Welcome to Kingfishers!

Kingfishers are a mixed year 1 and year 2 class.

The Kingfisher team includes Mrs Thompson who teaches on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Miss Ellis who teaches on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The class is also supported by 2 excellent teaching assistants; Mrs McGregor and Mrs Tuma.

We are lucky to have a good sized outside area which we are hoping to develop throughout the year, to reflect our learning in the classroom.

This year we are excited to be covering a whole range of topics including:

History: WW1, Houses, Grace Darling

Geography: UK locality, Contrasting locality outside Europe, seaside

Science: Animals, Plants, Everyday materials, Living things and their habitats.

Topic related trips will be organised during the year and we would love to hear your suggestions on where we could go!

We can’t wait for the year ahead!!!!!

Miss Ellis

My name is Miss Ellis and I’m delighted to be the newest member of the teaching team at The Bawburgh School. I recently completed my teacher training at Bawburgh and really enjoyed it as a place to learn as well as a place to teach.

My journey towards teaching has been a winding path. After graduating from Liverpool University, I worked in marketing and business development, getting to travel for work and visiting some amazing places.

I decided to take some time out to travel properly and spent a while in South America. I got the travel bug though and went back home via France to indulge in my hobbies of skiing and snowboarding. I often spent the summers working in different areas of France but always ending up back in the mountains. I eventually came back from France fifteen years later with a love of cheese, wine and a pretty good French accent!

Having run a restaurant with my husband in France, I am still a keen foodie but more likely to be found down at the allotment growing my own fruit and veg rather than spending hours in the kitchen.

My desire to change career and start teaching was one of the reasons we moved back to the UK. Having two young children was a real motivator to move into education and supporting them through primary school has helped me to see school life from a child’s perspective.

I am very happy to be settled in Norfolk which is where I grew up and I am excited to be back in the classroom with the Kingfishers this year. Their enthusiasm is infectious! I can’t pick a favourite subject because I genuinely love all areas of the curriculum but at a push I’d pick English because I love books so much or French because it’s great fun to speak another language.