Letters to Parents & Carers
This week's Headteacher Letter
17th July 2025
Dear Parents & Carers,
School Meal Prices - reminder
The cost of a school dinner from September 2025 will be £2.40 per day (£12.00 per week). If your child is currently in Year 2, you will need to pay for school dinners when your child moves to Year 3 in September 2025 (or send a packed lunch). If you would like to check if your child is entitled to benefit based free school meals, please speak to the office.
Follow us on Instagram
Thank you to those of you who have already followed us on Instagram – especially our Y6 parents who enjoyed the pictures and videos from our recent residential! Our X (Twitter) account is no longer being updated. Please follow us - westminsterbd3 – and our Hub too – westminsterbd3hub – ready for September where we’ll be sharing a weekly update of life inside Westminster.
Day of Welcome Cafe
Following our very successful events back in June, we have decided to run monthly Cafe & Chat mornings in the Hall for Parents next year. These will be on the last Wednesday of every month (except December, February, May and July), 8.30 – 9.15am. There will be opportunities to talk to staff and have nice refreshments served and organised by our Y6 children.
Important Dates
Tuesday 2nd September – School Opens for the new year!
Thursday 11th September – Y6 Parents meet the Teachers 8.30am
Friday 12th September – Y5 Parents meet the Teachers 8.30am
Friday 12th September – Celebration Worship 2.20pm – all invited
Tuesday 16th September – Y6 Knife Crime PCSO visit
Wednesday 17th September – Y4 Parents meet the Teachers 8.30am
Friday 19th September – Y3 Parents meet the Teachers 8.30am
Friday 19th September – Celebration Worship 2.20pm – all invited
Monday 22nd September – Recycling Week
Monday 22nd September – Y2 Parents meet the Teachers 8.30am
Wednesday 24th September – Parents Cafe & Chat in the Back Hall 8.30am – all invited
Thursday 25th September – Y1 Parents meet the Teachers 8.30am
Friday 26th September – Reception Parents meet the Teachers 8.30am
Friday 26th September – Recycling Week Assembly 2.00
Monday 29th September – School Closed for Training
Staffing
Just a reminder that our class names are changing for September:
Nursery- Mrs Jarvis
RCD – Mrs Dilger
RSM – Mrs McVay
1KP – Mrs Platts
1AS – Mrs Sheridan
2MB – Mrs Barnes
2SB – Mrs Bibi
3HS – Miss Sharp
3JM – Mr Matthews
4RM – Mrs Mahmood
4MS – Miss Shahzaad
5JFW – Mrs Fowles-White
5SG – Mr Greenwood
6HJ – Mrs Jamil
6AK – Miss Khan
We say a sad farewell to Mr Fitzgerald, Mr Iqbal, Mrs Dean, Miss Wilson, Mrs Bi, Miss Hussain, Mr Stoyles, Miss Taylor, Miss Mahamood and Mr Naeem. Everyone will carry Westminster on in their hearts and we will see their legacy remain here as they go.
Thank you
On behalf of all the staff, thank you all for your support, kind words and gifts over the year. Naturally there have been times when it hasn’t been plain sailing – but what family never has a fall out? It’s how we come together afterwards that shows the true strength of our community and the overarching desire to get the very best out of the children. As I reflect on the end of the year, it is right to remember how our community came together after the sudden death, just outside school, of one of our parents back in September. Even in heartbreak and tragedy, community carries us through. We have had lots of people in school affected by loss this year – and often it is coming into school that has given people the strength to smile again.
Year 6 2025
I would also like to wish the very best to our departing Year 6 children. As I said at their Afternoon Tea Party, it is not about SATs results (even though they were good!) or lessons…it is about moulding young people to go out and make a positive difference to BD3 and beyond through their kindness, resilience and generosity. I am confident they will carry great memories from their time at Westminster in their hearts as they take their next ‘first’ step at high school. Be good, be kind and be happy, Year 6.
Finally
Being your Headteacher is the best job in the world – it is a fantastic privilege, with sparkling children, supportive parents and talented staff. I will be excited to see you again in September, once I’ve had a nap. Stay safe this summer, be kind to everyone you meet and God Bless.
Mr. S Gallacher, Headteacher
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