Year 5 enjoyed a fascinating visit to Shakespeare’s Globe where they watched rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet and learned about the history of the building (and where it was originally located

Congratulations to these Year 6 pupils and one Year 5 pupil who, not only achieved Gold in the Primary Maths Challenge, but scored highly in the Bonus Round (an invite only challenge) tackling questions that you would expect to meet in Key Stage 3.

Year 5 visited 'Today at Apple' to learn more about digital art and to practise digital techniques using Procreate.

The children enjoyed this engaging and informative workshop which formed part of their  learning about John Dyer, this year’s whole school artist.  

Natural links between curriculum areas are always made and explored in learning at West Lodge School; this project brought together Art, Computing and Design. 

We used an app called Procreate, along with an iPad and Apple Pencil to create our designs.  First, we took a photo of our partner and used the outline to create our portrait and then we added colour.  We created our portraits in the style of John Dyer who is the artist we are learning about this year.

Year 5 Pupils

2023=4 has been a fantastic year for sport at West Lodge, highlights include: 

Netball

• Competed in ISA National Netball Finals.
• Represented Bexley in London Youth Games.

Football

• Winners of Bexley Small Schools Cup.
• Competed in Final of Bexley Cup.

Cricket

• Winners of Bexley Finals.
• Finished 3rd (out of 547 schools) in Kent Cricket Finals.

Before half term, Year 5 & 6 pupils travelled to France for a week.  It provided the children with the opportunity to immerse themselves in French culture and use their French language skills to navigate around towns and cities and (most importantly!) to order ice cream.