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Our community cupboard is full! Please help yourself to any items.

If you would like to make a donation, please simply pop it into the cupboard

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Message from our Chair of Governors -

Are you objective, focused on broad educational needs, and want to raise aspirations for all? Come and join our caring, friendly team.

I’ve been on the Westfield Governing Board since 2018 as a Parent Governor and I’m happy to share my experiences. If you would like to find out more, please feel free to drop me an email at chair@westfieldprimaryschool.com – Lynne Farrow Chair of Governors

How to apply

If you’re interested in applying for the role, please complete the candidate form which can be collected from Mrs Shepherd, School Business Manager before Thursday 24th October. If we receive more applications than there are vacancies, a secret ballot will be carried out. We will inform you closer to the time if we have to do this.

If you have any queries about this process or would like to find out more about the role, please contact
Mrs Shepherd sec.westfield@haltonlearning.net or Mrs Farrow chair@westfieldprimaryschool.com

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Chair of Governors (Co-opted) Appointed 17/03/2022 until 16/03/2026 Elected by Governing Body

I joined the Governing Body as a Parent Governor in March 2018 and became Chair of Governors in May 2019.  I have two children who attend Westfield Primary School. I am a Civil Servant where I’m currently working to ensure that Digital technology is underpinning the EU Exit and European Trade programmes. I have a career background in managing people, auditing and managing third parties within the IT arena. I initially became a Parent Governor as I’m particularly interested in improving the provision of education and outcomes for all children and ensuring that all children can achieve their potential. I am very proud to be part of the Governing Body at Westfield where we are working as a team to drive forward all the changes and improvements that the school needs.

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We had a great celebration assembly this morning, with a lot of successes shared. I was delighted to show off so many achievements from outside school.

This is something we are always keen to know about and it is important that we recognise every skill and talent.

If your child has won a medal, certificate or a trophy outside school, please send them in on a Friday for a special mention and a photo will be added to our hall of fame board. We might need to make it a whole wall of fame with the talent we have at Westfield!

Have a lovely weekend. Miss Pope

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Friday 18th October

Whole School Non-Uniform Day - The school council wish to have a non-uniform day on Friday 18th October to raise money towards Westfield having the opportunity to hatch chicks in school with living eggs.

50p donation to dress in non-uniform.  If your child has PE or forest school today, non-uniform must be suitable for these activities.

Monday 21st October

Cherry Class visit to Runcorn Library (parent helpers needed, please sign up in School app)

Tuesday 22nd October

9.15am & 2.00pm 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

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

Entrance is £3.00 and can be paid via www.parentpay.com

Friday 25th October

Inset Day - School closed for staff training

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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, we have been working hard to develop our teamwork skills. This has involved taking part in a forest school challenge; evaluating each other's artwork and joining in with our new favourite game called 'Headbands'. The children also enjoyed this week's PE lesson with Mr Kelly-Weekes; further developing their ball control skills.

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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 have had a great week exploring our senses this week with tasting and finger painting!

We have looked at the story ‘Susan Laughs’ to practise our WHO and DOING phrases in speech and simple sentences. We have found that the children love swinging and spinning just like Susan!

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To celebrate World Mental Health Day 2024, we completed some mindfulness activities that can help 'Unwind our Mind' and make us feel calmer.

Our Jigsaw this week was based around Anti-Social Behaviour, and how that even if we have nothing to do with the Anti-Social Behaviour we can still end up in trouble. It is about making the correct choices and having the strength to walk away, when we are faced with a situation that gives us a bad feeling.

Another highlight for our week, was our maths work. We have been pushing addition and subtraction, and our hard work is starting to pay off! Well done Oak Class!

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Practicing for our final performance of playing back a rock and roll song in our music lessons.

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What a wonderful week we've had this week in Larch! After fighting our way - kicking and screaming through learning to use mental strategies - the children have showed fantastic understanding and progress as we've moved onto exploring subtraction problems.

In our Writing lessons, the children have evidenced their growing understanding of the more complex language features expected of them by producing their own leaflets to welcome people to our fabulous school - using various persuasive features to make the school stand out. They have continued to develop their writing styles as we moved onto planning a fact file of Floella Benjamin - using the skills we have been working on in our Reading sessions to identify themes from more than one paragraph, identifying key words, and summarising what they have read.

In Computing, they have continued to explore digital devices and, in Science, they have further enhanced their understanding of series circuits by exploring switches in a circuit and using the correct scientific terminology to describe their circuits.

I am also delighted to see the growing number of our children who are attending Wake up, Shake up and being more ready and prepared for our learning each morning. :-)

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Lots of fun has been had this week! We enjoyed our science lesson where we explored flavours and learned about how our tongue helps us to taste. There were some funny facial expressions when we tasted some of the flavours! We retold our Pathways to Write text this week with a partner, ready for our write away task next week. We have loved reading Troll Swap this half term! We celebrated World Mental Health Day by having a wonderful whole school assembly and then reading The Colour Monster book in class.

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Another great week in Willow Class. We have started to look at the changes that the beginning of Autumn brings. The children have enjoyed exploring and talking about Autumn Treasures in the Conversation Station. In this area, the children look at and talk about what they see in the cubes and they can use the magnifying glasses to investigate and have a closer look at the objects. This is such a wonderful way to develop communication and language skills and the children have engaged in some lovely conversations with each other.

In Maths we have been deepening our understanding of the Number 4. We have been using our Autumn Treasures to identify 4 objects and playing "4 or not 4?" We have been doing lots of subitising, which is identifying how many objects are in a group without counting them.

We are working so hard in our daily phonics sessions and the children are becoming confident with our sessions and we are beginning to read words using the sounds we know.

The children have been using the character puppets to act out the story of The Gingerbread Man and we had some lovely re-telling of the story using our story telling telling voices for the different characters.

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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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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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Whole School Attendance -

St Andrew - 90.0%

St David - 94.4%

St George - 93.6%

St Patrick -98.5%

Whole School - 94.1%

Winners - St Patrick

Punctuality Award - Reception (Willow Class)

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Pupil of the week

Willow - River

Cherry - Nainik

Larch - Lilith

Oak - Alys

Cedar - George

Mrs McIlroy - Lincoln

Miss Pope - Layla

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Robyn

Miss Corker - Louis

Miss Lawson - Alfie

Tidy Classroom - Cherry