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
This week the children made a delicious apple and blackberry crumble using home grown apples from Mrs Slater's garden and locally sourced blackberries picked by our lovely Mrs Adams!
The 5th October is our Flu Vaccine Day. If you would like to know more about the flu vaccine you can watch the videos below. Or check out the NHS website. General information video for parents Child-Friendly Video about the Vaccine and general safe practise
We're on a very exciting journey as a school, developing our culture of reading. Our aim is to build an authentic love for reading in our entire school community! So today, for our Walk-in Wednesday (a weekly event in Reception Class!) we had a reading focus, inviting parents to choose a book to sh…
Our Reception Class have had an absolutely super start to school life! We're really proud of how quickly they have settled. Here's a sneaky peek into the amazing fun and learning we enjoy every day in our classroom!
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…
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…
