Welcome to Westwood Primary School

Facebook / 27 Mar

🌟Year 6🌟 In Literacy, the children worked on extending their sentence structures and using more advanced punctuation, using The Island as a stimulus. In Maths, we explored circles, investigated nets of 3D shapes and practised plotting coordinates in the first quadrant. Our History lessons took us back to the Vikings as we examined artefacts and images to understand their beliefs. In Fitness, the children developed their coordination through a range of skipping activities, and in Tag Rugby they applied their skills in a series of mini games. In DT, the class made and evaluated their own steady hand games, testing circuits and making improvements. We also visited the Church for our Easter Service, where the children represented the school beautifully. Have a wonderful Easter Break!

Facebook / 27 Mar

🌟 Year 1 🌟 This week in Year 1, the children have had a fantastic time! They really enjoyed their trip to Time of Tide and have been fully engaged in our History unit on the 1950s–60s. In Literacy, the children completed their “new friend” work inspired by Beegu, showing great creativity and imagination. In Science, we explored the differences between carnivores and omnivores, and the children did a brilliant job understanding these concepts. It’s been a wonderful term, and we are so proud of all their hard work. Wishing you all a lovely and restful Easter break! Miss Shuffle and Miss Dennant 💜

Facebook / 27 Mar

Year 3 would like to give you a sneak peak of what we have been working on...

Facebook / 27 Mar

🌟Year 3 🌟 A fantastic week Year 3 and an exciting end to our Spring term! In Literacy we have been reading our new book The Street Beneath My Feet so we can write our own explanation texts, in Reading we have finished How To Change The World and in Maths we have finished learning about weight and mass. In Science we looked at how porous soil is, in Computing we put sound and text into our stop motion movies, in PSHE we learnt about the menstrual cycle, in RWV we learnt about Eid and in PE we put our Tag Ruby skills to the test by playing mini games. We also enjoyed another fabulous ukulele session and even got to go to St Marks Church for our Easter Service. We also had a mini Easter Egg hunt. We have also set up our TTRS tournament for over the Easter Holidays so don’t forget to play and help your team win! Enjoy your holidays! Mr Wright and Miss Bow

Facebook / 27 Mar

🌟Year 5 🌟 Wow! What a fantastic end to the Spring Term! In Literacy, we have written a diary entry in the perspective of the Fisherman from the book, The Island. In Maths, we have been finding equivalent fractions and decimals, using key mathematical vocabulary and our place value knowledge. In Reading, we have continued to make informed inferences and apply retrieval skimming and scanning techniques to our book, The Garden of Lost Secrets. In History, we analysed a variety of sources to make informed historical conclusions about Alfred the Great. In DT, we create our embroidered self portraits, inspired by the work of several designers and our own personalities! A huge thank you the children for their continued positive attitudes, love of learning and dedication to everything that they do! We are so proud of each and every one of you! Have a lovely and well-deserved Easter break! See you soon!

Facebook / 27 Mar

🌟 Reception 🌟 This week in Reception we have enjoyed walking to our local Co-Op to buy ingredients for our Teddy Bear's picnic. We followed the recipes we had written to prepare food for ourselves and our families, thank you for joining us! At the end of the week, we have been looking at the Easter story and how it can be celebrated, we compared this with how other celebrations are celebrated. Have a lovely Easter Half Term Break!

Facebook / 27 Mar

🌟 Attendance 🌟 Congratulations to Year 1 for not only winning our Class Attendance award but for achieving 100% earning them two rolls on our Attendance-opoly board! Well done to Years 2 & 5 for also achieving over 98% and getting to roll the dice on our Attendance-opoly board too! 💜

Facebook / 26 Mar

🌟 Year 4 🌟 What a fun last week of the Spring term! This week Year 4 went to Fisher Theatre to watch 'How to Train your Dragon', we all loved the movie and made comparisons to how it was different to the book we have been reading. We then went to the Church for our Easter Visit and enjoyed singing and listening to the importance of the Easter story. In DT this week we worked fantastically to design our LED, and showed strong teamwork to help each other light their bulbs in their electrical circuit! Well done Year 4 and have a lovely Easter! Miss Harvey and Mrs Longthorne 🙂

Facebook / 21 Mar

🌟 Attendance 🌟 Congratulations Year 2 for winning the Class Attendance award this week and earning a roll of the dice on our Attendance-opoly board. Shout-out to Years 1, 3 & 5 for achieving over 96% and also winning a prize with their roll of the dice! Thank you for supporting your child to attend school regularly 💜

Facebook / 20 Mar

🌟 Year 6 🌟 This week has been a wonderfully busy one in class. In Literacy, the children began their new unit on diary writing inspired by The Island, experimenting with rich figurative language to bring scenes and emotions to life. In Maths, they built confidence working with angles in quadrilaterals and polygons, applying their reasoning skills to new challenges. DT was hands‑on as pupils explored how a steady hand game works, creating complete circuits using conductive materials. In History, the class enjoyed examining why the Vikings are viewed as they are, thinking critically about evidence and perspective. We boosted agility in Fitness, strengthened defensive teamwork in Tag Rugby and in Religion had thoughtful discussions about how Humanists find happiness in a finite life.

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🌟 Reception 🌟 This week in Reception, the class have been thinking about what foods to make for our Teddy Bear Picnic next week. They had a go at following instructions to create foods and write their own recipes. In Maths, we have been combining 2D shapes to create new shapes, using shapes to create pictures. In P.E we practised how jump, bending our knees and landing on two feet. The children then applied this skill when taking part in some races. During our Woodland session this week we looked at snails, and had ago at artwork inspired by Henri Matisse's 'Snail'. Next week we are looking forward to our Teddy Bear's picnic on Wednesday, we can't wait to see you there.

Facebook / 19 Mar

We currently have two vacancies... HLTA - to start ASAP Class Teacher - to start in September Please spread the word and help us find brilliant people to join our team. Visits to the school are welcomed and encouraged, to see for yourself what a wonderful place Westwood is! 💜

Facebook / 15 Mar

🌟 Attendance 🌟 A fantastic week for attendance with 3 classes achieving 100%... Congratulations Years 1, 4 & 5! Shout out to Year 3 who also achieved over 98% (after rounding) to earn themselves a prize on our Attendance-opoly board! Can we have the same again next week? 💜

Facebook / 14 Mar

🌟 Nursery 🌟 This week Nursery have been reading the book 'Lulu loves flowers'. We have been looking at and describing different types of flowers, talking about what we might find in a garden and how plants grow. We have been painting flowers and exploring famous flower pieces of art. In maths we have been exploring weighing and finding out what is heavier or lighter .Our sound in phonics this week has been /d/. On Friday we joined in with the TTRS with Rock Star dress up day and sang lots of counting songs. We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Facebook / 13 Mar

🌟 Year 1 🌟 What a fun week it has been for Year 1! In Science, we learned about carnivores and herbivores and their teeth. In History, we explored toys from the 1950s. In Religion & World Views, we learned why Shabbat is important. In Literacy, we published our Planet Non-Chronological reports. We ended the week by dressing up as Times Tables Rockstars 🎸 Have a brilliant weekend Miss Shuffle and Miss Dennant

Facebook / 13 Mar

Don’t forget to pick up a copy of this weeks journal. Have a lovely weekend 💜💜💜

Facebook / 13 Mar

🌟 Reception 🌟 This week in Reception we have been reading 'Oliver's Vegetables' we discussed where our foods come from and how some foods are grown or reared. The children had a go at planting their own carrots and drew the lifecycle of a carrot. Later in the week, we enjoyed a visit from Pakefield Pastures - we loved meeting the animals that can be found on a farm. In Maths we have been looking at patterns, talking about the pattern rule and having a go at creating our own. In the woods today we read "Centipede's 100 Shoes', we had a go at creating our own class centipede finding out what it's like to have lots of legs before hunting for bugs around the woods.

Facebook / 13 Mar

🌟 Year 3🌟 A fantastic week Year 3! In Literacy we have written our endings for our stories, in Reading we have been reading 'How To Change The World' and in Maths we have moved onto weight and mass. In Science we looked at the formation of fossils, in DT we designed our crumbles, in Computing we created our own stop motion films, in PSHE we looked at personal and private areas, in History we learnt about the differences between palaeolithic and neolithic settlers and in Religion & World Views we looked at what happens in a mosque. We also enjoyed another fabulous ukulele session and LOVED seeing everyone dress up to TTRS day! A massive thank you to everyone as the children had an incredible day! Enjoy your weekend! Mr Wright and Miss Bow

Facebook / 13 Mar

🌟 Year 4 🌟 What a week in Year 4! This week in PE we have been practicing our control technique in Hockey and how to move the ball in different directions whilst maintaining control. In Literacy this week, we have finished writing our alternative ending to the 'Stone Age Boy'! You have all worked so hard on these, well done Year 4! In Maths this week we have explored how to divide 1 and 2 digit numbers by 10, and used our fractions knowledge to explore hundredths! Well done Year 4 for a fantastic week! Have a lovely weekend, Miss Harvey and Mrs Longthorne 🙂

Facebook / 13 Mar

🌟 Year 5 🌟 What a week! In Literacy, we have finalised and published our battle scene between Grendel and Beowulf! In Maths, we have been multiplying unit and non-unit fractions and mixed numbers by a whole. In Reading, we have continued with our text, The Garden of Lost Secrets. In DT, we have experimented with different types of stitching, focusing on the running stitch, back stitch and cross stitch. In Fitness, we have developed our understanding of how agility helps us. In RWV, we discussed stereotypes and the importance of treating others with kindness and respect. In Music, we arranged, evaluated and refined our song performance. A huge thank you to the effort everyone put into their rock star costumes today, you looked absolutely incredible! YOU ALL ROCK!! We have had a fantastic day filled with smiles, laughs, a TTRS battle and times table games. Some wonderful memories made! Have a lovely weekend! 💜

Facebook / 11 Mar

💜 Parents Evenings 💜 Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our parents evening sessions over the last couple of nights. We have enjoyed sharing your children's progress and attainment as well as the active role they play in life here at Westwood. It was wonderful to see so many happy families leaving and to capture the things you had heard that made you feel proud during your appointments. We will be sharing these with the children in our Celebration Assembly on Friday. If you didn't manage to make it to an appointment, your child's class teacher will be in touch over the next few days. Your children make us proud every single day and we love having you all as part of our Westwood family 💜

Facebook / 9 Mar

Book Fair tomorrow - ALL books £3.50 #raiseareader 💜

Facebook / 6 Mar

💛 Active Leaders 💛 This wonderful group of Year 6 pupils met with Trudi from our caterers (Edwards & Blake) today to share their thoughts around the current school dinner offer. They gave feedback on the meals, asked questions and made suggestions supported by their class teacher Miss Bircham. Their input will help to shape the menu for the summer term! 💜

Facebook / 6 Mar

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This week in Reception we read the story "Daisy Eat Your Peas", we discussed how their our some foods we like and some foods we dislike, the children then used their Phonics knowledge to write sentences about their likes and dislikes. Later in the week the then designed a healthy plate of food. We also got to try different foods from around the world, we were so proud of the children all trying new foods! In Maths we have been looking at the composition of 10 exploring number bonds and beginning to write our own number sentences. In the Woods this week we enjoyed listening to the story 'The Very Busy Spider', we discussed how and why spiders make webs and created our own giant web as a class! The children then enjoyed weaving their own webs. This week we have enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day! We had lots of fun in the school costume parade and enjoyed stories from other teachers from around the school.

Facebook / 6 Mar

What a fun week Year 4! We celebrated World Book Day in our fabulous costumes and listened to lots of stories! In DT this week we were diagnosing problems in circuits and how we can fix them! In SRE this week we discussed how we can reach compromises and in Science we investigated the properties of rocks! Have a fab weekend! Miss Harvey and Mrs Longthorne :)

Facebook / 6 Mar

The children in year 1 had a fantastic time at Jimmy’s Farm last week, especially when they spotted the polar bears. A brilliant day of learning, adventure, and happy faces all round!

Facebook / 6 Mar

Our Year 1's had a wonderful World Book Day! They enjoyed a fun book swap, showed off their amazing costumes in the parade, and loved listening to our mystery reader.💜

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✨ What a week in Year 2! ✨ We’ve packed SO many adventures into just a few days, and the children have been absolute superstars! DT Treats – We taste‑tested our very own flapjacks, and the classroom smelt amazing*! The children loved exploring flavours and talking about what makes a great recipe. A Visit from Florence Nightingale – History came to life this week! Florence herself stepped into our classroom to tell us all about life as a nurse in the Crimean War. The children were captivated and asked brilliant questions. World Book Day Magic – What a celebration! The costumes, the excitement, the stories… Year 2 truly brought the joy of reading to life. So proud of this lovely class and everything they’ve achieved this week. 💛 Roll on next week’s adventures!

Facebook / 6 Mar

A fantastic week Year 3! In Literacy we have been looking at character descriptions, in Reading we have been reading How To Change The World and in Maths we have been finding fractions of amounts. In Science we looked at the properties of rocks, in DT we tasted and evaluated different crumbles, in Computing we create our own stop motion films, in PSHE we looked at the impact of secrets, in History we learnt about Starr Carr and in RWV we looked at Muslim prayer. We also enjoyed another fabulous ukulele session and LOVED seeing everyone dress up as their favourite book character for World Book Day! A massive thank you to everyone as the children had an incredible day! Enjoy your weekend! Mr Wright and Miss Bow