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Please read the articles below to keep up to date with life at West Park Academy.

March 2020

  • 31/03/20

    Gov Advice - Mental Health during Coronavirus lockdown

    The Government have issued a useful document to help parents and carers support children during this time. Please see the link below:  
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  • 30/03/20

    FAQ - Home Learning / VLE - PLEASE SHARE

    Many of you are currently working from home whilst trying to manage childcare and supervising your child’s/ children’s learning.  This is new to all of us and there is no right or wrong way to do it.    We are recieving a lot of emails and calls and are doing our...
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  • 29/03/20

    VLE Guide

    Please see our short video guide on how to use the new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
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  • 27/03/20

    Update from Mrs Hirst

    Happy Friday everyone, Hope you are all well and doing lots of good things at home. School is a lot quieter now most of you are not here. For those who are still here in school,  as well as completing our maths and English we have been in the garden starting to dig up the weeds, plant som...
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  • 27/03/20

    Spelling Shed

    The children should all have access to Spelling Shed.  They can use it to practise spelling rules for each year group.  Teachers will being to assign spellings on this from 30th March.
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  • 26/03/20

    Communicating with Teachers

    Please see info here on how you and your child can communicate with class teachers during the closures. https://www.office.com/ https://tapestryjournal.com/
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  • 23/03/20

    A letter to the children from Mrs Hirst

    Hello all, It was strange in school today with so many of you not here. Things are a little upside down at the minute so I thought I would share with you some of the things in school that we are doing so we can all keep in touch. Willow, Miss Pattison’s rabbit is in and enjoying the atte...
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  • 23/03/20

    VLE Guide

    Please see the guide below showing how to use our new VLE.
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  • 23/03/20

    Online Services

    Please see our guide on which online services we have set up for children during the school closures.
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  • 23/03/20

    VLE Access

    We are aware of a number of children struggling to access the VLE.  If this is the case contact your child's class teacher or Mr Fraser to get the password reset. (d.fraser@westparkacademy.org.uk)  Please include child's name, class and the password stated on the login card if c...
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  • 23/03/20

    Thank you

    We would like to say a huge thank you to parents and families of the children at West Park Academy.  We were anticipating a high number of children today but a lot of families have kept their children at home where possible. We are still here in the event of an emergency for those Keyworkers...
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  • 22/03/20

    Urgent Notice

    As you are aware schools across Britain are CLOSED. You should ONLY send your child to school on Monday if you have to and because your work is critical to the COVID-19 response. Whilst the Government stated that as long as one parent is a Key Worker children may if needed attend school, schools...
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