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Week 2 Isolation/home school

Week one - Isolation/home schooling

Week one - Isolation/home schooling

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

Year 3/4 boys' football tourament

Year 3/4 boys' football tourament

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

Head for the Day

Head for the Day

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

Yr 3/4 & 5/6 Sports Hall Athletics

Yr 3/4 & 5/6 Sports Hall Athletics

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

Crafts at local care home

Inter-generational poppy making afternoon

Inter-generational poppy making afternoon

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

SPSSA Cross Country Tournament

SPSSA Cross Country Tournament

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

Harvest Festival

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

Summer Serenade

Summer Serenade

Over 150 children from Years 3 to 6 presented a fantastic ‘Summer Serenade’ concert at St Margaret’s Church. In front of a full house of family and friends, young musicians performed a diverse and entertaining programme to celebrate the end of their musical year. Our Ukulele group set the mood with their performance of ‘Shotgun’, with Mrs Bemister’s lead vocals being supported by all the other children singing backing vocals! However, nothing could quite prepare us for her t

Tennis Festival

Tennis Festival

To coincide with the Wimbledon Championships, West Leigh Junior School held a ‘Mini Tennis Festival’ at Westcliff Lawn Tennis Club on Wednesday 10th July. The tournament was run by head coach, Graham Boosey, as part of the LTA Team Challenge initiative. An amazing 97 children from the school enjoyed an afternoon of tennis. Pupils were arranged into small groups to play ‘round robins’ so that all participants played at least 2 or 3 matches. The winner being the player who re

Portico Art & Design Technology Festival

Portico Art & Design Technology Festival

The subject leaders for Art and Design and Technology across Portico Academy have united this term to create a travelling exhibition – The Portico Art and Design Festival. This project has been created to showcase the incredible talent and artistic creativity of the children across all of the year groups within our academy schools and it has been enthusiastically welcomed by all of the children. Beginning at West Leigh Junior School, the exhibition impressed many children and

Southend Borough Swimming Gala

Southend Borough Swimming Gala

On Wednesday 5th June, West Leigh travelled to Garon Leisure Centre to compete in the Southend Borough Swimming Gala. The competition was made up of a number of events, including individual and team races where children from all four year groups competed. The standards from all eight schools were very high, making for a tough challenge. All of the children worked incredibly hard in every race, especially in the backstroke races where the children demonstrated great determinat

Super sports

Super sports

On Tuesday 3rd July, 12 children attended the Super Sports track event at Garon Park. Southend. These are all of the children that came 1st or 2nd at the Borough Sports competition. The standard is extremely high; Our Year 5 boys came 2nd in their relay final and Ted Thomas won his 600m race making him the Year 5 Southend Borough Champion. On Wednesday 4th July 9 children from the Borough Sports field events were again in competition at Garons, with many of the children placi

Quad kids

Quad kids

On Friday 25th May, 16 children competed in Quad Kids Athletics at Garons Park. They were split into two teams, year 3/4 and year 5/6, the teams were made up of 4 boys and 4 girls. Each athlete competed in 4 different events: Year 3/4 events: 50m sprint, 400m, standing long jump and howler. Year 5/6 events: 75m sprint, 600m, standing long jump and howler. This was a great experience for the children and a really enjoyable event. All of the children showed superb sportsmanship

Tennis competition

Tennis competition

On Friday 11th May, eight pupils took part in the ‘Southend and District Tennis Tournament’ at Garon Park. In the morning session, a team of four children from years’ 3 and 4 were in action. Following a nail biting tie break match, West Leigh finished top of their group and went into the semi- final match. After a closely fought battle, the children narrowly missed out on a place in the final. The 3rd / 4th playoff was equally close, but this time our team were the winners an

Quiz Club semi-finals

On May 3rd the West Leigh Quiz Club team travelled to Felsted Preparatory School to take part in the semi-final of the national general knowledge competition. There were 12 teams from all over the south east of England competing and it was an incredibly exciting event. For a long period of time from the start of the contest West Leigh were in the top three schools but there was one particular school leading consistently. However, as the competition entered the final round of

Southend East Essex Design Competition

Southend East Essex Design Competition

West Leigh has, once again, entered into the South East Essex Design Competition which showcases the fantastic art and technology work from across a number of schools in the county. It is a superb opportunity to share ideas with others and show other schools our best achievements in these two subjects. On Monday 27th March, Mr Loveridge was joined by seven children representatives from across the school at Deanes Academy for the awards ceremony. Tensions were high as bronze

Sport Hall Athletics

Sport Hall Athletics

On Wednesday 31st January West Leigh competed in both the Year 3/4 and 5/6 Sportshall Athletics at Garons Tennis and Leisure Centre. The day was split into 2 parts with Years 5 and 6 competing in the morning and Years 3 and 4 competing in the afternoon. With each competition consisting of 6 track events and 6 field events, each athlete is also only allowed to compete in a maximum of two track and two field events. In the morning year 5 and 6 performed consistently throughout

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