School News
- 11/03/25
Wire Award
Westlands Primary School were delighted to receive The Wire Award - Widening Inclusion in Religious Education in Kent Schools! We were privileged to have Mrs Janis Wigg, from Kent County Council, visit our school on Tuesday 11th March, to present the award. Children from year 2 and 3, who visited...Read Full Story - 10/03/25
Eagle Class - Update
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...Read Full Story - 07/03/25
Forest School - Year 5 Update
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...Read Full Story - 04/03/25
Owl Class - Term 3 Art Week
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...Read Full Story - 03/03/25
Term 4 - Forest school
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.Read Full Story - 28/02/25
- 14/02/25
- 13/02/25
Forest School
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.Read Full Story - 13/02/25
National Governance Awareness Day
Today is National Governance Awareness Day and we'd like to give a massive shoutout to our amazing governors! #SchoolGovernance #ThankYou #Education #NationalGovernanceAwarenessDay #MakingADifferenceRead Full Story - 07/02/25
- 07/02/25
Forest School
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!Read Full Story - 05/02/25