Welcome to Great Moor Junior School

Headteacher's Welcome

I am very proud as the Headteacher, to welcome and introduce you to Great Moor Junior School.

Great Moor Junior School is a co-educational community Junior School and our pupils are with us for four years (Years 3 – 6). During this time our aim is to give children a life-long love of learning by providing a broad, balanced, rich and diverse curriculum and a nurturing learning environment where children can thrive and develop into self-confident, caring members of the community.

High expectations are embedded through our school values of Respect, Kindness, Tolerance, Responsibility and Co-operation. We strive to provide excellent learning experiences helping children to become enthusiastic and confident in their learning, developing a wide range of knowledge and skills.

We consider our school to be a team where everyone is a learner and where everyone matters. We all have an important role to play: staff, children, parents, and governors, learning and working together to ensure the best possible outcomes for our children.

We hope you find the information on this website useful. If you would like the opportunity to visit our school, you are very welcome to come and have a look around – please contact us to make arrangements.

We look forward to meeting you.

Best wishes

Kate Bushaway

Headteacher

Being safe online

E Safety for parents Power Point recording: Click here to view a PowerPoint to help with online safety.

7th February 2023 is Safer Internet day. Click here for helpful information about this.

Google Classroom at Great Moor Junior School

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Accelerated Reading - Kilross Primary School

Accelerated Reader Programme

Great Moor Junior School is part of the Accelerated Reader programme.
Click the link here to go to our AR site https://ukhosted113.renlearn.co.uk/6706574

All of the children have a ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development) level in their Reading Record and they can choose from a range of books within that level to find one that they will enjoy. Children can also search for suitable books on the AR Bookfind website via this LINK or read one of the 6000 online texts in myON.co.uk so there is plenty of choice! Children should have their log in details.. The children gain points and improve their ZPD level by correctly answering the online quizzes (that test comprehension) for their books so they can see their progress which is very motivating. They also love taking the quizzes!

You can find out more about the programme at: https://www.renaissance.com/2016/09/09/parents-guide-renaissance-accelerated-reader-360/

Pupil Views December 2022

Here are the results from our most recent pupil questionnaire. We like to gather pupil views to support us in our drive to continually improve our offer to pupils.

99% of children said they enjoy coming to GMJS.

98% of children said teachers help them do their best.

99% of children said that they enjoyed learning at this school.

98% of pupils believe that the behaviour of other pupils in lessons is usually good.

99.7% of pupils believe that the behaviour of the pupils around school is usually good.

99% of children said they feel safe coming to school.

99% of children said that school encourages them to respect people from other backgrounds and treat everyone equally.

99.4% of children said they would recommend this school to their friend.

Parent Views March 2022

Here are the results from our most recent questionnaire which was sent out to all parents to gather views on different aspects of school. Thank you to all those who responded. We were very pleased with the positive feedback we received and have contacted individual parents regarding any queries that were made.

92% of parents agreed that their child was happy at school