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
DJ Willingham has been working hard on our first ever radio show, due to air across the school Tannoy system on Friday 18th October. For your chance to present the show, you need to write a script and speak to Mr Ledger! If you'd like to listen's to Ryan's show, you can listen online here.
We had an absolutely amazing time at the Farm on Monday! We enjoyed feeding the different animals and learning about where they came from. These pigs were all the way from New Zealand!
Molly our school dog. Molly will be coming in to school with her owner, Miss Kennaugh on Thursdays and Fridays. Please go onto policies under the parent section to read the school policy.
Swim_Attire.pdf Swimming starts on Wednesday. Please see the attached for information about what to wear.
Ella and Grace in Year 6 have made an amazing virtual tour of our school!
Very proud of our swimming team who took part in a fun swimming gala in Peel. There were some tremendous individual performances and they all made us proud.
Thank you so much to our fantastic gardening team who did a brilliant makeover!! They worked tirelessly to make a difference. We now have plans in place to re-build the beds and keep it maintained. Watch this space. Well done Boys!!!!!!
Today saw Willaston's football team compete in the Island wide Millennium Football Tournament. The team showed excellent team skills and played brilliantly! Coach, Mr Ledger, was incredibly proud of their performance and their sportsmanship. Fun was had by all the children and both Corben and Camer…
Our Reception Class had an absolutely wonderful time on their first Forest school trip of this half-term. Mr Ledger was very sad to have missed their trip, but as you can see, Mr Corrin had a great time standing in for him! We're very excited to go back to forest school next week. Can you think of…
It's a beautiful day here in Wales! The sun is shining! We had a really good sleep last night and awoke with plenty of energy! We have all done climbing, jungle vines and laser. Lots and lots of fun has been had and hopefully, after room inspection tonight, we will be heading to the tuck shop!
Wow! What a wonderful day we have had at school. We all had a super experience learning new tricks with a skipping rope. We had some personal bests today and everyone pushed themselves to learn something new!
Our first day has been lovely! Weather is fabulous and we has a cracking time in the underground caves. It was so good that some of us had to go for a lie down afterwards!! For tea we had sausages or chicken pie with a brownie to follow. We have just played a few team games and we are off to play g…
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…
On Monday 26th February Cedar class celebrated 100 days of school. The students have been counting the days since September as…
