Thorndon CEVC Primary

Ofsted have rated Thorndon a STRONG school! Where pupils thrive in their learning and wider development. Our community, children, families and staff all make this happen. Let’s continue to shine in the Thorndon way ✨

World Book day 2026. Two visiting local authors, diary writing, illustrating, a masked reader competition and reading together. What a fabulous day!

A great team effort today! Thorndon staff as the Wizard of Oz characters. Happy World Book Day 📕 📖

Willow class really enoyed the live lesson about forests today with Steve Backshall. We had two questions from children in our school read out which was fantastic. Here is the link for the youtube video of the live sesssion if you'd like to watch at home. youtube.com/watch?v=NIhQgr…

Willow class had a fantastic hook day celebrating Africa today. We spent the morning researching an African country and creating posters of our findings. We then made African necklaces and baked and sampled African flat bread with honey and dried fruit. It was a fantastic day.

Thorndon Vision Launch 2025 Every Child Valued : Every Mind Nurtured A special day for Thorndon today with the launch of our: new school badge, mustard values and vision statement all linked with the parable of the mustard seed - Mark 4. We are very proud of our school.

The children of Thorndon Primary School would like to thank the Parish Council for their extremely generous donation towards the new play equipment.

We thoroughly enjoyed our poetry afternoon, during which the children created artwork inspired by poems, engaged in rhyming games, and collaboratively composed an ‘I am’ poem as a whole school. Our sun display of our poem is so striking!

Congratulations to the Winners of Our Thorndon Poetry Competition! The quality of the poems was truly outstanding, showcasing the remarkable talent and creativity of our children.

Oak class investigated strengthening structures today in DT using cocktail sticks and sweets. Yummy!

DT was great fun in Willow class this week. We researched columns used in Ancient Greece during our Architecture topic and tried to create structures with columns using 3 sheets of paper that were supportive and provided stability for a number of weights. Some held 10kg!

We had such a lovely, sunny day at Baylam Rare Breeds farm today. We fed lots of animals, rubbed pigs bellies, groomed goats and ponys, saw lots of baby lambs, stroked some very soft, fluffy rabbits and witnessed the goats being milked. Lots of wonderful outdoor learning.

A fantastic Inspire morning! Thank you to the professionals who attended our careers morning. Marie +Chloe from Debenham Veterinary practice, Jack (Instagram @mercedesamgf1)from Mercedes F1 team,  Mr Harman our Civil Engineer from SKANSKA and Rachel from Softwood Book Publishers.

We had a great Science lesson today investigating the reaction times of children and adults in Science. We had some very fast parents and competition was high! A great afternoon.

We were so lucky to have been visited by Jamie Knight today! He is a 2x world record holder, with his incredible freestyling football skills. He showed us a variety of different tricks that he can perform and taught us them too. We had the best time and learned so many new skills

We welcomed Kaye Patten, who is a local author, into Thorndon today. She shared her story of becoming an author and showed how all of her books started as ideas on scrap paper. An excellent experience for the children.

Thorndon staff - Alice in Wonderland. An excellent team effort.

World Book day at Thorndon. What a fantastic, fun-filled book day we have planned. 📖 📚