Clubs, trips and activities
Windwhistle Breakfast Club runs each morning during term-time and all children are welcome.
Breakfast Club
Venue: School hall
Time: 7:45am – 8.45am
Cost: £1.00 per day to be paid for through ParentPay.
You must book and pay for sessions on ParentPay in advance please.
What's on the menu?
- A variety of Cereals
- Toast, bagels and crumpets
- Fruit
- Juices or milk
- Beans or spaghetti on toast
- Games, activities and crafts!
At Windwhistle, we believe every child should start their day in the best possible way. We are proud to be working in partnership with Magic Breakfast, to provide healthy breakfasts to our pupils so that they are satisfied, settled and ready to learn.
Magic Breakfast provides us with nutritious breakfast food to ensure children start their school day in the best possible way. Breakfast gives children the energy needed for the busy school morning, enabling them to focus on their lessons.
With the support of Magic Breakfast, we are able to keep the cost of Breakfast Club as low as possible in order to be more accessible for everyone.
If you would like more information on the Magic Breakfast provision, please go to the Magic Breakfast website –https://www.magicbreakfast.com/
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Never a dull moment after school!
Our charity XTND provide a place to go out of school hours where children feel safe, where they feel valued and where they can enjoy relaxing, stress free time with people their own age and with adults they trust.
Clubs are for Reception children through to Year 6 who attend either Bournville or Windwhistle schools.
Clubs run at Bournville school from 3.15pm until 5.45pm.
Children have supervised free play and organised activities both indoors and outdoors. They also eat a healthy snack and play an important part in preparing this themselves.
After-School Clubs are bookable via ParentPay at a cost of £10 per session.
Here at Windwhistle, we are proud to be able to offer so much more outside of the curriculum to all our children. High quality activities and experiences are a wonderful part of school life. They are an excellent way to grow good relationships between staff, pupils and parents.
Educational Visits
We aim to make the most of educational visits linked to the curriculum, to help learning stay in children's long-term memory. Research shows that well-organised outdoor learning, offsite visits and Learning Outside the Classroom can have a powerful impact on young people’s learning and development, and achieve a wide range of outcomes – including improvements to academic achievement, personal development and behaviour.
All visits are planned well in advance and carefully risk assessed so that children can make the most of every opportunity.
Examples of visits are:
- SS Great Britain
- Weston-super-Mare museum
- Bristol Museum
- Colston Hall, Bristol
- Theatre, Weston-super-Mare
- Wild Place, Bristol
- Caerleon
- Longleat
- Beach
- Local farm
- Local park
- Local library
- Roman soldier visiting school
- Railway police visiting school
- Cinema (as a reward)
Year 6 Residential Trip
We aim to take Year 6 children on a 4-night residential visit which strengthens pupils experience of the outside world as well as their social and emotional development. The experience provides rich opportunities to learn new knowledge and skills within a creative and adventurous framework. In the event that not enough Year 6 children wish to engage in a residential then we hold an enrichment week involving day trips.
Music Teaching
Different year groups take part in drumming workshops and music festivals with other local schools at a range of venues throughout the year. Additionally, one year group every year will have the opportunity to learn to play an instrument with their class over a whole term and perform to the rest of the school through the Wider Opportunities programme. Instrumental tuition classes are run in school by teachers from the peripatetic music teaching service. These classes are paid for in advance. We try to keep costs as low as possible to encourage children to take part.
Mini Police
Mini Police is an innovative police engagement programme, which is delivered in schools with the support of local Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). The scheme provides a fun and interactive way to introduce children to a positive experience of policing and to get them involved in the local community. We take part in this each year with Year 5 pupils.
Holiday Clubs
Holiday clubs are a perfect opportunity for children to make new friends and try new activities. They can offer a wide range of activities such as sports, outdoor and indoor games, arts, crafts and drama. The XTND Holiday Club is open to children aged 4 - 11 years old. They are usually open every holiday apart from Christmas. Booking forms are available from the Windwhistle school office.
Find out more about XTND by looking at their website and social media.
Lunchtimes
There are a lot of activities on offer at Lunchtime from scooters and bikes to colouring and construction! Our Sports Coach is on hand to referee a Football Match and our Lunchtime Staff support with keeping everybody safe.
At Windwhistle, we have adopted Opal Play, a scheme of quality play that uses natural and man made resources to inspire exploration and creativity. Please follow the link to find out more about this.
For children who want a quieter, slower-paced Lunchtime, we have clubs running indoors.
Activity Clubs
Alongside our exciting and engaging P.E curriculum, we also offer a range of extra-curricular sports clubs to provide opportunities for all children to take part in competitive sport. This accompanies children's learning in PE, creating positivity, to show that sport is enjoyable, healthy and something essential for life.
Our Sports Coach, Mr Harris, is on hand every day providing enriching opportunities for the children to get involved in sporting activities at Lunchtime and After-School.
This Term we have an excellent offer of After-School Activities for the children to get involved in from Drama and Dance to Choir and Balloon Modelling!
We are also delighted to have Mrs Davies and Mrs Harford to running our Dance Club, and are eagerly awaiting the children's public performance at The Playhouse later on this year.