Wellington Eagles Primary Academy

🎃 To celebrate Halloween, the Nest children had a spooky start to their day. They embraced their curiosity and explored their senses in a Halloween themed sensory play session.

👻 Goblin guts, pumpkin spiced rice and foamy balloon stacking helped the children to enjoy a great start to the day!

Our Reception children have been having lots of fun during their 'Adventure Time' 🦖

We're Recruiting 📣

📌 Named Pupil Teaching Assistant: https://www.mynewterm.com/jobs/147091/EDV-2023-WEPA-92783

🧸 Today, our Reception children received their Cuddle Bear from a real-life cuddle bear (aka Mrs Beardsley).

📚 The purpose of this initiative is to promote reading for pleasure. The children can pick a book from our library, take it home and read it with an adult or older sibling, along with their Cuddle Bear.

🧠 Fostering a passion for reading at a young age is proven to improve vocabulary, develop critical thinking and build confidence

Our Year 1 & 2children have been learning to how to form sentences in their literacy lessons ✍️

➕➖ Year 5 have been completing some very tricky Maths recently!

✖️➗ The children have shown excellent focus and dedication to their lessons, even when they find it difficult 👏

We're Recruiting 📣

📌 MDSA: https://www.mynewterm.com/jobs/147091/EDV-2023-WEPA-02135

We're Recruiting! 📣

🎓 Assistant Headteacher

ℹ️ https://www.mynewterm.com/jobs/147091/EDV-2023-WEPA-00174

Year 3 and 4 have been enjoying their time in our Library picking something new to read! 📚
We have a huge range of books for all reading levels, ensuring there is something for everyone!

Now is the time to apply for your child's place in Reception, just go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-primary-school-place

This week, teachers of all key stages have been brushing up on their literacy skills with Alex from Literacy Tree.

Using strategies from Literacy Tree, we are promoting Reading for Pleasure which aims to empower young people to develop their love of reading 📚

I am writing to you to share the news that I will be leaving Wellington Primaries to take up the position of Executive Headteacher with Hamwic Trust in January 2024; my final day at Wellington Primaries will be 31st December 2023. It has been a complete privilege to serve all the pupils, staff, parents and carers at the Wellington Primary Schools as your Executive Headteacher for close to five years and I am extremely proud of the improvements we have made, and your child and your own ongoing support has been crucial.

Ascend Learning Trust will oversee the recruitment of a new Headteacher in each school and any interim arrangements that may well be put in place following the 31st December. Although I will be sad to leave, I am confident that Ascend Learning Trust will appoint excellent successors, who will continue on the journey with both schools.

Finally, I wanted to again thank you for your support and reiterate that our focus remains unchanged as we strive to further improve our school for the community we serve.

Kind regards,

Mrs C. Addis

Year 2 children have been having lots of fun with maths over the last week! They have been adding and subtracting, then colouring by numbers!

Year 3 & 4 children have been making pebble pets as part of our PSHE curriculum, considering how to care for the pet 🗿

It's been a fabulous start for the children in The Nest. They've been exploring the resources and making new friends!

Some children have been expressing their creative side with some lovely paintings 🎨

The last few places are available to start inn September - get in touch to find out more: [email protected].

Our Sports & Fitness Centre is open over the summer with some great deals on membership passes! Come along and kickstart your healthy summer!

Last week, The Nest celebrated the end of the academic year in true summer style by having a festival day!

We made the most of the fantastic resources in the school, creating our own music, enjoying the outdoor equipment, face-painting, lots of glitter and even making our own tie dye headbands to take home.

We had such amazing fun, making fantastic memories with our friends.

In preparation for their graduation day, the children in The Nest had a spa day and enjoyed being pampered 🫧 The children enjoyed a nail bar, foam tray, hair design station, facial and relaxation station as well as a warm, bubbly lavender foot spa! 🧘‍♀️

Earlier this week, children and staff at The Nest celebrated with lots of themed activities from baking muddy puddle cakes to creating and making good use of a mud slide!

Please help us win £1000 for our school library: https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools -your-school-title

2023-24 Guitar & Ukulele Lessons at The Wellington Academy, Eagles and Lions

We would like to introduce you to James Reed, a peripatetic music tutor offering Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, and Ukulele Lessons at The Wellington Academy, Eagles and Lions.

Bookings for the 2023-24 school year are now being taken through his online sign up form: https://jreedguitar.mymusicstaff.com/2023-24-Wellington-Academy--Eagles-and-Lions-Sign-Up-Form

A limited number of spaces are available so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Information regarding Policies and Payments can be found in the form.

Music lessons are widely recognised as providing benefits to confidence, self-esteem, well-being, creativity and academic achievement - they are a perfect extra curricular activity. The children will learn plenty of well known songs during lessons while working towards recognised music qualifications with the Rockschool Guitar and Ukulele courses!

Ukulele Lessons are available from Year 1, while Guitar Lessons are available for Years 2+ (James strongly advises Year 2 students to start with ukulele, however!).

Prices:
🎸 10x20 minute One-to-One Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, or Ukulele Lessons - £132.50.

Subsidised tuition is available at the following prices:
🎸 SEND, Free School Meals, and Pupil Premium children - £63 per term.

Prices do not include books or exam entry fees.
Please feel welcome to contact [email protected] if you require further information.

Year 3/4 have created a display for Armed Forces Day, with a mix of artwork, poems, information about the armed forces and letters as if they were away on deployment.

It's brightened up our corridor!

For our DT trip, five Year 5 children from Wellington Lions Primary Academy and four Year 6 children from Wellington Eagles were selected to attend a Dyson Engineering workshop at Royal Wootton Bassett Academy.

They met an engineer from Dyson and learnt about the history of the company and its products. They were given the challenge of designing a prototype for a product to solve a problem at home. The Eagles team designed a robot toy/nanny cam and the Lions team designed a pet washer/dryer. The children had to plan their design and build their prototype from cardboard, plastics and spare Dyson parts.Finally, they had to present their prototype to the other team and explain their decision.

The Lions team won overall first prize, beating the Year 6 and Year 7 teams, and the Eagles team received special recognition for their design and product.

Last week, we invited our parents and carers to celebrate Father's Day over bacon and sausage rolls!

Year 2 had a fantastic walk to Ludgershall Castle last week! 🏰

They were able to pick out key features such as the hillfort, foundations and elements of nature. We were so lucky to have wonderful weather and the children were great representatives of our school. Well Done Year 2! ☀️

Today, two members of the Wiltshire moderation team visited us to work with our Year 2 Eagles team to moderate their work. We are so proud of all that our pupils have achieved, and it was a pleasure to review their learning this year and to see the huge progress they have made since September 2022. We want to share a big thank you to the whole Eagles teaching team who work tirelessly for our pupils.

Wiltshire Local Authority believes that external moderation works best when it is undertaken peer-to-peer, so it recruits teachers from schools with significant recent experience of teaching Year 2 or Year 6 children. All moderators receive a quality assurance visit to ensure that they are making judgements that are consistent with national standards.

Well done to Mrs Alderman, the team and all our Year 2 pupils! 🤩

This week, the Ascend Learning Trust's student leadership teams have come together to build their resilience, communication and teamwork skills.

Pupils from Wellington Eagles Primary Academy, Wellington Lions Primary Academy, Kingsbury Green Academy, The Wellington Academy, Lawn Manor Academy, Royal Wootton Bassett Academy and Noremarsh Junior School started with a keynote speech from Anthony Bennett and then team building activities with the 26 Engineer Regiment.

Earlier this term, our Reception, Year 1, Year 4 and Year 5 children have had an online session with Paddy Donnelly, an author and illustrator of books such as 'Fox and Son Tailors' and 'The Vanishing Lake'. Paddy shared how he creates his fantastic illustrations and develops his ideas for a new book.

This inspired our Year 4 and 5 children to create their own exciting stories, using the illustrations they created with Paddy as a front cover. Our Reception and Year 1 children created their own amazing tails before writing about them, inspired by Paddy's book 'Fox and Son Tailors.'

It was a great experience for all!

The children in The Nest at Eagles have been having lots of fun learning through play!

Having good shoulder stability allows children to develop their fine motor skills, such as colouring and forming letters. The children in The Nest at Eagles are encouraged to climb and swing, allowing them to develop their shoulder stability through play.

The Nest at Eagles were very excited to receive their box of goodies from The Curiosity Approach team.

The children decided to get involved with the grand opening because they just couldn't contain their curiosity! They adored pouring through the pages of the A-Z and came up with alternative suggestions for the packaging. We are super excited to start our accreditation journey at The Nest.

🚴‍♀️ Some of our Year 6 children have been learning to ride their bikes safely on the Bikeability course.

🚴‍♂️ The children were learning to check, look, move, communicate and ride!

Our Years 3 and 4 children have been studying the book Cinnamon, a mighty fable by Neil Gaiman 🐯 📖

Full of diary entries, informal letters, dialogue, adverts, limericks, and other poetry we have taken inspiration from the book and are writing our own mythical tales in the same style about helping a child.

The children have really enjoyed the story and produced some brilliant work 🤩👏