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.

This week in school was our annual reading theme week. Our theme this year was The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde – each year group focused on this story in their Whole Class Reading sessions. We welcomed the wonderful Image Musical Theatre Company into school and they put on a fantastic show! We had some budding young actors from our audiences who wowed us with their acting talents! We enjoyed the moral of the story, how sharing is a magical thing that can open us up to new friendships and happiness.

Here’s what we thought of it:

‘I liked when the Giant stopped being selfish and let the children play in his garden.’ (Kiera, Year 3)

‘It was great fun!’ (Filip, Year 3)

‘It was a happy and peaceful ending because the Giant had changed his ways’ (Scarlett, Year 3)

‘I liked how the Giant helped the children up the tree’ (Noah, Year 4)

‘I loved joining in! (Ashley, Year 4)

‘The actors were really good and like how they play multiple roles’ (Freddie, Year 6)

‘It was funny watching everyone laughing at my dance moves when we sang, I did the macarena!’ (William, Year 6)

‘It was really live packed, the story was meaningful’ (Elsie, Year 6)

Y3 had a fantastic trip to Brigg Heritage Centre, learning more about our Stone Age to Iron Age topic. We were able to see genuine artefacts from Prehistory,  including a bronze spear head, Beaker pots and a Bronze Age boat! We experienced being archaeologists digging for buried historical treasures, grinding grain to make flour,  using special tools to work stone and weaving our own cloth. We also made model roundhouses,  ceremonial masks and iron age jewellery.  What a busy and exciting day of time travelling!

On the final day of the half term we hosted our annual careers day. There always seems to be such a buzz at this particular event and this year was no different! It was great to see so many activities going on in classrooms, from mock job interviews, role plays and research into different career pathways.

Our school hall was full of visitors too! Ranging from Electricians, Renewable wind energy to the Police and Fire service. The children asked some very thought-provoking questions and seemed to really enjoy speaking to the different professions who came in to visit.

We would like to thank all of the attendees who volunteered to come into school and support us with the event.