Posts By: Catherine Hollis

We were very privileged to take part in the grand re-opening of our local Maidenbower Co-op on Friday 4th December, along with 5 of our pupils who took part in a competition to design a picture. Thank you to the Co-op for allow us to be part of this morning, and well done to our… Read more »

We have had an amazing amount of donations of items for our annual Harvest Festival, and our children have enjoyed the rare occasion of a Harvest assembly (Separate lower and upper school ones) presented by Claire Hiley who volunteers for Crawley Open House. They are especially grateful for the all donations they have received, as… Read more »

We had our own coffee morning to support Macmillan, and lots of staff donned their oven gloves and mixing bowls yesterday and look at the delicious feast that greeting us in our staff room at breaktime today! Well done to all the staff who baked, and well done to all of us who happily parted… Read more »

We hope these photo’s put a smile on your face! our chicks are certainly putting a smile on all of our faces, adults and children alike! They are a week old today and are getting bigger and more confident every day.

Dear Parents, Free Family Well-being Course for Parents and Carers, Whilst it’s great to be back at school and things are on the up, we know that lockdown has taken its toll on everyone’s wellbeing. To help parents and carers to bounce back we will be running our successful and popular CLANGERS family wellbeing course,… Read more »

What a lovely day it has been here at Maidenbower Junior school, We have loved the atmosphere and the buzz around the school and playground with the excitement of teachers and children all dressed up in an amazing variety of costumes, wigs and accessories,  it has been an amazing sight to see. And thank you… Read more »

We thought you may like to see a selection of photo’s to show how happy our children are to be back at school and with their friends again, what a lovely first week with a full school we have had! It has been so lovely to see them all together for the first time in… Read more »

On Wednesday, the whole school tuned into to a Live stream from their classrooms to watch “Be Internet Legends Assembly”  which was very informative and interesting, we thought that parents and carers would like to see this also, The MJS stream starts at 42 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6teAoYa-Sbs&feature=youtu.be&safe=active

One of our most precious and favorite time of our school year is when we present our Anne Newson and more recently our Spirit of Sport award. Anne Newson was a governor at our school for a long time, and when she passed away her family wanted to honor her memory with a once a… Read more »

We have recently been reviewed by a group called Challenge Partners, of which we are part. Please see further information at https://www.challengepartners.org/ The report makes great reading! Maidenbower Junior QA Review Report – final Challenge Partners is a practitioner-led national network of schools that improves school performance through peer-to-peer challenge and knowledge sharing. Each school in… Read more »