Before Santa arrived to his grotto…. What an amazing Winter Fair - so much fun was had by all! Thank you to Miss Abraham and our amazing PTA for organising it all 🎄✨❤️

This half term in History, Y6 have been working towards answering the Big Question: How has the fight for Human & Civil Rights shaped Britain? Blackthorn are now applying their learning and using Google Slides to create their own presentations to showcase what they know! 💻🤩

This week in Reading, children are working collaboratively to text mark, rehearse and perform Act 1 and 2 of #AChristmasCarol - so proud of the progress they have made with their awareness of prosody and understanding of different texts this term! #fluency #loveforreading 📖❤️

Thank you so much to FoxfieldPrimary & Miss Bamiro for such a warm welcome this morning. Our The Inspire Partnership Croydon Hub ECTs explored lessons, looked in books & reflected collaboratively on the practice they saw. Looking forward to seeing their key takeaways in action! 😊

We are recruiting! Join us for our open events on Thursday 8th February at 5pm and Friday 9th February at 9am… we are now recruiting for Easter and September 2024! Come and join the West Thornton team! The Inspire Partnership

We are very excited to welcome the TalkBus to Rosecourt Road today to provide our Year 6 pupils with a safe space to gather information and ask questions to support their wellbeing. The Inspire Partnership

A great turn out to our Y6 Parent Workshop after school today 📚 Parents & children worked together on a past paper and the children showed them how it’s done, using all the fluency & comprehension strategies we’ve been working hard on in our Reading lessons ☺️ West Thornton Primary School

We are excited to welcome parents and families for our first parent’s evening meetings today. We are proud to showcase fantastic art work from across the school too

I've made a summary of Ofsted's English subject review which was released at the start of March. It's for both primary and secondary teachers and leaders. There's a written and visual summary on my website: marcrhayes.com/post/a-summary… I hope it's useful!

This morning, some of our Year 6 children are taking part in the UK Junior Maths Challenge for the second year running. They’ve only just started and I’m pretty sure I can see smoke coming from some of their pencils 🔥➕➗➖🟰✔️#mathschallenge West Thornton Primary School UK Maths Trust

Finally…! We can reveal the exciting news of a Royal visitor at West Thornton for a very special story time! This day has inspired us to keep enjoying books, keep celebrating diversity and keep developing our reading skills across our wonderful Global Curriculum. 📚👑.

A truly entertaining - and very informative - read! One of the final outcomes of ‘Lemon Battery’ from a very talented writer in Blackthorn Class! 👏🏽 I’m in awe of the knowledge and technical abilities shown in this piece of writing 🍋 #year6writing #proudteacher

Princess Beatrice visited West Thornton Primary School on behalf of Oscar's Book Prize on May 23, 2024. Video belongs to Oscar’s book Prize and other media outlets. Princess Beatrice of York The Royal Family The Prince and Princess of Wales

Year 2’s beautifully bright, carnival headdresses in this afternoon’s parade (with some super dance moves). Thank you to the parents who were able to join us in the sunshine ☀️ And a big thank you to our talented group of steel pan performers 🛢️🥁Happy Half Term everyone 🧡

🚨 NEW RESOURCE 🚨 David Goodwin has designed a brilliant infographic based on my blog on 'Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale, Structure and Style'. The PDF version is freely available on my resources page: alexquigley.co.uk/resources/

Staff well-being West Thornton Primary School! The Inspire Partnership 🍃

Chessington Bound with our lovely Year 6 children and the sun has made an appearance ☀️

Smiles, tears, beautiful singing & lots of laughter from acting out class reunions of 20, 40 & 60 years time ❤️ So proud of our amazing Year 6 children for their Leavers’ Assembly & the legacy they are leaving at West Thornton Primary School ✨ Bring on our last trip tomorrow & disco time 🪩

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We were excited to hold our first 'GROW' (Get Ready for Work) session this morning. It was lovely to see such a good turnout with such a positive and enthusiastic vibe. #GROW The Inspire Partnership