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Do you know any local business who would like to donate a prize for the school raffle?

Please contact Mrs Shepherd sec.westfield@haltonlearning.net or telephone 01928 572343

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Pope

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Thank you for your kind donations.

We have raised £95 for Children In Need this year!

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As part of our KS2 Christmas performance, the children in Larch, Oak and Sycamore are currently learning some carols. It would be great if everyone could practise these songs at home!

Please find the links to the songs and lyrics below.

Please note, as these links take you to an external website, Westfield cannot guarantee the content of any of the advertisements that might be shown.

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

O Little Town of Bethlehem

Silent Night - sign

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Away in a Manger

Joy to the World

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Monday 9th December

2.00pm - Reception & KS1 Christmas Performance

6.00pm - KS2 Christmas Performance

Tuesday 10th December

2.00pm - KS2 Christmas Performance

6.00pm - Reception & KS1 Christmas Performance

Wednesday 11th December

PTA Christmas Film Night - please complete the survey in school spider if you are able to help and also to suggest a film.

Thursday 12th December

Christmas Jumper Day & Elf Run

Friday 13th December

Non-Uniform Day, in exchange for a donation to the PTA Christmas Bingo

Tuesday 17th December

1.30pm - Whole School trip to the pantomime at The Brindley (children to be collected from The Brindley, details to follow)

This is fully funded by the PTA and BRSK

Wednesday 18th December

5.30pm PTA Christmas Bingo, door open at 5.30pm eyes down at 6.00pm

Thursday 19th December

Christmas dinner, Christmas crafts and Christmas parties!

Friday 20th December (last day Autumn term)

1.30pm Christmas Service at St Michael & All Angel Church on Greenway Road, all welcome to attend.

Monday 6th January 2025

First Day Spring Term 1

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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 been doing some great STEM this week, in particular practising our Maths and Science skills. We've been learning about properties of materials and some of us have been having a go at measuring!

We are working towards getting involved in our Christmas performance next week and getting in the festive spirit.

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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 the most wonderful time of the year! Sycamore Class have been very excited this week with all of the Christmas festivities fully under way. On Monday, we met our class elf, Star. Star has been causing some mischief in the classroom as well as leaving us some fun activities to complete. We enjoyed our trip to the library earlier in the week - it was great to extend our learning beyond the classroom. The children have been working really hard in preparation for our Christmas performance. We can't wait to share the Christmas story with you all!

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We have had another great week in Oak Class! Fresh off our library visit last week, we have been reading new books with our outdoor reading area. We also learnt about push/pull factors and how they can affect migration.

Our Taekwondo sessions came to an end with us learning how to focus our power and break boards.

Finally, Y6 had a great go at some practice SATs in the hall-they handled it really well, and will complete some more next week.

Then we can finally focus on Christmas fun!

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The children enjoyed our experiment in Science, discovering how to more effectively look after our teeth.

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We have enjoyed a busy week in Larch Class this week.

The children have continued to work towards the end of our Multiplication and Division chapter in Maths, with both Year 3 & 4 using their developing skills to solve some tricky word problems - which has really challenged our young learners. They have also completed diary entries in our Writing lessons - including taking the time to edit and improve their work. This, again, has challenged them to use their self assessment skills to critique their own writing and check that they are including the features that we have been recently focusing on. They have worked incredibly hard and done themselves proud.

In Science, where some of the class have been exploring sound with Mrs Davies, the rest have been investigating the digestive system and, this week, exploring how the liquids they consume effect their teeth. I hope it has frightened them off some of the more ghastly drinks that they were keen on.

Whilst working hard in the classroom with their learning, they have also been trying hard with their singing and are getting better and better each time we practice our songs. I urge all parents to encourage their children to practice at home too though and I am super excited for you all to be treated to a wonderful performance when we sing our Christmas carols alongside Oak Class narrating the Christmas Story.

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A busy week on the lead up to Christmas in Cherry Class! We have put our tree up and decorated it with decorations from each of our own homes. Measurement has been the maths topic this week for both Y1 and Y2. We have learned how to use a ruler to measure different items in class and use language like 'shortest, longest, tallest, smallest, nearest, furthest'. We have took part in a Christmas card competition held by the police and they will visit us next week to give out prizes. We can't wait! We were sad to have our final Taekwondo session this week but we have had a brilliant time taking part in the last 5 weeks. We hope Miss Rowles will be back in the future to help us develop our skills again.

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Another busy and wonderful week in Willow Class. The children were so excited to come into class on Monday, to discover that we have a cheeky Elf staying with us for the countdown to Christmas! He arrived on the Elf Express and he has been getting up to lots of mischief. The children have been sharing their daily "Elf News" from home and we are looking forward to having more Elf adventures with our class elf.

The Elf left us instructions to decorate Willow Class for Christmas and the children have enjoyed decorating the class Christmas trees and making Christmas paperchains. Such a lovely time of year to be in school!

In our Pathways to Write, we have been reading our focus text 'I'm going to eat this ANT.' The children have been using and applying their phonic knowledge in their writing. They have been writing about what the anteater could eat instead of the ant. The ant would be very relieved as the children had lots of suggestions for the anteater to eat!

In Phonics, we are using the sounds we know to read words. The children are doing so well using "Fred Talk" to read the words. We are now using this to write words using the sounds we know.

In Maths, we have been continuing to develop our subitising skills; using our "Magic Counting Finger" for our 1:1 correspondence when counting and ordering numerals.

We hope you are all looking to our Nativity performances next week. The children have done so well in our Nativity rehearsals and are excited to perform you all!

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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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School Meals - New menu from 4th November

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School Meals - New menu from 4th November

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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

Christmas Dinner is on Thursday 19th December, can you please ensure this is ordered before 6th December. Please note other choices are available as an alternative to Christmas Dinner.

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Whole School Attendance -

St Andrew - 94.3%

St David - 96.3%

St George - 94.3%

St Patrick - 91.1%

Whole School -94.0%

Winners - St David

Punctuality Award - Year 2 and Year 4