Gussies

Gussies Kitchen is a community eating cafe in normal times open to everyone which opened in 2016 operating on a Tuesday between 4 p.m - 5:30 p.m. 

A team of volunteers lovingly cook and serve a 3 course meal using food that is surplus to supermarket requirements and would in past years have gone to landfill but is still perfectly good to eat.

A meal can be purchased with a suggested donation of £2.50 for adults, 50p for children aged 5 -15yrs and FREE for unders 5's. 

 

Greggs 

We work very closely with Greggs Bakery who have funded some excellent initatives for our children. They are sponsorsing a summer school trip to the beach for some of our children, they provide breakfast supplies for our children and they recently sponsored our board game library. Each week a child from each year group is allowed to choose a  board game from the library to take home. This initative is aimed to encourage communication, sharing, fairness and quality family time. It has been a huge success so far!

Red Nose Day

Our 2023 Red Nose Day celebrations involved our children dressing up in red and taking part in numerous physical activities across school all to raise money for a great cause. Some of the activities included a penalty shoot out against Mr Bramley and a squat challenge with Miss Higginbottom. 

Aspirations Week 

Here at Spire we strongly believe in raising children's aspirations and providing them with life skills to be equipped for the future. Tpo help broaden horizons and open our children's eyes to opportuntiies we held our very own aspirations week where a variety of occupations held inspiring assemblies for our children. These people included nurses, firefighters, cruise theatre performers, florists, football CEOs, a surgeon and the police and it was a great opportunity for children to ask questions and learn about the required skills for the role. 

Chatsworth Estate 

We are very fortunate to have formed a partnership with Chatsworth Estate. They have supported us with resources for our 'Create' art and D.T.topics. Next year, the children across school will also undertake a two week local studies project, which will focus on Chatsworth. For example, our Year 6 children, who as part of their 'Discover' topic are studying the Ancient Greeks, will look at the ceiling murals at Chatsworth which contain many Greek Gods. They will then look at cretaing their own ceiling painting, pictures of which will be displayed on the Chatsworth website. 

Here are a few pictures of the mermaid sculpture our children helped make at Chatsworth as part of their Radical Horizons sculpture trail. 

Mini Police 

We are really excited to be the first school in North Derbyshire to be working with Derbyshire Constabulary in launching Mini Police with our Year 5 children. The aim of the programme is to introduce children to a positive experience of policing and to get them involved in the local community. Below is just a few examples of the work done as part of this programme. 

Click here to view our Mini Police Graduation Ceremony, 

National Lottery Community Funding

We were very fortunate to be awarded Community Funding by the National Lottery in January 2021. This has helped fund many great extra-curricular experiences for our children including robotics clubs, craft club, street dance and cookery lessons. In addition to this, we were able to use the funding to provide holiday clubs for our children. 

The NHS

We are excpetionally proud of all the key workers and how hard they have worked throughout this national pandemic. We have shown our support and respect in many ways such as making 'Thank You' cards which we sent to the Chesterfield Royal Hospital. We have also created a NHS mural on the side of our school building in addition to placing a nurse statue outside the school premises. 

 

Shoe Aid 

Spire Junior School took part in an event run by 'Shoe Aid' a Nottinghamshire charity. We did 'our bit' in helping 'STEP UP' to footwear poverty. We donated over 75 pairs of shoes to the charity. 

Links with the local Care Home

We have a strong link with a local care home in Chesterfield. Usually, at Christmas time, our school choir visits the home to sing carols to the residents. 

 

 

 

 

 

Magazine articles and Podcasts 

Click here  to read an article published by Promethean about our use of technology to enhance leanring at Spire.

Click here to view an article published in the Derbyshire Times about our Year 6 end of year photo gallery. 

Click here to read about our work with the local council to esnure our children are protected from bike theft. 

Click here to view an article published in Derbyhire Life. 

Click here to view a recent article published in the Education Today magazine and written by Promethean about our use of technology in the classroom to engage learners. 

Click here to view a video produced by the BBC commending Spire Juniors on their innivative approach in ensuring happiness and healthy well-being of our children during exam periods. 

Click here to read an article in the local newspaper celebrating Spire Junior School's approach to 'plastic pollution', describing them as 'leading the way'. 

Click here to access a newspaper article thanking Spire children for litter picking in the local area and taking care and pride in their environment. 

Click here to watch a 'School Case Study' video prodcued by Promethean. 

Click here to read an article in The Derbyshire Times about Spire's recent award nomination. 

Click here to read a post from Derbyshire and Proud about the sculpture 'Coralee' made with the help of Spire Junior Pupils.