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Whole School Attendance -

St Andrew - 95.6%

St David - 93.2%

St George - 95.7%

St Patrick - 97.0%

Whole School - 95.4%

Winners - St Patrick

Punctuality Award - Year 5

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School Uniform

Royal blue V-neck sweatshirt or cardigan

White Shirt (long or short sleeved)

School tie

Light grey trousers/shorts/skirt/pinafore

Grey socks

Optional Summer Dress – Blue gingham with white socks

Black shoes/School Boots (not trainers)

Blue hair bobble/scrunchie or headband.  No decorative headbands or bows.

PE Kit -

For indoor activities:

Pumps (trainers are not suitable for indoor use)

Black sports shorts/skirt

Plain white T-shirt

For outdoor activities:

Trainers

Black tracksuit

Black sweatshirt and jogging bottoms

Football kits are not suitable for either indoor or outdoor PE lessons.

For safety reasons, the only jewellery allowed is stud earrings and watches.  Smart watches are not to be worn. Make-up and nail varnish should not be worn in school.

Additional ties can be purchased from school at a cost of £4.40 for a tie on elastic and £5.00 for a tie on a clip. These can be ordered via the school spider app or from the office.

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Pupil of the week

Willow Class - Theo

Cherry Class - Sebastian

Cedar Class - Ronnie

Larch Class - Zavier

Oak Class - Abiezer

Miss Pope - George (Cedar Class)

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Nya

Miss Corker - Blake

Miss Lawson - Annie

Tidiest Classroom - Oak

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Happy Birthday Treat! Just a reminder that to make the day special, children can come to school in their own clothes instead of uniform on their birthday. If their birthday falls on a PE day, weekend or in the school holidays, they can pick the closest uniform day.

Thinking about uniform, please can you check that your child has the correct uniform including a tie and school shoes for their return after the Easter break.

In our final week, we will be busy with Easter events and look forward to seeing you all at our Easter Church Service at St. Michael’s on Friday, 1:30pm start.

Have a lovely week,

Miss Pope

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www.LittleKickers.co.uk to book a place!

New group starts on Saturday 15th March 2025!

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Another wonderful week in Willow Class.

We have enjoyed spending more time with our beautiful chicks and watching them grow 🐥

To have this learning opportunity in our classroom has just been amazing. Not just for Willow Class, but for the whole school community. Everyone has shared their journey with us and it has been incredible.

The children enjoyed creating observational drawings of the chicks this week and the knowledge they had when talking about them, as they were drawing, was fantastic!

We were sad to say goodbye to the chicks but the children have gained so much from the experience. They can confidently talk about the life cycle of a chicken and the whole egg to chick hatching journey as well as creating some wonderful memories.

We have also continued to observe the life cycle of a frog with our tadpoles. They have grown so much! We are going to be returning them to our school pond next week.

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A lovely and busy week in Cherry Class! We really enjoyed getting the chance to hold the chicks in Willow Class. We have enjoyed seeing them arrive as eggs, hatch and grow. It’s been amazing to see them grow and their feathers develop 🥚 🐣 🐥 In Music this week, we have been exploring space and listening to pieces of music that represent Mars, Venus and Uranus. Y2s have particularly shone in maths where they have developed and depended their fractions knowledge by finding fractions of amounts. They have worked practically and shown great number sense 🧮

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Cedar Class - KS1 Speech & Language Base

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Cedar Class - KS1 Speech & Language Base

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This week we have been learning all about sharing and halves in our maths lessons, with some of our children moving on to halves of numbers and even quarters!

In Science, we have continued our topic about plants - naming and labelling parts of trees, as well as adding parts to our class tree diagram ourselves.

We have practised our tennis skills with Mr Kelly-Wheekes and our music skills on Thursday afternoon, looking at tempo (fast and slow rhythms).

Next week, we be learning about Easter and completing some Easter crafts and singing, ready for the church service on Friday. We hope that some of you will be able to join us!

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What a busy week we have had this week in Larch! The children have responded brilliantly though, showing no signs of fatigue despite us nearing the end of the Spring term. We also had the special treat of sneaking down to Willow Class whilst they were out of class to visit the chicks and check how the tadpoles were developing. The children were VERY excited.

Back in class, we have had such a busy time in our Writing sessions, beginning the week writing letters before taking a session to develop our editing skills. Many of the children are really beginning to show a flair to the writing. Following this, the children began planning their own narrative based on events from the book, before beginning the first part of their final write of the term. It has been a long journey and I am so very proud of them.

In Maths, we have been exploring problems involving Time and the children have shown a good understanding overall, with many showing a wonderful grasp of the topic.

Elsewhere, we have block learned Geography and RE this past week. In Geography, we have been learning all about the Amazon rainforest. The children have discussed the indigenous people who live there and how they use the forest in their day-to-day lives. Again, the children have shown wonderful engagement, culminating in a good understanding of what we have been learning.

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech & Language Base

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech & Language Base

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It's been another lovely week in Sycamore Class!

This week, in our afternoon lessons, we have been focusing on geography and RE. The children have had the opportunity to learn about the importance of rainforests with Mr Colecliffe and the celebration of Pentecost with Mrs Davies.

In our English lessons, we have continued to look at our class text, The Silence Seeker. Children have produced some fantastic writing in response to the story and we have been able to demonstrate that we can punctuate direct speech accurately!

In maths, we have moved onto learning about fractions. We can now confidently recognise halves, quarters and thirds. The children have worked really hard to develop their mathematical vocabulary during this unit of work. Well done everyone!

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This week has had a focus linked to Geography-we have been learning how humans use the deserts in the world. Whether it is for energy usage using solar power, or recreational such as climbing, the children have learnt new information on how deserts around the world are used.

Our writing has been focussed on the moon landing way back in 1969-we watched videos of it in class, and are now in the process of writing a biography about Chris Hadfield-an astronaut who stars as the hero of our class text 'The Darkest Dark'.

In our science, we are continuing our theme of Evolution and Inheritance and pretended to be birds! We were 'pecking' using different shaped tweezers to see how many grains of rice we could get in 10 seconds. The children really enjoyed this.

Finally we say goodbye to our trainee teacher, Mr Underwood, this week with him finishing with our school on April 4th. The children have had a great time working with him, and we wish him all the best for his future teacher training practice.

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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

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

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Tuesday 1st April

PTA Annual General Meeting - come along from 3.30pm to share your fund raising ideas. Refreshments will be available.

Wednesday 2nd April

PTA Easter Bingo doors open at 5.30, eyes down at 6.00pm.

Thursday 3rd April

Closing date for Easter PTA competition, decorate an egg or bonnet.

Thursday 3rd April

Year 3 and Year 4 Dodgeball Competition - a small group of children will be taking part.

Friday 4th April

Last day of Spring term

All parents and carers are invited to join us at St Michaels Church Greenway Road at 1.30pm for our Easter service. Parents helpers will be needed to walk with the classes. Please sign up via the survey in the school spider app.

Summer Term 1 Dates

Tuesday 22nd April

Cherry Class visit to the fire station community garden.

Thursday 24th April

Oak Class will be visited by the fire service to demonstrate the smoke tent.

Friday 25th April

2-3pm First Steps Parent and Toddler Group

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Willow Class - Wednesday

Cherry Class - Wednesday and Friday

Cedar Class - Wednesday and Friday

Larch Class - Wednesday and Friday (note change of days)

Oak Class - Year 5 Tuesday (swimming) and Friday

Oak Class - Year 6 Friday

Sycamore Class - Year 3 & Year 4 Wednesday and Friday

Sycamore Class - Year 5 & Year 6 Tuesday (swimming) and Friday

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This week's results are in!

Congratulations to our winner this week. Winning a prize of £11.40.

If you haven't signed up yet visit our lottery here - https://www.yourschoollottery.co.uk/lottery/school/westfield-primary-school-runcorn

Have a great weekend everyone!

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As the weather is getting warmer can we remind you that all children need to bring a water bottle into school each day.

On warmer days sun cream will need to be applied at home and children will need to wear a hat.

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The PTA are holding a Easter competition. There will be a prize in each class for the best decorated egg or Easter bonnet.

The competition is £1 to enter, please pay via the school spider app.

Please bring your clearly named entry into school before Thursday 3rd April.