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WESTERN STEAM

By Craig Southern | November 12, 2019

Before half term we celebrated all things STEAM, creating exciting activities for Western Uni. In KS1 children investigated a range of exciting art processes before making their own personalised bunting.

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SchoolGateway (Update)

By Alison Hodgetts | November 11, 2019

Dear parent/carers, Thank you to all of the parents and carers who have completed and handed in their SchoolGateway Consent forms so far, you should now be able to log in to the APP. If you have any issues logging in it may be because school doesn’t have your current email and mobile phone number…

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Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal 2019

By Craig Southern | November 7, 2019

In support of the Royal British Legion, Poppies are available from the school office. We also have a range of other items for sale, to raise funds for essential welfare work for our Service men and women, veterans, and their families.

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The Lindisfarne Car Park

By Craig Southern | October 25, 2019

Please can we politely ask families to refrain from using the Lindisfarne Club Car Park on Thursdays, Friday mornings and for any after school events. This is causing congestion for The Lindisfarne Club staff and visitors. Thank you for your support with this.

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Let’s Move It!

By Craig Southern | October 22, 2019

Year Six children are currently exploring dynamic shapes and forms in dance before creating a group sequence.

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Arts Award Adventures

By Craig Southern | October 11, 2019

Our Year Four pupils are working with artist/teacher Elliott Rush as an introduction to Arts Award. The ‘Discover’ Arts Award involves; taking part in arts activities, researching artists or craftspeople and their work, and sharing their Arts discoveries. After developing music compositions last week, pupils have now created their own fantasy architecture.

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Creative Coats of Arms

By Craig Southern | September 26, 2019

Welcome to an exciting new year at Western. This term Year Five pupils will be exploring the work of artists Joseph Cornell and Louise Nevelson. Both artists use boxes to help structure their ideas. As a starting point, pupils thought carefully about what drawings could represent them when they created their own Coat of Arms…

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Dark and Fearsome Dragons.

By Gemma Robson | June 3, 2019

Year Four are currently exploring the fantastic adventures of Beowulf. Part of this Anglo Saxon tale involves a battle to slay the fire breathing dragon. Over the next few weeks we are going to create short animations to illustrate this exciting story.    

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Love has inspired us…

By Gemma Robson | May 2, 2019

Year Three pupils have just completed a fantastic mural design inspired by the work of artist Marc Chagall. Marc Chagall’s work was often described as dream like. His wife Bella shared his unusual vision of the word and he often included her in his paintings. Both classes were asked to think about things they loved…

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Year 5 meet the Vikings

By Gemma Robson | March 29, 2019

Year 5 have been so busy with their new topic all about the Vikings. They have been learning about sagas and how these stories told of heroes and villains; voyages and returns. The thing is, is that sagas were often incredibly long. So Year 5 had to create their own versions- mini sagas. They had…

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