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Week two of lockdown and home schooling as well as our key workers children being in school. We wanted to keep everyone connected and have created these galleries for the children to be able to see what their friends are doing. Year 3 Year 4 Year 4 video Year 5 Year 6 In School #Year6 #Year4 #Wholeschool #Year5 #Year3

We have asked parents and carers to help us keep the children connected during this time by sending in photos of what the everyone is doing during their time at home. It was really lovely receiving the photos. We have also asked the staff to send photos of what the children are doing in school. Thank you to everyone who did send photos in, we hope you enjoy the galleries below; Year 3 Year 4 A special video from one of our Year 4 pupils Year 5 Year 6 In school #Wholeschool #Y

On Friday 14th February, the year 3/4 boys’ football team travelled to the Len Forge Centre to compete in the year 3/4 football tournament. The day started with the group stages with four games to play. The boys were unfortunate to lose their first game but kept confident. Putting the result behind them, they then went onto score early in their second match before Thorpedene scored in the closing stages of the match, ending in a draw. In the third game, the boys went 2-0 down

On Friday 7th February, West Leigh Junior School had a new headteacher – for the day! Alex Miller won the school election and fulfilled his role as well as some of his campaign promises. Children were treated to games in their English and maths lessons, an extra afternoon break and an exciting whole school art project. Alex started his day completing a full health and safety check of the school with Mr Silver, who was extremely impressed with Alex’s questions and attention to

On Wednesday 22nd January, West Leigh competed in both the year 3/4 and year 5/6 Sportshall Athletics, with the year 3/4 tournament in the morning and the year 5/6 tournament in the afternoon. Both tournaments consisted of six track events, six field events where the athletes were only allowed to compete in a maximum of two track and two field events. With the track events happening, all the children were able to watch and cheer on their fellow team mates, at the same time th

This half term, a group of children have visited Legra Care Home each week to complete craft activities with the residents. The children have been fantastic ambassadors for the school and the residents look forward to their visit every week. This will continue next term as part of our work with the local community. #Wholeschool #Year6 #Year4 #Year5 #Year3

The school council were invited to take part in an inter-generational poppy making afternoon at West Leigh Baptist Church on Wednesday 6thNovember. A large number of people from the local community attended the event, and the children enjoyed meeting new people from different generations and hearing stories about the local area and their school in the past. They worked together to make some beautiful poppies that will be used in the church’s Remembrance Sunday display. Many o

On Wednesday 2nd October, West Leigh took 46 children from across the school to take part in the Southend Primary School Sports Association Cross Country Tournament. The children were running in teams as well as individuals. Each year group had their own race split into a girls’ race and a boys’ race, with year 3 and 4 running 1km and year 5 and 6 running 1.5km. With 26 schools taking part and up to 156 children in each race, they were all highly competitive races. Determinat

On Friday 11th October, the children donated a variety of tinned and packet foods to our harvest collection which was gratefully received by Southend Foodbank. After learning how foodbanks operate and how they support the local community, the children were keen to make a difference and gave generously and the representative from our local foodbank was overwhelmed by their generosity. Thank you for all your donations. #Year4 #Year6 #Year3 #Wholeschool #Year5