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

• Hungry Little Minds

  Wed 03 Jul 2019

  Improving early communication, language and literacy development is a key priority for the government and a cornerstone of building a country that works for everyone. Some of the poorest children in the UK start school months behind their peers and the gap can grow through their school years. Children with poor vocabulary skills at age five may be up to twice as likely to be unemployed in their 30s. In July 2018, the Secretary of State for Education announced the government’s ambition to halve in ten years the proportion of children who finish reception year without the communication, language and literacy skills they need to thrive. As a result, the Department for Education is launching Hungry Little Minds – a new three-year campaign to encourage parents to engage in activities that support their child’s early learning and help set them up for school and beyond.

  https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/

   

  

• Summer Fete 🥳 Update

  Sun 30 Jun 2019
  

• Summer Fete

  Fri 28 Jun 2019
  The forecast for Friday 28th is looking good with lots of sunshine ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ so why not come and join us from 2pm for our Summer Fete. There will be lots of stalls and entertainment provided by the children so please come along and support them and the fantastic FOW team that have arranged the whole event!

  

• Parent Coffee Morning- pastoral Support

  Tue 25 Jun 2019

  On Friday 14th June our Pastoral Team attended the Parent Coffee Morning. They shared what support is on offer in school, resources and other useful information. 

  The link below shares a leaflet that has been developed to explain about the Pastoral Support on offer here at Westcliff Primary Academy.

   

  https://www.westcliffpriacademy.co.uk/nurturepastoral-groups/

• Ethos Day

  Tue 25 Jun 2019

  We were recently invited to Rockbeare to take part in an Ethos Day linked to Pentecost. We started the day by joining Rockbeare at their local church where we heard the story of Pentecost from the group 'Open The Book'.

  We then went back to school where we took part in different activities such as baking cakes, making fire crowns and learning a different language.

   

  https://www.westcliffpriacademy.co.uk/ethos-group/

• Sports Day

  Fri 21 Jun 2019
  

• HUB MUSIC DAY

  Thu 20 Jun 2019

  What an amazing hub music day we enjoyed. Pupils from Westcliff, Rockbeare, Chudleigh Knighton, Willowbank and Lady Seawards worked collaboratively together to perform and compose.  We listened to two contrasting 'storm' compositions and explored the musical elements of pitch and dynamics within them.  In response to this we explored making 'storm' sounds with our bodies, voices and using instruments and had to include what we had learned about dynamics. After exploring sound effects, we looked at how music could be recorded as a 'graphic score'.  We then rehearsed following these scores, then performed them in groups and then as a whole class.   After lunch we had a chance to compose our own 'storm' compositions in groups and then proudly performed these.

  

• Summer Fete - Friday 28th June

  Tue 18 Jun 2019
  To clarify the organisation for the School Summer Fete – we are offering early collection on Friday 28th June. If you would like to attend the Fete you will be able to collect your child from their class at 2pm. All children who are not collected will stay with school staff and will have the opportunity to run class games and visit the Fair in small groups. After school club will run as normal.

  

• Change to May Bank Holiday 2020

  Tue 18 Jun 2019
  https://www.gov.uk/government/news/2020-may-bank-holiday-will-be-moved-to-mark-75th-anniversary-of-ve-day

  

• Parent Coffee Morning- Pastoral Support

  Fri 14 Jun 2019
  Thank you for coming along to the Parent Coffee Morning today. We are glad we could share with you what our Pastoral Team do and how they can support you and your child.