<![CDATA[Southbourne Junior School News Feed - News]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk%2Fnews%2F%3Fpid%3D16%26amp%3Bnid%3D2 Juniper Education Content Management System (CMS) Version: 4.5 (junipereducation.org) Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:54:17 GMT Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:54:17 GMT <![CDATA[ Easter Tombola ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=29 On Friday the children in both the Infants and juniors took part in the Easter Tombola organised by our FOSS. We would like to take this opportunity to send our huge thanks to the FOSS team for the time and support they give us and for the monies raised to enrich the learning of our children.  

]]> Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:54:17 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=29 <![CDATA[ Thank You! ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=28 Thank you from Chichester Food Bank!

]]> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:50:17 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=28 <![CDATA[ Tea Party Reward Celebration with Mrs Gasser and Miss Lowrey ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=27 Our pupils enjoyed a wonderful tea party celebration after being crowned the highest Dojo point earners this term! 🏆 The children celebrated their fantastic effort and positive behaviour by sharing hot chocolate and playing games with Mrs Gasser and Miss Lowrey. It was a lovely opportunity to recognise their hard work and to say a big well done for their commitment to our school values. ☕🎉

]]> Wed, 7 Jan 2026 10:27:37 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=27 <![CDATA[ Y6 WW2 Day ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=26 Year 6 really rose to the occasion for their WW2 day, with costumes ranging from spies to evacuees, members of the ATS to the French Resistance and famous pilots to the Bombe coding machine! They took part in mini Anderson shelter building, fire lighting and cooking bread over the fire, conker fights, digging for victory and 1940s playground games. 

]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:05:43 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=26 <![CDATA[ Girls' Football Fixture V St James ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=25 Monday 7th July saw our final girls' football fixture of the season against St James Primary School. The teams were perfectly matched in this hard-fought game, with St James' winning 1-0 with the last kick of the ball! Our girls played so well; Mr Francisco awarded player of the match to Elouise H. We are very proud of the way our girls have developed as a team this year, and wish the Year 6s luck as they move on to secondary school.

]]> Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:17:44 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=25 <![CDATA[ VE Day Service at St. John's Church ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=24 Our upper base school councillors represented the school beautifully today, reading a prayer as part of the VE Day service at St John’s Church today.

]]> Thu, 8 May 2025 14:26:46 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=24 <![CDATA[ Safer Internet Day ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=23 As part of safer internet day, Y3 discussed how to stay safe online and who to speak to if something goes wrong.

]]> Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:45:25 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=23 <![CDATA[ Our School Netball Team ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=22 Yesterday, our netball team competed against two others schools at The Bourne School.

]]> Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:32:52 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=22 <![CDATA[ Y6 Book Fest Visit ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=21 Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed their visit from Iszi Lawrence as part of Chichester Book Fest. Iszi shared the history and inspiration behind her story ‘City of Spies’, and all children received their own copy. Happy reading, year 6!

]]> Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:43:49 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=21 <![CDATA[ Harvest Festival ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=20 This morning we welcomed Richard, from St John’s Church, to lead our harvest festival assembly, which celebrated this special time of year and encouraged us all to be thankful for what we have. Thank you for all your generous donations which will be shared with Chichester Food Bank. Our new Year 6 school councillors arranged all the donations beautifully.

]]> Mon, 7 Oct 2024 11:32:53 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=20 <![CDATA[ Y4 group of pupils visited Age Concern ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=19 Year 4 group of pupils visited Age Concern next door to talk to the members about their childhood memories, the children were surprised to find out that the building was the old Southbourne School! 

]]> Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:42:56 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=19 <![CDATA[ Quadkids ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=18 Year 5 and 6 children took part in different athletic activities against children from Chidham and Westbourne schools. These included throwing, jumping and both short and long distance running.

]]> Mon, 6 May 2024 10:08:20 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=18 <![CDATA[ Lunch with a Scientist ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=17 This week as part of lunch with a scientist we were visited by a doctor. She brought in some really interesting equipment for us to have a look at.

]]> Thu, 23 May 2024 16:25:50 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=17 <![CDATA[ Congratulations Finn! ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=16 Finn won the Bloor housing competition of ‘designing a bedroom for the show house’. On Friday Finn went to visit the show home on Cooks Lane to see his design for real! 

What an amazing room!

]]> Thu, 6 Jun 2024 14:29:45 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=16 <![CDATA[ Broomfield Photographic Competition ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=15 Well done children, your entries were amazing! 

]]> Mon, 20 May 2024 14:30:10 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=15 <![CDATA[ Lunch with a Scientist ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=14 Our visitor for lunch with a scientist this week was with a arborist/tree officer. We learnt some interesting information about their job and even some Latin names for trees.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:53:34 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=14 <![CDATA[ Lunch with a Scientist ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=13 Our lunch with a scientist visitor this week was an actuary/statistician. It was really interesting to find out how statistics are used in real life.

]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:47:29 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=13 <![CDATA[ Lunch with a Scientist ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=12 This week as part of lunch with a scientist we were visited by a mechanical design engineer. We were lucky enough to look at some of the equipment and prototypes our visitor had brought in to show us.

]]> Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:05:34 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=12 <![CDATA[ Chichester Corporate Challenge ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=11 Our runners have represented Southbourne fantastically over the last few weeks, competing against other primary schools in the Corporate Challenge road races in Chichester. The Year 6 boys’ team won their event, with the fastest team times over the three races - well done, boys! We are so proud of all of the children who put themselves forward for the event.

]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:05:08 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=11 <![CDATA[ Lions Club - Poster of Peace Competition ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=10 Congratulations to Imogen! She is the proud winner of the Southbourne Lions Poster of Peace competition

]]> Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:44:01 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=10 <![CDATA[ Y6 Visit St John's Church for Easter Service ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=9 Year 6 enjoyed visiting St John’s Church to explore their Easter display and learn more about the days and events leading up to Easter Sunday.

]]> Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:34:19 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=9 <![CDATA[ Science Fair Award Winners ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=8 A huge well done to everyone who entered the science competition this year. Our external judge was super impressed with all of your ideas and it was very hard to choose a top three!

]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:01:24 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=8 <![CDATA[ Science Week 2024 ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=7 This week, as part of British Science week, we had a science themed day in school. Each teacher planned an activity based around this year’s theme which was Time’.

]]> Tue, 3 Dec 2024 13:15:16 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=7 <![CDATA[ World Book Day 2024! ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=6 Mr Rock led our special assembly today.

]]> Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:08:42 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=6 <![CDATA[ Brent Lodge Assembly ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=5 Here is a picture of Alex who works at the Brent Lodge Animal hospital. She led our assembly this morning. The picture shows all the amazing donations that the children brought in. Alex really appreciated this generosity.

]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:40:04 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=5 <![CDATA[ Christmas Assembly by the CYE Team ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=4 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:17:40 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=4 <![CDATA[ Football Tournament - Match Report by Mr Harper ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=3 We had a thoroughly entertaining Friday at the football tournament. 

]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:22:35 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=3 <![CDATA[ Recycle To Read ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=2 Eco Spotlight - October 2023

Fancy earning books for the school through recycling and becoming an Earth Superhero?

https://recycletoread.org/#get-involved

Registration - Recycle to Read

]]> Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:11:56 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=2 <![CDATA[ Buzzard Class Visit The Bourne ]]> https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=1 This afternoon Buzzard Class visited the Bourne Community College as part of the Enthuse STEM project.

]]> Fri, 10 Nov 2023 09:06:55 GMT https://www.southbournejuniors.co.uk/news/?pid=16&nid=2&storyid=1