Litter picking in the local area

As part of our Lower School topic, 'How do we protect our environment?' the children in Year 3 and 4 have been exploring the amount of litter present in our local environment.  It's fair to say that they were suprised at how much they found in just ten minutes.

 

Creative Computing and Data Handling

In Year 3, we have explored the purpose of data collection, looking at different types of questionnaires, including those created for us online. 

Today, we worked in teams to develop a set of questions that would help us improve aspects of our school life, including:

• looking at our favourite subjects and what we would like to have the opportunity to do more of, 
• identifying suggestions for additions to our dinner menu,
• suggesting possible sports clubs for the summer term.

Lower School World Cup Winners!

Our football team got a taste of the World Cup this afternoon in the World Cup mini festival in Alfreton.  Representing Japan, our team won all of their games before returning to school as world champions!  Congratulations to all of our star players.

 

First Week Back in Team Resilience

What a fabulous first week in Team Resiliece!

The year threes have settled in wonderfully and the fours have been so kind and caring, supporting the younger children and showing them around the school.

This week in Team Resilience we have kick started our topic with some fruit and bread tasting, have started our new class book 'The Great Food Bank Heist' and had some great discussions about where our food comes from and our human rights! 

We are all looking forward to an exciting and fun-filled half term!

A Wonderful Way to start the Day!

Teams Resilience and Courage have been reading and retelling stories to each other in our daily guided reading sessions this term. Today, we took this to a whole new level - reading and role-play in the early morning sun. Watch out for their dramatic freeze frames and poses, we definitely have some budding storytellers and actors in our midst!

Times table ball pit

We finished our lesson today by practising our times table in our man-made ball pit!

The children went head to head to collect the most balls by answering the times table questions and matched each question and answer together. 

 

Les Couleurs

This afternoon, Lower School have been reviewing colours in French to finish off this term's unit. The children listened to songs, joined in with the singing and responded well to flashcards too before applying their knowledge to their task. Très bien!

Les Couleurs

This afternoon, Lower School have been reviewing colours in French to finish off this term's unit. The children listened to songs, joined in with the singing and responded well to flashcards too before applying their knowledge to their task. Très bien!

Writers at work

This week, in Team Resilience, the children have worked together to produce super sentences using ISPACE starters.

Using their growing knowledge of verbs, similes, prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions, they have created poems and descriptions that truly are ... out of this world!  Excellent effort, everyone.

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.