Today’s STEM lesson provided our Year 6 with a hands-on coding experience, by linking the game’s concept to bioplastics, students gained a deeper understanding of sustainable alternatives to harmful materials, fostering environmental awareness.
A huge congratulations to our year 6 girls who took part in the Emile Education Spelling competition, in which some of our girls ranked in the top 20 across the country! Our Year 6 girls entered a National Spelling Competition on the 13th & 14th November run by Emile Education. Emile Education is an online […]
This week our Year 5 girls went on a fabulous trip through London’s history with a visit to the world famous Tower of London. The Tower of London is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It is officially known as His Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress of […]
Year 5 created ‘A Play in a Day’ with the fantastic Pete Tidy from Sing a Book. This time the play was based around Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Sing a Book, a community interest company, was founded in 2014 to engage and develop children’s understanding of stories using the medium of original songs linked […]
Year 6 applied the STEM principles to design an effective whale air pontoon. Our students found building a pontoon to help a whale incredibly exciting. It stimulated further interest in marine biology and engineering.
Anti-Bullying Week 2024 will take place from Monday 11th – Friday 15th November, with the theme: Choose Respect. Odd Socks Day is taking place on Wednesday 13th November this year at Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School, with adults and children being encouraged to wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique. The theme […]
For Diwali this year, Year 4 are having making Rangoli Designs using beautifully coloured sand. You can see some finished Rangoli Designs in the gallery below. The girls also created some amazing houses with working lights. Diwali is India’s most important festival of the year—a time to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, knowledge over […]
We kicked off the term with our Black History Enrichment Day. Each class covered a different icon and the girls got to move around the school learning all about these wonderful people. To start us off is Lilan Bader, one of the first black women to join the RAF. The girls got to make paper aeroplanes […]
This October, Winterbourne Junior Girls’ School was showered in pink rather than the more traditional red uniform in celebration of “wear it pink” to raise money and make life-saving breast cancer research and life-changing care happen. Children were asked to bring in £1.00 to wear pink on the day and do their bit to help the millions of people that […]
The Sports Leaders ran the Year 3 Sports Festival today. This is the Sports Leaders’ first event after their training. Well done girls, a very successful afternoon. We took some pictures of the girls in action, which can be seen in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
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.
