Latest news
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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New Dandelion class came to visit
Thu 17 Jul 2025🌼 Welcome, Dandelions! 🌼
This week we were delighted to welcome our brand-new nursery class, Dandelions, for a special visit! The children had a lovely time exploring their new classroom, meeting their teachers, and beginning to make new friends. We can’t wait to see them again soon as they start their exciting nursery journey with us!
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Holi Festival at West Minster
Thu 17 Jul 2025🌼🌈🎉 Holi Festival Celebration! 🎉🌈
This week, the children took part in a joyful celebration of Holi – the festival of colours! 🇮🇳✨They learned about the traditions and stories behind Holi, and how itis celebrated around the world with colour, music, and happiness. Through creative activities and thoughtful discussion, the children explored the values of kindness, togetherness, and joy that Holi represents. 💛💚💜A wonderful opportunity to learn about different cultures and share in the spirit of celebration!
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Texas Day
Wed 16 Jul 2025🤠 Texas Day Fun! 🌮🎶
This week, the children celebrated Texas Day in true southern style! From line dancing to delicious Mexican food, the day was bursting with culture, flavour, and fun.
🎵 Children learned and performed some energetic line dancing routines, showing off their rhythm and team spirit.
🌮 After lunch, they enjoyed tasting a variety of Mexican-inspired dishes, exploring the rich cultural influence Texas shares with its southern neighbour.
A big well done to everyone who joined in with such enthusiasm — we even saw some brilliant cowboy hats and boots! What a fabulous day!
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Awards Ceremony Celebration
Tue 15 Jul 2025What a fantastic day celebrating the amazing achievements of our pupils at this year’s Awards Ceremony! 🏆✨
We were so proud to recognise children who have shown exceptional effort, progress, resilience, kindness and enthusiasm across the year. Whether it was for academic success, sporting achievement, creativity or being a role model to others – every award was truly well deserved.
A huge well done to all of our winners and a big thank you to all the staff, families and friends who joined us to celebrate. 💐👏
It was a wonderful way to end the year on a high – filled with smiles, cheers and proud moments all round!
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Year 4 Create habitats from Recyclable Materials!
Tue 15 Jul 2025This week, Year 4 built their very own habitats using recyclable materials!
The project helped raise awareness about sustainability and the importance of reusing everyday materials. It was brilliant to see the creativity, teamwork and problem-solving on display as pupils turned waste into wonderful works of art!
Well done Year 4 – what a fantastic way to help the planet and show off your design skills!
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🏏 Cricket Varsity Victory! 🏏
Mon 14 Jul 2025We’re thrilled to share the results from our recent cricket varsity against Rose Street – and what a performance it was from all our teams!
Match Results:
Year 1/2 – West Minster Win
Year 3/4 – West Minster Win
Year 5/6 – West Minster Win
Overall Cricket Result:
🌟 Rose Street 0 – 3 West Minster 🌟
This match also marked the final fixture in our yearly inter-school varsity series. Here's how the full year played out across all sports:
Football – Rose Street Win
Dodgeball – West Minster Win
Handball – West Minster Win
Basketball – West Minster Win
Capture the Flag – Rose Street Win
Cricket – West Minster Win
🎉 Final Varsity Score: Rose Street 2 – 4 West Minster 🎉
A huge well done to all the pupils who took part this year – you represented your school with pride, skill and fantastic teamwork!
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Exciting News
Mon 14 Jul 2025🎉 Exciting News! 🎉
We are incredibly proud to announce that West Minster Primary School has been awarded the prestigious School Games Platinum Award for the very first time! 🏅
After achieving the Gold Award for six consecutive years, this year we’ve reached the highest level possible—Platinum! This award is only given to a small number of schools nationwide and recognises our long-term commitment to physical activity, sport, and wellbeing for all children.
Our PE Team completed a detailed case study to show how we ensure every pupil gets 60 active minutes a day, and we were praised for:
✔️ Listening to pupil voice
✔️ Creating inclusive and engaging opportunities
✔️ Supporting less active pupils
✔️ Developing brilliant young sports leaders
We’re so proud of our staff and pupils for helping make this happen! ⭐
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Drumba
Fri 11 Jul 2025🥁🎶 Drumba Fun! 🎶🥁
What an energetic and exciting time our children had during theirDrumba session! With music pumping and drumsticks in hand, theycombined rhythm, movement, and fun in a way that had everyonesmiling (and sweating!) 😄💪Drumba is a fantastic way to get active while building coordination,confidence, and teamwork – and it’s safe
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Year 3 Vegetable tarts
Fri 04 Jul 2025Year 3 Cooking Vegetable Tarts 🥕🧅🍅
Year 3 have been busy in the kitchen this week, making delicious vegetable tarts! Using prepared pastry, the children chose from a selection of fresh vegetables and carefully chopped and arranged their toppings to create colourful, healthy tarts. They showed great care and creativity — and the results looked (and smelled!) amazing. Well done, Year 3 chefs!
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Nursery Sports Day
Thu 03 Jul 2025Nursery Sports Day 🏃 ♂️🏃 ♂️☀️
What a fantastic day we had for Nursery Sports Day! The children gave it their all in every race and activity, showing off their brilliant energy, smiles, and determination. It was wonderful to see so many parents and carers cheering them on—thank you for joining us and making the day even more special! We are so proud of our little athletes! 🥇👏
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