Weston Green School

🐣👶Meet the Flour Babies! 👶🐣

Today marks the start of Flour Babies week for our Year 6 pupils.

As well as being great fun, this project requires our pupils to think carefully about responsibility and consider their flour baby`s needs as well as their own.

While it’s hilarious to see our oldest pupils cradling bags of self-raising flour like precious treasure, this project is doing some serious groundwork for their personal development as they prepare for the leap to senior school.

Here is why we love this project for this age group:

👶 Developing Independence: For many of our pupils, this is their first taste of round-the-clock responsibility. They have to ensure their "baby" is safely minded during break times, matches, and music lessons.

💜 A Lesson in Empathy: It’s a wonderful eye-opener. Carrying their baby everywhere helps them appreciate just how much care, patience, and effort their own parents and guardians put into looking after them.

📆 Organisational Skills: simply having an extra thing to carry is an adjustment that requires some pre-planning and careful thought.

🐥 Creative Problem Solving: From crafting makeshift cribs out of shoe boxes to arranging a creche with classmates during lunchtime clubs, the children will have to work together to make it to Friday without any flour mishaps!

We love this fun approach to building resilience and maturity before our Year 6s head off to senior school. Good luck Year 6!

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💜 Celebrating our Grandparents 💜

Over the course of this year, we have enjoyed a number of events aimed to help us connect with and appreciate our pupils` grandparents.

👩🏽‍💻Towards the end of the spring term, we hosted a virtual grandparents assembly, where we enjoyed watching clips of our pupils interviewing their grandparents and hearing about their proudest achievements (spoiler: grandparents are VERY proud of their grandchildren!)

🏫 More recently, we have had hosted two opportunities for grandparents to visit the school and see the many wonderful lessons taking place first thing in the morning. We were overwhelmed by just how many lovely grandparents took us up on this offer, with some travelling for hours just to come and visit and see their grandchildren at their school.

💜 The children were so excited to show their grandparents their work and where they come to school each day.

💬 We were thrilled to receive lots of wonderful feedback from the grandparents who took part in these events, including this excerpt from an email:

"I was delighted to be invited ot the School earlier today and to look around. I was so impressed by all that I saw. The children were delightful and the staff were all so welcoming despite the disturbance to the lessons.

I am only too aware of the pressures arising from the imposition of VAT on fees, the increase in business rates and employer’s National Insurance, and the cost of the teachers’ pensions. Despite these pressures, what I saw today confirmed my impression that Weston Green provides a wonderful education and deserves to flourish."

Thank you to all those who participated in our grandparent events this term and to all grandparents for the wisdom they share, the encouragement and love that they give so generously.

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✨Spontaneous, creative and collaborative play ✨

When today`s hail storm forced us to abandon outdoor break time, these boys decided to put their engineering skills to the test and construct a mega pencil tower!

🌪🌧⚡Indoor play time is not something we relish at Weston Green, instead preferring to be outside in the fresh air in all but the worst weather. But today`s rather intense hail storm that swept in at break time forced the children indoors.

Instead of screen-time, our pupils are encouraged to play board games, colour or read, or make their own fun. Today, these boys wasted no time in coming up with a fun team project to see how high they could build a pencil tower, utilising skills they`ve learned in many of their lessons including Science, Art and of course SkillQuest!

Great job boys. We can`t wait to see what you build next time!

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Our pupils have been thrilled to see their artwork on display alongside the pieces that inspired them at Clarendon Gallery in Weybridge.

🖼 What a fantastic opportunity for our art pod, some of whom are busy working towards portfolios ahead of their 11+ applications in the new school year.

🎨 Art pod is a group of children who have shown particular interest and aptitude for art. They receive extra sessions with our Head of Art, as they hone their skills and take a deeper dive into different types of composition, technique and medium.

💜 Thank you to Kevin for putting together the display of works and for being so supportive of our young artists. Who knows, maybe their work will be up for sale in the gallery one day soon?

If you haven`t had a chance to visit yet, you have until Thursday 14th May to swing by @clarendonfineartofficial in #weybridge

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🦆Pond Dipping with Year 4 🦆

Having a pond quite literally on the doorstep makes for the perfect excuse to take lessons outside and last week Dr Summers took the opportunity to lead her Year 4 class in some pond dipping.

After filling a clear tub with some of the pond water, the children observed the plants, insects and animals contained within the sample and documented their findings.

🐸🐛🦆According to C and K in Year 4, they found "absolutely loads of frogspawn!" as well as a water boatmen and some currently unidentified larvae... oh and ducks of course!

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What a morning!

Today we hosted another joyful soft play session for 0-4 year olds alongside our second Reception Taster for all children joining Reception in September 2026.

Was this a lot to tackle in one morning? Yes. Was it full of fun and laughter and totally worth it? Absolutely!

🦖🦕Our incoming Reception cohort joined Mrs Mossop and Mrs Holness for a dinosaur exploration in the Reception classroom. This gentle introduction to their new classroom and the sounds, sights and smells of `big school` gives every child the opportunity to go at their own pace and build relationships with their peers and teachers.

🏴‍☠️🦜Meanwhile, it was a pirate party in hall for our soft play group. Upon arrival, the children found the soft play set up like a boat, with sea creatures and waves lapping at the sides. After a quick "ahoy there!" the children wasted no time in exploring the beams, slides and ball pit and creating their own fun.

🤸‍♀️After their classroom session, the pre-Reception group were invited to have a quick spin on the soft play before returning to their Little Prep classrooms or heading home.

Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning. See you again next time!

👀 Fancy coming to see Weston Green for yourself? We have an open morning this Friday and families are very welcome to come along and see our busy, bright and bustling school in action. Please sign up via our website (or 🔗 link in bio)

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🚀 Future CEOs in the Making 🚀
After a brilliant 8 week programme, the Year 6 LifeLab journey may have come to an end but the value of this terrific course will be sure to live on!

This intensive business and enterprise course run by the wonderful ladies at @Lifelab.business has been a mainstay at WGS for the last five years. As a result, our children were so eager to get started and the ideas came in thick and fast! 💼💰

📈Throughout the project, the children tackled business models, financial literacy, money management, profit margins, marketing, sustainability, supply chains and much more during the development, manufacture and sale of their wares.

👛The much anticipated final showcase culminated in the incredible Perfect Pitch presentations and our bustling Enterprise Fair, where younger Weston Green pupils got to visit stalls and spend their pocket money!

🌍 The course complements a Weston Green education brilliantly and encourages our oldest children to use their Future Skills in a real-world business scenario.

⭐ We were so proud of all our Year 6 pupils who delivered incredible pitches and some savvy sales techniques. There is no doubt that bright futures await this charming, eloquent and intelligent bunch.

Thank you to all the parents who joined us to support the "Perfect Pitch" event and those who supplied pocket money for our younger pupils. We had a such a great time!

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And so ends another glorious week in Little Prep!

☀The sunshine certainly makes us all feel very cheery and gives us so many opportunities to play outside. Here are a few happy moments from this week:

🚲 whizzing around on the balance bikes
🏖 digging for treasure in the table-top sandpit
🏴‍☠️ "land ahoy!" a game of pirates and scallywags!
🐙 the search for Professor Inkling

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