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🛡️Why is the flu vaccine important?

Flu can spread quickly in schools and can lead to serious illness, missed school days and increased risk for vulnerable family members. Vaccinating children helps protect not just the individual child, but also classmates, teachers, and families.

📢 What we’re asking you to share:

To help us spread the message and increase flu vaccination uptake, we’ve attached a few helpful resources that we hope you’ll consider using:

“Five Reasons” Poster

Please display this in a visible area and/or share it digitally through your school communication channels. It includes the date of your immunisation session and contact details for the team.

🎥 Preparing Children for Vaccination (for Primary Schools)

We also encourage you to share this short, child-friendly video with pupils and families to help them understand the flu vaccination session. It’s designed for young primary -aged children and can help reduce anxiety and increase confidence.

Flu Fighters- Nasal Flu Spray for Kids  https://youtu.be/1jHWwm8NQUw?si=BEMq3r_Tjh8eHvuy

Please consider showing this in class or sharing it with parents and carers via your school communication channels.

💬 Supporting families

If any parents and carers need help completing the form, please encourage them to call our team- we’re happy to:

Support them with questions over the phone

Take verbal consent

Share flu resources in other languages and easy read materials.

Provide any additional help they may need to complete the process.

We understand this is a busy time in the school year, and we do appreciate your ongoing support with the school flu immunisation programme. Thank you for working with us to protect our children, young people, and communities against flu this season.

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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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For the safety of all pupils, parents and local residents can we remind you not to park on the pavements when dropping off or collecting from school. If you park on the pavement children and parents have to walk in the road, this is putting them in unnecessary danger.

Where possible walk to school or if you need to drive park away from school on Penn Lane. Do not park on pavements, double park or block residents driveways.

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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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With bags packed and a teddy in their hand, we waved off 22 of our children on the Tattenhall Residential. They will have a fun packed 3 days and will be feeling very sleepy by Wednesday. (that goes for the Teachers as well!) We hope the weather stays fine for them and we look forward to the updates from Mr Parker. If your child has gone on the trip and you need to contact me in an emergency, you can call the school mobile after hours 07852389286.

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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 wonderful week in Sycamore Class! The pupils have thoroughly enjoyed continuing our learning about the Great Fire of London.

In our wider-curriculum sessions, the children have been taking part in exciting DT projects. Years 3 and 4 put their baking skills to the test as they designed and made their own biscuits. They had great fun adapting a recipe—and, of course, tasting their creations at the end!

Years 5 and 6 showcased their sewing skills by designing and making their very own waistcoats. This project required a great deal of determination and perseverance, and the children should be very proud of their achievements.

Next week, some of our pupils will be heading off on a residential trip, so Sycamore Class will remain together as one group from Monday to Wednesday.

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A busy week in Oak class! Our writing has been in full flow, writing a setting description for a Viking hall linked to our text 'Beowulf' and preparing to write a character description of the warrior king Hrothgar by identifying his character traits through his actions.

We undertook a huge design and technology task this week in designing and making (through actual sewing!) waistcoats. The children thrived with this unfamiliar activity, and the fun that was had was brilliant- we also actually manged to each make our own waistcoat that we will be showing off.

Finally, we continue to read about Hansel and Gretel, understanding now how wicked the mother is for wanting to leave them abandoned in the forest. I wonder what will happen next...

Oh! For those of us going, I hope you are excited for our Tattenhall residential trip this week!

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In Larch class this week, we have enjoyed starting our English sessions about our new book Nen and the Lonely Fisherman. We have been making predictions based on the front cover and taking our writing further by adding subordinating conjunctions.

We have finished off our Science topic this week by looking at the different food groups and discussing how to ensure that we have a balanced diet. We designed meals which included aspects from all of the food groups.

In our PE lessons, we have done both dodgeball and taekwondo. We practiced our aiming in dodgeball and had some games at the end. In taekwondo, we recapped the punches from last week and added in kicks. The children have all really enjoyed their taekwondo sessions.

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Free School Meals – Don’t Miss Out! 🍴

Did you know ALL children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are entitled to a free school meal under the Universal Infant scheme?

✅ But if you receive qualifying benefits, it’s still really important that you register. Why?

Your child may miss out on supermarket meal vouchers if you’re not registered.

The school receives extra funding (Pupil Premium) to support your child’s education – money that makes a real difference!
For children in Years 3 and above, free school meals are not automatic. They are only available if you receive certain benefits (see link below for details).

💻 Please take a few minutes to apply online – even if your child already gets a free meal in infants. It helps both your family and our school community.

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

Thank you for helping us support your child’s education. 💜

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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 has been all about finishing off our Science - exploring the senses.

We have used our sense of touch to feel different textures in the forest and when making our own junk models, collecting leaves to make an owl collage. Some of us have used our senses to taste and smell some different foods - we loved the smell of coffee and the taste of honey, but weren't keen on rocket!

We then went on to explore sight - looking at the world through different colours and sizes using colour paddles, coloured torches, binoculars and magnifying glasses.

As well as constructing our junk models this week, we have built using other materials and kits - marble runs, wooden blocks and Numberblocks inter-linking cubes.

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This week the children have completed some lovely writing all about Plop the owl from our new text The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark 🦉 ✍️ We completed our science unit on the senses and had some fun trying to guess some smells and using different vocabulary to describe what mystery items were in the feely bag, linking to touch 🤚 👃

We also completed our DT unit on structures. We researched what qualities a chair needs and experimented with paper to find out what makes it stronger and how the thickness of a material affects its strength 💪 📄

On Tuesday we took some time out to discuss Remembrance Day. The children coloured in poppies and also made them out of Lego and multi link cubes.

Once again the children have enjoyed their taekwondo session this week. The children were given more responsibility and had to take turns holding the pads whilst their group practised snap kicks and punches to the pads 🥋

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What a fabulous week we have had in Willow Class.

The children are taking part in more teaching and learning activities and they are working so hard! I am so proud of them all.

In our "Let's Celebrate" topic we have been learning all about Remembrance Day. The children have been so respectful as we talked about what Remembrance Day is, and why we celebrate it each year. We enjoyed some lovely activities, including printing poppies and creating poppies out of play dough.

Our Maths linked to poppies this week as we were identifying the numerals on the poppies, and counting out the corresponding number of red cubes for each one.

On Friday we celebrated Children and Need and explored why we celebrate this day. The children enjoyed learning all about Pudsey Bear and how the charity helps children.

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

Willow Class - Monday 3rd Nov, Tuesday 11th November , Wednesday 19th November and then every Thursday from 27th November

Cherry Class - Taekwondo Wednesday and PE Friday

Larch Class - PE Monday and Taekwondo Wednesday

Oak Class - Tuesday (swimming - selected pupils) and PE Taekwondo Wednesday

Cedar Class - Wednesday and Friday

Sycamore Class - Y3/Y4 PE Monday, Y5/Y6 PE and Swimming Tuesday, all pupils Taekwondo Wednesday

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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St Andrew - 94.8%

St David - 92.6%

St George - 94.8%

St Patrick - 92.6%

Whole School - 93.7%

Punctuality Award - Year 6

Goldfish Monitors - chosen from children with 100% attendance and zero minutes late this week.

Evan, Alfie and Mason

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Star of the week

Willow Class - Isaac

Cherry Class - Elliot

Larch Class - Alfie

Oak Class - Zavier

Miss Speakman - Lilith

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Brooklyn

Miss Corker - Isaac

Mrs Arnold - Annie

Mrs Bradley - Jack

Tidiest Classroom -