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Woodbridge Road Academy Newsletter – Dec 25

Our First External Football Match

On a wet, stormy Friday in November we had our very first football match with a local school.

Our team played fantastically, they were supporting and celebrating each other all the way through. The rain was torrential, they were frozen cold but they won 14 – 3. We are hoping to arrange a re-match next year sometime.

Power Up Visit From Sizewell C

We held a career event in association with Sizewell C.

Students learnt how to code Spheros and learned about how nuclear power stations work and the jobs that are available now and in the future at Sizewell.

End of Term Certificates

We will be giving out the end of term certificates in our assembly on the last day of term. There are:

  • 53 certificates for attendance of 92% or above this term.
  • 16 valued behaviour awards – for no detrimental behaviour points this term.
  • 12 Silver awards for more than 250 valued behaviour points.
  • 19 Bronze for more than 150 behaviour points.

Well done to all our students, we are proud of every one of them.

Sponsored Read

To celebrate and encourage a lifelong love of reading at home and school, we are running a sponsored read between 19th and 28th January 2026.

The project is being organised in conjunction with our local Usborne Partner, Frances Joyce, and all the money raised will go towards brand new books for our school. In addition to the sponsorship money, Usborne will also donate up to 60% of the total raised in EXTRA FREE BOOKS to the school.

So, for every £600 raised, we will get an extra £360 in FREE Usborne books! More information will be sent out in January.

Food Allergies and School Lunches

We have been asked by the Lunchtime Company (who provide the catering for our school) if pupils with diagnosed medical food allergies and intolerances could complete the form below.

Download it here

Online Activity Over the Holiday

This is the time of year when children are likely to be online much more and we understand how hard it is for parents to know whether what they are looking at is appropriate for their age or not. This website has lots of useful information on it which can offer advice.

Visit Kids Online World
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School Uniform - a Plea!

Please, please can we ask for all school uniform to have your child’s name in?

We are getting more and more hoodies and jumpers in the lost property which don’t have names on.

 

Rowan Christmas meal

Rowan class had a Christmas meal at the Suffolk New College “Chefs’ Whites” restaurant.

The restaurant is run by the students at the college. Rowan class had a lovely meal and enjoyed all eating together in an external setting, practising their table manners and turn taking skills.
Staff said the meal was delicious and they would thoroughly recommend the setting to everyone.

Upcoming Dates of School Visitors

During our recent OFSTED inspection one of the areas we were particularly praised on was the post-16 advice and opportunities offered to our students.

We often have visitors into school to talk to pupils about their options once they leave us and we offer visits to post-16 providers.

In the autumn term we have had visitors from Suffolk New College and Eastern Education Group. Eastern Education Group runs both One College and West Suffolk College.

We are hoping that next term we will have a visit from Balfour Beatty to do a construction talk. TCHC should be coming in too. As soon as the dates for the visits are confirmed we will let you know.

We want to give our pupils the best advice on where they go to continue their education, or learn a trade once they leave Woodbridge Road Academy and by bringing in these providers and offering visits we hope we do this.

School Christmas Disco

We held our now regular, school disco last week.

The pupils were very excited and made lots of requests for their favourite tunes! Staff and pupils enjoyed the experience of having down time together.

ITFC Match Visit

Ipswich Town FC Foundation are regular visitors to our school.

Sam teaches football skills and Sophie facilitates a “premiership inspires programme”, which is designed to engage young people in their learning, inspire them to have high aspirations and provide them with the key skills they need to achieve their goals.

We were lucky enough to be given some tickets to the ITFC V Stoke match this month. Pupils attended with their families, and some staff went along too.

Red Rose Chain Panto - Alice in Wonderland

Staff and pupils had a thoroughly enjoyable time watching the panto Alice in Wonderland at the Avenue Theatre in Ipswich. Some staff got themselves very involved!

We enjoyed it so much that we plan to go back again in 2026 for the third year running.

Visit from Jack Abbott MP

Jack Abbott, our local MP, visited our school this term. He had a walk around and visited the pupils in their classes. Our Pupil Council then had a meeting with him and were told they could ask him questions. Although reluctant at first, they proceed to ask many varied questions including questions about life in parliament and his car! 

Jack said he would like to visit again soon, we look forward to welcoming him back.

Managing Winter Illness

Now we are firmly in the cold and flu months and we know that it can be difficult to know whether to send a pupil in if they are feeling under the weather. The NHS has a useful website NHS guidance for parents, which is a useful resource to help parents decide when children should stay at home.

Is My Child Too Ill For School?

Family Meet Ups

From Wednesday 7th January 2026 we will be opening up our Visitors Room every Wednesday from 9.00-10.00.

This will be a chance for an informal chat with other parents/carers over a cup of tea or coffee and a biscuit. We look forward to welcoming you.

Pupil Celebration Ceremony

We are excited to announce that there will be a ceremony on 3rd July to celebrate pupils across Paradigm Trust who have displayed all three of Paradigm’s values (integrity; community; excellence).

This event will take place at Ipswich Academy on Friday 3 July, starting from 2:15pm. Parents/carers of children receiving awards will be invited to attend. We will send invites nearer the time.