Year: 2016
Children collect items for Erdington Foodbank
Pupils at Highclare School have been collecting items for the Erdington Foodbank. The senior pupils collected essential items for the food parcels that are given to those in need. As part of their Magic of Christmas themed day, children in the junior schools were encouraged to wear their Christmas jumpers and donate 2 small chocolate…
Creative Writing Competition
In it’s second year, the English Writing Competition, hosted by Highclare School, saw 83 entries from a variety of local Junior Schools. Pupils were invited to write a poem about a significant place. The winner was Isobel Parkes from Four Oaks Primary School who received the Highclare Junior School Writers Trophy. Her poem was entitled…
Christmas Ensemble Concert
Highclare Junior and Senior choirs and ensembles performed in a fantastic evening of musical delight to celebrate Christmas at the end of term. The evening was enjoyed by a packed hall of parents, teachers and friends and included many of their favourite songs and performances. A prelude to the Carol Service at St Michael’s Church…
Highclare Choirs bring Christmas songs to Gracechurch
Pupils from Highclare’s Junior and Senior Schools helped to create a Christmas atmosphere in the Gracechurch Shopping Centre and entertained shoppers by singing their favourite carols. Shoppers joined in too with ‘Once in Royal David City’ and a firm favourite ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ The school collected donations for their charity, African Space…
U3 children watch Treasure Island at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
The children in U3 visited the Birmingham Repertory Theatre to see Treasure Island, a modern adaptation by Bryony Lavery of Robert Louis Stevenson’s timeless classic. Everyone enjoyed watching the live performance.
Highclare achieves superb results in the ISA Midlands Art Competition
Highclare students from both senior and junior schools achieved noteworthy success in the recent 2016 ISA Midlands Art competition. Highclare received a total of 7 mentions in the awards with 3 first place wins and 4 highly commended results in total. A first prize win went to Ruby Newman in the KS2 individual 3D category,…
Swimming Gala at Ratcliffe College
Pupils from Highclare Junior Schools travelled to Ratcliffe College in Leicestershire to compete in a Junior Swimming Gala (Years 3 to 6). It was a wonderful opportunity for both our experienced and lesser experienced swimmers to compete in a very close and competitive gala, crammed with races. The scoring reflected the close nature of the…
U6 students attend the Tectonic Hazards Conference
Professor Iain Stewart, known as geology’s ‘rock star’ and well known to the public as presenter of BBC science programmes such as Earth: the Power of the Planet and Volcano Live was one of the speakers at this year’s Tectonic Hazards Conference held in London. U6 Geographers found his presentation on mitigation of earthquake…
Senior School Speech Night
Speech Night at St Michael’s Church on Friday 18th November was a tremendous success. The children who performed or spoke during Dr Luker’s address were amazing and a real credit to the school. Our Choirs, and Jazz Band under the excellent direction of Miss Mosley were absolutely fantastic and our guest speaker, The Rev. Dr….
Highclare pupil features in Junior Bake Off on CBBC
Congratulations to Rosie Deacon in J6 who has taken part in the Junior Bake Off heats on CBBC. She enjoyed meeting last year’s Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain in ‘the tent,’ and said that she is as nice in real life as she is on TV. Rosie baked for her and fellow judge…
