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Hop for Halton Haven - Willow Class & First Steps Group

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Hop for Halton Haven - Willow Class & First Steps Group

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Hello Hop for the Haven Participants,

Thank you so much for taking part in Hop for the Haven 🐰🌷

We hope you had lots of fun and enjoyed every step, skip, and hop while raising fantastic funds for Halton Haven Hospice. Your support really does make a difference to local families when they need it most. 💜

Thank you once again for your amazing support.

With springtime thanks,

Karen and the Fundraising Team
Fundraising Manager
Halton Haven Hospice

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Thank you to everyone who supported Comic Relief last week!

We raised £88!

The donation page is still open if you would like to donate.

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Help Nicola Shepherd raise money to support Comic Relief

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Kyzer & Zavier litter picking around the local area as part of the Larch Class project with @pickerpals

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We have a vacancy for a parent governor. If you are interested in the role and would like any more information please contact our Chair of Governors Natalie Abel chair@westfieldprimaryschool.com or speak to Mrs Shepherd in the school office.

The closing date is Friday 17th April.

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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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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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On Monday we got out all of our fabrics, blankets, chairs and tables and the children had a great time den making. We also celebrated 'National Panda day' by making panda masks. The children found some thin all in one white suits in the materials for den making and dressed up in them and put their masks on and became actual pandas!

Tuesday we spent a-lot of our session outside on Key stage 1 playground as the weather was so nice. The children created their own obstacle courses using crates, balance boards and the climbing frame. As it was Tasty Tuesday we also decorated some Spring themed biscuits. We also celebrated 'St Patrick's Day' with colouring sheets and made funny pictures where the children turned themselves into a leprechaun!

Wednesday this week, the children decided to join in with the schools movie night.

Thursday, we went up to the field in the sun and found a lady bird tree! We played a giant game of matching pairs and did some junk modelling. We also celebrated Eid by making Eid cards and designed our own henna.

For Friday's movie night we watched 'The Garfield movie' and enjoyed pancakes, small brownies and pears. We finished off our week with some energetic brain break activities on youtube.

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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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It has been another wonderful week in Sycamore Class.

The pupils were especially excited to visit the resident chicks in Willow Class. They were captivated by how cute they were, and everyone had the opportunity to hold them—an experience they thoroughly enjoyed.

Writing this week has been particularly impressive. I have been delighted with the rich vocabulary the children are using, as well as their confident use of inverted commas for speech. Well done, everyone!

We are all looking forward to our final week of term, which is sure to be filled with fun Easter activities. We also look forward to seeing you all at church on Friday.

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A very busy week in Oak class-we continued our work on forces and completed some investigations linking to friction, air resistance and water resistance.

In our writing, we learnt how to use colons, as well as continuing our use of brackets, dashes and commas for parenthesis- the children have been learning some very advanced writing techniques.

We also read more of our Pathways to Read text-Exploring Space-and found out more facts on a timeline about how space has been explored in history.

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We have had another busy week in Larch class!

In English this week, we have been planning and writing a diary entry as the main character Idris. We have used descriptive language to explain what Idris had seen and discussed how he felt at each part of the story.

In Maths, we have continued our work on column addition. We have been using our method to work out the answers to word problems including addition.

In the afternoons, we finished off our Science lessons. We investigated how shadows are affected by different factors, including time of day, the size of the light source and the distance the light source is from the object.

We then moved onto our Geography topics where we have learnt about different settlements. We discussed cities, towns and villages and the differences between each of them.

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This week the Book of the Week recommendation is from Miss Wright.

I have chosen The Hen Who Wouldn't Give Up by Jill Thomlinson.

Hilda is a small, speckled hen. She is brave and very single-minded. When she hears that her aunt has just hatched five baby chicks, she is very excited, and can’t wait to go and see them.

There is a problem; however her aunt lives five miles away. How will Hilda ever travel all the way to her farm? But she has her heart set on getting there, and goes out to hitch a lift on a rubbish lorry, a fire engine, a scooter and even a steam roller!

At first she is not very successful, but she keeps trying, because when Hilda makes up her mind, nothing and no one can stop her...

This is a heart-warming story which reminds us, that no matter how difficult things can be, as long as we are determined and keep trying, we will get there!

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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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This week we have enjoyed spending time outdoors in the lovely sunshine - enjoying water play and lots of movement for regulation.

We've all been working really hard on our personal journeys, and what that might look like varies for each child. Some of us have started to access more lessons with our mainstream class this week, others are starting to spend more time with their older friends who they will join in September. For some of our younger pupils, working on accessing carpet time and transitions is a huge step that they are working towards! All of this is so important as we are about to move into the Summer Term - our final term of this school year.

Our older pupils have nearly finished their Pathways text 'Beegu' in English and have really enjoyed learning about this lonely creature who crash-lands on earth. In Maths we have continued to look at different ways of making and breaking up numbers to 10 and 20 and what it looks like to add one more or make a number one less.

Science activities have explored sorting objects and the materials that they are made from and we will continue looking at different ways to group objects next week, alongside some easter activities!

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We’ve had another engaging week in Cherry Class! The children have showed so much enthusiasm in all areas which is so inspiring to see ⭐️

We have loved this weeks science investigations on stretchiness and strength 🧪 The children investigated the stretchiness of materials linking it to the text The Smartest Giant in Town where George gives his belt to the dog crossing the bog! Our strength test was based around how the different folds on our paper can effect its strength and how many cubes it can hold. The children had to work collaboratively and it was amazing to see them working in teams 🧠

The children have been working hard to plan their write away piece of writing in Pathways to Write. They selected past tense verbs to include in their recount and emotions for each event ✍️

We have also enjoyed popping into Willow Class to see the chicks before they leave school 🐣 The children practised batting skills in cricket this week 🏏 Year 2 have been exploring equal groups at the start of our multiplication and unit of work 🧮 Our singing is underway for our Easter service at church too ⛪️

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We have had such a wonderful week with our Chicks in Willow Class 🐥 So did all of the children in Westfield, as every class in school came to visit them!

The children have been enjoying watching the Chicks grow and change. This has really helped us, as we have been learning all about the Life Cycle of a Chick 🐣 🐥 🐔

I am so proud of how the children handled the Chicks. They were so gentle and it was so lovely to see their confidence grow as they held the Chicks. We were very sad to see the Chicks leave on Friday, but they had grown and were ready for their bigger home back at the farm.

Our learning has been linked to the Chicks this week. We have been painting pictures of the chicks, drawing and writing about them and sequencing pictures from the life cycle of the chick.

We finished our week by taking part in the Haven Hospice "Bunny Hop" with the parents and children who attended our "First Steps" toddler group. All of the children (and adults!) enjoyed the Bunny Hop! 🐰A huge thank you to Karen from Haven Hospice, who came along and joined in with the Bunny Hop 🐰 Thank you to everyone who raised money for such a worthy cause.

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I would like to recognise and thank the PTA for the time and effort in organising events for our children. The children enjoyed a great film night last week and this Wednesday at 5.30pm we have Easter Bingo, always a well attend event.

The PTA also has an egg decorating competition which a lot of the children have entered, the winners will be announced on Wednesday. Finally at the end of the week, the PTA have bought the children a little Easter treat, fingers crossed, delivered by the Easter Bunny!

All profits are given back to the children and it supports their time in school. If you fancy joining the PTA team, please pop into the office and speak with Mrs Shepherd.

As we head to the end of this term, I hope you can join us on Friday at 1:30pm at St. Michael's church for our Easter celebration Assembly.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter holiday.

Take care,

Miss Pope

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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 - Oliver

Cherry Class - Jack N

Larch Class - Sallie

Oak Class - Mia

Cedar Class - George L

Sycamore Class - Connor

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St Andrew - 100% - AMAZING!!!

St David - 94.1%

St George - 98.5%

St Patrick - 87.3%

Whole School - 94.9 %

Punctuality Award - Reception Class with NO LATES!!!

Goldfish monitors - chosen from children who have 100% attendance this week and no late marks - Frankie, Lucia & Mila

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Pupil of the week

Willow Class - Aurora Rose

Cherry Class - Kaylee

Larch Class - Robyn

Oak Class - Harry Do

Cedar Class - Theo T

Sycamore Class - Billy

Miss Speakman - Lucia

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Teddy

Miss Lawson - Seshita

Miss Corker - Kaylee

Tidiest Classroom - Willow