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Ormskirk West End Primary School

Newsletter - April 2026

Head Teacher's Message

Welcome to the summer term! It has already been a wonderfully busy and exciting start, with the launch of our new chess club proving a great success and a range of enriching school trips well underway. Our children have also been working incredibly hard in their final preparations for the upcoming performance at the Liverpool Empire, and the anticipation is building across the school community. With so many engaging activities already in motion, we are looking forward to a term full of opportunity, achievement, and memorable experiences for all our children.

Updates - Buildings

We are continuing to explore ways to improve our school site for the benefit of all our children. During the autumn term, we enhanced the Beech classroom area by adding a cabin, creating valuable additional outdoor space. This term, we are excited to be installing new signage at the front of the school, designed to reflect our updated logo—so please do keep an eye out for this. We are also in the early stages of planning a revamp of the EYFS (Acorns) outdoor area to further enrich our youngest pupils’ learning environment. I will be sure to keep you updated as these developments progress and once the work is completed.

Wider Curriculum

We feel passionately that school should offer a wide range of opportunities beyond the classroom, enriching children’s experiences and supporting their personal development. This term, we are delighted to have introduced Chess Club, and all children from Year 1 to Year 6 are able to take part in our school-funded after-school clubs. We also have the exciting Liverpool Empire performance to look forward to. Beech Class will be taking part in Forest School this half term, while Willow Class will continue their swimming sessions on Fridays. In addition, school continues to fund music tuition on Friday mornings, with our KS1 children learning the ukulele and KS2 pupils beginning their keyboard lessons.

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Inclusion and Send

At our school, we are committed to supporting children of all abilities and are proud to be an inclusive community. Over the past year, we have worked hard to adapt our teaching so that our pupils with SEND have equitable access to high-quality education. Mrs McLaughlin has been reviewing EHCPs, and each child with an EHCP now has a termly Targeted Learning Plan (TLP), developed in partnership with our SEND Specialist Teacher, Amira Helme from STRIVE SEND. We also work closely with Elm Tree Special School to ensure our provision is as strong as possible for our SEND learners.

As you may know, we have recently welcomed several children from Afghanistan into our school. They have settled in extremely well and are supported in lessons by our teaching assistant, Mr Allam Khan, who speaks their home language, helping them to feel confident and included in their learning.

Our Curriculum

Our curriculum is highly ambitious and is underpinned by our core values of respect, aspiration and resilience. As part of this, Miss Hunt and I lead 20 other schools across West Lancashire through our Ogden Trust Cluster—a physics-based charity programme that supports us in raising standards in physics. Last term, our focus was on light, which included a photography competition. We were delighted that Evie F in Acorns achieved runner-up overall—an excellent accomplishment.

This term, our focus shifts to sound, and we are excited to be offering our Year 6 pupils the opportunity to visit a music sound engineering studio, where they will learn more about sound production and the science behind it.

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20 April 2026