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The present Primary School was built as a British School in 1848 and enlarged in 1872. In that it was a "British" school it was a non conformist school as opposed to "National" schools which were Church of England schools. It was probably run by the Baptists because in 1841 the C of E school only had 22 pupils but the Baptist school had 70.The Education Bill of 1870 said that all children should receive education and so it became Langham County Primary, for up to 150 boys and girls.

 Langham Primary School News March 2010

The small schools cluster non-pupil day (Friday 12th Feb) was taken up with all the teachers attending a Creative Arts Day at Belstead House in Ipswich. There, they were joined by parallel teachers from the other small schools in the Cluster and attended three sessions in all. These were:

·                          a story-telling workshop led by children's author : Hugh Lupton.

·                          an art/ landscape painting workshop geared to the Primary age range

·                          a "making the most of simple percussion" workshop focussing on pupil group work and composing

All in all, it was a very enjoyable day for everyone involved, with plenty of opportunities for staff to network with their counterparts from the other 9 small, primary schools.

The number of children attending the school is now 101.

Straight after half term the school held  a Key Stage 2 Architecture Workshop day, involving Classes 3 and 4 attending specialist sessions in the school hall.  The pupils learned a lot about structures and strong shapes, which compliments the whole school topic on "Structures - Seen and Unseen".

The results of a recent Healthy Schools survey of parents show  positive outcomes in terms of pupil well-being.  Pupil workshops on “recycling” has involved all classes, ending with a "sharing assembly" in the afternoon.

Year 5 Cross-country team have taken part in the Sports Partnership Cross-Country Finals at Abbey Fields and retained the winners shield which they secured last year. –A fantastic result!

Project homework, completed by Class 4 on famous/noteworthy building structures from around the world has been so good that the models and writing descriptions are on display in the school foyer. An exhibition of these models will be held in the school hall on:

·                         Monday 29th of March - 2:00pm - 3:30pm -  Key Stage 1 topic exhibition in hall

·                         Tuesday 30th of March-  3:00pm - 4:30pm - Key Stage 2 topic exhibition in hall

Langham Primary School News Jan 2010

After a very snowy start, the term is now in full flow with many activities. The whole school, cross-curricular theme for this Spring is called “Structures Seen and Unseen.” Already, Key Stage 2 have been involved in a sophisticated Lego building session. This was part of a Young Town Planners Workshop for Classes 3 and 4 and was very successful.

Last term’s “Dragons Den” project based on the BBC TV programme has resulted in an extraordinary amount of constructive ideas from the year 5/6children and a display of their “inventions” is set out in the school foyer.

Class 4 have also recently embarked on a sequence of Bible Explorer sessions where they learn the Old Testament Story, exclusively using sign language. Key stage 1 and 2, tennis lessons have started as have football, netball, dance and yoga clubs. The cross-country running activities are helping to ensure that each pupil has at least two hours sport and exercise per week.

Guitar, piano/keyboard, and recorder, clubs are also being well supported this term.