Platinum Jubilee Celebrations!

The children had a wonderful penultimate day of term on Thursday celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. After bringing in their entries for the cupcake competition and voting for their favourites from each class, the children produced some fantastic artwork dressed in their red, white and blue fancy dress. For dinner, we all enjoyed a street party lunch followed by an afternoon of party games (run by some of our year 6 pupils) culminating in our termly achievement assembly. If that wasn't enough, interspersing the awards, we had a fantastic solo singing performance from Laya, the school band played 'God Save the Queen' brilliantly and then Upper School performed a finale celebrating song and dance through all the decades of the Queen's reign wearing the Jubilee t-shirts they had designed and printed! What a day!  

Thank you to all the staff for making the day one to remember, to the children for being fantastic (as always) and to the parents for coming along in the afternoon to share this event with us.   

Click on the image above for more pictures from the day.

Social Media Parental Control Guides

With half term just beginning, now is a good time to check the parental controls on your child's social media accounts! Internet Matters have a good range of guides that help parents with family pairing (where available), privacy settings, reporting and much more. I have included some of the more common guides below (just click on the icon) and the rest of the guides can be found here.

Facebook  Facebook Messenger FaceTime  House Party  Instagram Skype  Snapchat  TikTok  WhatsApp

Year 6 Cook Up a Storm

In preparation for next week's Platinum Jubilee cooking competition, some of our year 6 pupils have been practising baking cupcakes and also the art of cake decoration. The marzipan corgis were particularly effective! The kind bunch then shared their creations with their classmates for a spot of afternoon cake! How very civilised!

Cricket Festival

Some of the children from Year 6 have spent the morning at a Cricket Festival hosted by Riddings Cricket Club where they received expert tuition on how to improve their skills. They have also been given information on how to join cricket clubs in their area. We have some very talented cricketers in year 6 who I hope will be trying out for the 'Kwik Cricket' team next term!

For more information about how to join cricket clubs in your area, click here.

Fire Service Visit

Many thanks to George from Derbyshire Fire Service for his excellent talk in school today. The children have learned all about the science behind combustion, how to prevent fires in their homes, how to make an escape plan and the consequences of hoax calls to the emergency services. All children in year 6 have also taken home a 'Home Fire Safety Survey' to fill in with parents to ensure their homes are fire safe (I have included a link below to these resources and a video from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue which will reinforce the messages from today's session). 

Download Lesson Plan (To use with the above video- for parents/carers and children to watch together to reinforce messages from today's session.) 

Download Fire Safety Survey

Achievement Assembly Winners!

Well done to all of our certificate winners from today's achievement assembly. The children have clearly all been working hard this week with several children winning more than one certificate! I would also like to thank the children who have already brought in their sponsorship money from the Mini-Mukker challenge; the final total of which will be revealed next week! 

Team Endurance Animation

As part of their art this term, Upper School have been learning about stop-motion animation. We have made Zoetrope animation strips, modelled Aardman-inspired clay figures and even experimented with stop-motion animation apps on the iPads.  The children showed such enthusiasm for this subject that we let our creativity run wild this afternoon! 

 

 

Kilburn Junior School Climate Change Exhibition

This term's Lower School topic at has been rounded off in spectacular fashion this week with our climate change exhibition which opened on Wednesday 16th February.  Superb pieces of art, interactive displays, music, poetry, special guests, a letter from the Prime Minister and an amazing interview broadcast on the Radio Derby breakfast show all combined to create another truly memorable event led by our fantastic pupils. 

Our exhibition will be open to parents before and after school on Thursday and Friday (17th and 18th February).  Don't miss it!

Click her to hear the truly inspirational interview given by Tiana and Flynn in Team discovery.  

Click on the image below to view a gallery of the event.

 

Chinese New Year at KJS

The children celebrated Chinese New Year in style today with a feast prepared by our fantastic catering team. Phrases like 'absolutely delicious' and 'fantastic' echoed across the hall! The children were even joined by a real Chinese dragon! We wish you a happy and prosperous new year, from all of us at Kilburn Juniors.

 

FREE Children’s Bike Checks!

FREE Children’s Bike Checks in association with Big on Bikes & Cycling UK Monday 31st Jan 2022. Minor repairs only. Bikes will need to be brought to school on dates above, with a tag indicating name and telephone number.