Category: News
Book Week
Pupils at the Abbey enjoyed a fun filled week in their Book Week before half term. Pupils made books, read and wrote stories, had a visit from Alison from Birmingham Library, raised money for books for the Juniors through the Book Fair and also raised £105 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital through our Reflective Assembly and…
J5 Tudor Day
Pupils in J5 enjoyed a Tudor Day with their friends from St Paul’s. We enjoyed being in a Tudor farmhouse and schoolroom in the morning and performed a Tudor play in the afternoon. It was brilliant to go back in history and be just like the Tudors! I loved it when I performed the part…
Tudor Houses
The pupils in J5 have been busy making Tudor houses in their DT lessons. They have learnt all about wattle and daub and the characteristics of a typical Tudor house. J5 have also enjoyed a Tudor Day at St Paul's.
Fruity Friday
The Junior pupils raised £21.25 for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital by promoting healthy eating and buying fruit for their break time snack. The fruit was kindly donated by the Co-operative Food Store in Burntwood and they will continue to help us during the year, with our successful Fruity Fridays. Thank you to all the pupils…
Chess Club
I have set up my own Chess Club on a Wednesday lunchtime. We have 5 committed members who come every week. I teach them how to play the game. I have even brought more chess boards to the club for others to use. Jack Walker, Head Boy
Fashion Club
As Head Girl I have been busy setting up my own Fashion Club on a Friday. I have 12 members and we are designing T shirts and making our own clothes. Mrs Morgan thinks that I am very independent setting up my own club! The girls in the Juniors love coming! Tahlia Hunter, Head Girl
Visit to Tanner’s Close
Pupils from Year 4 at Highclare Abbey Juniors enjoyed an hour out of their classrooms last week, when they went along to entertain residents at Tanner’s Close, Whitehouse Common. They sang confidently and performed a variety of tunes on their recorders. Their appreciative audience was very pleased to see them again as their previous, seasonal…
Girls and Boys enjoy Mad Science
MAD SCIENCE Professor Peter Plasma, the mad Scientist, paid a visit to the School to encourage the boys and girls in the Abbey Junior Department to engage in after school Science lessons. Besides exciting the audience with wind and fire experiments, he turned Mrs White into a real Egyptian mummy using a hair drier and…
Book Week Visit
During our recent Book Week, all the juniors were entertained by Children's book writer and illustrator, Steven Smallman. He read some lively stories from his future book and gave everyone a drawing lesson on to draw cartoon faces and animal pictures. On Friday all the children (and staff) dressed up on non uniform day and…
Jack and the Beanstalk at Highclare!
Girls and Boys in Year 5 have made their very own Beanstalks during a germination experiment in the Junior Science Laboratory. They set out to see how plant seeds developed in different conditions over a period of time. After ten days growth their very own 'Beanstalks' started to appear!
