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I really enjoyed attending Friday's morning assembly.

It was a real pleasure to see everyone looking so smart, but what impressed me most was how friendly and well manner everyone that I spoke to was.

Thank you for making me feel so welcome.

Val Smith (Co-opted Governor)

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Autumn Term 1

We had 31 children with 100% attendance and another 4 children with attendance above 97.5%.

This is amazing! Keep up the good work!

All of these children will receive a certificate in assembly on Friday 7th November.

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Dear parents and Carers,

Thank you for your support towards our 'Perfect Parking Campaign' led by our Junior Safety Officers, Jazz and Mason. They have taken their role very seriously as they want children to be safe coming to and from school. This will run for the rest of this week, with the 'little people stands' out on the pathways. The children would like to send you this message -

Thank you for parking safely and keeping our children and local residents safe. Thank you for your effort trying to park on the right side of the road. From Jazz & Mason.

Thank you

Miss Pope

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Our Junior Safety Officers are working hard this week to help promote safe parking at school.  Please help to support them in their job.

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We’re pleased to invite you to our free workshop: Support with Sleep & Screen Time – Primary and Early Secondary Age.

Date: This Friday (7th November)

Time: 09:30AM

🎟 Spaces are still available → Register here

In this session we’ll explore:

Why quality sleep is so important for children and young people

How screen-time, routines and bedtime habits affect sleep

Practical strategies you can use at home to support better sleep

Tips on managing screen use for primary & early secondary aged children

If you’d like to attend, please register via the Eventbrite link above. If you have any questions or need support with booking, feel free to contact me at HIT@halton.gov.uk

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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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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 first week back in Sycamore Class!

Everyone has jumped enthusiastically into our new learning, and there’s been a real buzz around our English topic — The Great Fire of London. So far, we’ve explored a range of images depicting this historic event and used them as inspiration for some fantastic descriptive writing.

In our wider curriculum lessons, we’ve been delving into science. Year 3 and 4 pupils have been learning about the human body, focusing on the purpose of our skeleton and muscles. Meanwhile, Year 5 and 6 pupils have been investigating different types of mixtures and exploring the best methods to separate them.

It’s been a great start to the half term, and we’re looking forward to more exciting learning ahead!

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Welcome back! It has been a great first week back and we have been starting on our new Pathways to Read and Write books.

Beowulf is our Pathways to Write text, and we have been discussing what a hero is, and what characteristics a hero has.

In Pathways to Read, our text is a twisted version of 'Hansel and Gretel' which is a wonderfully modern fairytale story for us to read about.

Science has started this week, and we have been mixing and separating materials and making the classroom a general mess. The children loved it!

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We have had a lovely first week back in Larch class!

In English we have been looking at poetry about our new topic. We have written our own poems based on what we can see, hear and smell at the beach, challenging ourselves to use alliteration.

In maths we finished our topic of length by solving word problems. We also measured how far we could jump using metres and centimetres and recorded our results in a table.

In the afternoons, we have been doing science. We have been looking at skeletons, joints and muscles. We grouped different animals into vertebrates and invertebrates and animals with exoskeletons and endoskeletons.

In PE, we enjoyed our first taekwondo session. We did lots of stretches and practiced how to stand properly. We then practiced our punches using the pads and discussed how to hit safely.

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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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Our first week back has been a lovely start to our half term leading up to Christmas. We've got stuck straight into our new topics - learning about owls and reading the story 'Owl babies' by Martin Waddell and creating some lovely pictures to go with our key words and phrases.

In Science and our topic afternoons, we are learning about the senses and parts of the body with a big focus on 'touch' this week. We've looked at different materials and textures and labelled how they feel.

In Maths, our Year 2s have been counting forwards and backwards in tens. See if they can do it at home! All of this on top of all our usual sensory activities and interventions!

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Cherry Class have had a great return to school. We have been doing poetry this week, reading and performing The Owl and The Pussycat 🦉 🐈 We enjoyed adding illustrations to the poem. We've had fun experimenting with nonesense words in the poem and swapping out vocabulary- it has made us laugh! Some of us were super confident to perform and recite our poems at the front of the class ✍️

We have been doing science this week and learning all about our senses 👀 👂 👃 👄 🤚 We played a game where we used our hearing to guess the sounds on our classroom screen then we had to guess what was inside a box when it was shook based on the sounds we could hear. On Wednesday we recapped the story of The Gunpowder Plot as we were discussing our Bonfire Night plans.

Excitement levels were high when Miss Rowles was in for our first Taekwondo session. We can't wait to learn more this half term and improve our skills 🥋

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What a lovely week we have had back in school after the half term break. The children were so excited and happy to be in Willow Class.

We have been focusing on the changing of the seasons this week and exploring "What is Autumn?" The children have explored a range of Autumnal treasures, including; pumpkins, squashes, leaves, acorns, conkers. These first hand experiences are so important to support our learning. The children enjoyed adding Autumn Treasures to our Autumn Tree and talking about each one.

We used our Autumn Treasures in our Maths, counting out objects onto the Autumn 5 frame and representing the number with our fingers. We have also been creating Autumn patterns in our writing area.

Our theme for this half time is "Let's Celebrate" and we started by looking at how Bonfire Night is celebrated. We read stories about how and why, Bonfire Night is celebrated. If you have any photographs from your Bonfire Night celebrations, please upload them to Tapestry, we would love to see them.

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

Willow Class - Monday 3rd Nov, Tuesday 11th November and then every Thursday from 20th 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 - 97.2%

St David - 96.8%

St George - 94.4%

St Patrick - 96.4%

Whole School - 96.4%

Punctuality Award - Year 1 and Year 5

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

Isabella, Seshitha and Kingsley

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Star of the week

Willow Class - Lucia

Cherry Class - Nya & Isabella

Larch Class - Reuben

Oak Class - Esmae

Cedar Class - Sonny

Sycamore Class - Charlie

Miss Speakman - Rosie

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Sebastian

Miss Corker - Frankie

Mrs Arnold - Mia

Mrs Sanders - Freya

Tidiest Classroom - Cherry