01 March 2010   Belvedere Book Week
Belvedere Book Week starts on 01.03.10. Lots going on so make sure you read the newsletters.

07 January 2010   School Open Today
Belvedere Junior will be open today (Thursday, 7th January).

06 January 2010   School Closure
Belvedere Junior School is closed today (Wednesday, 6th January) due to poor weather conditions overnight.
This was announced earlier on BBC Radio Derby.

10 October 2009   Harvest Festival, 2009
Pictures taken of our Harvest celebrations; the gifts and the performers.

15 July 2009   Belvedere Summer Fair
Another successful envent in our calendar. Fun was had by all. Here are a few snapshots for you to enjoy.

29 June 2009   East Staffs Gardening Olympics.
A few pictures of the Belvedere Junior School display at the Gardening Olympics, held on Saturday, 27th June.

17 June 2009   Belvedere visit to Wroclaw, Poland.
Some photos of our trip to our partner school in Wroclaw, Poland.

14 January 2009   Traditions and Celebrations - England and Poland
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Take a look at this web space to see our latest international link.

27 November 2008   Free Rice
Try this ... be careful it can be addictive!
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10 October 2008   Harvest Festival
On a glorious October day we celebrated our annual harvest festival with every child, invited guests, parents and friends, enjoying the tremendous atmosphere in St paul's church.

22 June 2008   "Gardening Olympics"
We were invited to provide a display at the Gardening Olympics rganised by east Staffordshire District Council and our Music for the masses "choir were asked to perform there.


10 June 2008   Belvedere Scarecrows.
We were invited to make and send scraecrows to Rodbaston College of Agriculture for their open day on Sunday, 8th June.
Children took on the task of designing, collecting materials and adapting the design during the making. We left the evaluation to the people who went to the open day.
See what you think ...

20 May 2008   "Oh When the Saints ...."
One of our year 5 recorder groups represented Belvedere at Staffordshire's Recorder festival today (Tuesday, 20th May).
We joined groups from other schools to perform at Lichfield Cathedral
(a fantastic building with great acoustics)and had a great afternoon, playing two of our own pieces and k=joning the whole group ensemble for others.
Thanks to Mrs Scarratt for her work with this group and to Mrs Timbrell (and a special hello and thanks to Mrs Parkes, currently recovering from an operation).
Children were patient, well behaved and played brilliantly.

09 May 2008   Gardening Club
Thursday night is Gardening Club. Take a look at what we get up to ...

09 May 2008   Y4 Multi-Cultural Celebrations.
Pupils took a day to look at different cultures through art, costume, dance and food.

06 May 2008   Football Day
Mrs Soloman organised a football day, with quizzes, prizes and a penalty shoot out (thanks Mrs S.).
The children were split into houses for the competition, which was won by Elm.

29 April 2008   "Comenius, You're Fired!"
The next stage of our "tile wall" project was to take the tiles to Abbot Beyne Arts College fire the tiles in the kilns there and then to colour (glaze) the tiles.
After this they will be fired again to bring out the richness of the colours and to waterproof the tiles.
Please take a look at the photos ....

26 April 2008   St George's Day.
April 23rd is St George's Day. Saint George is the patron saint of England.
We celebrated this day by asking everyone to dress up as characters from the George and the Dragon legend, in red and white, to wear the red cross on a white background emblem and to create work around the theme (playscripts, poetry, masks).
we also invited the community to join our assembly where we learned about the history, legend and traditions associated with St George.
These photos show some of the pupils on the day.

24 April 2008   Comenius Tiles Project
As part of our European project Y4 children are designing and making ceramic tiles. (PHOTOS NOW ADDED)

03 January 2008   Christmas Production
Our 2007 Christmas Production was a great hit with pupils, parents and staff.