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• West Lodge has been Awarded the Music Mark

  Fri 29 Apr 2022

  We are excited to announce that we have been recognised by Harrow Music Service for our commitment to a broad and balanced Music curriculum and our variety of extra-curricular musical activities.  As a result, we have been awarded the Music Mark for the academic year 2021/2022. 

• Year 2 - India Day

  Tue 26 Apr 2022

  Year 2 had a fantastic day celebrating India Day! They enjoyed a Bollywood dance workshop, played some Indian games and created some Rangoli inspired artwork. There was even time to sample some Indian food!

  

• Young Voices

  Tue 26 Apr 2022

  43 of our Year 5/6 Choir were involved in the Young Voices Concert at the OVO Arena in Wembley.  The children performed a number of musical items including a Beatles Medley and the West Lodge favourite - Power in Me.  It was wonderful to be part of this live musical event with over 4700 children singing.  Thank you to all the children who took part and for the ongoing support of their parents and carers, 90 of whom were in the audience on the night.  We look forward to being a part of this event again next year as we recognise the value of the arts on children's mental and physical wellbeing.   

  

• Year 4 activities for the Children who did not go to the Gordon Brown Centre

  Mon 25 Apr 2022

  Below are pictures of some of the activities the Year 4 children who did not go to the Gordon Brown Centre did at school. The activities included nature art, a scavenger hunt, forest school activities (fire lighting, making monster faces with clay, toasting marshmallows, pond dipping).

  

• Year 4 - Trip to Gordon Brown Centre

  Mon 25 Apr 2022

  The children (and adults) had the most incredible time at the Gordon Brown Centre, as did those who stayed at West Lodge. The children continually challenged themselves throughout and were a credit to the school. There will be a presentation to parents on Wednesday 25th May to go through the whole experience and share all of the special moments that we had.

  

• Year 3 Ukulele Concert

  Thu 31 Mar 2022

  This term Year 3 have enjoyed learning to play the Ukulele and have worked really hard to learn the different chords and put on a fantastic concert for the parents! Well done Year 3! 

  

• 'Animal Man' visit to West Lodge

  Tue 29 Mar 2022

  On Tuesday, Ranger Stu, aka 'Animal Man', came to West Lodge with his menagerie of wild animals to visit the children in Reception and Kaleidoscope.

   

  In Reception the children got up close to an owl, Chilean rose tarantula, tortoise, bearded dragon, armadillo and a tenrec, an animal from Madagascar that looks like a hedgehog but is related to elephants. Afterwards the children wrote thank you notes to Stu for giving them such an amazing experience and teaching them interesting facts about animals. 

   

  All the children from Kaleidoscope had the opportunity to learn and get close to different types of animals too. The children were very brave handling tarantulas, stroking snakes and ‘corralling’ armadillos.  They even handled a tenrec. It was a great, fun-filled, learning experience. 

  

• Indoor Athletics

  Tue 22 Mar 2022

  On Tuesday, West Lodge's Year 5 and 6 Indoor Athletics Team were one of 12 finalists from all schools in London at the London Youth Games. The team had been training immensely hard, with dedicated training sessions every break time and lunch time and also some before and after school sessions. The highest any Harrow team had reached previously (which was West Lodge) was 10th place, so that was the target to beat. On the day, the quality was extremely high, with not only some of the best athletes in London in attendance, but some of the best in the UK. Every one of the 30 children selected were focused and tried desperately hard to achieve their own personal targets. When the event was over, there was a very tense wait to find out that we had finished as the 4th best school out of all schools in London! It was another amazing achievement for the children and staff of West Lodge, who have recorded another personal best for the school and the borough!

   

  Some of our outstanding scores include: 

   

  • 1st place in girls vertical jump and boys javelin
  • 2nd place in girls over & under relay
  • 3rd place in girls obstacle relay, boys over & under relay, boys speed bounce, boys vertical and girls javelin

  

• Visit from Author, Beth Woolvin

  Wed 09 Mar 2022

  All years, from Reception through to Year 6, really enjoyed the Zoom visits from author, Beth Woolvin. Year 2 focused on Beth's debut book, Little Red, and the session included an introduction, book reading and a show and tell of her rough and final artworks.  The children we treated to a draw-a long where they learnt how to draw Little Red.  There was a Q & A session at the end. 

  

• Year 3 - Visit from Polar Marine Scientist, Nick Barrett

  Fri 04 Mar 2022

  Year 3 had a visit from Polar Marine Scientist, Nick Barrett today as part of our Geography learning. Nick talked about his experiences as a marine scientist in the polar regions and shared his videos and pictures from his visit to Greenland. He also shared some sea creatures on zoom!