Work hard, aim high, have fun!
Michael School is located in the village of Kirk Michael on the Isle of Man. We are small school with a history dating back to 1894 in our current building! Our school is closely linked with the community and our families. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive school, something that was highlighted as a particular strength during our recent quality assurance process. To see the outcomes from that visit, please see the section for parents.
We welcome everyone to Michael School! If you would like to find out more, please contact us on 01624 878246 and we would be more than happy to speak with you or arrange a visit. Please also see our blog which is below... this will show you all the latest learning and community engagement experiences our children have been involved in!
Our school vision:
Michael School is a small school with big learning experiences.
It is an exciting place to learn with times to be calm when we need them. We learn in a variety of ways and enjoy lots of different activities. Our learning means something to us and is fun and motivating. Pupils and staff aim high and try to do their best. We know that if we work hard our achievements will be celebrated. It is a place where we take risks and are not afraid to fail.
Michael School is a happy and caring place where everyone is welcome.
It is a place where everyone is different and is important. We understand that we are all good at different things and together we can achieve more.
We are part of a school family and Michael School is the beating heart of our village.
We are proud to be members of Michael School. Whatever we do in the future, and wherever we do it, we know that we have been prepared for life.
The role that Michael School has played as part of the village of Kirk Michael is still very important to us! This is shown through our school song, composed by Mrs Marilyn Cannell for the school's centenary celebrations in 1994. This is still often sung... we are very proud of Michael School!
This is our school
Where we meet to work and play,
This is our school
Where we learn from day to day.
How to write, what to read;
All the maths that we need,
Friendship and obedience to the rule.
This is our school
Beating like a village heart.
This is our school
Where so many made a start.
Every year passing by,
Memories never die,
We are very proud of Michael School.
On Thursday 23rd July, we spent the first part of the morning celebrating our Year 6 children and their successes. There was the usual awarding of trophies to acknowledge everyone's individual achievements, and also the presentation of the leaver bears! Here are our Year 6 dream team with their muc…
If there is a better way to celebrate a wonderful school year than a visit from the ice cream van, then we don't know what it is! I think we can safely say that everyone loved their ice creams on the last day of the school year. The heat from the sun certainly made them melt much quicker than the c…
On the evening of Thursday 16th July, we celebrated our wonderful Year 6 children's time at Michael School with our annual dinner! All our staff team and the children went to Milntown, who were the most amazing hosts for this event. The food was delicious, the conversation was delightful and the ch…
Earlier this year, actor and resident of Kirk Michael John Rhys-Davies very kindly donated a seed potato for every child at Michael School. They took them home and planted them in tubs, sacks and buckets and cared for them over the next few months. On Tuesday 14th July, many children and parents br…
Every child at Michael School recently participated in a litter pick either within our school grounds, or at Glen Wyllin beach. We know how important it is for our environment and community to keep things clean, so we were delighted to be given a litter picking kit from Beach Buddies to help! Thank…
On Friday 26th June, Year 5 and 6 headed up into the hills to explore our locality. They completed a 6-mile hike led by Mr Kirk, from school to the summit of Slieau Freoaghane which is one of the hills you can see from our playground. You can see the village of Kirk Michael behind them in this phot…