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• Year 2 Theatre Trip

  Thu 13 Dec 2018

  This morning the Year 2 children had the exciting opportunity to go on a trip to the Warwick Arts Theatre in Coventry to see a show called 'Wilde Creatures!'

   

  The children loved being introduced to the different characters and joining in with some of the singing. 

   

  Can you remember who wanted a statue of themselves in the town square? 

   

  Can you remember the names of some of the instruments that were played? 

   

  What was your favourite part of the play? 

   

  Well done to all of the Year 2 children for following the Golden Rules and being good ambassadors for Westfield Infant School. 

   

  Thank you to all the volunteers who supported the trip. Also a big thank you to WISA for funding the cost of the coaches so we were all able to go.

  

• Singing at the Community Centre

  Wed 12 Dec 2018
  Year 2 pupils made all the teachers feel very proud with their wonderful singing at Westfield Community Centre today. They sang a collection of songs from the Year 1/Year 2 Christmas Play to the Westfield Age Concern group and a group of children from Westfield Nursery. This was followed by the traditional Jingle Bells and We Wish You A Merry Christmas which everyone was able to join in with. As usual the ladies and gentlemen helped out with jingling the bells and this year we had some little help too! David Roberts from the Community Centre thanked Westfield Infant School for their generous contribution raised during our Harvest Festival to help fund the Christmas Dinner. Well done Year 2

  

• Christmas in Australia

  Wed 12 Dec 2018

  On Monday Hannah visited us from ‘down under’ to tell each year group how she celebrates Christmas in Australia! She showed us the flag and where Australia is on the globe. She is visiting her family this Christmas and explained that it took her 24 hours on the aeroplane to travel all the way to the UK!

  Hannah shared with us a super presentation describing the opposite seasons and told us that Christmas actually happens in the middle of their Summer Holidays! Imagine how hot it is right now?! Rather than keeping warm, the Australians keep cool at Christmas – can you remember how?

  We learnt about the lifeguard tradition of decorating a Christmas tree on Bondi Beach. Can you remember who t the surfers dress up as? Can you remember what people build on the beach?

  Some of us weren’t too keen on the thought of fresh seafood instead of our traditional Christmas turkey dinners… but that barbeque sure sounded yummy! Hannah told us about the competition for the best decorated house in lights and hinted that we decorate Christmas trees a lot better in the UK because it’s too hot to spend time doing it in 40C! We were shown some traditional Australian animal tree decorations – a koala and a kangaroo and an alternative box of chocolates to our Celebrations and Heroes called Favourites.

  Hannah even got us all singing the Australian version of the Twelve Days of Christmas which I’m sure you could sing at home…

  On the 4th day of Christmas

  my true love sent to me

  Four Koalas cuddling

  Three Kookaburras laughing

  Two pink Galahs

  and an Emu up a Gum Tree!

   

  We really enjoyed hearing about the similarities and differences between the traditions in the UK and Australia and found the Christmas cards really funny – Santa sunning himself in his red shorts on the beach!

   

  The children asked Hannah some really interesting questions which included ‘Do you have Advent calendars?’ and ‘Does it snow in Australia?’

   

  Thank you for visiting us Hannah – Happy Christmas!

  

• India News

  Fri 07 Dec 2018

  Today Mrs MacLauchlan had some help to get a parcel ready to take to the Post Office to post all the way to India!

  Westfield  Infant School currently sponsor 3 students and we wanted them to know that we are thinking about them at Christmas.

   

  The Reception pupils support Santhosh

   

  The Year 1 pupils support Sathish

   

  The  Year 2 pupils support Aishwar  

   

  We have sent them some useful stationery as well as some treats. We have  also sent a Westfield Calendar to Father Dominic who will deliver the treats to the students for us.