Commitment

AJIS Quiz The quiz team rose to the challenge of the annual AJIS Quiz event. They answered questions across diverse topics including map symbols, letter abbreviations, emoji maths, code breaking, and identifying logos, fruits and leaves. The final round even tested their engineering and team work skills with the building of a tower from nothing but paper straws and tape.

Drumz Aloud All the girls showed their commitment and developed collaboration skills in exciting and upbeat drumming workshops with Drumz Aloud! This was certainly a highlight of this year’s House Days. Inspiring Motivation A talk from former footballer and motivational speaker Luke Staton encouraged the Junior Girls to believe in themselves, be brave, step out of their comfort zones and work hard to achieve their goals. Through telling his own story, he delivered the most important message of the day: it doesn’t matter what you do in life, as long as you become the best person you can be.

Antarctic Broadcast The girls turned in for a live broadcast from the Antarctic, where they heard from expedition leader Rob Swan OBE: the first person to walk to both the North and South Poles! An expert on Antarctica, he answered questions submitted by pupils and helped everyone to learn more about this amazing continent and how we can protect it.

Celebrating Successes Throughout the year, weekly celebration assemblies have recorded the achievements of so many Junior Girls. Here are just a few of the highlights: Ruby Spencer (Year 6) has won 4 gold medals at the international GymStars competition in Malta, Bronwen Soper (Year 4) won first place in the national School Number Heroes competition, Beatrix Soper (Year 6) became England’s fastest U11 girl in the final race of the 2021-22 cross country season, Fleur Oxley-Harrison (Year 5) and her horse Betty made it to the Junior National Dressage Final and qualified for the semi-finals of the Dressage Riders Online Four Seasons Championships, and Georgina Stubbs (Year 6) made her debut for Wigan Athletic Ladies’ U11s and earned the Player of the Match award in her first game!