http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article News en val.lyons@westjesmondprimary.org.uk Copyright 2010 2010-07-12T10:49:44+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/reports-and-meetings/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/reports-and-meetings/ Meetings with class teachers to discuss pupil reports have been very well received. Thank you for your positive comments and suggestions for clarifying the grades on the reports. This can easily be changed to be more helpful. We look forward to seeing any parents able to visit new teachers and classrooms on Wednesday afternoon (14th July) from 2.45. News 2010-07-12T10:49:44+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/keeping-up-to-date/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/keeping-up-to-date/ Apologies for not keeping up to date with the website. The intention is to make sure it is updated weekly and there are plans in place to achieve this. I hope that parents have now received annual pupil reports and have appointments to meet with class teachers to discuss them. We look forward to seeing you at those meetings. News 2010-06-28T08:12:44+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/albie/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/albie/ We are delighted to welcome back Albie, a professional dancer who has worked with the school for a number of years. You may remember him from the opening ceremony. Albie is working with classes throughout the school and parents are welcome to join us for a short session on Friday afternoon. News 2010-01-26T13:32:16+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/happy-new-year/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/happy-new-year/ A warm welcome to a freezing new year. With our new school and new boilers we are warm and open! Curriculum information leaflets will be coming home next week to let you know what's happening in classes, and just a reminder about our maths sessions for parents on Thursday 28th January. With best wishes for a happy and peaceful new year for everyone. Val Lyons News 2010-01-06T13:28:55+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/safeguarding/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/safeguarding/ Thank you for your cooperation with the new safety arrangements. We do understand that it feels very different and is causing some inconvenience. Safeguarding is a statutory, high priority for all schools and a crucial part of school inspection. We have taken advice to ensure that we meet exacting standards and we are implementing the new arrangements in order to fully comply. We want to maintain the friendliness of the school but it does feel that an open, welcoming school is somewhat in conflict with one which meets safeguarding standards. I'm sure we can achieve both and we will be seeking your views to help us do just that. Val Lyons News 2009-12-04T15:11:41+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/drop-in/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/drop-in/ We look forward to seeing you between 3.30 and 4.30 on Wednesday 2nd December to see how your child is doing. News 2009-11-30T14:56:03+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/Parents-meetings/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/Parents-meetings/ We look forward to seeing parents on Monday 12th October and Wednesday 14th . Please feel free to call in at my office upstairs and let me know how things are going. I am always the one with no queue.... News 2009-10-12T13:41:24+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/a-new-school-year/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/a-new-school-year/ Welcome to a new school year.  It was lovely to see so many parents who were able to drop in and see the new classroom and the new teacher. We hope that all of our children have settled in to the new routines, caught up with friends and made some new ones. Many thanks to all the families who have sent in photographs for our first topic of the term. It has been interesting for us all, learning more about our friends and the places where we live or have lived.  News 2009-09-18T14:55:17+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/end-of-term/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/end-of-term/ On the wettest day of the summer we said "Goodbye" to all of our leavers. We wish them well as they move on to different schools, different cities and different countries. We hope that you enjoy using the new website. There is work to be done to update the new staff teams for each year group and insert all of the pupils' work. As the work featured took place in our current year groups we will leave it there for the time being.       News 2009-07-17T15:07:33+00:00 http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/new-school-doors-finally-open/ http://www.westjesmondprimary.org.uk/news/article/new-school-doors-finally-open/ Children’s laughter filled the new West Jesmond Primary School for the first time as pupils finally moved into their new classrooms. Pupils got to use their new school for the first time on Monday 2 March 2009 - six years after plans for a new school were first proposed. The 28-room new learning facility for children aged between four and 11 has been built on the site of the school’s original building on Tankerville Terrace in Jesmond, continuing over 100-years of schooling on the site. Headteacher Valerie Lyons was delighted to see the new school’s doors finally open. She said: "It is wonderful to finally see everything coming together. After six years of planning, consultations and latterly construction it is incredibly exciting and moving to see and hear pupils in the school for the first time. You can see from the smiles all round how delighted we all are to have moved in. "Everyone has worked incredibly hard to achieve this dream and create what is certainly a worthwhile community resource. I would like to thank the pupils, staff, parents, governors and friends of the school for their involvement throughout the development process and for their continued support. I would also like to thank the architects and construction company for making our dream a reality. She added: “We wanted a building with a great sense of space and light, flexibility for education into the future, huge ICT capability and an indoor space big enough to accommodate all 600 pupils at once. With this school we wanted to provide a community facility but also maintain the strong traditions of the past and the ‘family feel’ of our old school. This has been achieved brilliantly and we are delighted with our new surroundings.” The new school boasts a dedicated soft play space for reception classes, covered outdoor recreation area, a full size netball court with bench seating and a traversing wall. The ever popular football pens have been kept on the request of the school’s pupils. Inside, the school houses a library and music room complete with full stage lighting facilities. Centre stage in the new building is a memorial tablet taken from the original school building which is dedicated to teachers and pupils from West Jesmond School who fell in the Great War. An official ceremony to open the school will take place later in the term. News 2009-03-02T09:00:04+00:00