Juniors - School Day

The boys and girls in the Junior Department at Highclare School, follow a timetable  split into 5 x 1 hour lessons, with specialist staff taking Junior classes for lessons in Music, ICT, French, and Science.

At The Abbey site school starts at 8.35 am and finishes at 3.15 pm

Lunch period is 12.15 pm to 1.15 pm

At St Paul's site school starts at 8.50 am and finishes at 3.25 pm

Lunch period is 12.30 pm to 1.25 pm

Outside speakers are regularly invited in to school to speak to the classes. Interactive whiteboards, a Junior Science Laboratory and an ICT suite ensure that the pupils have access to up to date learning resources.

Homework in the Junior Department is set at the discretion of the Form Teacher and a timetable is kept in the Homework diary.

As a guide line the following amount of homework is expected:

• Year 3 & Year 4 ~ half an hour per night, plus reading
• Year 5 ~ 45 minutes per night, plus reading
• Year 6 ~ 1 hour per night, generally spanning 2 subjects, plus reading

At the end of the school day and during lunch time, we do recognise that education must be much wider than the study of academic subjects and to this end we offer a wide variety of extra curricular activities.  These are reviewed termly to reflect the interests of pupils and the seasons and currently, we offer:

• Computers  
• Golf
• Choir
• Board Games
• Jewellery making/Metalwork
• Recorder Group
• Orchestra
• Ballet
• Knitting
• Maths Challenge
• Football
• Netball
• Times Table
• Gardening Club
• Tennis
• Cross Country
• Music club
• Chess clubArt & Design
• Cricket
• DesignTechnology
• Reading Club
• Food & Technology
• Hockey
• Arts & Craft
• Gymnastics

Games play an important part in the life of the school, with a wide range of different sports, including football, rugby, cricket and athletics to choose from, all coached to the highest standards. The school participates very successfully in numerous regional and national tournaments in all areas of sport.

We are committed to providing high quality music education and individual lessons are available for many instruments.  We encourage the children to perform for their friends in assemblies and at other events.  We perform an annual play and all of the children are involved in this performance.  Our pupils also have the opportunity to perform in our annual dance gymnastics display and each year we present a Junior Concert.

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