Posts by Ash Kirwan

More than 200 children have put on a right royal show as they dressed as the Queen for their half-term Platinum Jubilee party.  The students, from Howard Junior School in King’s Lynn , study just six miles away from the Queen’s country retreat at Sandringham.  Staff also dressed as other members of the Royal family.…

Howard Junior School celebrated the annual ‘World Book Day’ event in style this year, with activities lasting throughout the week. An after-school book club, guess the teacher’s favourite book competition, an entire day in book character costumes and to top it off a visit from famed local author James Nicol! Staff and pupils alike thoroughly…

As Putin’s attack on Ukraine continues to intensify, many people are wondering how to explain the situation to children. The BBC has visited a school in Norfolk to find out how they are talking to pupils about the conflict – and to hear from pupils themselves, many of who have families in countries such as…

A Lynn school transformed into Hogwarts with “the biggest recreation of the Great Hall outside of Warner Brothers” yesterday. Students wore authentic looking Hogwarts robes for Howard Junior’s Harry Potter themed event, and headteacher Greg Hill wandered the halls dressed as Dumbledore. The main school hall was painted with beautiful Harry Potter inspired artwork that…

As the nation paused to remember its war dead today, a Gaywood school brought the past into the present. Pupils and staff at the Howard Junior School took part in a special assembly which was also attended by members of the Royal British Legion’s Lynn and District branch. Assistant headteacher Ash Kirwan and his team…