Longlevens Junior School

Longlevens Junior School, Gloucester

Longlevens Junior School is the largest Junior School in the South-west of England district, with approximately 480 pupils. The age range is from 7–12 years (year three to year six). History topics change as years go by, year threes have the Ancient Egyptians, year four study the Romans, year five look in the Tudor and Greek period and finally, the year six pupils delve into the WW2 era. The School day begins at 8:25 am and it finishes at 3:25 pm. Year three learn German, year four learn Spanish and the year five and sixes learn French.

The School take part in a Comenius project, which means the children are partnered with a child from another country (usually Spain, Italy, France or Sweden but more Schools across the globe probably take part too. The Schools are very involved with their partnering Schools and the teachers often visit, bringing back photos of the area and School environment. Also, the other international Schools can check out the Longlevens Junior School website where the pupils can leave comments (which are checked) or photos of their country.

Gardening is also quite a big thing at this School. In 2008, the children had the oppurtunity to create a garden for the famous Malvern Flower Show and many children attended the gardening club to make this day a big success. On the day, children had the chance to go on television, talk to the public and have a great time and they won a well deserved bronze medal. This makes them the first and British School to have have won any award at this festival. In 2009, they held their own flower show on their large School field due to the success of the year before. This had a great turnout and many people entered the competitions, like the 'best decorated fairy cake' or 'largest tomato' or 'longest carrot'. This event had a bouncy castle and many shops owned by local businesses.

Extra curriculer activities include: sports clubs, art clubs, drama clubs, gardening clubs, chess club, ICT at break times and others. There are many clubs for all the School too including: The Ashmoleum museum, the local Church, the pantomine, pizza hut, croft farm, the local sewers, kingswood activity centre, Swindon train museum, a World War II bomb shelter, Gloucester Cathedral and many more educational trips. After most of these days out, the children then usually record the day onto a piece of paper which are put up around the School to display.