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Westlands Primary School is a creative learning environment where all children are supported to aim high and achieve their best
Welcome to Westlands Primary School. We are an exciting, forward looking, and innovative school.
Our children are hard-working, enjoy a challenge and love to learn. We provide a huge array of activities for children to broaden their experiences which you will be able to see through our news and updates. Working in partnership with parents, carers and other key members of the community we aim to provide a broad and balanced curriculum for all.
If you want to find out about what we are learning please have a look at our ‘year group’ pages. Paper copies are available on request from the school office.
The website is regularly updated so come back again soon to keep up to date with everything that is going on here at Westlands Primary School!
Victoria Pettett, Headteacher
On Tuesday EYFS had a super day at Wingham Wildlife park! The adults were so impressed with the children’s behaviour and how super sensible they all were! We saw lots of different animals such as giraffes, orangutans, snakes, lizards, meerkats and many more. The rain held off so we even had ti...
Flamingo Class had a go at splitting wood after sawing it first. In the diddinghole were more gemstones and chocolate cakes were baked too. Panda Class made a pull-me-slide out of an old tyre and Peacock Class had a very crafty afternoon, using clay, hammering leaves and making paint...
We made Stickpeople this week at Forest School! First we made a clove hitch, then some very tricky square lashings and we finished with a reef knot. Year 5 added clayheads to theirs.
This week at Forest School, we had hammering Lions and bread cooking Zebras and Axolotls. Year 3 had a go at using hammers and nails, avoiding not to hit their fingers. Year 5 enjoyed sitting by the fire whilst turning their greenwood with dough. As always we finished the sessions with a h...
Flamingo Class - Term 4, Week 2 - Update Flamingo Class has had an amazing week of learning! In English, the children worked amazingly well to produce some fantastic shape poetry. They learnt about the features that they needed to include; alliteration, similes, sophisticated vocabulary...
Lion Class and Zebra class had two very contrasting days at Forest School this week. However both groups loved digging and building dens. Lion Class found stag beetle larvae and Zebra Class made a mudslide.
Our last week at Forest School was so very exciting. We whittled greenwood with Mora knives, toasted marshmallows over the fire and devoured them as a S'more with our hot chocolate. We all had a little treasure hunt, where we found hearts for Valentine's Day and received some sweets. Zebra C...
We were so pleased to see so many of our parents / carers at our Science Workshop - thank you for coming! All of the children thoroughly enjoyed creating the layers of the Earth with modelling clay. They built up the Earth from the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust. Th...
Zebra Class have been enjoying Term 3 with Forest School and Cooking. In Forest School, the students have been making the most of the mud pit, creating nature crowns, baking bread on the campfire and making survival bracelets. In cooking, they have used recipes to bake breakfast muffins, qu...
Year 6 Turtle Class Term 3 Based on the book “Photographs in the Mud”- a tale of soldiers going off to war- Turtle class created their own informal letters to be sent home to their loved-ones from the front lines. Having identified the appropriate features for the style of writing...