Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• FOBS Easter colouring competition 🐣💐🌈

  Fri 04 Apr 2025 Mrs Ross

  FOBS Easter colouring competition 🐣💐🌈

  This year, alongside our Easter raffle, FOBS ran a special Easter colouring competition for all year groups to take part in if they wished. We had lots of lovely entries that had been carefully thought through, some linking to our Christian ethos and what we know about how Easter is celebrated in church.

   

  Here are all of the children who entered with their Easter gift, along with our winner and their lovely prize.

   

  Well done all! 

  

• KS2 Cross Country 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️💨

  Wed 02 Apr 2025 Mrs Ross

  KS2 Cross Country 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️💨

   

  Congratulations go to all 20 pupils from our Yr4, 5 and 6 classes that competed yesterday in the IPSSA cross country event at the Royal Hospital School.

   

  The location and weather made the most beautiful backdrop to the afternoon of racing.

   

  With over 150 children running in each year group race, our Bramford pupils did so well. With tough competition - they all gave it their all! We hope they all enjoyed the experience and representing their school alongside others. The groups definitely demonstrated many of our ACE particles!

   

  With tough competition, Bramford runners had finishing times that ranged from being amazingly ACE - 100th to an astonishing 18th, 17th, 16th and 8th place in the race!!!

   

  We wait to hear from IPSSA how we did as a team against the other schools there. But we are tremendously proud of the children’s enthusiastic, team spirit and courage to run the way they did. It was an aspiration afternoon. 

   

  Thank you to all parents who transported and cheered on our runners. We could not get involved in these events without you.

  

• Joseph and the amazing technicoloured dream coat 🌈

  Wed 02 Apr 2025 Mrs Ross

  Joseph and the amazing technicoloured dream coat 🌈

  Both Year 3 and Year 4 have been working incredibly hard with their teachers to put on a fantastic performance of Joseph and his amazing technicolour dream coat. They worked hard to learn their lines, song lyrics and stage directions, supported by a fabulous team of lower KS2 staff.

   

  It was wonderful to watch it in it's full glory with rainbow lights, spectacular scenery and elaborate costumes!

   

  Well done to you all, what a show stopping performance!

  

• Colchester Castle trip! 🏰

  Wed 02 Apr 2025 Mrs Ross

  Colchester Castle trip! 🏰

  Today both our KS1 classes went on a special adventure to Colchester Castle. Having enjoyed their topic of Crowns and Castles this term, both classes were excited to explore a real castle for themselves. They got to learn about lots of different people who might have lived in a castle and their jobs and responsibilities. They had fun naming the different parts of the castle with their newly learnt vocabulary and were excited to climb the spiral stair case to the castle roof!

   

  KS1 were incredibly well behaved and received lots of positive comments from parent helpers and castle staff members! 

  

• Easter Church Service 🐣💐

  Tue 01 Apr 2025 Mrs Ross

  Easter Church Service 🐣💐

  On Tuesday afternoon, the whole school enjoyed a walk in the sunshine down the church for our Easter service.

   

  We were joined by parents and carers to hear all about how people celebrated Easter across the world. We heard the Easter story being told by different year groups and learnt how Easter is a special time for Christians.

   

  Lots of classes were delighted to spot their Easter gardens around the church that they had been busy creating during the week! 

   

  We are most definitely now ready for our Easter break and will remember the symbol of the empty tomb whilst enjoy our chocolate eggs!

   

   

  

• A visit from a Paramedic! 🚑

  Tue 01 Apr 2025 Mrs Ross

  A visit from a Paramedic! 🚑

  On Tuesday, our Year 5 tortoises had a visit from one of our parents who is a paramedic. He came to talk about being a paramedic and linked his work to the children's learning about the circulatory system topic in Science.

   

  They used stethoscopes to listen to our heart beat. Took our pulse, had our oxygen levels and heart rate measured and Mrs M even had her blood pressure taken (surprisingly not too bad for a busy school day!). Mr Harvey answered lots of questions about the job ..and yes, driving an ambulance is one of the many highlights of a rewarding career helping people!

  

• This term in Tortoises! 🐢

  Wed 26 Mar 2025 Mrs Ross

  This term in Tortoises! 🐢

  Tortoises have been enjoying lots of learning this term. Fractions and long multiplication have been a highlight of our maths journey and everyone has risen to the challenge with an ACE attitude. In English we have been reading Kensuke's Kingdom and used the author's wonderful language to inspire our own setting descriptions as well as being hooked into the story, wanting to know more.

   

  Science has seen us learning about the circulatory system and how to keep ourselves healthy and we can blame the ancient Mayan Civilisation for our love of chocolate as they were the first to use the cacao beans to make a delicious hot chocolate drink! We have been very active in PE and tested our heart rate before and after activities. 

  

• U11s girls football match V The Beeches ⚽

  Tue 25 Mar 2025 Mrs Ross
  Yesterday afternoon our U11 girls Football Team played their final game of the season against 'The Beeches'.

  It was a really enjoyable match to watch.  The team have come on in leaps and kicks since the beginning of the season and this was demonstrated in their skill and ability to win the ball from their opponents.

  The girls started the match confidently and defineitly had the bulk of possession.  The Bramford girls opened the scoring with a great shot into the centre of the goal after a great kick in from a corner. The second was a sure fire goal from a free kick.  It didn't take long though for The Beeches to draw level at 2:2.  With a few changes to the usual formation and positions, this didn't deter our girls who then went on the score another 3 goals in the second half.  The match ended with a triumphant final score of...5:2...to Bramford!   The team thoroughly deserved this win.

  As always, thank you to all the parents who spectated.  Mr Vickers and Mrs Harvey, thank you for your time, coaching and words of encouragement from the sideline. 

  As we are VERY proud of the way you performed as a team.  Girls, you did enjoy the game with smiles on faces as you played.  Hopefully you will continue playing together during the summer term on Fridays and we can arrange a few friendly matches with some local schools.

  You are ACE! We have ended the season with three consecutive wins! 

   

  

• U11s boys and girls football match V Moorland ⚽

  Tue 18 Mar 2025 Mrs Ross

  U11s boys and girls football match V Moorland ⚽

  Yesterday afternoon both the our girls and boys U11 boys Football Teams were in action against Morland Primary School.

   

  With great optimism the boys began their match.  But it was unlucky that they conceded a goal quite early on in the first half.  Then success, they levelled soon after but once again fell behind with a good goal from the opposition.  Morland's lead did not last long as the Bramford team were determined and persevered to equalise a second time to take the score 2:2.  Well into the second half of the match, the boys came through as a team and enabled a hat trick of goals.  The final score ended 3:2.  A great team effort and an  ACE   comeback!

   

  The girls then continued the hard work in the second match of the afternoon.  Players put in a solid performance.  They had a close fought and well contested game.  With both sides playing some  ACE   football.  Bramford did well to prevent the opposition from scoring and the girls managed to hold Morland's team to a 0:0 draw.  

   

  Some fabulous play from each individual playing today!

   

  Thank you to all the parents who spectated.  Mr Vickers and Mrs Harvey as always we thank you for your time and coaching.  We are very proud of the way both our teams performed, their sportsmanship and their attitude throughout.

   

  

• U11s boys football team V The Oaks ⚽

  Fri 14 Mar 2025 Mrs Ross
  U11s boys football team V The Oaks ⚽

  Yesterday afternoon our U11 boys Football Team played their second round Cup game against The Oaks. 

   

  It was the most exciting nail biting match we have seen all season. 

   

  We played at home which was lovely because it meant we had a few extra special supporters - some of the team's friends and peers watching the match. 

   

  The boys started the match with great enthusiasm and drive with much of the game played in the opposition's half.  Unfortunately though the team went down 1:0 to The Oaks but this didn't deter our team.  Heads didn't go down and the Bramford team showed that great determination, hard work and keeping a good attitude eventually paid off.  Within the dying seconds of the game an equaliser was found. Which took Bramford through to extra time.  It was then that the boys' confidence grew and two additional Bramford goals came.  The match ended with a fabulous final score of...3:1...to Bramford!  The boys thoroughly deserved the win.

   

  Which now means the Bramford Boys are into the Owain Richard's Quarter Finals!  We wait to hear who they will play next.

   

  As always, thank you to all the parents who spectated.  Mr Vickers thank you for your time, coaching and refereeing skills and Mrs Harvey for your time and coaching support with words of encouragement from the sideline. 

   

  Once again we are VERY proud of the way the team performed and their hard working attitude and team spirit shone through.

  You are ACE! Two wins in one week!