It’s July and Summer term 2, which means Sports Day! Our girls at Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School love sport and are so very committed to giving their very best to each and every challenge put to them on this fantastic Day of sport. As always, we had the wonderful Croydon Athletics Arena as our venue, […]
Today Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School has dedicated the entire day in celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush generation. HMT Empire Windrush is best remembered today for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom. The ship carried 1027 passengers and two stowaways on […]
Photographs taken by our girls are being displayed at Clapham Library. Children of Caribbean heritage were invited to photograph an artefact that connected them to their heritage – the results are fantastic! Thank you to Jim Grover @jimgroverphoto for helping us share our Family Treasures.
Today is a day of Crowns, Tiaras and curtsies at Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School as we celebrate the Coronation of our King, Charles III. Our special guests include Councillor Alisa Flemming, the Civic Mayor of Croydon who will join the staff and girls of Winterbourne in welcoming our new King. Our day is filled with fun, music, […]
Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School are proud to announce that we have been certified as one of the founding members of the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools. We celebrate our shared commitment to improve life chances through the power of girl’s education. You can find out more about the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools by […]
The Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School Netball teams winning streak continues as we win again this week pitted against Tudor Academy and Applegarth Academy. Our girls were focussed and played superbly as a strong team, reading eachothers plays everytime to gain the upper hand and move forward to another successful day of sport. Our best final […]
Year 6 children have been busy preparing the beds and planting at the allotment today at Lyon road, Thornton Heath as part of the continuing health and wellbeing programme we are taking part in with Pamper Indulge and Give. The Green Project is a health and wellbeing programme run by the fantastic people at Pamper […]
We are so very proud of our amazing girls who won the recent Loud and Proud Debate Competition pictured here with Cllr Alisa Flemming. Launched in 2008, this annual competition seeks to engender self confidence, improve communication skills and ultimately encourage girls to play a more prominent role in public life. How does it fulfil […]
The Croydon Schools’ Music Association’s Festival 2023 opened on Wednesday 8th March with a fantastic Choir drawn from schools across Croydon, including Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School, and conducted by Alma Burcombe. The Choir sang a variety of songs about children’s literary characters, with special appearances from some of those characters. The concert also featured guitar […]
This week we celebrated International Women’s Day 2023. The aim of the IWD 2023 #EmbraceEquity campaign theme is to get the world talking about Why equal opportunities aren’t enough. People start from different places, so true inclusion and belonging require equitable action. When we embrace equity, we embrace diversity, and we embrace inclusion. We embrace […]
The internet has changed all of our lives, particularly our children’s. For parents and carers this opens up a whole new world of things to be aware of. For many of us, this can all be a bit too much.
