Welcome to Herne Bay Junior School

Here is the link to our latest Newsletter - 27/02/2026 

Last Wednesday, alongside 15 other schools, we took part in the District Athletics competition at Herne Bay High School. Our Sports Hall Athletics team worked extremely hard in the Running, Throwing and Jumping events and are proud to announce that HBJS won the silver medal! We narrowly missed out on gold to a very strong Herne Junior school team who were well deserved winners. Well done everyone!

We were delighted to welcome People United into school on Wednesday to run a creative workshop with 14 of our Year 5 & 6 pupils. The children learned how to make their very own books from scratch before exploring a wide range of materials and mediums to begin decorating them. The finished pieces were absolutely fantastic and really impressed the workshop facilitators! Later this term, the children will be running a similar workshop for residents at Age UK Herne Bay & Whitstable.

Year 6 have launched their exciting new Geography unit 'Frozen Kingdoms', in style, by travelling all the way to Antarctica - without even leaving the classroom! Using the VR headsets, the children were able to explore the landscape and take in their frozen surroundings, ahead of their informative Antarctica talk on Friday. What a fun way of bringing their learning to life! ❄️

We will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 5th March and children are invited to come dressed as a book character of their choice!

 

All children will receive a World Book Day £1 off voucher and we will be giving a £5 book voucher prize to one child in each year group, which can be spent at the book fair. Costumes do not need to be new, there are lots of easy ideas online that can be made from items you may already have at home.

 

The day will be a wonderful opportunity for children to share their favourite books, discover new stories and celebrate reading whilst taking part in a variety of fun activities! #worldbookday #lovereading

 

We will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 5th March and children are invited to come dressed as a book character of their choice.

All children will receive a World Book Day £1 off voucher and there will be a £5 book voucher prize, for one child in each year group, which can be spent at the book fair. Costumes do not need to be new, there are lots of easy ideas online that can be made from items you may already have at home.

The day will be a wonderful opportunity for children to share their favourite books, discover new stories and celebrate reading whilst taking part in a variety of fun activities!

Visit the World Book Day website here for more information.

#worldbookday #lovereading 

Year 6 will be learning about the amazing work the Food Bank charity do and the ways in which they support our community. 

They will also be looking at how we can all support the charity and come together to make a difference.  

You can find out more information about the Food Bank here .