Visits

At Westleigh Methodist Primary School, we believe that every child should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development whatever their age, ability or circumstances.

Visits enable our children to have first-hand experience of a range of topics and activities. These often are the most memorable learning experiences and help children to make sense of the world around them. Visits / visitors take place in each year group and change according to the curriculum.

Each visit is authorised by Westleigh Methodist Primary School's Educational Visits Co-ordinator (EVC). They ensure that the visit is risk assessed and supports the headteacher and governors  in their decision on approval.

Year 6 Visit to Wigan Athletic - Give Racism the Red Card - October 2024

At Westleigh Methodist Primary School, equality and fairness are so important. We share the importance of Protected Characteristics often and so a visit to Wigan Athletic to share in a project on racism was an amazing opportunity for our children.

Year 6 had a chance to meet football players and have a tour of the stadium. The inspirational visit allowed our children to take part in thought-provoking discussions about hate crime and stereotyping. They showed a great understanding of the topic and confidently presented their learning in the form of a speech and poster to the rest of the hall. Well done, Year 6.

 

Visitors to School

Visitors are welcomed into school to further advance children's learning. They provide first-hand experience to deepen children's knowledge, understanding and skills. They are wonderful in engaging and exciting the children to provoke stimulus for further learning.

Examples of visitors in Autumn term 2024 - 25 include:

• Local councillors visit to Reception class
• DIAS visit to all classes
• History Alive visit to Y3
• Freddy Fit visit to Y5
• HH Kids
• WigLe Dance

A Visit From our Local Councillors

We had a special visit from the local councillors, who brought Reception children a library card and an invitation to join the library. We then offered them some bread we had baked!

DIAS

Every class has had a visit from Wigan's DIAS team. The sessions were to raise awareness about healthy and unhealthy relationships and implement prevention strategies in relation to domestic abuse in an age-appropriate manner. The sessions were designed by Women’s Aid and NSPCC. 

History Alive

History Alive visited Year 3 in Autumn term. Our children had an amazing Stone Age experience in the classroom - being immersed in their learning. The workshop was fun-filled and completely interactive. It really brought learning to life! It was lovely to see the children's passion and enthusiasm for history. They loved the costumes and artefacts.

Freddy Fit

Freddy Fit's visit to Year 5 in Autumn term had a hugely positive impact. The full-day workshop trained our Year 5 children to become Play Leaders. They now have a bank of activities to share with our younger pupils at break and dinner time. This adds to our children's leadership roles at Westleigh Methodist!

 

WigLe Dance

Here is an extract from one of our school newsletters in Autumn 2024 - 25. We had an amazing visit from Amy from WigLe Dance who got us all moving and dancing!

 

HH Kids

We work in partnership with HH kids as part of our statutory obligation to deliver Relationships Education and Health Education progressively throughout the school.

Children in Y5 take part in a workshop and Y6 take part in a series of puberty lessons delivered by experienced staff from an outside agency, HH Kids. The staff who deliver the lessons have worked within the field for many years and are highly skilled in their delivery. If you wish to find out more information about this agency, please view their website at www.hhkids.co.uk 

Delivering this content ensures we are fulfilling the legal requirements set out in the Department for Education statutory guidance 2020, which outlines our duty to deliver key facts about puberty and the changing adolescent body. 

 Mr Pilkington, a Navy veteran, visited Westleigh Methodist on Remembrance Day this year. He worked over 4 weeks with Year 3 and Year 6 to rehearse a 'march past' for our special service on Monday 11.11.24. The children laid wreaths for each class and families, members of the community and The Trust came to show their respects with the children.