Spring Term 2017 – Newsletter 5. 17 March 2017 Charity Cake Sales. It’s been a busy time with the girls working hard raising money for some great

charities.

Y3 & Y4- A big well done to Annabel Massey (3JC) and Ellie Gilbert (3JC) for raising over one hundred pounds at their recent bun sale! The girls baked delicious buns and organised a break time sale for Y3 and Y4 girls. They were helped by

their friend Nancy Tidy (4CG) who also contributed buns. The girls have very kindly decided to donate the proceeds from their sale to Wakefield Hospice.

Y6 Flora Whitfield (6AW) and Beth Farrar (6AW) made delicious buns and cakes and also sold jewellery to raise money for the NSPCC after learning about the NSPCC campaign ‘Speak Out and Stay Safe’ in assembly and in the Y6 workshop. They raised a fantastic £97 for the charity.

Y5 Henny Gibson (5TP) and Jemima Otter (5LR) organised a cake sale to raise money for Macmillan Nurses. Delicious cupcakes, flapjack and Malteser cake made by the girls were great favourites. £70 was raised for a very worthwhile cause.

Thank-you to everyone who supported the cake sales.

Red Nose Day 2017 On Friday March 24 girls may have fun wearing a 'red nose' at playtime to support Comic

Relief. 'Red noses' can be bought at Sainsbury's.

Easter Bonnet Parade We are having an Easter bonnet parade on Thursday April 6th. Why not make a bonnet and join in the parade? There will be prizes for each form.

Book fair Don’t forget that fiction and non-fiction books are available to purchase in the Music Room on Monday 20 and Thursday 23 March at 3.50 – 4.30pm and Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 March at 3.35 – 4.30 pm. The selection of books are suitable for 3 - 11 year olds so all children should find something of interest. Please come along and support this event.

YEAR 3 3JC acted out the first Viking invasion of the monastery on Lindisfarne in 793 AD. We are studying The Vikings and their way of life in our history lessons. We have been so excited planning and preparing for our residential trip to York where we will actually have the opportunity to live as Viking people did for a whole day! We will tell you all about it in our next

newsletter. Our new science topic is all about "Plants" and we have enjoyed identifying the flowers, trees and other plants in St. John’s playground. During this term we will be dissecting a flower and conducting some investigations to find out which conditions enable a plant to grow successfully.

YEAR 4

YEAR 5

Year 5 enjoyed their NSPCC Workshop about 'Staying Safe'.

In Maths, we have enjoyed investigating what resources we could buy for 3 schools in Zambia, with a budget of £500. We used short multiplication to multiply 4-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers.

In the evening we made fossils. It was hard work softening and moulding the plasticine

We felt proud and exhausted when we were at the top of Malham Cove.

Walking up Malham Cove was fun but hard work!

We thought we’d never reach the top

The views were absolutely beautiful.

It was like the top of the world

We had a great time with our friends in Malham

It was exciting and fun to find out who we were sharing our bedrooms with.

We enjoyed making new friends from the other classes.

We went to Malham Cove, Janet’s Foss and Gordale Scar and learned that even Malham Cove had been a waterfall

We saw a peregrine falcon nesting in the cliff

face.

It was very quiet in Malham, with only the sound of the birds, sheep and a noisy cockerel to wake us up in the morning

YEAR 6

In History 6AW have used the QR reader app on the iPads to learn about the causes of the Second World War. It made our learning fun.

FRENCH

The French challenge that was set in the last newsletter was to make some crêpes, using Leila's (French assistant) recipe, take a photo and send it to Madame Roberts for some stars. Well done to the girls who took time to make crêpes at home. Bon appétit!

Lily Wynne and Claudia Bowen were the winners of the Year 5 'Masque de Carnaval' competition to celebrate Mardi Gras. French sound of the week

The French sound of the week is ch as in dimanche

Bon Anniversaire to the following girls.

MUSIC Lunchtime Concert This Wednesday we were enchanted with a superb concert by all our girls taking music exams this term. The girls played to such a high standard, clearly a lot of practice is going on! I was delighted that as well as our internal exam pupils we had girls who were taking exams outside school. We wish them all luck in their forthcoming exams, keep practising – especially those scales! I look forward to hearing the results. Music Festivals The Music Festival season starts this week with our Under 9 Choir and Year 2 Choir competing at the prestigious Harrogate Music Festival. We wish them luck. It will be a busy week for the Under 9s as they will then be competing in the Pontefract Music Festival on Friday 24th March. Sing your hearts out girls and have fun!

Isabelle Whittaker 17 mars Alessia Newman 28 mars Grace Hyett 01 avril

Lily Dyson 19 mars Aishwarya Ragu 28 mars Grace Morley 01 avril

Abbey O’Donnell 19 mars Georgie Staveley 30 mars Amaya Patel 01 avril

Emelia Batty 21 mars Isobel Bott 31 mars Amber Woodhead 07 avril

Eleanor Turner 25 mars Martha Dilley 01 avril Fatima Hayat 09 avril

Bethany Coulby 27 mars

SPORT Hockey

Our U11 team qualified for the U11 North east in2 Hockey Finals on Monday 13th March 2017. The girls had a very tough group and battled superbly to finish third overall. The girls were very unlucky to go out after a tie on points - unfortunately we conceded one more than Hymers which placed Hymers above us in second position. The girls battled well and represented WGHS with pride and passion. Well done girls - we are very proud of you, such a fantastic end to a wonderful season.

Netball The U10 & U11 B netball squads had an excellent afternoon of netball against Westville House School, Ilkley. The U10 squad worked hard to mark their players in defence and to keep the ball out of the opposition’s shooting circle but weak passing allowed too many interceptions. The U11 squad were dynamic in every area of the court and moved the ball at pace to the shooting circle. Under 10 B squad lost 3 – 6 Under 11 B squad won 5 - 1

Players of the match: Lillie Wightman & Aaliyah Syeda Outstanding play from Hennie Gibson, Maddie Patel, Evie Pickles & Abbie Grafton

The Under 9 netball squad had a competitive afternoon of netball at the Westville House School festival. Throughout the afternoon, the squad played some fast attacking netball, moving the ball efficiently from defence to attack. Mia Coxon was outstanding in defence, intercepting many of the opposition’s passes and stopping the ball from getting into the shooting circle. Holly Biggin-Wilcox was a dynamic Goal Attack and shot accurately throughout the tournament. After 2 good wins, the team came up against a fast team from Sedbergh School. After going 4 – 1 down our players dug deep and managed to pull the score back to 4 goals all. Against Bronte House School, WGHS made a few silly mistakes allowing the opposition to win by 2 goals to 3. A win in their last match meant that WGHS finished in 3rd place overall, a creditable position.

Players of the tournament – Mia Coxon & Holly Biggin-Wilcox Results:

Richmond House School won 11 – 0

Westville House School won 2 – 0

Sedbergh School A team drew 4 – 4

Bronte House School lost 2 – 3

Sedbergh School B team won 8 - 0

Cross country

The Year 6 cross country squad competed in the Worksop College Cross Country Championships. In blustery weather, the mile long course took them across fields and through woods in the grounds of the College. Very strong opposition meant that the runners from WGHS had to dig deep and work very hard to maintain their pace and positions. Megan Rees was the leading runner from WGHS finishing in 14th place with Ruby Shone 16th, Lucy Rushby 24th, Lucy Crook 25th, Abbie Grafton 26th and Hannah Jessop 28th. Holly Bestwick, Niamh Barrett, Mia Crecraft, Anna Schofield, Flora Whitfield and Charlie Grant all finished the course in very creditable times.

Approximately 80 girls took part in the race from 13 different schools across the whole of Yorkshire. There is a full programme of Wakefield Schools’ cross country races when girls move up to Year 7 so keep running! Dance Girls in Year 5 and Year 6 are currently choreographing work for the Dance Showcase in Year 5 and the Dance Evening auditions in Year 6. Both events will take place during the games lessons before Easter. Girls who participate in Dance Club are also invited to perform at the Dance Evening as part of this club. The schedule of rehearsals and performances for the Dance Evening are as follows:

27 April 4.00 – 6.30 pm – rehearsal at QEGS theatre 28 April 1.00 - 4.00 pm – rehearsal at QEGS theatre

02 May 7.00 pm – performance at QEGS theatre 03 May 7.00 pm – performance at QEGS theatre

STAR OF THE WEEK – 03/03/2017

STARS OF THE WEEK – 10/03/2017

Poppy Kingston 3JLB Working hard and trying her best in all lessons.

Eliza McEnhill 3JC A lovely act of kindness towards a member of our class.

Christina Ryder 3VH

Working hard on her time problems.

Georgina Hall 5TP

Conscientious attitude to all her homework.

Salina Khan 5LR Trying to give evidence from the text to support her answers in this week's

comprehension.

Grace Hyett 5APW Working so hard and showing a fantastic improvement in her English work.

Aaliyah Syeda 6AMW A very good letter written by a book character.

Aaryah Shenoy 6HJ Always working sensibly and with enthusiasm.

Millie Wood 6JB

Giving good responses during class discussions.

Riya Shanthi 3JB

Working consistently hard in all subjects.

Claudia Holmes 3JC

Having super ideas for your diary entry in our English lesson.

Harriet Middleton-Hart 3JC Fantastic maths work this week- very impressive expanded addition work.

Maya Aziz 3VH

Making a super effort to improve the presentation of her work. Well done!

Rihaam Zaki 4EB

Achieving success on the recorder.

Nancy Tidy 4CG

Superb maths work, including frog line and vertical subtraction.

Ishani Kundu 4SS

Listening well and being ready to work.

Martha McEnhill 4SS

Working hard and being a good friend to everyone.

Aimee Smith 5TP

Working brilliantly with a partner in comprehension to produce some excellent answers

Lily Wynne 5TP Working brilliantly with a partner in comprehension to produce some excellent answers.

Marella Akhgar 5LR

Being a kind and generous member of the class.

Maddy Patel 5AW

Taking part enthusiastically in class performance of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in

English.

Anastasiya Barclay 6JB

Writing imaginative emails using standard and non-standard English.

Lucy Crook 6JB

Being a helpful, kind and hardworking member of the form.

Emily Beasley 6HJ

Working and participating sensibly and with enthusiasm in all lessons.

Ruby Kirton 6HJ

Writing a thoughtful debate through emails using formal and informal language.

Lucy Dimbylow 6AW

Working hard and with enthusiasm in all areas of the curriculum.

Isabelle Whittaker 6AW

A detailed water colour painting inspired by the Egyptian tomb painting ‘Nebamun fowling in the marshes’.

FOSJH Update We have a FOSJH Committee meeting on Tuesday 28th March at 7.30 in Mulberry House Hall - as

always, everyone is welcome so just come along or feel free to email Nicki to discuss it.

Also, just to remind parents we are holding our Easter egg and cake sale on Thursday 6th April, together with a nearly new uniform stall and would be very grateful for donations of good quality used

uniform, sports kit or bags that your child has grown out of or no longer needs. Please bring to either of the School Secretaries, thank you!

Rob Arnold (Chair) and Nicki Williams (secretary)

nicolaamwilliams@gmail.com

Dates to note A list of dates for your diary can be found on our website www.wgsf.org.uk. and in the Junior School Events Diary. I would, however, like to draw your attention to the following forthcoming events:

21 & 30 March Y3, Y4, Y5 & Y6 Parents’ Evening 22 March Class photographs 24 March U9 choir – Pontefract Music Festival 24 March FOSJH clothes recycling 29 March School Shop 31 March U11 choir – Barnsley Music Festival 05 April Musical Evening 06 April FOSJH Easter Egg & Cake Sale 07 April End of term (usual finishing time) 10 April Easter Holiday Club (1 week) 25 April Start of Summer Term