Year 6 enjoyed a fascinating visit to Tate & Lyle's Thames Refinery to learn about the production process from raw material to the end consumer as part of West Lodge's commitment to STEM education. 

The motivation behind STEM week was to introduce the children to problem solving challenges, enabling them to use their creativity together with their science and technology skills to become engineers.

Congratulations to our Netball Team who competed in the ISA National Finals in Warwick, finishing 18th nationally.

Whilst having the chance to participate and enjoy playing sport is the priority at this age, it is great to win too, and our teams have been incredibly successful since the start of the year, losing only a couple of matches.

Alongside excellent academic provision, the staff at West Lodge are fully committed to the school’s desire to be a friendly and welcoming community where everybody is happy and feels valued. Friendship is central to this desire and this has been a focus this term following on from the start of term assembly about the friendship of rugby legends, fundraising heroes and best friends Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield.

Year 5 visited Leeds Castle and experienced what it was like to be a Victorian child at school.  Following this, they had a tour of the castle with Lord Philip and Lady Elizabeth.