Welcome to Westfield Primary School online!

Westfield Nursery and Primary School is located in Workington, West Cumbria. It is a medium sized primary school with a designated nursery class incorporated into the main building. The school is at the forefront of development of the "extended school" idea, with many facilities for our parents available at the Minto Centre, which shares our campus.

As a school, we hope to provide a caring environment for your child - an environment that will help all children grow into independent and responsible people. We believe we can only achieve the best for your child by close co-operation between home and school. The staff and the headteacher are always available to talk to you about any aspect of your child's development.

We hope you will want to share with us in making this a successful period in your child's life.

To download a text-only version of our 2007-2008 School Brochure, CLICK HERE.

Westfield is a happy and successful school, where we take pride in caring for and respecting everyone in our community. In addition, we are constantly seeking ways to improve and enable everyone, children and staff alike, to reach ever higher standards. If you would like your child to be a member of our school, please contact us by phone, letter, email or just call in! We'd be delighted to hear from you.

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Curriculum Policies:

Core Subjects (e.g. English, maths, science)

All Subjects

Other Policy Statements (arranged in alphabetical groups):

A to E (e.g. Arts, Access, Bullying, Curriculum ...)

F to J

K to O

P to T

V to Z

Other Strategic Documents:

Celebrations to mark the 50th Anniversary of Westfield schools, past and present, included a balloon race, a live link up with an ex-pupil in America, and wearing 1950's clothes - including the teachers in traditional cap and gown! The current Westfield school was opened by the Rt. Hon Ian McCartney MP.

Vision Statement and Aims

“Our whole school community will work together to provide opportunities for its individuals to become active participants and to enjoy the challenges of the modern world. Pupils will have equal opportunity to develop their maximum potential.”

We will try

To provide a broad and balanced curriculum: -
· By recognising the needs of all abilities, using a variety of teaching and learning strategies.
· By using varied and stimulating resources.
· Within an attractive and stimulating environment.

To respect and value all members of the school community regardless of gender, age, race, religion and ability by promoting a culture of equal opportunities.

To provide strong leadership and promote a sense of team working.

To promote links with the wider community.

To promote a culture of continuous learning among all members of the school community, i.e. staff, governors and parents.

To foster good relationships between members of the school community.

To provide a safe, welcoming and supportive environment for all.

To be a highly regarded primary school in the local area in all aspects of school activity.

And we will recognise, celebrate and promote our successes with a sense of great pride.

Westfield Nursery and Primary School is a Community School for girls and boys of 3 to 11. It was formed by the amalgamation (in September 2002) of the Infant and Junior Schools, which were opened in 1954 to serve the housing being built around it. The main reason for the school being built was to serve the housing estate being built to provide workers for the British Steel Works, Chapel Bank (Engineering Firm), which were the major employers in this area. At the time of writing there are 228 girls and boys on roll.

The building has been extensively modernised and is in an excellent state of repair. It is set in expansive grounds. There is a large hall, which is used for assemblies, dining, P.E. and other functions, eight main classrooms, a computer suite housing 26 PC’s, (the whole school being networked and all classrooms with their own Internet link), a new, purpose built nursery, library, head and secretary’s offices. Outside there are playgrounds and a football pitch and environmental areas, which are being developed through community sponsorship.

The school has excellent community links. The computer suite acts also as a Community Development Centre for members of our local community. At the moment we run courses in ICT from a diploma course to longer ICT courses such as the ECDL. This is a joint working partnership with Harrington Junior School, a local school in the area. We go out into the local community and support many events such as Citizenship Days, Entertaining at Old Peoples Homes, Carnivals and our range of extra curricular clubs is wide.

Much effective learning happens through first hand experience of new things. Trips, visits and visitors are frequent events in school life at Westfield, but there is also plenty of emphasis on securing basic skills!

We have an early morning breakfast club known as the “Early Birds.” This means school is accessible from 8.00 a.m. onwards. The school hosts a very successful Food Co-operative for the local community.
We have a Nurture Group facility for children who may experience difficulties either in school or at home. Children who work in this group may be in for short-term work or for more lengthy periods of time, dependent on the problem.
We are a school involved with the West Cumbria Excellence Cluster, which is a group of schools around West Cumbria who work collaboratively on many projects to help to raise standards. It also enriches our pupils' cultural experiences in the following ways:

Ø Bringing into school visiting theatre groups.
Ø Subsidising visits to local theatres and theatre workshops.
Ø We have the benefit of our Learning Mentor, Mrs Starkey, who works with individual children, small groups and families.
Ø Some of our Gifted and Talented pupils benefit from having access to activities which further develop their particular skills and strengths.

We are an accredited Cumbria Healthy School having followed a program of initiatives. As such we continually monitor our approaches to this initiative. We are also part of the Government initiative where every KS1 child is provided with a piece of fresh fruit every day. We run a successful school fruit tuck shop during morning break.

We have supported co-operative arrangements with local schools and we have good links with many of these, including Southfield School, the local 11-18 comprehensive. There are a number of new initiatives this year, which will increase these links including an established series of transition projects.