The Friends of Westfield have helped support our beautiful new reading area. All classes will be going into The Story Tree Snug.

We enjoyed a fabulous Book Week in the Spring Term.  As this is the National Year of reading, we set ourselves the challenge of Reading Around The World and the children enjoyed listening to, reading and finding out facts from books that have their origins all over the world. 

We had a book character hunt around the school, where the children had to look for the likes of The Gruffalo, Paddington Bear and Horrid Henry who had hidden themselves! Each class that found all the characters won a prize of some new books for their classroom book areas.  We also had a fabulous visit from a local author, Fiona Scott, who inspired the children to read and write their own stories, and shared her writing process with them. 

We then had our Get Caught Reading Competition, which saw children reading books in unusual places.  We had some great entries being very creative in their reading.  Our winner was Lev in Owls Class, for finding a very chilly spot to get caught reading!

In February (just before half term) we took part in Children’s Mental Health Week and we all had great fun and learnt a lot! The theme was ‘’This is my place’, all based round the feeling of belonging and how important that is to all of our wellbeing. The staff planned many engaging activities around, and to promote, this theme and to support the children in recognising the importance of feeling like we belong, for ourselves and those around us. We started the week with an assembly and a dress up day (Come as Yourself day). It was wonderful to see all the fabulous outfits the children had put together. The staff all joined in and took a common theme—everyone wore an item of pink and their sunglasses—to demonstrate our sense of belonging to Westfield and each other. It was lovely to see the children start to realise staff were dressed in similar ways! During the week the children all contributed to a collaborative piece of art by each decorating their own butterfly, this beautiful display is now up in the main school corridor and it looks fabulous! 

The children finish today at 1.20pm. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas holiday. The children return on Tuesday 6th January.