Come to the edge... where all children are 'free range'
* expect the best from ourselves and others
* have high standards in behaviour, appearance, presentation, environment
*challenge children and take them to the edge of their capabilities, and in doing so encourage children to challenge themselves
* enable children to learn independently, applying skills they have learnt
* be brave enough and informed enough to take considered risks
* be engaged enough to question
* inform and engage parents in the learning taking place
* provide opportunities for parents to further their own learning
We had the BEST day at Willastonfest! Thank you so much to all the amazing people that helped make it such a roaring success! We hope you enjoy this 'best bits' video. Roll on next year!
Wow....we couldn't have asked for better weather and company. Thank you Year 6 it has been a blast. Off to new adventures. Let no one steal your dreams.
Following the tremendous success of our earlier water fun day. We decided to make the most of this week's glorious weather and have another one!
Today was the day for our celebration assembly, and while it wasn't the Celebration we had hoped for, we did manage to celebrate the hard work of these specially chosen children with our classes. Below are the links for each class's awards assembly. 1
This week Mrs Kirkham and her team made yummy iced cakes and raspberry buns for 'Willastonfest' I am sure if you managed to taste one, you will agree they were SO GOOD!
On Tuesday morning, Year 2 were very excited to be heading to Laxey on their school trip. We went to the Great Laxey Mines Railway first. Thank you to the two volunteers who gave up so much of their time to explain to the children how everything worked. They showed all the children the trains, carr…
Well done Year 6 on a very successful Apprentice 2021, raising £192.11. Here are some of the photographs from the afternoon.
Yesterday we were very lucky to have a local award-winning performance poet visit us in year 6. We have been trying out some performance poetry of our own over the last few weeks so it was great to have Jackie Morrey-Grace come in and show us how it’s done. We learned that the key to writing poetry…
Inspire is a wonderful program we operate at our school to make sure that children feel safe and confident to start their learning journey prior to September. Our Inspire program consists of 5 parent and child sessions; 4 pre-visits and one visit in October to see how well we've progressed. So far…
This week Year 6 are doing the apprentice! So make sure you bring some pennies into school tomorrow as lots of delicious treats will be on sale! Check out the Y6 pitches below. For Heaven's Cakes Delicious Desserts Cookie Crumble Doughnut Delight Bear Buddies Banana Island
This week's lucky group of children had a brilliant time learning alongside Mrs Kirkham to make the most delicious toffee sponge! Huge thank you to Mrs Kirkham, she definitely makes cooking with so many children look easy! Roll on next week's yummy treat...
A huge well done to Year 6 for fantastic learning during our Dragon's Den topic which culminated in a rather special presentation yesterday. Children pitched their product in front of 4 Dragon's, who listened carefully to each presentation. The Dragon's were blown away by the creativity, team work,…
Today Year 5 have been very luck to have the opportunity to finish off their cycling proficiency. Both groups did very well to…
We thoroughly enjoyed our time on the computer bus with Mr Townsend. He taught us how to put 'magic move' onto a key note prese…
Ballanard's Boat Themed Visits for this half term! We have been to the House of Manannan and The Peggy Story. We are off to see…
What a marvellous few weeks we have had enjoying Forest school with 'Out to Play'. The children enjoyed taking part in various…
Last week Jamie Blair came to talk to our key stage 1 children about the importance of bees! Jamie talked to us about bee keepi…
On Thursday 1st March we celebrated World Book Day - one of our favourite days of the year at Willaston School! Yet again we we…
