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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

Over the last two weeks, our children have been planting a fantastic range of bulbs in key areas around the school site. We hope that before too long, a beautiful mix of flowers will begin to sprout which includes alliums, crocuses and anemones to name but a few. Expect to see colourful displays in...
Sawing, Splitting, and Sushi! What a week for Manta Ray Class! Our young woodsmen and woodswomen stepped up to the challenge of using heavy tools with incredible focus and maturity. Safety was the name of the game. Before a single blade touched wood, the class mastered their safety positions a...
Cooking in Crocodile Class Our Design and Technology in Crocodile Class this term is ‘Eat the Seasons’. We are learning that particular vegetables grow at specific times of the year as they have evolved to grow in line with seasonal conditions, such as the temperature and rainfall...
Nature doesn't always play ball, but we do! And we had a jam-packed week at Forest School. Outside, the highlight of the week was definitely our Blackberry Jam. After prepping the summer harvest, we gathered around the fire pit for some safe stirring and a very tasty crumpet snack. W...
The Great Bug Hunt (Monday) The week started with a deep dive into the undergrowth. The children spotted: Worms and Centipedes Slugs A Woodlouse Spider: A particularly exciting find! These are fascinating because they are one of the few predators specialized to hunt woo...
Starfish have settled back well to term 3 and are busy learning about rivers! We have written descriptions about the journey of a river, using sensory and figurative language. We enjoyed a Magical Garden wellbeing workshop last week, led by Jacqui Cameron, exploring her book ‘My Magic...