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Pupil of the week

Willow Class - Heidi N

Cherry Class - Elliot

Cedar Class - Elijah

Larch Class - Lilith

Oak Class - Emily

Miss Pope - Sebastian A

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Emily

Miss Corker - Brianna

Miss Lawson - Amelia L

Tidiest Classroom - Larch

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Whole School Attendance -

St Andrew - 94.1%

St David -96.8%

St George - 97.5%

St Patrick - 95.2%

Whole School - 95.9%

Winners - St George

Punctuality Award - Year 4

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

New group starts on Saturday 15th March 2025!

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We have been exploring the season of Spring and looking at signs of Spring. We talked about New Life and New Beginnings and the children helped to create our New Life tree by adding signs of Spring to the tree.

We visited our school pond and collected some frogspawn. The children were so excited and have been observing the changes to the frogspawn already. We can't wait to see what happens over the next few weeks. Very soon we will have some tadpoles!

The children discovered some animal footprints in our classroom and we followed these to find a suitcase! This created lots of wonderful discussions about who the footprints belong to and who left the suitcase. Then we received a letter and a parcel and discovered it was Hattie Peck from our Pathways story 'The Journey Home.'

The children enjoyed litter picking on our school grounds with the council and Mr Dillon. We talked about the importance of taking care of our environment and not dropping litter.

We are very eggcited for what is happening next week in Willow Class!

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We’ve not spent much time in the classroom this week! We have visited the Runcorn Fire Station community garden project where we planted seeds and bulbs for onions, sweetcorn and turnips 🌱 We also went out for a litter pick with the council. We enjoyed cleaning up our local area around school ♻️

Our science topic has been plants, so we have been outside trying to spot different plants in the school grounds and also discussing evergreen and deciduous trees 🌳 🍂 We took some time to carefully observe seeds and bulbs with a magnifying glass and create some drawings of them before planting some to observe over the coming weeks.

One day this week, after break time, we returned to the classroom to find a bowl of sand, bones and some jigsaw pieces. Once we pieced it together we realised it made an image of a woolly mammoth 🦣 This was a great hook into our new class text ‘The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth’.

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Cedar Class - KS1 Speech & Language Base

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Cedar Class - KS1 Speech & Language Base

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A busy week of exploration in Cedar Class. We have been looking for who left a suitcase in our classroom, looking for 2D shapes and exploring our forest in Spring!

We’ve worked on lots of sorting activities with shapes and animals, thinking about habitats.

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Wednesday 19th March

Year 5 and Year 6 pupils will be visiting Cheshire Fire Services' Safety Central Interactive Centre at Lymm.

Friday 21st March

Non-uniform day in exchange for a donation to Red Nose Day, donations can be made online - https://donation.comicrelief.com/

Red Nose Day Breakfast Club - 50p!! Places are limited book via the school spider app.

Friday 28th March

Non-uniform day in exchange for a donation to the PTA bingo.

2 - 3pm First Steps - parent and toddler group

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.

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.

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Larch Class keeping the local area tidy.

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Although we have spent quite a bit of time out of the classroom this week, litter-picking, tidying the local area, and visiting the library, the children have had another good week and produced some fantastic work.

We have continued interrogating the story of Ariki and the Island of Wonders during our Reading lessons, developing our understanding of key language features along with our inference skills - working out the author's intentions based on what is said and implied. We have also furthered our reading of our main class novel, The Silence Seeker, and used this to inform our writing. The children have been exploring using exciting and complex vocabulary to write setting descriptions, whilst including dialogue in their writing, focusing on punctuating it correctly.

In Maths, whereas we have had a few gloomy faces as we experiment with a range of methods to add and subtract fractions, the children have made wonderful progress overall and should be proud of the effort they have put in.

In PSHE this week, we have continued our discussions on keeping ourselves healthy - under the topic Healthy Me - talking about the negative effects of smoking. The children thankfully pulled all kinds of appalled faces as we discussed how smoking can affect us.

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Another fun filled week for Oak Class-we have really been working hard on our computing, understanding how spreadsheets work, and how to use them! We have been planning a fake end of year party, in which we will be using spreadsheets to input data and use formulas to multiply and add for sub-totals and totals.

Our Pathways to write work has continued, really focusing on how Chris's early life was as a child, and how he struggled with his fear of the dark-or to be more precise-his fear of what is hiding in the dark!

In maths Y5 have been learning percentages and how to measure angles, while Y6 have been continuing with their SATs revision and have now been learning negative numbers, as well as co-ordinates.

Halfway through the term already- it is flying by!

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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 thinking about the local community. We took part in a community clean up, collecting litter from the streets that surround school. Well done to all involved!

In maths, we have continued to learn about shapes. This week, we have explored 3D shapes in real life contexts which has really helped develop our understanding. All pupils are confidently using the correct vocabulary to describe 3D shapes - great job children!

We have started our music topic this week too! Sycamore Class learnt about where Samba music comes from. We had great fun listening to the different percussion instruments.

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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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Willow Class - Wednesday

Cherry Class - Wednesday and Friday

Cedar Class - Wednesday and Friday

Larch Class - Tuesday and Friday

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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We had great attendance to our Spring Parent Evening sessions and I hope that you found them useful in understanding the progress and next steps in learning for your child.

We didn't do a formal survey this time but gave you the opportunity to share your comments. Just one concern to pick up on, that was repeated by a few parents - PARKING. We try to do as much as we can to encourage safe and sensible parking outside school. Emergency Services, PSCO, parents and even your children have shared that some parking is dangerous and disrespectful to the community living in the Crescent. I urge you to park with consideration, not over pavements, driveways or double parking.

Our children say, please think before you park.

Thank you for your support.

Miss Pope

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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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The Heath Improvement Team are holding an online session supporting families with sleep and screen time.

Workshop Details:

Title: Supporting Sleep and Managing Screen Time
Date: Wednesday 19th March
Time: 09:30AM-10:30AM
Location: Online - TEAMS

What you will learn:

How screens can impact children’s sleep and overall well-being.

The science behind screen addiction and its effects on the brain.

Practical strategies for managing screen time and improving sleep.

Confidence in setting boundaries that work for their family.

Book your free place on the link below.

Reserve your free place here!

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First Steps Toddler Group Upcoming Dates 

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First Steps Toddler Group Upcoming Dates 

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Please see below for the upcoming dates for our 'First Steps' Parent, Toddler and Baby Group led by Miss Wright, our Early Years Lead.

This is a free session and a great way for you as parents to get together and for your pre-school children to play and have fun.

The group will run on the last Friday of every month from 2pm – 3pm with a free snack and drink provided.

The dates are:
Friday 28th March 2-3pm
Friday 25th April 2-3pm
Friday 27th June 2-3pm

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please share with friends and family.

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