Ofsted 2012: Weeton School is OUTSTANDING!
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"Wow! Congratulations....outstanding again. Well done everyone! Mr Goth you'll be a wonderful headteacher!" (Mrs M Lomas)
"Well done to Mr Goth. Hope you enjoy being headteacher and be just as good as Mr Horrocks. Another well done to the whole school. You truly are a really outstanding school. We miss you loads." (Sean & Louise)
"I'm so happy you are an outstanding school yet again!!!
Also congratualtions for Mr Goth, the soon to become headteacher! I can't imagine Weeton without Mr Horrocks, but I'm sure Mr Goth is going to be an excellent headteacher since he had always been one of my favourite teachers!" (Rachel)
"Well done to Weeton for Outstanding school status. We all know that you are and Well Done Mr Goth on becoming the New Head in September. You deserve it." (Mrs K Barclay)
"Well done, Mr Goth. We think you will be a great Headteacher like Mr Horrocks." (Kara & sheridan)
Well Done, Mr Goth. We all think that the governors have made a good choice. (Andrew, Matthew & Scott)
See our Guestbook for many more messages, including one from a pupil from 30 years ago...
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Welcome to the creative (and truly outstanding!) world of Weeton Primary School...
Located in peaceful rural surroundings, at the heart of Weeton Barracks, our school welcomes children from all over Britain and from around the world...
Catterick, Germany, London, Belfast, Liverpool, Australia, Cyprus, Blackpool, Jamaica, Canada, Winchester, Fiji, Newcastle, Zimbabwe, Hull, Winsford, Colchester, the Falkland Islands, Chepstow and, of course, Weeton and the surrounding area.
Healthy Schools
Activemark 2008 for providing our pupils with at least 2 hours of high quality PE and sport each week. ATHLETICS * FOOTBALL ROUNDERS * NETBALL JUDO * TRI-GOLF TENNIS * TRAMPOLINING MULTI-SKILLS
Highly Commended Primary School of the Year Weeton Primary School
School Terms & Holidays 2011 - 2012 2012 - 2013
School Brochure 2011-2012 Click on pdf at foot of page
Good attendance!
Don't forget, be on time each day and collect your attendance awards...
Parent Support Click here to visit the Parent Support page
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Yes, it's official: our school is still OUTSTANDING! Following our Ofsted inspection on 5th & 6th January, we received our second OUTSTANDING Ofsted report on 20th January 2012. Click on the pdf link at the foot of this page to read the Ofsted Report (Weeton Ofsted Report 2012). It will also be available on the Ofsted website soon.
Our next Headteacher ? Find out who it will be... See below!
January 2012 Newsletter see pdf link at the foot of this page
STARGAZING LIVE
Hear three of Class 6 on the STARGAZING LIVE website asking questions about space
or click on our 3 questions: Can stars be different shapes and sizes?
How far is the Sun from Earth?
In Oct 2011, Years 5 & 6 spent a day at MediaCityUK the new home for the BBC at Salford Quays.
They were filmed asking questions about space for the new series of Stargazing LIVE
More details below
We're off to the opera... See our January 2012 Newsletter to find out more
Panto stars visit Weeton School
See below
We received a Highly Commended Primary School of the Year Award in The Gazette Education Awards 2011 More details and picture below
Take a look back at some special days and events from 2011
Strictly Come Dancing! Dancing at the Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
See below
Visit our Sports News page Click on the picture of our football team
After 13 years at Weeton School, Mrs Lomas retired in July 2011. If you would like to send her a message, please leave it in the Guestbook and it will appear on our special Mrs Lomas page. Thanks for all the messages received.
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Mr Goth will be our new Headteacher from Sept 2012! Click on the pdf link at the foot of this page to find out more... Winter in Lytham Jack & the Beanstalk cast visited Weeton School (Oh yes they did!) King Bumble (Conor Ryan - Coronation Street's Len Windass), Dame Tilly Trott (Ian Fox), Jack (Eve Winters) and Princess Priscilla (Anna Catrin Quayle)
Weeton Primary School Highly Commended Primary School of the Year Award We attended the Awards Presentation evening at The Imperial Hotel, Blackpool on Tuesday 29 November 2011 when the winners in each of the nine categories were announced. Finalists in the Primary School of the Year category were: Ribby with Wrea Primary School: Highly Commended Weeton Primary School: Highly Commended Hawes Side Primary School: Winner In the picture (left to right): Major Steventon (Vice Chair of Governors), Mrs Gilyead, Mr Ashcroft, Miss Graves, Mrs Holding, Mr Horrocks, Miss Darkins, Mrs Lomas, Mr Hutton (Chair of Governors), Mrs Leech and Miss Nolan. Congratulations to our children and over 600 others from 25 schools who took part in the Dance Festival Body Matters 2011 at the Empress Ballroom, in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on 8 November 2011 (our children's excellent behaviour throughout the afternoon rehearsals and during the evening performance made them perfect ambassadors for Weeton Primary School) Helping to raise funds for three local charities: Brian House Children's Hospice Donna's Dream House for terminally ill children Progress Recruitment supporting young disabled people into employment Click on the Dance Festival pdf at the foot of this page for more pictures Years 5 & 6 spent a day at MediaCityUK the new home for the BBC at Salford Quays They were filmed asking questions about space for the next series of STARGAZING LIVE (presented by Professor Brian Cox). Three of there questions can be heard on the STARGAZING LIVE website Click on a question....
Can stars be different shapes and sizes? How far is the Sun from Earth? For more pictures, click on the Stargazing LIVE pdf link at the foot of this page
2011: The year we said Hello...
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and goodbye...
Award Winners 2011 Our Good Citizen Award Winners 2011 Click on the two Special Award Winners 1 & 2 pdf links at the foot of this page for more pictures 
Cyprus Day
Preparing for the move to Cyprus, we had a special celebration day in June 2011 which included Greek dancing and tasting food. Above (from left to right): Miss Darkins, Mrs Dudding, Miss Russel, Mrs Pridmore, Miss Graves and Mr Ashcroft. Mr Goth (front) "entertained" everyone on the guitar! And... Visitors from Episkopi Primary School Mrs Scott (SENCO) and Mrs Yates (Deputy Headteacher) of Episkopi Primary School visited us in June 2011. They met the children and parents who will be moving to Cyprus this summer. We lit the candle in our Friendship Ring to celebrate the link between our two schools. The candle was taken back to Cyprus, and lit once more when our children joined Episkopi School. Click here to visit Episkopi Primary School's website Click here to visit St John's School, Episkopi (High School) All change! 2 Yorks went off to Cyprus in summer 2011, and 2 Lancs joined us from Cyprus, so it has been all change at Weeton School this year. 82 out of 118 were new to our school in Sept 2011. for more information for new families.
Learning about Mr Lowry Some of Class 6's work based on the artist L S Lowry and his visits to Lytham St Annes
We won the Mr Lowry in Lytham St Annes competition in 2011! Congratulations to Class 6 and all the staff involved. Our winning portfolio meant that we went to The Lowry to see Mr Lowry's wonderful pictures. We took part in two art workshops led by a professional artist. We also received £200 of art materials or books (total prize to the value of £750). One of our children came 2nd in the individual entries (out of over 200), with a prize to the value of £50. Lots of our artwork was part of MR LOWRY IN LYTHAM ST ANNES an exhibition in Lytham of children's art inspired by the work of L S Lowry Prize winning painting Click here to visit THE LOWRY website and find out more about the artist and see some of his pictures.
We hope you enjoy visiting our school website (judged to be outstanding by Ofsted in January 2012). It should give you some idea of what life is like at Weeton School. Maybe you saw us on BBC's The One Show this August! We have done lots of TV and radio in the last couple of years. Most recently, we were filmed asking questions about space for the latest series of BBC 2's STARGAZING LIVE. You can find out what's been happening at Weeton. Read out latest Newsletters. Meet the staff or visit the Office if you need information about school uniform, term times, packed lunches etc. Read our January 2012 Ofsted inspection report. We always look forward to hearing from visitors to our website and from members of our school family who have moved on. It's great to keep in touch and we like to hear your news. We've had messages from Germany, Canada, Fiji, New York, Cyprus and Saudi Arabia - and many from nearer home. There's even a mesage from HRH The Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward (Feb 2007). Just go along to our guestbook and leave your message. I try my best to keep up with replying to them all - we appreciate every one. This is my final year as Headteacher of Weeton Primary School, as I shall be retiring in July 2012. It promises to be quite a year! Mr C J Horrocks, Headteacher
You can contact our school as follows Weeton Primary School Grantham Road, Weeton, Preston, Lancashire PR4 3HX Telephone: 01253 836284 FAX: 01253 836528 Email: head@weeton.lancs.sch.uk
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