News
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!
Boys & Girls Football
FOOTBALL BRINGS THE BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER AT HIGHCLARE’S JUNIOR DEPARTMENTS For the first time, our Junior Boys and Girls both fielded teams in a Football Tournament, representing Highclare School in both the boys event and the girls event at the same venue. The event was the West Midlands Individual 7 a side finals which…
Abbey Junior Harvest
We had a fantastic response to our Harvest Festival. The representative from St Basils, which we support, was overwhelmed with our achievements. Our thanks to both puplls and parents for helping us to make such a contribution to this worthy cause.
Finding Information in Year 2
As part of our ICT topic on “Finding Information,” J2 have been busy researching encyclopaedias and fact books for information. We are learning to use links, hyperlinks, keywords, search tools and home page tools to help us to find information on the computer. We are researching our classroom encyclopaedias and fact books as part of…
