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Sprites Community Junior School is located on the south west of the town of Ipswich, Suffolk. It is a medium-sized school, with about 240 children in 4 year groups. We have 8 classes, and 4 of them are a mixture of year 3 and year 4 children (aged 7-9) and the other 4 are each a mixture of year 5 and year 6 children (aged 9-11).
The school was built in 1960, and is of a striking design with hyperbolic roofs and glass and brick walls, and set in the middle of playing fields in a housing estate. The school, designed by the architects Johns, Slater Howard, won a civic trust award for design and is mentioned in Pevsners Guide to the Buildings of England. A number of alterations have had to be made to it over the years, because striking-looking buildings are not always the best for working in! Still, it does look lovely across the field from Hawthorn Drive when all the lights are on at night.
When it was built, it was right on the edge of Ipswich, but the growth of the town over the last ten years means we no longer have a view of fields of wheat, but of fields of houses and superstores.
Ipswich itself is a town of about 130,000 people. It has 8 high schools, and each high school is at the head of a pyramid of primary, junior and infant schools. Sprites is in the Chantry High School pyramid, and we are one of the schools that serves the Chantry Estate.
We have 11 teaching staff, and another 6 working in administration and support. there are about 28 children in each class, although we divide into different groups for Maths, English and Science. Sprites Junior School teaches the subjects of the National Curriculum.
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