Year: 2018
ISA National Swimming Finals 2018/2019 Results
Saturday 1st December 2018, Highclare Junior and Senior School swimmers put on a superb performance at the ISA National Swimming Finals last Saturday, demonstrating perfect techniques and setting New ISA records! Jodie returned to Highclare Senior school triumphant after achieving both a Gold and Bronze medal at the national competition. Both races had close finishes,…
Geography Tectonics Conference London 2018
U6 Geographers recently attended a fantastic A level conference in London. During the annual Geography Tectonics Conference 2018, top experts in tectonics, including Professor Iain Stewart, gave insights into recent seismic events and the processes behind them; including insights from Iain’s first-hand experiences in the world’s most tectonically active regions, exploring the geology of Iceland and…
Junior School Choir Kick Of The Festive Season With Charity Carol Singing
Highclare Junior School choir entranced friends, family and guests during their first performance of the festive season last week. Performing at Porsche Centre, Sutton Coldfield, during their 70th anniversary event, pupils from Highclare Junior School sang beautifully whilst raising money for our charity of the year, Young Minds. There is still time to support our…
Highclare Pupils Work On A Live Brief For Porsche
Senior pupils at Highclare School have worked on a live design brief for Porsche to celebrate its 70th Anniversary, attending a digital design workshop with Rachel Richardson-Jones on November 5th. Pupils were asked to celebrate the 70th anniversary as well as reflect Highclare Schools’ support of the charity ‘Young Minds’, by incorporating a positive and…
Highclare Wins Gold Award For National Citizen Service
Highclare recently received a gold award as part of the National Citizen Service (NCS), delivered by The Challenge. NCS aims to bring together young people from different backgrounds for a common purpose. Each programme consists of three separate phases delivered over a 3-4 week period during the Summer holidays. The programme combines teamwork, adventure, and…
J5 & J6 Arts Recital 2018
Last week our very talented J5 and J6 music and LAMDA pupils entertained an audience of friends and family during their Arts Recital Concerts. These concerts are always a wonderful occasion, they give our pupils the opportunity to perform as soloists or part of a duo in front of an audience of friends and family…
Reception Learn Life skills
As part of recent life skills day, a fun and informative day that took place at Highclare Junior School, reception children have been learning about people who help us. We had a visit from a paramedic, who showed us lots of different equipment and even let us go inside the ambulance. We also had a…
Law Students Visit Law Courts
On 27 November 2018, A level law students visited Birmingham Magistrates Court and Crown Court. The tour of the Magistrates Court included a visit to the courtroom from where defendants were sentenced to death and an opportunity to observe the legal roles that take part in legal trials . It was an extremely interesting day…
Careers Information Morning
Thinking about career choices was on the agenda for our 13 and 14 year olds this week at our annual careers information morning. Guest speakers from a broad spectrum of careers talked about their professions and routes into them, as well as taking questions from our young people. Our thanks to solicitor, Mrs Michelle Dean…
Senior School Prize Giving 2017/2018
On Friday the 16 November we welcomed past and present pupils, parents and staff to an evening of celebration at Senior School Prize Giving! A fantastic evening celebrating the success of Highclare Senior School pupils during our annual Senior School Prize Giving event. Senior School Prize Giving is always a wonderful event on the school…
