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.
A group of Winterbourne Junior Girls from years 4, 5 and 6 ventured out on an amazing overnight stay in the heart of Sussex at YHA South Downs. Opened officially by HRH the Queen in 2013, YHA South Downs is a uniquely refurbished Sussex farmhouse in an enviable location right on the South Downs Way. This […]
Today the school had their first sharing assembly in their house groups. Malala, Arc, Windsor, and Frank House. Girls from each class shared the work they had been doing in maths so far this term.
Year 6 @WjgsS have had their first STEM lesson using @twin_science coding kit. They have constructed a piano made out of bananas! Thank you @LetsLocalise and@twin_science for the fantastic new coding kits you helped secure for us #STEMeducation
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