Westdale Junior School news

Our autumn half-term holiday has begun.
School re-opens on Monday 2nd November.

We we everyone a happy and safe holiday.

Labels: 2009, dates, holidays, notice, parents

There was an excellent turn out of parents, carers and other family members at our Harvest Festival again this year.

Each year group performed a special item it had prepared and everyone joined in the songs in between these. Year 3 recited a poem, Year 4 sang - in Spanish as well as English, Year 5 presented a short musical about water and Year 6 took us back to the difficulties of feeding families during World War 2 and also presented a poem.

At the end Mr. Caldwell gave a short message and Mrs Hayles congratulated all the children and thanked the adults for coming.

The Harvest Gifts that the children brought in were distributed to the individuals that families had recommended and the "left over" items were taken to the Friary Drop-in Centre in West Bridgford.

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A list of important dates for events and activities for this term (and later in the school year) has been published on the "Parents' Page" today.

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School re-opens at 8.50 am today for the beginning of the 2009/2010 school year.
We hope that everyone had a good summer and look forward to seeing you today.

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School has now closed for the summer holidays.
We hope everyone has a good break and keeps safe.

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Unfortunately, if perhaps almost inevitably, we learned today that our school has now joined the long list of those in Nottinghamshire and around the country which has a pupil with a confirmed case of swine flu.

A copy of the letter sent to all parents and carers today may be read by following this link: swine flu letter 17/7/2009

Further advice is given by the government and the Health Protection Agency.

We wish to do all we can to minimise the risk to everyone in our community and the current advice we have been asked to give parents/carers is that, if your child develops cold or flu like symptoms in the coming days please:

1. Keep your child off school.
2. Telephone your GP – explain the symptoms and state that your child attends Westdale Junior School where there is a confirmed case of swine flu.
3. Telephone the school and tell us that your child has these symptoms.

If urgent news affecting our school becomes available during the summer holiday weeks, we will continue to keep our website updated.

Thank you for you assistance and support with this matter.

Labels: 2009, news, parents, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6

During the past week, children in all classes have had the chance to "shine" and show their friends and teachers just how talented they are. Each year group and class has had a little talent show - anyone could take part - children sang songs, played instruments, told jokes, danced, did magic tricks, etc. for their friends and the children chose their favourites to perform again in front of the whole school on Friday morning. This produced a very entertaining show which was enjoyed by all. The photograph above shows all those who performed in the final show.

Labels: 2009, competition, dance, music, talent show, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6