We split into two groups and each had the chance to see the equipment and clothing fire fighters wear and learn about the role of the fire brigade. We also got to look around the fire engine, squirt water from a hose and sit in the fire engine. We learnt that it takes fire fighters just 45 seconds to get ready in an emergency! A big thank you to Lowestoft red watch for their time. The children had another UNFORGETABLE and SENSORY experience!

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On Friday Year 4 held a Viking Experience Morning to draw all their learning this half term together . During the morning we learned about how the Vikings learned how to improve their boat designs from the Romans and we created our very own Viking Longship. We also designed and made our own Viking Shields and axes (we learned that only really rich Vikings would have had swords); some of us posed looking very fierce !We also created our own messages on clay using runes (Viking alphabet ). It was a great morning and really brought our learning to life , please ask us what we know about Vikings!

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The children in Reception have been enjoying weekly visits from Year 6 to share books. We have loved listening to the stories, talking about the pictures and sharing what we liked best. What an exciting and engaging way to develop a love of reading!

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Lots of amazing activities that have been taking place during our Thrive sessions this term. The pupils have enjoyed a variety of creative play and different sensory activities.

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The Flamingos aspired to be scientists today and explored the school grounds looking for signs of spring. We took our magnifying glasses to get a closer look at nature and record what we observed that showed us spring was upon us. We found buds on the trees, daffodils growing and a nest for the birds! What a super sensory experience!

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Our registered Suffolk Young Carers pupils had a fun afternoon celebrating Suffolk Young Carers day in school. They participated in arts and crafts and enjoyed decorating biscuits and eating cupcakes.

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PC Chris came into visit us today. He told us he has been a police officer for 20 years working at Lowestoft Police station.He talked to us about how we contact the Police and how we ask for help.He carries a radio, a camera, a pocket notebook, gloves, a warrant card, handcuffs, pepper spray and a baton.He showed us lots of different hats and we all got to try them on!He even showed us a medal that he was given for serving in the police when the Queen's Jubilee was celebrated last year. We would like to say a massive thank you to PC Chris for coming to see us today and for giving our Reception children an unforgettable, sensory and wonderful opportunity. I think we have lots of Police Officers in the making.Lowestoft Police

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To finish our work on early civilizations, the children were challenged to create a house from either the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age. They used their team work skills and showed how well they can understand each other by selecting and assembling their homes. It showcased how much their knowledge has progressed in Year 3. They can explain clearly how and why houses developed from teepees to hill forts.

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