Leah Hefetz

Proud Assistant Headteacher and Year 6 Teacher at @WestThorntonSch, part of @IPAT_edu. Celebrating Teaching and Learning in our wonderful school 📚🩵

[West Thornton Primary School @WestThorntonSch]

From tiny seeds to thriving green plants ready for the world! 🌱🍅 Seeing these Receptions tomato plants grow has been such a rewarding journey. We are so incredibly proud to finally be sharing them with our community! Here's to fresh harvests and happy gardens ahead 🪴 @IPAT_Edu

[West Thornton Primary School @WestThorntonSch]

Our West Thornton Careers Day is off to an incredible start & future doctors, astronauts, artists & teachers have officially taken over 🚀🩺🎨👩🏽‍🏫 Children are dressed as their dream jobs & busy exploring the Careers Fair stalls to learn all about the world of work ✨ @IPAT_Edu

[West Thornton Primary School @WestThorntonSch]

We were excited to hold our first 'GROW' (Get Ready for Work) session this morning. It was lovely to see such a good turnout with such a positive and enthusiastic vibe. #GROW @IPAT_Edu

[Leah Hefetz @MrsHefetz_]

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[West Thornton Primary School @WestThorntonSch]

Fun, football, food and fabulous friends…a lovely Y6 leavers disco. A lovely vibe with a lovely group of young people. We really will miss you all! @IPAT_Edu

[Leah Hefetz @MrsHefetz_]

Smiles, tears, beautiful singing & lots of laughter from acting out class reunions of 20, 40 & 60 years time ❤️ So proud of our amazing Year 6 children for their Leavers’ Assembly & the legacy they are leaving at @WestThorntonSch ✨ Bring on our last trip tomorrow & disco time 🪩

[Leah Hefetz @MrsHefetz_]

Chessington Bound with our lovely Year 6 children and the sun has made an appearance ☀️

[Amy Bairstow @amyartworksedu]

Staff well-being @WestThorntonSch! @IPAT_Edu 🍃

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

🚨 NEW RESOURCE 🚨

@MrGoodwin23 has designed a brilliant infographic based on my blog on 'Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale, Structure and Style'.

The PDF version is freely available on my resources page: https://t.co/XtH6wtQW54

[Leah Hefetz @MrsHefetz_]

Year 2’s beautifully bright, carnival headdresses in this afternoon’s parade (with some super dance moves). Thank you to the parents who were able to join us in the sunshine ☀️ And a big thank you to our talented group of steel pan performers 🛢️🥁Happy Half Term everyone 🧡

[Princess Beatrice ♔ @HRHBeaOfYork]

Princess Beatrice visited @WestThorntonSch on behalf of @oscarsbookprize on May 23, 2024. Video belongs to Oscar’s book Prize and other media outlets. @yorkiebea @RoyalFamily @KensingtonRoyal

[Leah Hefetz @MrsHefetz_]

A truly entertaining - and very informative - read! One of the final outcomes of ‘Lemon Battery’ from a very talented writer in Blackthorn Class! 👏🏽
I’m in awe of the knowledge and technical abilities shown in this piece of writing 🍋 #year6writing #proudteacher

[West Thornton Primary School @WestThorntonSch]

Finally…!
We can reveal the exciting news of a Royal visitor at West Thornton for a very special story time! This day has inspired us to keep enjoying books, keep celebrating diversity and keep developing our reading skills across our wonderful Global Curriculum. 📚👑.

[Leah Hefetz @MrsHefetz_]

This morning, some of our Year 6 children are taking part in the UK Junior Maths Challenge for the second year running. They’ve only just started and I’m pretty sure I can see smoke coming from some of their pencils 🔥➕➗➖🟰✔️#mathschallenge @WestThorntonSch @UKMathsTrust

[Marc Hayes @mrmarchayes]

I've made a summary of Ofsted's English subject review which was released at the start of March. It's for both primary and secondary teachers and leaders.

There's a written and visual summary on my website: https://t.co/qIlhzbp3hY

I hope it's useful!

[West Thornton Primary School @WestThorntonSch]

We are excited to welcome parents and families for our first parent’s evening meetings today. We are proud to showcase fantastic art work from across the school too

[Leah Hefetz @MrsHefetz_]

A great turn out to our Y6 Parent Workshop after school today 📚 Parents & children worked together on a past paper and the children showed them how it’s done, using all the fluency & comprehension strategies we’ve been working hard on in our Reading lessons ☺️ @WestThorntonSch

[West Thornton Primary School @WestThorntonSch]

We are very excited to welcome the TalkBus to Rosecourt Road today to
provide our Year 6 pupils with a safe space to gather information and ask questions to support their wellbeing. @IPAT_Edu

[West Thornton Primary School @WestThorntonSch]

We are recruiting!
Join us for our open events on Thursday 8th February at 5pm and Friday 9th February at 9am… we are now recruiting for Easter and September 2024!
Come and join the West Thornton team!
@IPAT_Edu

[Leah Hefetz @MrsHefetz_]

Thank you so much to @foxfield & Miss Bamiro for such a warm welcome this morning. Our @IPAT_Edu Croydon Hub ECTs explored lessons, looked in books & reflected collaboratively on the practice they saw. Looking forward to seeing their key takeaways in action! 😊

[Leah Hefetz @MrsHefetz_]

This week in Reading, children are working collaboratively to text mark, rehearse and perform Act 1 and 2 of #AChristmasCarol - so proud of the progress they have made with their awareness of prosody and understanding of different texts this term! #fluency #loveforreading 📖❤️