Welcome to Winlaton West Lane!

A warm welcome to parents, governors, children and friends of our school. We hope that you find our school website useful and informative..

We welcome your comments and feedback. You can do this online by simply clicking the comments link below most of our postings. Please note that all comments are moderated before publication. We look forward to sharing our news with you and keeping you up to date with the excellent work of your children.

Ms A H Exley: Head Teacher

Latest School News

January 25, 2012

Gung Hay Fat Choy

A huge thank you to Mr and Mrs Lam at Golden chopsticks for allowing Reception to taste some Chinese food.

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Categories: Reception

We love to read at West Lane!

In Book Club, Children from Nursery to Key Stage 2, parents and Grandparents share their favourite books together.

Here are just a few of our favourite stories...

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Categories: Extended School Activities , Recent Letters/Info to Parents

January 16, 2012

Forest School

Dear Parents/carers/grandparents and children,

At West Lane, you might have noticed developments on the school field. This is our exciting 'Forest School' Area.

We have used willow and logs to weave a beautiful fence, archway, fire pit area and Dome shelter so far. These will continue to grow and become denser, turning this area into a fascinating wilderness for pupils and (grown ups!) of West Lane to explore and enjoy.

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Categories: About Our School , Extended School Activities , PSHCE , Parents

January 3, 2012

December 13, 2011

Santa Claus is coming to town!!

Ho Ho Ho!! Merry Christmas!!

Reception have had a Santa-packed week! On Monday morning they delivered their letters to Santa at Surestart, where he read a fab story about Santa coming to Newcastle. (The one about his visit to Gateshead is still at the publishers!)
The children all joined in with gorgeous singing for Santa. We even heard his reindeer stamping on the roof!

Then in the afternoon, Reception and Nursery had a good old boogie at their Christmas party.

Santa even came to our party too!!

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Categories: Little Acorns Nursery , Reception

Friends of West Lane 2011 Raffle Prize Winners

2011 Raffle Winners for display.pdf

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Categories: Friends of West Lane

December 6, 2011

An Easy Cheesy Nativity by Reception!

A big well done to all of the children for two fantastic Christmas performances!
Thank you to all the parents for coming to see our show.
A big thank you to the Friends of West Lane for providing warm drinks on such freezing mornings too!

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Categories: Reception

November 26, 2011

Friends of West Lane Christmas Fayre - 2011

As 10am fast approached, the finishing touches were being put in place; the chocolate fountain was gushing, the cooks were cooking and helpers were helping at the stalls. The face painters were ready with some fabulous colours and the crafts were waiting for the glitter and glue. Santa was on his way and would be arriving in plenty of time to get settled in his comfy chair, all that was needed was for the doors to open...

WOW what can I say, people arrived and kept arriving throughout the morning and into the afternoon. They queued for tickets for the tombola stalls, they queued for soup and a hot dog, they even queued for Santa! They made Christmas cards, pop up Santa's and so much more.

They went from plain and very well behaved patient children to Beautiful Butterflies, Disco Queens, Pirates, Tigers and many more amazing creations thanks to our Fantastic Facepainters.

A very big thank you goes out to all those who donated items as without your generosity we would not have been able to hold such as successful event. A huge thank you to those who helped in the preparation beforehand, on the day and especially the cleaning up!

Did I mention is was a successful event......together we have raised in excess of £1500 so far with the raffle prize tickets to be available at the Children's Christmas Shows to be held soon. We will update you with the winning tickets and the final total before Christmas.

To view some pictures from the day click hereFriends of West Lane Christmas Fayre 2011.ppt

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Categories: About Our School , Friends of West Lane

November 23, 2011

Christmas Fair - Reminder......

It's not too late to donate items for the Christmas fair being held in the Lower School Hall on Saturday 26th November 2012. We are planning on having a chocolate and booze tombola as well as stalls for toys, books and a fabulous raffle.

There will be face painting and christmas crafts to keep the children happy and of course Santa will be there.....he might even read us a story. Write him a letter and post it in our special postbox to be sure of a reply.

Please come along and support our school as all money made is given to the school to improve the learning environment for our children.

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Categories: About Our School , Friends of West Lane