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Pupil of the week

Willow - Blake

Cherry - Kaylee

Larch - Riley

Oak - Isla

Cedar - Diya

Sycamore - JJ

Miss Pope - Willow

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Rojda

Miss Corker - Theo

Mrs Isherwood - Lucy

Miss Lawson - Kaylee

Tidy Classroom - Willow

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Whole School Attendance -

St Andrew - 98.2%

St David - 96.7%

St George - 92.1%

St Patrick -90.4%

Whole School - 94.4%

Winners - St Andrew

Punctuality Award - Year 5

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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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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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The children in Willow Class have been working really hard in phonics this week. We are so proud of how well they are doing, and for working hard at home as well to practise reading and writing their sounds.

In Maths we have been exploring the numbers 3 and 4 and exploring 2D shapes.

We have retelling The Gingerbread Man story using our story map. The children have been identifying the characters and settings within the story.

We enjoyed some activities for National poetry Day. The theme this year was 'counting' and one of our favourite Nursery Rhymes is the counting rhyme, '1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive.' We explored the rhyming words in the rhyme and sequenced the pictures of the rhyme together, singing the rhyme as we did it to help us.

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A busy week full of lots of learning in our class! We had a great time on National Poetry Day where we read and performed 'Zany Zoo' in our groups. We then created a new poem using alliteration with different animals. On a lovely and sunny Thursday afternoon, we practised our underarm throwing accuracy in PE with our partners and then as bigger groups we played an exciting game of hot potato! We also tried hard to improve our mouse skills on the chrome books by using paintz.app to create different pictures. Why not give it a go at home too?

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This week, the children have continued to explore problems involving addition and subtraction in Maths - with increasing complexity.

In our Writing sessions, the children have been developing their individual writing styles as they interrogated the structure of a leaflet before planning and writing their own.

In Science, they continued their exploration of electricity by investigating different conductors and insulators and adding them to their series circuits.

Mr Kelly-Weekes also reports back that the children are developing well with their gymnastics skills and badminton skills. I sneaked down to the hall on Wednesday morning to observe part of their session and stole a few pics.

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During this week, we have moved onto addition and subtraction in our maths work, as well as questions which have involved using a mixture of operations. Our Jigsaw lesson focused on us deciding what rights and responsibilities we have as a class in school, and coming up with our own rewards and consequences. We have also started preparing for our Harvest assembly at the end of this half term. Way to go Year 5 and 6!

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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 working really hard on our communication skills this week! We’ve used great teamwork to build walls, retold the story of the gingerbread man and explored our sense of touch to choose textures we like and don’t like!

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech & Language Base

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech & Language Base

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Week 5 of the first half term and everybody has well and truly settled into Sycamore Class life. We really enjoyed our science lesson this week; we were investigating which material are insulators and conductors. The children were able to build a simple circuit to test out a range of objects and see if their predictions were correct. We also enjoyed celebrating National Poetry Day on Thursday. Sycamore Class created some fabulous poems all about their 'treasures'!

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Tuesday 8th October

3.30pm Open Afternoon for Reception 2025

Thursday 10th October

Nasal Flu Vaccinations, please give consent online -

https://www.bit.ly/econflu

School Code - BW111240

Friday 18th October

Whole School Non-Uniform Day

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 (details to follow)

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

Friday 25th October

Inset Day - School closed for staff training

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Thank you to everyone who supported the cake sale last week.

We have raised £71 for Macmillan.

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Parentkind – the charity that supports school PTAs - have teamed up with Asda, who is making millions of pounds available to donate to primary schools across the UK through their ‘Cashpot for Schools’ initiative –  all you have to do is, opt in through the Asda Rewards app, choose our primary school and shop and scan in store or shop online at Asda.com, between 2nd September and 30th November 2024

Asda will donate 0.5% of the value of your shop to our Primary school. Also, every time somebody opts in, Asda will give an additional £1 to the school Cashpot. Plus, it doesn’t stop there – Asda are also giving £50 to every school to get them started.

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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