The first Southend Primary School Sports Association (SPSSA) competition of the year took place at Thorpe Hall School on Friday 24th September. Eight pupils from West Leigh Junior School took part in the ‘table tennis’ competition. In the boys’ competition, the children from West Leigh achieved a 100% record of success in the three group stage matches. This meant that they finished top of the group and progressed to the semi-final. At this point the competition became far ha

Our club timetable is now fully up and running and the first session of our new lower school science club started this lunchtime. The children had lots of fun exploring dissolving and even made a Skittles rainbow!

This week the new librarians took up their post and at last the library was open to the whole school. Due to restrictions the library has not been open at lunchtimes for nearly a year (although classes have been borrowing books from boxes) and this means that Year 3 or 4 have never visited our beautiful library! The children were hugely enthusiastic and the library was full of visitors, all eager to borrow a book from our fantastic selection. Each year group has their own lun