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Mr Deniel Thomas has been supporting children on the junior site and recently won the Inspire+ Apprentice of the Month. Huge congrations!

Thank you to all the children and staff that participated in Jeans for Genes Last Friday. Everyone looked great in their jeans. We raised £72.65 for the charity, which will help many affected by a genetic condition.

Y1 children have used the small world to build a mansion. Our mansion has a zoo, bedrooms, car park, a bathroom and a round about. The King and the Queen live in our mansion with five children.

Years 3 and 4 students were very busy last week immersing themselves into our class novel, The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. As part of this, the children were tasked with creating an Iron Man for the classrooms.

Mrs. Coverley was presented with an 'above and beyond' award from our Board of Directors, they thanked for her hard work and commitment. The award was presented by Mrs. Martin during our Award Ceremony today.

On Wednesday we said thank you and farewell to Mandy our lollipop lady, the children and staff thanked her all of her hard work in ensuring that all stay safe on their journey to and from school. Mandy will be greatly missed.

Congratulations to our Year 6! Award ceremony was held on the junior site this morning and it was so lovely to see the children and their guests. Well done to all Y6 children, we are so incredibly proud of you all and wish you all the very best in your new school. From the WGPA … Continue reading Y6 Award Ceremony

The academy is pleased to support the new Lincolnshire Holiday Activities and Food Programme booking system. All of our FSM eligible families will be receiving a code for them to use to book onto one of the many provisions available during the summer holidays. Each club will provide a variety of activities, including fun and … Continue reading Holiday Activities and Food Programme

Today EYFS children have listened to the story of Noah's Ark, we then retold the story together. The children were able to build their own Arks using the construction materials in the classroom.

This morning all the infants and junior children had the whole school assembly together on the junior site. Mr Morton held Easter Service for the children and the staff. He discussed the true meaning of Easter - reminding them of God's love for us that lasts forever, that we can know it everyday and that … Continue reading Whole School Assembly

EYFS children continued to enjoy the great weather outside, and look what they found!  

Reception children have planted our own sunflower 🌻 seeds today.  They could tell Mrs Smyth that their seeds needed soil, sunlight and water to help them to grow.

EYFS have loved playing in the sunshine!

Continuing with our Being Safe theme in PSHE, Mr Walledge of Paragon Training and Consultancy was back to demonstrate more First Aid to the children.  After a quick recap of CPR and the recovery position, the children were taught how to deal with a choking casualty and the best way to deal with a broken … Continue reading More first aid action!

Children were so excited to have used their vouchers to get their World Book Day books!

Children's Mental Health Week took place on 7 - 13 February 2022. The theme for the week was 'Growing Together'. This theme was used to show the children just how much they have grown over the year, not just physically but mentally and academically too. To show who has helped them grow, the children designed … Continue reading Children’s Mental Health Week

After successfully being accepted on to the European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Training Program following our letters of application and then designing a Space suit for the mission, our focus in science on Tuesday was to design and fly a rocket. Despite the windy weather, we still managed to launch our rockets and record how … Continue reading Launching Rockets

Last Friday our Reception children talked about the foods that ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛’ ate in our focused story this week. We then sorted the foods that he ate into healthy and unhealthy food. For our main activity we made our own healthy fruit salad, the children used the knives carefully to cut the … Continue reading Learning about healthy eating

KS2 children have had a wonderful day on World Book Day! It was brilliant to see Y3/4 tasting all manners of chocolate treats, Y5 making medicines and Y6 creating a zoo of incredible dirty beasts!

We have had a wonderful day in school celebrating World Book Day. As a school we all completed activities related to books by the author Roald Dahl, we looked at the book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. We made our own chocolate treats! Willy Wonka also came and hid his special golden tickets in our playground for us all … Continue reading EYFS children on World Book Day

Today in our World Book Day Assembly we had some lovely quotes from the children: “Books are so amazing, you can make up your own stories and you can pretend you are in that book.” “Books help your imagination” “Books have beautiful pictures” “Books give you information.” We all had such a lovely day.

In PSHE this term, the children are learning how to stay safe offline. Last week, they learnt about accident and emergencies. This week, the focus was on how to deal with an emergency. With the help of Mr Walledge, a qualified First Aid trainer, the children were able to learn the basics of CPR. They … Continue reading CPR session for Y6 children

An humanitarian appeal for Ukraine has been launched by a member of staff at Walton Academy, and here at WGPA we would like to support this. If you would like to donate, you can drop it off at either of our sites, we will then deliver it to Walton Academy this Friday. Items required are: … Continue reading Humanitarian Appeal for Ukraine

World Book Day is on Thursday 3rd March. In school we will be enjoying lots of activities that are all themed around books written by the author Roald Dahl. Children are expected to come to school in their uniform. An exciting competition is also heading your way on World Book Day for you to enter … Continue reading World Book Day

Mrs Battersby's class celebrated achieving 500 Class Dojo points!  

Year 6 children have been reading Wonder by R J Palacio which describes the story of August, a boy with facial disfigurements, going to school for the very first time.  His parents are understandably nervous about this.  The children were asked to write a character description about the person who August meets on his very … Continue reading Y6 Writing project

After sharing our book, The Proudest Blue, some Years 1 & 2 children showed an interest in Hijab. Using her own experiences form home Reman wanted to help her friends and found some material in the classroom to help them wear Hijab.  

This week in Nursery and Reception the children have been enjoying learning about penguins. We have used non-fiction books to find out interesting facts about them and had a great time watching the live Penguin webcam from Edinburgh Zoo. The children commented on what they saw and we kept on checking what the penguins were … Continue reading Learning about penguins

The School Council visited Hope Community Café to sing Christmas songs, and they sang beautifully. They also enjoyed a marvellous hot chocolate with marshmallows! It was yummy!

So much fun was had at the Y6 Christmas party.  Two tense games of Christmas bingo were played followed by Christmas treats.  Then it was off to the hall for musical chairs and musical statues where there were some very interesting dance moves.  The afternoon was finished off with the distribution of presents and cards.

Year 3 and 4 celebrated at their Christmas party with a very special surprise visitor. The children were delighted to meet Santa and share their Christmas wish lists. Happy Christmas from all the children in Year 3 and 4.

Y3/4 chldren had great fun making their fruit rockets that they had designed as part of DT lesson. Their topic has focused on Guy Fawkes and have been working on researching and designing their own rocket. The children have also worked on the bridge hold to cut. Here they are today making their rockets that … Continue reading Class 3/4AC – Fruit Rockets

How do you learn about what animals eat? You investigate poo of course. Looking at the ‘samples’ we decided whether the poo came from a herbivore, Carnivore or an omnivore, depending on what it contained, and then thought about which kind of animal it might have been!! Some great investigations and discussions were had. Disclaimer- … Continue reading Animal Investigation

The Reception and Nursery children enjoyed decorating biscuits with yellow icing, jelly sweets and rainbow sprinkles to create a spotty biscuit. They descrived them as Yummy!

Children in Year 6 have started our DT project this week.  They will be working towards sewing an animal to feature in an animation.  This week's lesson focussed on the skill of running stitch.  They were very proud of their first attempts (for many) of sewing.

Year 6 children have been learning about equality and the difference between equality and fairness.  They now understand that equality means giving people the opportunities they need to be as successful as others.

Mrs Walledge brought her service dress and medals in to show the children.  She explained why she received them and even let them try on her jacket.  The children made poppies to add to their Remembrance display.

Class 1/2G had a surprise visitor on Monday, after the classroom had been decorated to launch their new class text Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. A penguin showed up and hid himself in a box! He is now making himself at home in the classroom and causing mischief!

Year 4 have enjoyed reading the book 'The Firework-maker's Daughter' by Philip Pullman. They made predictions about what might happen in the book based upon the front cover and blurb. The children learnt new vocabulary and answered retrieval and inference questions on chapter 1. In addition, they studied the main character (Lila) and discussed adjectives to … Continue reading Year 4 Reading

In an act of Remembrance, the year 3 and 4 children have made poppies.  The children stood in silence for two minutes and after our service of Remembrance, a representative from each class visited our Remembrance display with their poppies.

Class 1/2S have had a mysterious visitor and they left tracks on the classroom floor. The children predicted who they thought it might be and  found out it was a penguin! The penguin brought with him a book called 'Lost and Found' which we are looking forward to reading next week. The class have also … Continue reading Class 1/2S Are Working Hard

Year 1 and 2 have been truly inspired by the art work in The Tin Forest and Henri Rousseau’s Tiger in a Tropical Storm and have created their own pieces. The children practiced and applied their art skills to add tone, collage and texture in different layers of their work.

Year 6 have been experimenting with watercolours to blend and mix. Vanesa used watercolours to match the colours around the edge of an image to show how they can merge together. Ella and Amy showed the story of The Tin Forest in one image, starting with the dull and gloomy scrapyard which eventually evolved into … Continue reading Year 6 Blend and Mix

Year 3 are creating a large piece of artwork based on the novel 'The Tin Forest'. The children will be using a variety of techniques, including weaving. to create their artwork.

Year 6 have been moving their own dance performances to 'Vivaldi's Four Seasons'.  The children are really proud of their achievements.

It's been a very busy week at the academy. Year 4 have been sketching objects in their classroom, focusing on the use of the shades light and dark.  Class teacher, Miss Thackray, is incredibly proud of the work produced by the class. Charis in year 5 was awarded the first pen licence.  Her teacher says, … Continue reading A busy week!

The academy invites prospective Nursery parents to visit and tour our Nursery provision during Open Week, from Monday 17 to Friday 21 May. Why should you send your pre-school child to our Nursery? Bright, spacious and stimulating indoor classroom Safe and fun outdoor learning environment Experienced, nurturing and committed early years staff Fully funded full-day … Continue reading Free Nursery Places

Year 3 and 4 had a fantastic World Book Day. They all enjoyed listening to the story “The Tea Party in the Woods” and using their inference skills to think about what the little girl might be saying and thinking in different parts of the story. The children also enjoyed creating their own tea party … Continue reading World Book Day

We all thoroughly enjoyed our Christmas lunch this year! 🎄

On Thursday 17 December we had some special visitors in school! The Grinch, Elf of the Shelf and Santa visited! The boys and girls were so excited, a perfect end to the term.. From all at school we wish all of the children and their families a very merry Christmas!

Children in Mrs Gliddon's class created this amazing pop art inspired by Roy Lichitenstein. They are so lovely - well done everyone!

As part of Harvest Festival celebration, children could come to school today in their autumn colours by donating a food item(s). And look what happened - nearly 154kg of food! Thank you to all children and parents who have made donations. Here is a thank you note from Foodbank. A Thank You Note from Foodbank … Continue reading Foodbank Donation

Please find below a letter from Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership. School Crossing Patrol Information

      For more information regarding this year's Summer Reading Challenge, please read a below letter from Arts Council England. Summer Reading Challenge 2020 Lincolnshire Libraries Happy Reading!

Is your home ready for a herd of cows and 100 farmers to visit?   We are really pleased to announce the launch of our first Virtual Food and Farming Day on Friday 3rd July 2020 with over 100 farmers and educators from local and national farms, food businesses, and much more streaming directly into … Continue reading Virtual Food and Farming Day

Please post your Art Work in the Post Box on the fence by the main entrance. All Art Work is welcome!  

During the lockdown, Kacey in Y6 put together two amazing presentation pieces on Islam and Titanic. Super well done, Kacey! Year 6 KH Islam Work Year 6 KH Titanic Work If you would like to share your work with us, please let your class teacher know!

Some of our Year 6 children have been busy! Well done, Aliyah, Amelia, Cameron and Katerina! They all look utterly DELICIOUS. What have YOU been up to? Keep safe!  

Dear all I would like to send you all very best wishes from every one at the Bluecoat Meres Academies for the upcoming Easter weekend. These are challenging times. History is being made and in the future people will be learning all about what’s happening to us now and how we managed the changes to … Continue reading Easter Message

Wednesday 25 March 2020 On Wednesday afternoon at school, your amazing children went on a learning walk and collected leaves, twigs, feathers and anything else natural that they could find. We all then returned to create this amazing artwork. Mrs Lindley and I were particularly impressed how all children were helping each other and how … Continue reading Art with natural material

Tuesday 17 March 2020 Hope Community Café, much loved by local residents and businesses, has stopped by with a box full of latte and hot chocolate and their delicious cheesecakes for the members of staff! We were absolutely touched by their act of kindness under the current difficult circumstances. Thank you Hope Community Cafe!

The Lower Site will re-open to all students on Tuesday 10 March 2020. We are very sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience whilst we resolved an issue with our heating system.

Childrens Guide To Coronavirus 31 March 2021 The DfE have announced that FSM families will be supported by a voucher scheme.  Vouchers will be emailed to all FSM families, where possible, to be redeemed on a weekly basis at a local supermarket.  The admin team are calling all families to verify their email addresses.  If … Continue reading Coronavirus Update

The upper site is closed to years 3, 4 and 5 on Monday 24 February 2020 due their being no heating. Year 6 pupils will be working on the lower site. Years 3, 4 and 5 should complete homework on this link.

What a busy week it has been! In just two days we held five Christmas performances on both sites. EYFS Christmas Carol Concert saw children in Nursery and Reception singing some of their favourite songs including Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Jingle Bells and When Santa Stuck Up the Chimney in front of their parents. … Continue reading Christmas Performances

We bade our farewell to six members of staff in Leavers Assembly on Tuesday 17 December. Children sang songs and presented their gifts to say a huge THANK YOU to each one of the leaving members of staff. Mrs Bullimore and Mrs Smith were with us for many years and will now enjoy their well-earned … Continue reading Leavers Assembly

On Thursday 21 November the children from Nursery to Year 6 celebrated World Hello Day by saying 'Hello' in the language of their choice. How wonderful it is that at The West Grantham Church of England Primary Academy there are 13 different languages recognised as their first language for some of our children! What is … Continue reading World Hello Day

On Friday 15 November children came to school dressed in yellow and/or as a rock star to show their support for Children in Need!      

Yearn 1 children invited their parents in on Tuesday 12 November for a Gruffalo Tea party. They had prepared food to represent different parts of Gruffalo and wrote labels to tell the parents what the food was. We all had a lovely time celebrating our topic 'Where will Julia take us?' and we look forward … Continue reading Y1 Gruffalo Tea Party

An experienced school leader has been appointed to help further improve the academy. Mark Fowle has been appointed interim Chief Executive Officer by West Grantham Academies Trust, responsible for this school and Bluecoat Meres. Mr Fowle has over 36 years’ experience of working in schools, with more than 13 years as a successful Headteacher in … Continue reading Interim Chief Executive Officer Appointment

On Wednesday 9 October 2019, we had a fantastic time building houses out of biscuits, icing and sweets. We persevered, even when the buildings collapsed two or three times. It was great to see everyone getting involved and helping each other.