Well…this week, Lower School were visited by Polly from The National Education Nature Park who helped the children to map the wildlife on our school site. 

The reason for this?  Well…it looks like we are going to be awarded a grant to develop the school grounds to attract EVEN MORE wildlife! 

While some children worked with Polly, others undertook a school-grounds model-making challenge with Mrs H or explored hammer-printing with Mr G – thankfully, no thumbs were bashed here!

Upper School children have been exploring the city-scape work of Lowry, before trying to imitate his style using old, black and white pictures of Kilburn, Belper and Derby. 

Following this challenge, we finished work from our Greek topic (namely puppets and pottery) or planned and undertook a KJS Hajj to support work on the Five Pillars of Islam back in the classroom. 

Over the past couple of weeks, Equality have been working on their story opening, inspired by The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant.

The whole of Team Equality worked their socks off and produced some exceptional work. Take a look at Ivy's, Lucus' and Daisy's work, which is pictured below!

Cooooo…tropical!  How lucky we are to have a beautiful wood in which to learn out of the glare of the sun…it’s been wonderful!

Orienteering and mapping have been the theme this week…both in Upper School and Lower School. 

We’ve been looking at faint outlines of the school grounds, using keys to add details to make maps and then adding controls and setting out our own orienteering courses. 

We had to be exceptionally organised and precise in order to ensure our controls were in the exact spot they were shown on the map. 

Once set out, children swapped maps and had a go at each other’s courses – the vast majority were able to find all eight of their partners controls. 

With those who didn’t, there was healthy debate as to whether the controls had been places in the correct locations!

After the orienteering, as time permitted, we had a go at making landscapes from a given map and played a quick game of Lurgie.

Huge thanks to parents for sending in the treasure-treats for our successful orienteers!

Yesterday we hosted our first Kilburn Junior School Enterprise Fair, giving the children the opportunity to develop their entrepreneurial skills to raise money for the school PTFA.

As part of their personal development the children worked together to develop their ideas for innovative stalls, sourcing or making resouces and equipment, fostering independence, resilience, creativity, and financial literacy.

The event attracted people from the local community and was a grat success, raising a staggering 

£882.60

Please click here to view photographs of the event