Gillian the giraffe has been the mascot of my class for the past 7 years (5 years in Class 3 and 2 years in Class 1). Each week, she has dutifully gone home with a different child who has impressed me with their writing and gone on some fabulous adventures over the weekend with [...]
Mrs Humphrey and Miss Adams were thrilled to be asked to deputise for Mr Clarke for a multiskills tournament for year 1 and 2 children at South Wolds. 8 polite, enthusiastic and competitive children took part in a variety of activities alongside children from other schools. For all of the children from Willow Brook, [...]
Class R, 1 and 2 took part in a mixed team scatterball tournament at school. We had 6 teams ready and raring to go on Monday afternoon and the light drizzle certainly didn't dampen spirits (or stop play!). The rules of scatterball are simple (and work as a great introduction for rounders later on [...]
Over the past few weeks, Class R and Class 1 have met for exciting, activity filled topic afternoons. We have learnt about Artemis, Icarus, the Ancient Olympics, Zeus and Hera and more! Here are some photos of what we have got up to to explore our learning... [...]
You wood not believe how good Class 1 were at identifying trees this afternoon! They confidently explained what type of tree was which using their key to focus on the leaves or bark they could see. We had a hunt around the school site for various types including horse chestnut, silver birch and honey [...]
Here is a copy of the Summer 2 learning letter for Year 1. Term 6 learning letter
Class 1 had a fantastic time at Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Wednesday this week, despite the rain! A huge thank you to our adult helpers who gave up their day to peer at animals that were as disappointed with the weather as we were! Here are some of our pieces of writing we did [...]
Unfortunately, this Summer 1 half term has been the soggiest I've ever known. we've only made it onto the field for our PE lessons on 2 occasions over the past 6 weeks. However, it's going to take a lot more than wet grass to stop us practicing our cricket skills as you can see [...]
Here is a copy of the Class 1 learning letter for Summer 1. Term 5 learning letter
Class 1 made their very own Salvador Dali style clocks this week using salt dough. Some enjoyed working with the gooey mess before it rolled into a dough, others were less keen to get messy! [...]
