Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Year 1 Fire Safety Workshop

  Fri 10 May 2024

  Today Year 1 had an informative visit from Claire who works for Hampshire Fire and Rescue. To help the children understand the importance of fire safety, she taught the children a song with actions, played a game and told a story to reinforce key safety messages in an age appropriate way. We also learnt a rhyme: ‘Matches and lighters never touch they can hurt you very much!’ Claire shared that smoke alarms should be tested once a week at home so we must remember to ask an adult to check. The children were all very impressed when Claire showed them what firefighters wear to protect themselves - we had a competition to see who could get dressed quickest!    Certainly a fun experience with a very important message.

   

  

• Year 1 The Great Fire of London Workshop

  Thu 09 May 2024

  Today all of our Year One children enjoyed an interactive workshop all about  The Great Fire of London. To extend their historical understanding of this significant event in British History, every child had the opportunity to take on a role in costume and act out the events of that fateful time in 1666. Without exception, the children enthusiastically took on the roles of key figures including: The King, Samuel Pepys, the baker as well as the merchants and townsfolk. The children re-enacted putting out the fire by working co-operatively in a chain to pass buckets of water from the Thames. From the children’s engagement and feedback, it is crystal clear they gained so much from this hands-on experience, they really enjoyed themselves and many shone as budding actors of the future!                                          

  

• Year 2 Football Skills Intra-School Event

  Wed 24 Apr 2024

  This afternoon a group of our fabulous Year 2 children attended a Football

  Festival hosted at Elvetham Heath Primary School to represent WIS. Our Westfields competitors enjoyed a variety of games and practised their ball skills, ending with an exciting match! The children absolutely loved participating in this extended curriculum opportunity and staff and parents equally enjoyed cheering them on. The children were impressive ambassadors for WIS exhibiting impeccable, sporting behaviour which is fantastic; they are a credit to Westfields. Well done football stars and thank you to Mrs Eggington and Miss McBeath who accompanied the team.

   

  

• Year 2 Trip to RHS Wisley Gardens

  Wed 24 Apr 2024

  Children (staff and parent volunteers!) had a memorable day exploring this wonderful location to bring the children’s current learning to life.  The day was certainly a very busy one filled with exciting hands-on experiences.

   

  Throughout their visit the children completed an array of activities including pond dipping, planting cornflower seeds and investigating different habitats to find mini-beasts as well as generally exploring these famous grounds.

   

  Feedback from the children was extremely positive and I am sure that everyone had a truly wonderful time being at one with nature and seeing their learning in school come to life.

   

   

  

• British Science Week

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  This week we have had a fantastic time taking part in British Science Week.  We started this exciting extended curriculum opportunity with a special assembly during which we found out what makes a super scientist. 

  We then spent time in the afternoon designing a poster around the theme of ‘Time’ for a national poster competition (look out for details about the chosen finalists next week!) On Tuesday, we all enjoyed our Science Federation afternoon where each of our classes worked with a class from the juniors on a creative science activity: Year R worked with Year 5 to explore how the seasons change nature over time; the Year 1 classes worked with Year 4 to explore “Active Adaptations” by creating camouflaged clay moths and Year 2 went over to the Junior School to discover more about “Disappearing Dinos” by orderline a timeline.

  During the rest of the week, the children explored a variety of activities around the theme of time.  We also wrote letters to our future selves to include in a school time capsule. 

  It has been a truly super Science Week and we hope it has inspired

  some scientists of the future!

   

  

• World Book Day 2024

  Thu 07 Mar 2024

  Wow! What an amazing, (and very comfortable!) day we all had celebrating World Book Day. There was a wonderful buzz in the air with a day of jam-packed reading celebrations, all in our PJs! The World Book Day theme of ‘Read Your Way’ inspired us all. 

  Each Year group explored a fantastic book series to inspire a love of reading. Reception went on a journey with ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ series making ladybird biscuits, wanted posters and even drawing maps of the farm and writing a plan of escape. Year 1 dived into ‘The Dragonsitter’ series creating their own dragons and imagining what mischief their dragon would cause. Finally, Year 2 delved into the hilarious ‘Mr Penguin’ series describing the characters and creating book covers for their own.

  As well as all the fun classroom activities, we also buddied up with WJS to have a ‘Cosy Federation Read’. The children were able to share their books with each other and read in comfortable places across both schools.

  The staff had also secretly prepared a game of ‘Guess Who?’ which included mystery videos of them reading a story but our faces were covered, so the children had to guess who was reading.

  Finally, we also held our ‘Potato Character Competition’. We were all blown away by the amazing, creative entries but the School Council had the very difficult job of deciding the winners! We were excited to share all of the creations at the end of the day, when they were presented on the playground.

  

• Year 2 Multi Skills Festival

  Wed 28 Feb 2024

  This afternoon some of our Year 2 children attended a Multi-Skills Festival hosted at Elvetham Heath Primary School. They had a fun-filled and physical afternoon of various activities including balancing beanbags on heads, throwing beanbags into hoops and a range of agility games.  The children absolutely loved participating in this extended curriculum opportunity and despite it being on the rather chilly side, they did not want the afternoon to end! Well done sports stars!

   

  

• Safer Internet Day 2024

  Tue 06 Feb 2024

  Today all of the children had a wonderful day celebrating Safer Internet Day and learning all about staying safe online.

   

  The day started with a visit from Westfields Junior School’s  ‘Digital Leaders’ who led a very special e-safety themed assembly and explained this year’s theme ‘Inspiring Change’.

   

  Following this, throughout the day the children listened to stories and scenarios and discussed what the characters should do if they feel worried about something they have seen or heard on-line. The children completed a number of actives from online safety posters to designing new technology for the future.

   

  Each of our Year 2 classes even had the opportunity to visit Westfields Junior School to work with Year 5 and look at how technology and the internet has changed over time by creating a technology timeline. We all reminded ourselves about the important message of talking with a trusted adult if we are worried about something we see or hear online, whist having fun!

   

  Such a great extended curriculum opportunity with an important safety message.

   

  

• Judo Taster Sessions

  Thu 01 Feb 2024

  This week all of our Year 1 and Year 2 children have enjoyed a Judo taster session courtesy of Mr Fricker.

   

  From the children’s feedback they had a fantastic time being introduced to this art form.

   

  

• Year 1 Space Workshops

  Mon 29 Jan 2024

  Today we welcomed Mr Chaplin from WJS. He came to talk to each of our Year 1 classes all about Space. As well as talking all about the different planets, he shared lots of fascinating information all about the first moon landing. The children had the opportunity to act out Neil Armstrong taking his first step on the moon and we all joined in with the famous quote ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’. We learnt some extraordinary facts about how astronauts survive in Space including what they eat and how they go to the toilet! At the end of the session we asked lots of thoughtful space related questions which Mr Chaplin answered brilliantly!