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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: Thursday 5th December Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM 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.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/support-with-sleep-and-screen-time-tickets-925925547237?aff=oddtdtcreator

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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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We have had lots of local walks this half term, to the library, cenotaph and fire station. These could not happen without support from parents.

Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help and walk with our classes.

Many thanks

Miss Pope

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Monday 2nd December

Sycamore Class visit to Runcorn Library

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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This week, we have loved finding out more about what Nibbles the Book Monster has been doing! He has nibbled his way into Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk! We hope he doesn't find us and come to nibble our toes!

We have also started looking at the nativity in preparation for Christmas.

The children have coped so well with the change to routine around breaktimes due to the ice. We are very proud of them.

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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 enjoyed celebrating National Tree Week with the rest of the school. In our forest school session, we linked our learning to our British Values question: How can we help look after and care for our world? The children worked in partners to help clean up the forest area by taking part in a littler pick. It was very chilly on Wednesday, so we rewarded our hard work with a hot juice and cookie. Well done Sycamore!

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A great week for Oak class! We have had a virtual author visit, the Mental Health Team in to help us with our worries and a trip into the forest writing happy endings.

We have also been working hard on our Fractions, and started practising our Christmas Carols for our Christmas Carol concert performance!

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Larch Class enjoying our afternoon in the forest on Wednesday.

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What a fantastic week we have had in Larch Class this week!

Alongside all the normal and typical day to day learning - writing setting descriptions and editing in our Writing Lessons, developing our understanding of solving multiplication and division problems in Maths, exploring the digestive system in Science - we have continued to develop our creative sides by creating coding sequences to control multiple sprites in our Computing lessons and we have enjoyed our first afternoon in the forest, celebrating the school's Forest School Week.

The children enjoyed exploring, climbing trees, building dens and rope swings, along with a small scavenger hunt - all while I did my best to stay clean and tidy for Parents Evening.

On a further note, it was so lovely to meet so many parents properly and discuss the children's progress over the term so far.

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We kicked off our week with a wonderful afternoon in the forest on Monday! We made natural images linked to our book 'Nibbles', had some free time and warmed up with hot juice and biscuits. The NSPCC also visited our class to discuss their 'Speak Up, Stay Safe' message. We all enjoyed their visit and one of our pupils created their own image linked to the workshop! The children were excited to build upon their Taekwondo skills with Miss Rowles on Tuesday. What a fantastic opportunity they have had this half term! Subtraction for Y1 and multiplication for Y2 in maths this week has kept us all so busy too!

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Another busy week in Willow Class. We are well under way with our Christmas Nativity rehearsals and the children are doing so well learning the songs and actions. The children were very excited to choose their own part and try on their costumes!

We have been starting to learn about the very First Christmas and we will be continuing this into next week. This is part of our “Special Times” RE Topic as we learn how, and why Christmas is celebrated.

The children had a wonderful first time in the Forest with Mrs McIllroy. Homemade soup was created, dens made, trees painted with water and music was made!

In Phonics, we have been learning to read and write more “special friends” and the children are enjoying spotting these special friends in our phonics sessions.

In Maths we have been doing lots of wonderful counting. We use our “Magic Counting Finger” when we count, to encourage the children to count accurately using 1:1 correspondence. We have been counting larger numbers, up to 20.

Have a lovely weekend and see you in December (Monday!) for lots of Christmassy fun!

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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

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Whole School Attendance -

St Andrew - 96.8%

St David - 91.5%

St George - 96.4%

St Patrick - 91.8%

Whole School - 94.1%

Winners - St George

Punctuality Award - Reception

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Pupil of the week

Willow Class - Thenara

Cherry Class - Nya

Larch Class - Mia

Oak Class - Alfie

Mrs McIlroy - Mia (Oak Class)

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Zara-Leigh

Miss Lawson - Lacey-Mai

Miss Corker - River