Staff have developed a draft vision for the school and nursery for the future.
Westfield: A place to SMILE – Succeed, Motivate, Inspire, Learn, Excel.
Your input is valued. Please take a moment to tell us what you think by commenting below, or by completing the short questionnaire (click on the Vision image below), or by coming in to school to tell us!
On Tuesday we were lucky enough to have two extra helpers, we were joined by a granny of one of our morning children and a mum for the afternoon. We’d like to thank them for their support. If any other parents, grandparents or carers wish to come in and help please speak to a member of staff.
Our afternoon mum helped the children to plant onions which was one of their chosen vegetables for our vegetable patch.
On Wednesday our morning children presented an assembly on healthy eating to the school and parents. They were amazing, sharing their favourite healthy food and singing in front of everyone. Well done!
Just a little reminder that in the nursery we are asking for donations of small sunhats/baseball hats. Donations can be handed in at the office or nursery.
Today we were discussing and researching the information contained on food labels. We discovered that certain information must be included by law and how the laws about this have changed. We will now go on to learn more about how we as consumers can use this information to help us make informed decisions about what we eat. We also measured out,as a group, what we thought was a recommended portion size of muesli….. we were quite surprised by what constituted a recommended portion compared to what we had served ourselves. #portioncontrol
We are delighted to announce that, on Wednesday 17th May, there will be art exhibition in the school hall from 0900-1200 then 1.30-3.00. You can pop in at any time, during these hours, to admire the work and perhaps make a purchase.
On display will be art from each class and the nursery, and the art is for sale! All proceeds will go to school funds and pupils will be involved in deciding what will be purchased as a result.
The framed examples of quality artwork will cost £5.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Pupils and parents at Westfield Primary enjoyed a successful Superhero Coffee Morning where monies were raised for Forth Ones Cash for Kids. Pupils from P6/7 helped Mrs Grant and members of the Parent Council to supervise the stalls available. The Tombola and tattoo transfer stalls proved very popular and the cakes were not be missed either.
There were lots of Superheros in attendance so we felt we we in safe hands all morning!!!!
Great fun was had by all and we will be sending just over £200 to the Cash for Kids Appeal!!!!
This week has been relatively short with a Monday holiday and staff Inservice on Thursday. Four P6 pupils, Kai, Jowita, Chloe and Katie went to represent the school in the Cluster KNEX challenge on Friday morning at Linlithgow Primary and achieved joint 3rd place – Well Done!
Here is a snapshot of some of our other learning this week.
Wiktoria – P6/7 helped out at the Superhero coffee morning where they practice their enterprise selling and money handling skills.
Abby – We completed our Tesco Art Competition entries where we had to be creative with the theme “Transportation” I chose to create a piece of art which showed Unicorn Island which you had to travel to on a carrot.
Ryan – In Rugby P5 joined us as we practiced our passing skills and played sharks and fishes with Kyle and Andrew, coaches from Linlithgow Rugby Club.
Kai – I went to the KNEX challenge with our team. We had to create a wheelbarrow which would carry a brick and then push the wheelbarrow over a course. The ladder of death was really tricky! We were proud of our efforts coming in joint third place with Torphichen.
Donnie & Bobby – We were taking pictures for the nursery during their Assembly about Healthy Eating. We felt that the nursery presented their assembly very well and were very focused and clear when speaking to a large audience. Well Done!
Jowita – We have been extending our writing skills through the use of similes and exploring ambitious openers.
This week was a short week at school but we still managed to get a lot done.
Jack – I am learning how to join my handwriting and it is pretty easy. When I am writing 2 letters it is neat but words can be messy. I will work on this.
Cyrus – We had rugby on Tuesday with a coach, learning to pass the ball properly. I enjoyed it.
Toby – In maths we were adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with all our tables. I found the multiplying more challenging
Meah – In our China topic we watched a video and wrote down facts about China.I wrote 22 facts.
Angus – In maths we were dividing fractions and I found it really hard.
Melissa – In Spanish we were experimenting with fruit and which would float and not float. We had to do this in Spanish.
Sophie Lee – In French we made smoothies on paper and were learning the vocabulary for fruit
Ffion/Helen – In maths we are looking at money, giving change up to a pound. I have been able to do it easily.
Lewis – We have been learning to interpret information from different kinds of graphs in Maths.
Alexander – In maths we took a survey in the school using tally marks and displayed our results on a bar graph using Create a Graph on the laptop.
Kelsey – I had fun creating a poster all about China.
Rebecca – We wrote our names in Chinese and painted them in black.
Kieran – In French we had to match the names of fruit to the right picture.
Tia – In maths we were dividing fractions which started out easy but got harder
You can now start to follow this term’s Nursery Learning Journey on our new sway.
This week the children in nursery have been enjoying their increase in outside access, despite the mixed weather. We enjoyed learning in snow, rain, hail and sunshine!
We have plenty of waterproofs in the nursery to help the children enjoy learning outside in wet weather but we were less prepared for the sunshine! The nursery is asking for you to donate any small unwanted sunhats/baseball hats so we can protect little heads from the sun and enjoy outdoor learning in all weather.
Please enjoy our photo gallery showing some of the learning happening this past week in the nursery.
Alice – This week we had loads of fun! I enjoyed naming fractions in maths and playing rugby too. In P.E we also did javelin throwing and discus!
Matthew – This week in P.E we practiced for rugby which were doing the week after. My favourite part was playing rats & rabbits with partners.
Katie-This week we had rugby and the best part was when we played “try to take the tag.”
Chloe – We have been learning to simplify fractions in maths and also to how to work out equivalent fractions.
Abby – I liked learning how to work with fractions. We were simplifying them and then working out how to represent a fraction as a percentage.
Kai – In PE we learned how to throw a Javelin properly. It should not be held too high and the javelin should be thrown at a 45 degree angle.
Donnie – In PE were practicing our discus throwing in Athletics using frisbees.
Ryan – P7 went to Kingsfield Golf club where practiced our putting and long shots using putters, wedges and irons.
Wiktoria – I enjoyed meeting my buddy in the nursery and am looking forward to making them feel more comfortable about coming into Primary 1.
Jowita – In Health and Wellbeing we have been learning about a balanced diet and the Eatwell plate. We used out maths skills to work out the percentages of each food group that we should have in a meal.
Bobby – We took part in rugby and learned how to dodge and side step from tackles. We also worked on increasing our speed in movement and response.
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