Gallery | Westhouses Primary School

Check out the work our class did with an artist in school for a Heritage project

Summer Show 2024

Sports Day 2024

Fife/Flute Philosophers concert

Science afternoon Thank you to everyone who came along!

Twycross Zoo 2024

Northern Lights - Thank you to Steve, a local that photographed these for us!

Lea Green 2024 Part 2 🍃🪵💦

Lea Green 2024 Part 1 🍃🪵💦

Easter Egg Hunt 2024 - Thank you Friends of Westhouses for organising!

World Book Day 2024

Tulip art for Mothers Day 2024

Special visitor - Santa is here!

SNOW! ❄️❄️❄️

The children have done a lovely job making items to go on the memorial for Remembrance. Thank you to any parents that donated wool for this.

Thank you to everyone who has donated for our Harvest Festival!

Thank you for our Halloween themed lunch!

Halloween Disco 2023

We are now taking appointments at our hairdressers!

Seven Trent paid us a visit and showed us the work they have been doing at our school

Sports Day 2023

Cleethorpes 2023

Little Explorers have been practising playing in the sand ready for their trip on Friday!

Trailblazers have been creating dragon eyes!

Leiden Trip 2023

Little Explorers have released their butterflies!

Summer is here! We have lots of beautiful flowers around the school grounds this year, keep an eye out.

Thank you Westhouses association for our Easter egg hunt!

Rhubarb farm trip 2023

Sleepover fun!

World Book Day 2023

Pupil Parliament at Westhouses - Thank you to the other Cluster schools for coming along

'Doodlebug' workshop

Check out what Origami Club have been creating over the past few months!

It's Chinese New Year and Little Explorers have been learning all about it!

It's been vey windy in Westhouses this week but that hasn't stopped our playtimes!

Philosophers have been learning to tie knots in Forest Schools

The Food For Life children that went on a trip to Alfreton Park school had a lovely time. Thank you for being so welcoming!

Trailblazers have been taking part in a filming workshop

The children have been working on their Christmas crafts for the Community Garden.

Little Explorers have had loads of fun making gingerbread men!

Christmas Panto at Blackwell Community Centre 2022

Christmas 2022

The children were very excited to meet Santa on Friday. Thank you to everyone that came to our Christmas Fair!

Explorers DT projects!

Trailblazers have been dissecting sheep hearts in science

Mrs Russell has been working with Little Explorers and following instructions to make some yummy porridge

Remembrance Day jars

The whole school went to the memorial at the end of the street to pay their respects and join in a minute silence at 11am. The children have also created some displays that are up in school.

Mrs Coupe has left for her maternity leave today, we hope you and baby are doing well and we hope you enjoy your gifts!

Little Explorers have been working together to make some bread!

African dance workshop

African workshop video

Sports day 2022

Infants trip to Twycross Zoo!

Some of the Trailblazers didn't got the Lea Green, they have been in school.

They have done some schoolwork and then various activities, we thought you might like to see what they have been up to:

They helped the Explorers make party fish to go on the school float for Newton Carnival.
They designed a laser maze for the other children to use at lunchtime
They made clay models and painted them.
They went on a history walk around Westhouses, taking photo's and gathering information, which they then used to produce posters about Westhouses.
They made some props for the end of year performance - Shakespeare Rocks.
They went onto the Memorial Field to sketch wildflowers and tried using watercolours to paint sketches.
They were challenged to learn how to do a magic trick using playing cards.
They planed a scavenger hunt for Philosophers, they hid things and made clues for them to track them down.

Jubilee Day at school!

Year 6 enjoy breakfast at school before their SATs!

School had a visit from the High Sherriff at school, he presented Pam Stocks and Christopher Dowd with special awards for service to the community.

World book day 2022

Infants make pancakes - pancake day 2022

Artsmark celebration day was a huge hit!

Remembrance art by the juniors

When the children are away the governors play! Dave and Lizzie had lots of fun after Tuesday's governor meeting on the infant didicars!

Year 5&6 have been creating garlands, daisy chains, nature themed mobiles and creating flower bombs to plant around the village.

Big Explorers dance routine Click on the link - download the video - enjoy Big Explorers amazing dance routine

Sports day 2021

Our Little Explorers (age 4 and 5) have been out and about litter picking in the village this week!

A huge thank you to Charlie's Grandma for donating some lovely flowers to help us cheer up the planters!

Cooking club made rocky road on Monday!

Sports Festival 2021

The tea ladies from Greater Creations came into school on Monday to put a show on for the children and find out what they might like to be added to the park!

Before, during and after! Our EYFS area looks amazing with it's new rubber chippings.

The girls in EYFS have been hard at work this lunchtime putting the new sand in the sand tray.

Wow, look at the size of this!

World Book Day 2021

Two of our four year old Little Explorers have been out and about in the village litter picking.

Snow!

Santa has treated us to a socially distanced visit today!

Christmas songs 2020

We hope we can spread some festive cheer with our Christmas songs - enjoy!

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Another amazing Christmas Dinner here at Westhouses - Thank you Mr. Nutt!

Westhouses Remembers. We have created Remembrance crosses with messages. Trailblazers also went to the memorial to show their respect and to have their 2 minutes silence.

Halloween Treasure Hunt

Positive Play - Clay Sculptures.

Workshops with Elaine Newton (clay artist) 24.09.2020

A big thank you to everyone who donated cakes for our Macmillan fundraiser. Well done to Ree who won the jar of sweets. We have raised an amazing £195.00 so far and will be having another bake sale to add to this total!

Little Explorers have been building their own train and painting it!

For the second time running, Mason has won this week's photo competition! The theme for next week is 'Splish Splash', this is also going to be our last weekly photo competition for this year. Thank you for all your fantastic entries, we have some talented children at Westhouses Primary! We will be running a whole school monthly photography competition in September, details to follow.

Mr Weston's bubble got to enjoy the lovely sunshine yesterday. They had a picnic down at the stream and also helped the community out by picking up some rubbish.

We have taken advantage of the lovely sunshine today by taking our learning outside for maths!

A big well done to Indie who planted these herself during lockdown. Some are nearly 7ft tall already and they have loads of growing left to do. No signs of flowers yet! She planted the seeds in pots and transplanted them to bigger pots by hand all on her own, before we put them in the ground.

Some of our children have been busy litter picking around the village this afternoon!

The theme for the this week's photo competition was 'patterns'. Mrs Whitby was our guest judge this week and she has chosen Charlie's photo as the winner! The theme for next week is 'guess what it is' - Good Luck!

Some amazing stick art from the pupils in school!

This week's theme for the Philosopher's photography challenge was 'Wonderful World'. Mr Weston kindly picked the winning photo and he chose... Rowan's photo! The theme for next week is 'Patterns'. Good Luck!!

After a very tough decision, the winner of the first Philosopher's Photography Challenge is Luca! Thankyou to everyone who entered. The theme for next week is 'Wonderful World', Good Luck!

The children in school have been having lots of fun with Mrs Tucker creating animal masks. Check out the photos!

The children at school have been decorating cakes and biscuits!

Wow, thank you for joining in our den building challenge, they look great. We love your choice of books.

PDSA visit

Washing Hands

We politely remind all parents to remind their children to wash their hands on a regular basis. We have posters around school explaining the correct way to wash your hands and this short video.