Sports

Shine Sports Coaches enrich every lunchtime with a range of planned activities.  Qualified sports coaches also support our PE curriculum.  We are very lucky to have a huge field to enjoy and make the most of this wonderful space for PE lessons and play times throughout the year, including hosting lots of sports competitions.

Music

Children have lots of opportunities to sing and perform.  Year 4 learn how to play the ukulele, and we offer musical instrument tuition through tutors from Bristol Beacon during the school day, as well as guitar and piano lessons.

To register for lessons for the first time, please click on the link below:

Bristol Beacon lessons

We run choir and orchestra clubs, providing performance opportunities at our Music evenings, Henleaze Christmas Fair, our Christmas Bazaar and assemblies during the year.

School Council

Learning about how democracies work, candidates present their proposals to their class and each class votes for a school council member and a deputy to represent their views at School Council meetings, to discuss school improvement and to share pupil viewpoint with teachers.

Eco Committee

Children can put themselves forward for a class vote to be an Eco Committee Rep. Children in this group have helped us to think about sustainability and what we can do as a school to be more sustainable, including ideas to significantly reduce the use of single use plastic in our school.

We also have a Nature Zone designed by the children, to promote wildlife habitats and to provide a peaceful, calm area to enjoy learning about our environment.

Trips

Regular visits to a variety of different venues are planned during the school year. These are often linked to the Curriculum. Examples include: Castles, theatres and  museums.

Children in Year 5 participate in a residential trip over two nights to the Dean Field Centre in the Forest of Dean.

Children in Year 6 participate in a residential trip over four nights to Kilve Court, on the coast near Bridgwater.

Theatre Companies

We provide regular opportunities to watch performances by touring theatre companies.

The Great Henleaze Egg Race

The children of Henleaze Junior School have been building and racing eggmobiles since 2004. It is one of the highlights of the school year.

Children build their eggmobiles at home and bring them in to compete in the Eggotorium at the end of the spring term. The event takes the whole morning, and prize giving happens in the afternoon.

We challenge you to create something wonderful, something whacky, something fast, or something adventurous by way of a vehicle that will carry a hard boiled egg, just as far as a hard boiled egg can go!