As you can see from the many dancing and singing videos and pictures on our website and social networks, we absolutely love music here at Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School. To celebrate the many styles of music from Africa and the Caribbean during Black History Month this year, we enjoyed some amazing jamming sessions with our […]
Children from years 4 and 5 now take part in a specialist music programme called Soundstart. The children are currently learning both wind and percussion instrument as well as Guitar. We took a few pictures of our children enjoying their learning, which can be seen in the galleries below. Please click on the thumbnails for […]
With #WorldMentalHealthDay just around the corner, it’s never been more important to find ways to take care of your wellbeing. We all love reading at WJGS so it was great to take part in the free, virtual author visit from Tom Percival, which was part of the #Take10ToRead challenge. Take a look at the video […]
This week, Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School have been getting familiar with NED Shows. The NED Shows are elementary school assembly programs promoting positive attitudes, better behaviour & academic achievement. NED’s Mindset Mission is a character education program that centre’s around three important messages that have lifelong relevance: Never give up, Encourage others and Do your […]
Year 3 are learning to count in 100’s using a variety of different methods to record their 3 digit numbers. Some great paired work happening today. Why don’t you try this method at home and see how many ways you can find to count in 100’s? We have some images below for you. Please click […]
It was a wonderful day of costumes, reading and wonder as the whole school celebrated Roald Dahl Day. Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School was transformed into a wonderful venue of magic, mystery, laughter and nostalgia as we all dressed as our favourite character from our most memorable Roald Dahl masterpiece of literature. We took some pictures […]
As we welcome in our new term, we also welcome in the wonderful bounty of apples that our tree has offered us to eat this Autumn. Here are some pictures of the girls enjoying this fruit bounty as they harvest them for the school.
We have come to the end of another term and this academic year at Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School. This means that we are all ready for the Summer break and also sadly have to say goodbye to our amazing Year 6 girls who now take their next step on the educational ladder. As usual, the […]
After the lunch and awards, we all let our hair down for the end of year disco. The children and staff really enjoyed the afternoon as we had refreshments, great music, a photo booth and much more.
On Monday 19th July, Year 3 continued with their Enrichment projects, this time concentrating on the Japanese culture. In this instance, the girls discovered the importance of the Cherry Blossom to the Japanese people. The cherry blossom, or Sakura in the Japanese language, recalls in its symbolism the whole Japanese philosophy linked to the culture […]
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.
