News Whitehorse Manor Junior School

Please see the attached flyers with details of some Easter holiday playschemes run by ‘Start It Right’ and other providers. 

On Tuesday, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Associate Director, Musical Director and Choreographer for Matilda the Musical joined us for two workshops/auditions.

Recently, Year 3 children created their own reports about their visit to see ‘real-life’ cavemen and women Cave People at Ecclesbourne Primary School. 

Opportunity for free Easter holiday gardening sessions.  Please click on the flyer below for details.

The WHJUN choir very much enjoyed their visit to St Alban’s this morning, where they entertained the weekly coffee morning group with a selection of songs including ‘Marching in the Light’ and ‘You’ve got a Friend’. 

Our current literacy learning is based around the works of Shakespeare with a focus on the Scottish play, ‘Macbeth’. 

As a partner borough of the Mayor of London’s Pan-London Anti-Idling programme ‘Idling Action London’, Croydon Council invited Whitehorse Manor Junior School and the Brigstock Annex site to host Air Quality workshops.

So, today has been the highlight of the week- WORLD BOOK DAY!

Yesterday, Year 5 had the opportunity to meet the illustrator- Selom Sunu.

With recent higher numbers of COVID cases across the UK the SLT of the Pegasus Academy Trust has put in place some new precautionary measures to keep us all safe as we enter the last weeks of term. 

This week saw the first ever clash of the Girls’ football teams from Whitehorse and Ecclesbourne. 

Over the last couple of weeks, Year 6 have been studying the text ‘Varmints’ by Helen War and Marc Craste. 

Hello to all of our Pegasus families wherever you are reading this. 

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement today (Wednesday 30th December) and the publication of the accompanying guidance it is now clear that Croydon schools, including our schools within the Pegasus Academy Trust, will not reopen on 5th January as planned. 

I know EPS have done a ‘What staff looked like as school children’ quiz (excellent work guys!)