Kimberley Primary & Nursery School

Is your child turning 3 soon?
Did you know that Kimberley Primary School has its own nursery for children aged 3-5 within the main school building?
Would you like to have your child receiving term-time provision from qualified teachers?

We currently have a few spaces left in our nursery setting for the Summer Term and are now taking applications for next September.

Every child is entitled to 15 hours of childcare per week, from the start of the term after their 3rd birthday. This is known as universal funding.

In addition to this, many working families are now entitled to 30 hours of free childcare per week. To find out more information or to check your eligibility, please visit https://childcarechoices.gov.uk

We can offer flexible arrangements if required.

If you would like to come and visit our setting, please contact the school office on 01159385050 or via [email protected]

We would love to show you our school and hope we can be a part of igniting your child's love for learning.

Childcare Choices from GOV.UK All about Government help with childcare costs, including 15 to 30 hours free childcare, Tax-Free Childcare, tax credits, Universal Credit, vouchers and support while you study

SEND Coffee Morning - Explaining the EHCP Process & Graduated Response

Tuesday 6th of February, 09:00 - 10:00

We will be hosting a coffee morning in the final week of this term for parents/carers who are interested in learning more about special educational needs funding processes and how schools in Nottinghamshire are tasked with providing a graduated response to special educational needs.

Parents can arrive from drop off where refreshments will be available ahead of a presentation and then an opportunity for informal discussion with myself or Helen Bray, Kimberley Family of Schools SENDCO.

If you would like to attend this event please complete this form -

Fill | Coffee Morning - Explaining the EHCP Process & Graduated Response Tuesday 6th February, 09:00 - 10:00

If your child starts Year 6 this September, then it is time to think about applying for secondary schools. Please remember you must apply to the local authority that you live in even if the school you want is not in that authority. Below is the link to apply for Nottinghamshire residents.

🎒 Is your child due to start secondary school in September 2024?

If your child lives in Nottinghamshire, you can now apply for your four preferred schools.

You have plenty of time between now and the application deadline to consider which schools to apply for and read their admission criteria as this will help you understand how places will be allocated.

Make sure you have done your research before selecting your school preferences and list at least one preference school where your child will have high priority within the admission criteria.

Applying online is quick and easy ⬇️
https://orlo.uk/school_admissions_6FDeD

We hope all of our families have had a lovely summer break. Please remember that Monday 4th September is an INSET day and school is closed to all pupils.

Children return to school on Tuesday 5th September. The gates will be opening at 8:30am. We can’t wait to see you all.

Well done to our amazing Year 6 pupils for their fantastic effort and positive attitude this week - we are all very proud of them. They’ve finished the week with a great afternoon at Clip and Climb.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Coronation Celebration. The pupils enjoyed arts and crafts with a coronation theme and performed their song to their families at the end of day. All the children have a medal as a keepsake from the Coronation too.

To all our families celebrating Eid today, we wish you Eid Mubarak.

Well done to all of the pupils who represented KPS at today‘s Cross Country competition. We are very proud of all of you. A special well done to our girls team for their first place - what an achievement!

Reminder that you are welcome to join us tomorrow morning.

Our PTA Decorated Egg Competition was a great success today. We had so many wonderful entries to choose from. Thank you to all the families who entered the competition. There was a winning entry from each class (chosen by the PTA) and you can see those in the pictures below. A huge thank you to Sainsburys in Kimberley for donating the Easter Eggs for our winners.

Wow! What an amazing morning we’ve had at KPS as rockstars! Years 2-6 have spent our TTR morning competing against their class mates and teachers in our Battle Arena. Well done to all those involved! It’s been brilliant!

An amazing range of books for our KPS families to choose from today thanks to The Roving Bookshop.

Nursery had a great time yesterday on Muddy Monday hunting for bugs and digging for worms. I wonder what they will find next week?

We've had a great time at KPS celebrating Science Week. Each class has made 'connections' with a key text linked to a scientific concept. We've had scientists visit school, new books and dressed up as scientists prompting many interesting conversations about jobs involving science.

Another successful competition this week for KPS. Yesterday some of our Year 5 &6 girls took part in a football competition and came 2nd. Well done! Thank you to Mrs Bingham, Mrs Garner & Mr Beresford for all the work supporting them.

Our wonderful dancers have come 2nd out of 22 schools at the regional heats of the Great Big Dance Off. This means they get to travel to Oxford in June to compete in the finals. How exciting! Well done to Mrs Watson for her fantastic choreography too.

Good luck to our pupils representing KPS at the Great Big Dance Off (East Midlands Regional Heats) today. Having had a sneaky preview on Friday, we know the judges and other schools are in for a treat.

We definitely had fun in the snow today at KPS.

Years 1, 3 and 5 had a great time yesterday completing their first aid training with Mini First Aid Nottingham and Derby

Apparently a dragon has been spotted around Kimberley. Luckily, Year 1 have been on the case to report on the sightings.

KPS Dragon 2023

We had a great day today with Professor Bubbleworks enjoying a day linked to science. Thank you Dr Shelton for organising this.

Well done to all of our pupils who represented us at the swimming gala today. They have been practising hard for this event over the past few weeks. We are really proud that KPS came 3rd!

Thursday 23rd February @ 9am-10am

Come and join us for our new half termly SEND coffee morning. We will focus this time on how we identify need and support your children in school with SEND, plus what to do if you feel your child may need a diagnosis. There will be time to ask questions and chat to other parents about SEND over a cuppa.

We look forward to seeing you!

Ms Bray

Today, Whitehead Class have been geographers by using OS Explorer maps to investigate their local area and explain the features of a map

That's a wrap folks. This is Mrs -T-R passing the reigns to Mrs Harlin. Enjoy our 'Through the Decades' montage by our wonderful KPS pupils. It has been my biggest achievement so far that all our children know the words to Bucks Fizz, Making your mind up - my own special Year 6 song! 😆

Have a great summer everyone. Good luck to all our leavers - you will be amazing at your respective schools. Good luck to Miss Dixon as she goes off on her travels.

Through the Decades KPS

Our fantastic Junior Leadership team were thanked for their hard work over the year with a luxury lunch with their Mrs Read and Mrs T-R.