WJGS News

Black History Month is now drawing to a close and what a fun, informative and exciting month it has been for everyone. The school is awash with some fantastic artwork created by the children to celebrate this important month of history and cultural exploration.  We have prepared a series of galleries below for you to […]

It’s Black History Month at Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School and the whole school has been busy getting involved in a number of exciting projects and workshops relating to this fantastic month of history and culture. The Year 4 children have been looking at Caribbean Carnivals and learning about the vibrant and colourful costumes, amazing music […]

As part of Black History Month, the children throughout the school have been working on some exciting projects including drama, crafts, writing, and many many more. Year four children were looking at Caribbean Carnivals and how vibrant, colourful and exciting they are . In this gallery we see some masks that the children have made. […]

It is Enrichment Day today, and as part of this day and in collaboration with Black History Month, the girls have been reading “Coming to England” by Floella Benjamin. Using segments of the book, the girls have broken off into groups and created a short play. We took some pictures of the girls in action, […]

Fitness and daily activity is very important to all of us at Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School. This is why everyday at 10:45 we all meet outside in our bubbles to take part in the daily mile.  Some of us sprint it, some of us jog it, some of us walk around, but we ALL take […]

Year 3 have had a wonderful day creating artwork for our Black History Month looking at portraits. Followed by a wonderful story by @Lupita_Nyongo . Lupita Amondi Nyong’o is a Kenyan-Mexican actress and author. The daughter of Kenyan politician Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, Nyong’o was born in Mexico City, where her father was teaching, and was raised […]

As we enter the month of October, we focus more on our #BlackHistoryMonth. The whole school is reading the wonderful book-‘Coming to England’ by @FloellaBenjamin throughout the whole month. Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin, DBE, DL is a Trinidadian-British actress, author, television presenter, singer, businesswoman and politician. She is known as presenter of children’s programmes such […]

Today we celebrated #RoaldDahlDay. Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Dahl was born in Wales to Norwegian immigrant parents. He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. The girls came into school dressed as […]

We have made it! The first week of school completed and what an amazing, fun packed week of learning it was for everyone. Well done to our amazing girls for working hard and following all the new rules put in place to keep us all safe. We are so very proud of how quickly our […]

Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School is so very happy to welcome back it’s amazing girls after the lockdown period and the Summer break. We also give a warm welcome to our brand new Year 3 girls who have been introduced to our regular activity, “The Daily Mile”. We wish you all a great start to the […]