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We would like to welcome Miss Thompson and Miss Hird who are joining us this term on placement from Chester University.

Miss Thompson is on placement with Mr Parker in Oak Class and Miss Hird is in Cherry Class with Mrs Crook and Miss Speakman.

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New menu starts from 23rd February 2026!

We would like all children who are entitled to a free school meal to take up this offer.

From Spring Term 2 Orian will be offering a packed lunch option. The packed lunch option will consist of a choice of sandwich / wrap or pasta pot, fruit wedges, veg sticks and raisin & sultanas plus the dessert of the day.

If you need help to order your school meals please speak to Mrs Shepherd in the school office.

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Thanks to the Widnes Vikings Foundation we have been gifted a family season ticket to be used at Widnes Vikings homes games for the 2026 season.

We have had 24 families who have come forward and would like to use the ticket.

A family will be chose at random before each home game.

Our first winner who will be attending the game on 1st February is -

Brianna from Cherry Class

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There are still a few places left on the residential for October 2026. This trip is half the normal price, so is a great opportunity for our children to experience a PGL residential.

In Autumn term 2026 we will be taking up to 25 children to the PGL Centre at Winmarleigh Hall Preston Monday 5th to Wednesday 7th October 2026.

The children will stay for three days / two nights and have a full program of activities such as raft building, trapeze, orienteering, silent disco plus many more. This is a wonderful opportunity to take part in an amazing range of fantastic activities.

https://www.pgl.co.uk/en-gb/school-trips/resources/parent-guide/about

If you would like to reserve a place for your child, you need to give consent and make a non-refundable deposit payment of £50.00 immediately to reserve a place. Places are only reserved once the deposit payment is received. Places will be offered to children in Year 4, 5 and 6 September 2026. The total cost of the trip is £165.00.

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Find out what what your child needs to take with them, what they will do when they get there, what they will be eating and what to do if your child has any allergies or medical conditions we need to take into consideration. It’s all here in the Parent Guide.

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Do you have or know someone with pre-school children?

Please invite them along to our parent and toddler group.

The first session is on Friday 30th January 2.15 - 3.00pm

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Another fantastic week in afterschool club.

Monday, we played the floor is lava, made windmills, decorated our own worry monsters and built Minecraft scenes using magnetic tiles and blocks on the radiator.

Tuesday, we used lots of different ingredients to make some delicious devilled eggs. We used lots of different materials and chairs to build dens. We also used fresh flowers and glitter to make petal potions and perfume in small plastic bottles!

Wednesday, some of the children worked hard together to build marble madness structures and large wooden block creations. We also had a really game of limbo using a wooden meter ruler!

Thursday, we had collected lots of recyclable materials and did junk modelling. The children massively enjoyed this and made lots of different things from helicopters, planes, buses, McDonalds shops and Minecraft costumes. We will be doing this lots more in future!

Friday movie night, we watched Encanto. We also had the same craft as last week of making McDonalds boxes as this was a big hit but we extended this with putting out the craft or making McDonalds fries too. The children have really enjoyed creating their boxes and accessories and then using them on a table with materials to put together their own drive thru and play with it as a group.

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Please follow and share our new school page on Instagram

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you’re into with the people who get you.

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Please note there is a change to the school calendar for 2026 - 2027. We will be having two weeks holiday for May half term. Summer Term will finish on the 28th July 2027.

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Have you thought about supporting the PTA lottery? It costs £1 per week and there is a winner every week from Westfield Primary School.

In addition to this you have a change of winning the jackpot prize of £25000.

The school receives 60p from every £1 donated.

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We are delighted to offer complete wraparound care from 7.30am until 5.45pm every day during term time.

Breakfast club is £2 per session and After School Club is £8 per session.

Both clubs can be pre-booked via the school spider app.

After School Timetable

Get Moving Monday

Tasty Tuesday

Wonderful Wednesday

Thinking Thursday

Forest/Film Friday

The contact number for After School Club outside office hours is 07852389286

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Reminder - School meals must be ordered from home for each day. Parents can order up to three weeks in advance.

If your child is unwell you must cancel your school meal if one has been ordered, otherwise you will be charged for the meal.

www.schoolhub.co.uk

From 1st April 2025 the daily cost of a school meal will be £3.43.

Please check online with Halton Borough Council to see if your child is entitled to a free school meal. If eligible this will also mean extra funding for school and help for parents with the cost of school trips.

https://www3.halton.gov.uk/Pages/EducationandFamilies/Schools/FreeSchoolMeals.aspx

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech and Language Base

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech and Language Base

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We’ve had a fantastic week in Sycamore Class!

In English, pupils have been learning all about exclamation sentences and how to use them effectively in their diary writing. They then moved on to creating vivid setting descriptions of a dragon’s cave, using lots of ambitious and imaginative vocabulary.

Our wider curriculum learning has had a strong history focus this week. Pupils in Years 3 and 4 have been exploring life in Ancient Rome, while Years 5 and 6 have been learning about the fascinating world of the Ancient Greeks.

On Tuesdays, we’ve also enjoyed welcoming some pupils from Cedar Class into our classroom to take part in continuous provision activities. It has been lovely getting to know them and seeing them engage so enthusiastically.

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This week in Oak class, we have been learning about the Ancient Greeks! It has been a fascinating topic to look at, including learning about the various Greek gods and goddesses, as well as learning about how different the ancient city states of Athens and Sparta were.

Our writing continues to be about Kai and the Monkey King, and we have been learning a lot about expanded noun phrases and describing our work in great detail.

Finally, we looked at how money affects our lives in our PSHE sessions, and how we need to be really careful or otherwise we could get involved in events that can lose us money.

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We've had another busy week in Larch class!

This week in Larch class, we have been looking at the Ancient Romans in the afternoons. We had fun recreating a Roman battle formation, The Wedge, and moving at the same time and in the same pace. Our learning has helped us to understand the lives of the characters in our book, Escape from Pompeii.

In maths, we have started our new topic on numbers in the thousands. We have been using our knowledge of number facts to support us with adding hundreds and thousands.

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This week, it was Miss Costelloe's turn to choose our Book of the Week.

Celebrate by Laura Mucha is a warm, practical guide to rediscovering joy through meaningful celebration. Mucha explores how marking moments—big and small—helps strengthen relationships, create belonging, and make life feel richer and more intentional. Blending personal stories, cultural insights, and gentle advice, the book encourages readers to move beyond perfection or obligation and instead celebrate in ways that feel authentic. Overall, it’s an uplifting reminder that celebration isn’t about extravagance, but about connection, gratitude, and noticing what truly matters.

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Cedar Class KS1 Speech and Language Base

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Cedar Class KS1 Speech and Language Base

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This week we have been sharing more dragon stories and watching clips from 'Zog' to support our sentence structures using the format Who is doing what? e.g. The dragon is flying or 'The dragon is breathing fire'.

In Maths, we have worked on equal and same using weighing scales and Numberblocks cubes to see how many ways we can make the same number using stem sentences such as 4 is made from 2 and 2.

We have been really loving our songs and nursery rhymes this week as well as shading with chalk and pastels so we will bring this into next week to explore colours and shapes.

A quick reminder that our P.E. days are on Wednesdays and Fridays. On the other days of the week, children should come to school in uniform. For our children the uniform can be adapted to black tracksuit bottoms rather than trousers and white polo neck t-shirts rather than shirt and tie if needed.

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A busy week in Cherry Class as usual! We are enjoying this gymnastics unit so far and have practised zig zag pathways, balanced on different points of our body and created short sequences which we then performed in front of the class 🤸‍♀️

We have enjoyed producing some art work inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe using water colours and oil pastels. The children have shown a great attention to detail and have really enjoyed themselves 👩‍🎨 👨‍🎨

History has been our focus this week and we have learned about how schools have changed over time. We have found out what school would have been like for our parents and grandparents (expect to be quizzed about your time at school!) and also ‘beyond living memory’ in 1900 😮 🏫 🧮 🦯

We have continued to work hard in all curriculum areas such as finding the difference between two numbers in maths, contractions in spelling (I’m, we’ve, she’s etc) and writing tips on how to look after a dragon in our writing lessons ✍️ 🐉

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A fantastic week for Willow Class this week and the children have certainly enjoyed being back in our lovely classroom! 🥳

We have continued our theme of "Real Life Superheroes" by looking at the roles of people who help us and playing with imaginative play resources. This week we focused on the role of shop keepers and super market workers. The children loved playing with the "Asda Shop and Checkout!" They pretended to be just as helpful as the lady in the non-fiction book that we looked at!

Then we read "Ten Little Superheroes" a count along story with the Ten Little Superheroes in a counting rhyme adventure! The Ten Little Superheroes are on a mission to save the city. We had our own mini figure superheroes and we have been using our counting skills to count out different amounts of superheroes.

We have been talking about consent this week and with the youngest children in school, we deliver this using the NSPCC Pantosaurus. Talk PANTS helps children understand that their body belongs to them, and they should tell a safe adult they trust if anything makes them feel upset or worried

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Monday 2nd February sees the start of ‘National Story Telling Week’ and we will have lots of exciting things happening that week.

In the lead up, we have a little project for you to do at home, with a chance of winning some gift vouchers.

Children and families, we would like you to create your favourite story or scene from a story. Be as imaginative as you like, it could be a drawing, piece of writing, painting, shoe box 3D model, dressing up photo …. the opportunities are endless.

All entries to be in school by Wednesday 4th February please.

We would love to see as many of you joining in and cannot wait to see what you make. Your entry will be displayed for the whole school to see and pictures put on our social media pages.

Thank you

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On PE days children come to school dressed in their PE kit.

Willow Class - Tuesday PE & Forest School (27th Jan only) normal day is Thursday

Cherry Class - Wednesday and Friday

Larch Class - Monday PE and Swimming Tuesday

Oak Class - Tuesday and Wednesday

Cedar Class - Wednesday and Friday

Sycamore Class - Monday Y3/Y4 PE, Tuesday Y3/Y4 Swimming, Tuesday Y5 & Y6 PE, Wednesday Y5/Y6 PE

School PE kit is -

Plain black shorts/tracksuit pants

Plain white t-shirt

Pumps or trainers

For forest school long sleeved plain black tracksuit.

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Willow Class - Elodie

Cherry Class - Jack

Cedar Class - Theo T

Larch Class - Nainik

Oak Class - Charlie

Sycamore Class - Lincoln

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St Andrew - 89.6

St David - 90.7

St George - 95.8

St Patrick - 92.6

Whole School - 92.2

Goldfish monitors - chosen from children who have 100% attendance this week and no late marks - Heidi D, Heidi J, Riley J

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Pupil of the week

Willow Class - Isaac

Cherry Class - Rosie-Ella

Larch Class - Adelaide

Oak Class - Amber

Sycamore Class - Charlie

Miss Speakman - Loui

Miss Pope - Seshitha, Archie, Zara and Charlie

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Seshitha

Miss Lawson - Heidi N

Mrs Sanders - Jaxson

Mrs Bradley - Amelia D

Mrs Arnold - J. J

Tidiest Classroom - Larch Class