Year 5 attended a PE Festival at Cleethorpes Academy on Tuesday 14th January and it was amazing! We were taking part with Bursar Academy. Both schools participated in a variety of multisport activities led by Year 9 sport leaders from Cleethorpes Academy. This included a range of sports such as: gymnastics, football, badminton, athletics and handball. Everybody worked extremely hard and displayed excellent behaviour for the sport leaders and the Cleethorpes Academy staff. It was lovely to see the children interact with new people from other schools.

At the end of each term, our children love sharing their learning and school experiences with their families by delivering a learning showcase. Each year group discuss what they have been learning and share their work on the stage. This term’s learning ranges from new books in English, violin lessons in Music and portrait sketching in Art. Following the learning showcase, each child has the opportunity to share their work from the classroom with those from home and celebrate their fantastic achievements. Please see the pictures below:

On Friday 13th December the whole school visited the local church at  Old Clee. We listened to the Christmas story read by the Reverand Lynne and our volunteering children. This was followed by the children singing a variety of Christmas carols lead by Mr Blake. The acoustics in the church made their singing sound beautiful and we were immensely proud of their efforts during the afternoon.

This week, the Production Club performed three fantastic performances of ‘Cinderella the Pantomime’ (Oh yes they did!). This was performed to the whole school who loved joining in with all of the classical pantomime parts. We had special solo parts from some Year 6 children singing ‘Man I Feel Like a Woman’, ‘Perfect’ and ‘You’ve got a friend in me’ and all children thoroughly enjoyed joining in for ‘I’m a Believer’. The children in this club have been rehearsing for their Christmas show for months and it is clear to see how much they have all grown in confidence and how much they loved being part of this project. We ended with two performances to parents, one of which we had nearly 70 family members of children join us, making it a sell out!

This year our school has been taking part in supporting the Grimsby shoe box appeal to help those less fortunate. Grimsby shoeboxes are a small local charity who coordinate donations into shoe boxes to needy children and families around the world. They also support people in the North East Lincolnshire community.

Mrs Bowden and Mrs Culyer took 3 pupils along with all the generous donations (THANK YOU) to visit the Ice house on Wednesday 27th November to support making up the boxes which will be flying over to children in Eastern Europe in time for Christmas. 

Over the last week, we enjoyed a Scholastic Book Fair in school! This was a brilliant opportunity to broaden our personal vocabulary, look and explore at new books and releases and discuss books with our friends, teachers and parents. We also receive free books from Scholastic depending on how many books we bought; a huge thank you to parents and carers for supporting us with this! We will definitely be running another book fair in the future.

‘I bought Dork Diaries and School poems. There was lots of choice so it was very hard to pick!’ (Elsie, Year 6)

‘I bought a ton of books, they were amazing to read. I also bought a rock and minerals box which was really exciting. The notebook was very useful too – it’s not just books in the book fair, there’s all sorts!’ (William, Year 6)

Today we have celebrated and raised money for Children in Need. The theme this year is to challenge yourself. As a school we challenged ourselves to wear spotty clothing for a ‘SPOTACULAR’ look. Please take a look at our X (Twitter) page to see all of our fantastic activities from today.

Thank you to the lovely Mrs Munson (Mellors) who baked us some CIN inspired cookies!

This Week WBJS has celebrated Anti-bullying week. We have enjoyed showing our support in preventing bullying by wearing our odd sock on Tuesday and each class has done various activities to raise the awareness of bullying and the theme ‘choosing respect’. We also have some exciting news, as we now have our very own Anti-bullying Ambassadors in school! These children monitor the playground and help anyone who is lonely, or needs someone to talk to and support them along side the adults. They have also made some beautiful posters around school to help send our message and raise awareness of the affects that bullying can have and why it needs to stop.

This week we visited the Neighbourhood centre on Wellington Street in Grimsby as part of the Into University provision. Children were able to take part in a vast array of activities, ranging from clay modelling to practising some of their drawing techniques in a creative arts session. In the afternoon, children looked into what university courses were on offer to them and where they could go to take up a certain course. The university team also spoke about options for societies and clubs to join whilst at university. We really enjoyed our visits and took a lot from this and it helped to broaden our horizons about future and further education.

On Monday 11th November, our school held a a two-minute silence to reflect on the service and sacrifices the Armed Forces make on our behalf. Some of our children also visited the Memorial Gate service in Cleethorpes where they laid a poppy wreath in remembrance on behalf of the school community.