5 May 2025 Latest Ofsted Report We are delighted to announce that following our recent inspection, we were graded Outstanding in all areas. As of September 2024, Ofsted no longer assigns a single-word overall effectiveness grade (e.g., "Outstanding",... Read More
2 March 2025 Book Week Poetry Workshops and Poetry Grand Slam Jonny Fluffypunk hosted our first ever Widcombe Junior School Poetry Slam during Book Week, it was an energetic and brilliant event! Jonny led performance poetry workshops throughout the school today - covering warm ups, voc... Read More
2 March 2025 Book Week Dressing Up Day On the last day of Book Week, our teaching staff was composed of a merry bunch of Mr Men and Little Misses - Mr Muddle, Mr Tall, Mr Sneeze and Mr Man(n), to name just a few. Thank you to everyone for making Book Week really specia... Read More
27 January 2025 Car Free Day on February 14th We're running our next Car Free Day on Valentine's Day this year (the last Friday of term). Organised by our Green Team, this aims to cut pollution and make our school-run safer. We are asking parents to leave their&n... Read More
27 January 2025 Royal Society of Science Book Awards 2025 Our librarians have been working as a judging panel for the Royal Society of Science Book Awards – we are busy reviewing the six shortlisted books, and we will be submitting our decision to the Royal Society judging panel at... Read More
25 December 2024 PTA Christmas Events Thank you We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our amazing PTA for their tireless efforts over the past two weeks. From organising a fantastic Christmas Market to supporting the Year 5 shows, and facilitating a Film and Popcor... Read More
19 December 2024 Year 5 Nativity Play We have also really enjoyed watching the Year 5 Christmas show this week. Supernova and Nebula did an amazing job in performing ‘Straw and Order’ – a modern spin on the traditional Christmas story... Read More
21 November 2024 Author Isabella Harcourt Visit to Year 3 On Thursday, Year 3 were treated to a visit from author Isabella Harcourt, a finalist in the Penguin Random House First Novel Competition in 2018. Isabella has Tourette’s Syndrome and talked to the children about how this pr... Read More
15 November 2024 Anti-Bullying Week 'Odd Socks' Day We have been raising awareness of anti-bullying this week. Tuesday was ‘Odd Socks’ day. This is an initiative which encourages everyone to celebrate differences and to stand up against bullying and discrimination. As p... Read More
25 October 2024 Sports Week Sports Week 2024 has been a roaring success! A huge thank you must go to Mr D for organising. The children have had the opportunity to try out different sports alongside hearing from a range of speakers who work in the sports indu... Read More
18 October 2024 Year 6 Camp It has been lovely to speak to some of the Year 6 children about their camp experiences last week. They really did have the best time. Below, are some quotes from the children: ‘Year 6 camp was a really good opportunity to... Read More
3 October 2024 Bath Literature Festival We have been lucky enough to go to four brilliant events at the Bath Children’s Literature Festival this week! On Monday, 30 children went to The Assembly Rooms to see Onjali Q Rauf talking about her latest book, The Le... Read More