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On 22nd 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 […]

“So let’s get our curriculum right for our girls through cultural competence” This week we have been discussing two terms with our staff. Those terms are Cultural Capital and Cultural Competence. In groups, the staff have been talking about these terms and considering what they think they mean.   What is Cultural Capital? Cultural Capital […]

 Throughout Black History Month, the girls and staff took part in a plethora of activities and workshops. These included food, culture, music and dance. Yesterday, we were visited by Fanta from P.I.G (Pamper, Indulge, Give) who put us all through our paces as she conducted a series of Zumba sessions. PIG are a non […]

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.