Computing Scholars Day gave some of our Key Stage 2 pupils the opportunity to explore their coding and computer-aided design skills.
Westlands Primary School is a creative learning environment where all children are supported to aim high and achieve their best
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Victoria Pettett, Headteacher
This term in Eagle class, we are focussing on World War 2 in topic lessons and through our English writing. Having already written about the war in the Far East last term, we are currently writing in role as evacuees, creating a letter home to loved ones about the delights of the countryside. Our...
The sun shone for our fire activity this week. The children of Year 5 made mini fires and tried to keep it going by adding dry sticks, which they had to collect. We also tried to light a fire in a Kelly Kettle, and that was very hard. As well as the fire activity, there was clay for creativity...
In the last week of term 3 Owl class had Art week. We explored the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser - an Austrian artist who experimented with bright bold colours, he was fascinated by nature and spirals which are present within a lot of his work. Owl Class had been learning about dinosaurs in...
Term 4 started with Otter Class and Dragonfly Class exploring the Forest School. We got stuck in the mud, had a battle of den building, painted our faces with mud, climbed the tree in the rain, and enjoyed a hot chocolate and a biscuit at the fire circle at the end.
Please see this weeks attendance poster!
Please see this weeks attendance poster!
Our last week started very wet, but it did not stop us from building dens, digging for gold, climbing trees or whittling greenwood for toasting marshmallows over our fire.
Today is National Governance Awareness Day and we'd like to give a massive shoutout to our amazing governors! #SchoolGovernance #ThankYou #Education #NationalGovernanceAwarenessDay #MakingADifference
Please see this weeks attendance poster!
We made blackberry jam this week and ate it on toasted crumpets. The blackberries grew in our own Forest School in August last year. We just added sugar and lemon to them before the mixture bubbled over the fire.. It was delicious!