Tag: Junior School
Highclare supports Comic Relief
On Friday pupils at all three Highclare schools wore their best red outfits and used their greatest entrepreneurial skills to support Red Nose Day. Whilst having fun, they raised a fantastic total of £1,180 which will go directly towards helping the charity. Amongst their fund raising activities they sold cakes, played games guessing the name…
Junior pupils visit Central Birmingham Synagogue
As part of their ‘Judaism’ topic in RE, J4P enjoyed a visit to the Central Birmingham Synagogue in Edgbaston. Their guide, Mrs Gold, gave the children an informative tour of the building, pointing out many interesting features and explained the symbolic meaning behind them. In the glass carvings outside the synagogue, pupils recognised some of the scenes…
The Case of the Missing Pencil Case!
Pupils in J5 at Highclare Woodfield were thrown into a real CSI scenario during their science lesson in order to help them solve the problem of the missing pencil case. A real ‘who dunnit’ problem saw them using the forensic process of chromatography to identify the pen that was used to write a ransom note! …
Safer Internet Week
Junior pupils were introduced to ‘Safer Internet Week’ through thought-provoking assemblies about online images and videos. In lessons, children explored the issues surrounding how photos are shared online and learned that they can potentially stay there forever, reaching a wider audience than they were intended for. They thought about how photos create an impression of their…
