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Global Recycling Day on 18th March, it’s the perfect time for families to recycle pre-loved clothing and make a positive environmental impact. Spring is also a popular season for clear-outs, making it an ideal fundraising opportunity.

We will be collecting clothes for recycling with Sammy's Project. This is a charity which raises money for Leukemia & Myeloma Research UK.

Bags can be collected from the school office and brought into school from Monday 13th April. The bags will be collected on Wednesday 15th April.

The charity will accept the following items -

Adult and children clothes

Paired, clean undamaged shoes

Swimwear

Bath and hand towels

Handbags & accessories & belts & watches

Purses and watches

Bras & Underwear with tags

Soft toys

They will not accept -

Dirty/ripped clothes

Items of uniform

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We're Going on a Bear Hunt Live Performance

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We're Going on a Bear Hunt Live Performance

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I am pleased to let you know about a special musical adventure taking place at The Foundry, Widnes on Saturday 18th April at 1pm.

The award-winning Leyland Band will be presenting a world-first exclusive of "We're going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury as a live-to-picture performance of the film, complete with brass band accompaniment. This is a really exciting opportunity for pupils, families and indeed yourselves to see Leyland Band in action, and I believe there will be a very special meeting with the Bear as well!

Even better, we can offer you a 10% discount on tickets by using the discount code SOUND.

Please use the link below to book tickets.

We're Going on a Bear Hunt: Live in Concert - Tickets | Fienta

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Contact 07547190351 to book.

Places are free for children entitled to a free school meal.

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Contact Playbynature@outlook.com to book

Places are free for children entitled to a free school meal.

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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 next winner attending the game on 29th March is -

Joshua - Cherry Class

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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 next session is on Friday 20th March.

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Monday this week we created some beautiful creations using fresh flowers to paint Mother's Day cards. The children worked brilliantly doing this and the outcome was amazing. We finished our session off with some fun, energetic brain break activities.

Tasty Tuesday this week we made some healthy ham salad wraps that the children thoroughly enjoyed so much that we are going to be having more of them for snack in future. We also played outside using chalks and playing tag!

Wednesday we enjoyed the lovely weather again, getting outside to play on the Key Stage 1 playground. The children enjoyed climbing and trying the obstacle course too.

Thursday we had Mother's Day crafts and colouring out that the children enjoyed making. We finished our day off with The Floor is Lava!

For Friday's movie night we enjoyed delicious hot dogs and watched Boss Baby

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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 have had a wonderful Aspirations Week in Sycamore Class. The children really enjoyed hearing about the different professions shared throughout the week, and it gave us lots to talk about and think about for the future!

We have also loved taking part in Science Week. On Friday, the children became young scientists as they carried out an investigation linked to enquiry questions. It was fantastic to see their curiosity and enthusiasm as they explored their ideas.

Although the weather has been a little unsettled recently, we have still managed to enjoy some time outdoors. We were pleased to reintroduce the play equipment in Sycamore’s outdoor area, which has been great for developing our throwing and catching skills, as well as practising our balancing.

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Our class had a great time during Aspirations week! The children thoroughly enjoyed all the visitors and came away feeling really inspired about picking a future career-thank you to everyone who visited our class to give a talk.

In science, we were learning about air resistance, and had a go at making parachutes- a small one, a medium one and a large one to test if they affected the speed of them falling. It did!

We also had a great time coming up with a floating and sinking investigation for Science Week! Thank you for our Y6s leading the investigation for each year group.

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We have had a busy week in Larch class!

We have had lots of visitors in our class this week as part of our aspiration week. We really enjoyed asking the visitors about their jobs and discussing what the children would like to do when they are older.

In maths this week, we have been continuing our work on addition and subtraction, focusing on how to set out the column method to ensure we get the correct answer when adding and subtracting 4-digit numbers.

In English, we have been continuing our work on the book Wisp: A Story of Hope. We have been discussing refugee camps as our story is about a boy, Idris, who is a refugee. We have been writing descriptions by expanding nouns with adjectives and prepositional phrases.

In the afternoons, we have been doing Science and we have been looking at light and shadows. We have had fun testing which materials cast shadows and using the vocabulary opaque, translucent and transparent.

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Nevermoor: The Trials of Morigan Crow

This week's book has been recommended by Mrs Davies.

I’ve really enjoyed sharing this story with Oak Class during our sacred story time, and I wanted to share it with everyone else too! If you enjoy a magical plot, you’ll definitely love this one. ✨📚

This fabulous new fantasy introduces a vivid and varied magical world, a heroine to truly champion, and a host of characters to become best friends with. Essences of Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket infuse the writing, but this is a story that stands on its own two feet, perfectly balancing the light and dark. Across a year, Morrigan rides a rollercoaster adventure discovering 'wundrous' new things, but underlying it lies the shadowy mystery of the feared and revered Wundersmith. Who exactly is he?

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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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A very full week of activities this week, with Aspirations week, Science week and all of our usual learning.

Our children who access mainstream met some visitors from lots of different occupations such as the fire service, police and the church! Some even got to sit in a real fire engine!

We have been looking at mysterious images in our Pathways lessons and trying to work out who the unusual creature that landed on earth might be, as well as practising adding one more in our Maths lessons.

Children have been painting and mark-making with chalk and pens on a large scale outside and in the classroom - please let us know if you have any left-over wallpaper as it is great for scribbling on the back of!

To finish the week, some super Year 6 scientists came to help us explore floating and sinking for British Science week!

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Lots going on this week in Cherry Class! We had our first trip of 2026 to the fire station community garden where we planted onion, sweetcorn and runner beans 🌽 We can’t wait to go back next month and plant some more!

We’ve had some great visitors in Cherry Class for Aspirations Week! We’ve enjoyed visits from the fire fighters, Reverend George, a mental health worker and a police counter terrorism officer 👮

We have been discussing the journey of Farid in our book My Name Is Not Refugee. We talked about his feelings along the way and the difficulties he encounters on the way in term of having shelter and needing food. We discussed his needs and what was important for him. We also then tasted some different foods that we may not have had before 🌶

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What an eggciting week we have had in Willow Class! 🥚 On Monday we had a special delivery of 10 Living Eggs! We spent the day guessing what could be inside the eggs and what will be hatching out of them! We had some wonderful suggestions! 🦖 🐊 🐣 🐍

We discovered that we have chick eggs! 🐥 We have been learning about the life of the chick 🥚🐣🐥 On Wednesday, we so incredibly lucky to watch 3 chicks hatch! The children were so excited to watch this happen before our very eyes! A further 6 more chicks hatched and we now have 9 beautiful chicks 🐥

The chicks spent the weekend at Miss Wright's house and Oliver took very good care of them for us. We have the chicks in school for the rest of the week and we are looking forward to seeing how they grow and change, and learning about their lifecycle 🥚 🐣 🐥 🐔

As part of Aspirations Week, we enjoyed a range of visitors to Willow Class to talk about their jobs. The children enjoyed talking about their aspirations and what they would like to be when they grow up.

It was lovely to speak to you all at Parents Evening. I am so incredibly proud of the progress that all of the children are making in Willow Class and I enjoyed sharing that with you all. As always, thank you for your continued support.

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Thank you to all the visitors we had in school last week for Careers Aspiration Week 2026.

The children have enjoyed listening to our visitors talk about their jobs and they have asked some great questions.

When I spoke to the children on Friday some of the careers they aspire to are -

Marine Biologist

Comic Book Illustrator

Teaching

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

Willow Class - Thursday

Cherry Class - Thursday and Friday

Larch Class - Swimming Tuesday and PE Thursday

Oak Class - Tuesday and Thursday

Cedar Class - Thursday and Friday

Sycamore Class - Tuesday Y3/Y4 Swimming, Tuesday Y5 & Y6 PE, Thursday PE for all Sycamore Class Pupils

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 - Aurora

Cherry Class - Brianna

Larch Class - Reuben

Oak Class - Alfie

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St Andrew - 97.2%

St David - 95.2%

St George - 93.3%

St Patrick - 93.5%

Whole School - 94.8%

Punctuality Award - Year 5

Goldfish monitors - chosen from children who have 100% attendance this week and no late marks -

Amelia L, Charlie and Alfie N

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Pupil of the week

Willow Class - Ivy

Cherry Class - Loui

Larch Class - Grayson

Oak Class - Mason

Miss Speakman -George L

Miss Pope - Ronnie

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Mia

Miss Lawson - Sanjit

Miss Corker - Ivy

Mrs Bradley - Jaxson

Tidiest Classroom - Larch Class