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• World Book Day 2022

  Thu 03 Mar 2022

  The children at West Lodge have really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day this year, dressed as some of their favourite book characters, both new and old.

  

• Girls' Football Team

  Tue 01 Mar 2022

  The girls' football team attended a tournament hosted by Watford FC at the training ground of Watford FC. They had a really enjoyable day, that not only involved playing football, but they were also lucky enough to meet the captain and a star player for Watford FC Women's team. All the girls performed excellently and represented West Lodge with great skill, team-work, effort and respect.

  

• Year 3 - Polar Day with special guest speaker Matt Dickinson

  Mon 21 Feb 2022

  Year 3 had Polar Day on Monday as part of our Life in the Freezer topic in Geography.

   

  As part of the day, Matt Dickinson was invited in to carry out a series of sessions with the children. Matt Dickinson is an award-winning writer and filmmaker with a passion for climbing and adventure. During his filmmaking career he has worked as a director/cameraman for National Geographic television, the Discovery Channel, the BBC and Channel 4.

   

  The focus for the day was Polar regions and Antarctica. Matt talked to the children about his experiences of his expedition to Antarctica, the animals and wildlife that can be found in these regions, habitats, survival and climate change. Matt talked to the children about the impact of global warming on the polar regions and the world.  Children thought about who they would take on a polar expedition with them and who would make a good tent buddy, they carried out research about climate change and the effects of this in the polar regions and wrote a postcard from Antarctica. Matt was very impressed with the knowledge of the children in year 3 and their writing skills. He also signed copies of his books that children had brought in!

  

• Sports Update - Department for Education

  Wed 09 Feb 2022

  In February, the Department for Education came to West Lodge to interview a female student who has benefited from sport, to then post the interview on their twitter page. The child selected was Jemima from Year 6, who has used sport as a platform to grow in confidence, academic ability and make strong, long-lasting friendships. During the interview both she and Mr Khalfi explained how sport has helped not only her, but many other children throughout the school and all the great work that happens here. The video was posted by the Department for Education on Twitter on 9/2/22 and has since been re-tweeted by England football legend Gary Lineker and England Women idols such as Bethany England and Kelly Smith.

  

• West Lodge Girls' Football Team – Middlesex Champions

  Thu 27 Jan 2022

  The West Lodge girls’ football team represented Harrow in the Middlesex ESFA Tournament which was held in Enfield on Thursday 27^th January. They performed heroically to finish 2nd in the group and make the final. It was a nail biting final, which went to penalties and saw West Lodge become victorious winning 3-1 on penalties. They are now through to the South East England regional Finals.

  

• Year 3 Children Start to Receive Their Blue Peter Green Badges

  Mon 24 Jan 2022

  This week Year 3 children have started to receive their Blue Peter Green Badges. They wrote to Blue Peter about three pledges they had committed to, to help the environment and tackle our sustainable goal of climate action. The three pledges committed to were:

   

  1)  to turn the tap off when brushing our teeth;

  2)  power pledge - to turn off switches when not in use to save energy;

  3)  to check recycling is done correctly at home. 

   

  The children wrote letters during their writing lesson to explain how they completed and committed to the pledges.  Riya and Elyssa in Maroon Class are proud owners of their Blue Peter Green Badge, which arrived in the post this week.

  

• Poem by Anya Khatri in Year 6, Sapphire Class

  Fri 14 Jan 2022

  Anya Khatri in Sapphire Class wrote her own poem entitled 2021 as part of the poetry recital challenge – the poem beautifully captures everyone's experience of the previous year. Well Done Anya!

  2021

   

  What a funny year 2021 has been,

  A great loss for the Queen.

   

  The COVID stone - we all got fatter,

  The people stood up for lives that matter.

   

  We rejoiced in a chance, and thought it would come home,

  Delta became a common name as we quarantined alone.

   

  The laptop was put away for a brief time,

  But in January we all returned online.

   

  The news became more grave with every passing day,

  But most of us were vaccinated by the end of May.

   

  Omicron threatened to cancel Christmas Day,

  But the party went ahead - Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

   

  What a peculiar year, 2021,

  I for one am glad it’s done,

  Looking forward to what 2022 brings,

  Let’s just hope, that it sings!

• Year 3's First Ukulele Lesson

  Fri 14 Jan 2022

  Children in Year 3 were very excited to experience their first ukulele lesson. A specialist ukulele teacher from the Harrow Music Service is teaching the children and they are working towards performing a concert at the end of term.

  

• Ancient Greece Workshop for Year 6 Children

  Wed 05 Jan 2022

  Year 6 were treated to a fantastic Ancient Greece workshop on Wednesday 5th January. The children came to school dressed for the occasion and they thoroughly enjoyed acting out different scenes related to those times.  The Year 6 Kaleidoscope children joined Greek day with their peers - working together with their peer group to perform/role play the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops.

  

• Local MP, David Simmonds, Visits West Lodge

  Mon 29 Nov 2021

  Our local MP, David Simmonds, came to West Lodge to see how the school is developing children as leaders and to gain a better understanding of the school's commitment towards the UN's Sustainability Development Goals.  As part of the visit, David Simmonds had separate meetings with all the school councillors in each phase, where he explained his role and was also quizzed by the children on his commitment to climate change.  David Simmonds tweeted later that day, commenting on how inspired he was on the children's engagement and commitment to climate change and how much he enjoyed the flapjacks made by Diane our chef!