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Pupil of the week

Willow - Isabella

Cherry - Lucas

Larch - Adelaide

Oak - Freya

Sycamore - Billy

Mrs McIlroy - Emily (Willow Class)

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Freddie (Larch Class)

Miss Corker - Teddy (Willow Class)

Mrs Isherwood - Joseph (Oak Class)

Miss Lawson - Olivia (Cherry Class)

Tidy Classroom - Larch Class

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Whole School Attendance -

St Andrew - 99.3%

St David - 97.8%

St George - 99.3%

St Patrick - 98.5%

Whole School - 98.7% (Amazing this week!!!)

Winners - St Andrew & St George

Punctuality Award - Oak Class

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

www.schoolhub.co.uk

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Water Bottle

Snack

Packed Lunch or Pre-order school meal from School Hub

www.schoolhub.co.uk

Coat/hat/gloves

PE Kits - plain white t-shirt, plain black shorts, plain black jogging trousers and sweater or hoodie.

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What another fantastic week we have had in Willow Class! In Maths, we have been singing the counting song "1 2 3 4 5 Once I Caught A Fish Alive" to help us say the number names in the right order, and using our magic counting finger to count out objects. We have also been counting things that you can't actually see, like claps and other sounds.

We have enjoyed reading more picture books together and using the pictures to tell the stories. This week, we have been reading the picture book "Incy Wincy Spider" and singing the Nursery Rhyme together.

There was so much excitement on Tuesday, when we had an unexpected visitor in Willow Class! We discovered that it was the Gingerbread Man and what a mess he had made! There was flour and his footprints EVERYWHERE! He had left us a recipe and the ingredients to make our very own gingerbread biscuits. The children could not believe it! We carefully followed the recipe and instructions to bake our biscuits. The children enjoyed eating their delicious biscuits! The Gingerbread Man also left us our new Pathways story book to read and the children have been enjoying joining in with the repeated refrain from the story; "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man!" and exploring the objects in our Conversation Station linked to the story. We are looking forward to more fun with The Gingerbread Man!

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What a wonderfully busy week in Cherry Class! Many of our children have enjoyed the range of different extra curricular clubs on offer this week. It has been great to see the children so enthusiastic to try new activities.

In class, we have made abstract maps in art; built on new vocabulary in Pathways to Write and continue to love our Friday afternoons in our school forest.

In our music lessons over the past weeks, Cherry Class have been listening to stormy music and using their bodies and voices to create their own musical pieces. This week, we learnt about the noises from a seaside and used the glockenspiels to represent different aspects. A room full of ice cream vans, waves crashing and crabs scuttling!

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Larch Class's Stars of the Week. Congratulations!

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What a fantastic week we have had in Larch Class this week!

In our Maths lessons, we have completed our topic on Number and Place Value and moved on to exploring addition and subtraction facts and problems. We have also been getting a little more competitive in our TT Rock Stars performances, vying to be best in class (Who doesn't like a little friendly competition?)

We have enjoyed reading more of our class book, Coming to England, and produced some wonderful recounts and diary entries to show off our developing understanding. We finished the week by bringing the story to life with a spot of drama - the children acting out scenes and holding freeze frames for the rest of the class to add dialogue to.

We have also continued to develop our gymnastics skills and badminton skills with the help of Mr. Kelly-Weekes, whilst also continuing our exploration of electrical circuits in our Science lessons.

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This week Oak class have: visited the library and taken some books out to read; written some fantastic writing based on our Pathways book 'Queen of the Falls' using some incredible compound adjectives (nerve-wracking, bone-shaking to name two!); worked ever so hard on a tricky mathematical concept-rounding to 8 digit numbers- and recapped place value; designed our own AI classrooms; learned how to sort and search using computer databases and finally, played 'Canon D' (a famous instrumental wedding song) on the glockenspiels in a round. What a week!

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Boom Reader

This year, we have made the decision to use a digital reading record called Boom Reader.

Boom Reader is an app that is designed to support teachers, parents and children with logging reading and books. This system will replace our paper planners and it is completely free for you to download and use.

We understand that changing from paper diaries can feel daunting but we understand the many benefits of using the app will make the experience of logging reading clear, enjoyable and more rewarding.

Here is a brief list of the benefits we think you’ll appreciate:

● No lost reading diaries

● Log reading in seconds- just 4 or 5 taps of your phone to log reading.

● Easy to see all reading for all of your children in one place

● Saving needless paper usage

● School gains powerful insight into reading for every child

● Reading records move with your child through school

● Parents/carers can log in separately for each child

● Parents without smartphones can login via the website: boomreader.co.uk/parents

● The app is completely free for parents/carers to download and use!

All pupils should now have their details to log into Boom Reader, if you need a copy to be sent home please contact Mrs Shepherd.

Fundamentally, the most important aspect to home reading is the reading! With Boom Reader, we want to make the process of recording reading as seamless as possible for everyone.

We can’t wait to get started– reading for learning and reading for pleasure! ​

Thank you for your continued support.

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Cedar Class - KS1 Speech & Language Base

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Cedar Class - KS1 Speech & Language Base

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We’ve had a very outdoorsy week this week. We’ve been listening to sounds to learn more about hearing, doing lots of physical development and PE, as well as some impromptu crown and wand making! We’ve started learning more about the story of the gingerbread man and ordering photographs of ourselves from babies to now! We have all grown so much!

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech & Language Base

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech & Language Base

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This week in Sycamore Class, we have been continuing to use manipulatives in maths to support our understanding of formal written methods. The children have been great at using hundreds, tens and ones to add 3-digit numbers! In our English lessons, we have read some more of our story, 'Coming to England' by Floella Benjamin. Everyone has been able to develop some fantastic sentences about Floella's journey on the Empire Windrush using prepositions to describe place and location! We are trying really hard to embed correct letter formation at the moment and the children are responding really well to our daily practice - well done everyone!

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Monday 30th September

Bentley the school photographer will be in school. Children will have individual, class and sibling photos taken throughout the school day. If you have any children who do not attend Westfield and would like a family photo taken, please come to school at 8.30am.

Tuesday 1st October

9.00am Year 4 Parent Meeting - times table multiplication check, please sign up in school spider.

Thursday 3rd October

Special Themed Menu - Pasta Party, please order via your school hub account.

Friday 4th October

Dental Talks

Tuesday 8th October

3.30pm Open Afternoon for Reception 2025

Thursday 10th October

Nasal Flu Vaccinations, please give consent online -

https://www.bit.ly/econflu

School Code - BW111240

Friday 18th October

Whole School Non-Uniform Day

Tuesday 22nd October

9.15 Parents/Carers are welcome to join us for our harvest assembly. If you would like to send in a donation, these will be sent to Runcorn Foodbank. Currently they are in need of the following items -

- Long Life Milk
- Tinned Vegetables
- Tinned Spaghetti
- Tinned Meat
- Packet Rice
- Tinned Tomatoes

Wednesday 23rd October

3.20-4.00pm PTA Disco for Willow, Cherry and Cedar Class (details to follow)

4.15-5.15pm PTA Disco for Larch, Oak and Sycamore Class.

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Halton Road Safety Campaign                                Show you care - park elsewhere  

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Halton Road Safety Campaign                                Show you care - park elsewhere  

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Parents and carers are asked to adopt considerate parking behaviours at school pick up and drop off times.

Poor and inconsiderate parking close to schools can place children at risk. Most accidents involving children outside schools occur when there’s lots of congestion when people are rushing.  This is escalated when the weather is bad.

Please show you care and park elsewhere

Thank you for your help in this matter.

Halton Road Safety Team.

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Please ensure all items of school uniform are clearly named. This includes water bottles.