It has been an exciting day at Willow Brook as we have joined schools and organisations around the world celebrating Safer Internet Day 2023! Every class has been buzzing with lively discussion and there have been so many thoughts and ideas shared. The children have shown themselves to be thoughtful and reflective, sharing what [...]
Class R put on our wellies this week and headed out on a special job for Percy the Park Keeper. Some of his animal friends had got lost, and we had to go and hunt for them. We talked about the kind of wild animals that might live in the local area and the [...]
Class R had a great time designing and making their Super Veggies! Inspired by the Supertato stories and different superhero costumes, we gave them masks, capes, belts and logos. Some had wings and even a hover board!
Class 2 have explored what schools of the future might be like using AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality). We used AR to find out about the lifecycle of a butterfly, and VR to inspire our vocabulary work. Everyone really enjoyed using these technologies, and imagining how they might develop in schools of [...]
This afternoon Class 2 took a trip to Japan! We had a go at origami, used chopsticks (some of us were surprisingly good!), copied some beautiful Japanese writing and designed a character in Japanese comic style. We also shared some of our favourite facts from our Japan homework - Mrs Fleming learned a thing [...]
Class 2 have been learning about Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole. We recreated Scott’s expedition on the playground, starting on his ship, Terra Nova, where we had to shovel lots of coal to burn through the ice pack. At last, we spotted Antarctica. Then we built a hut to live in through [...]
Class 2 have been having more fun with science. After building our Titanic mini models we were very curious about floating and sinking and have done two more investigations to learn more. We braved the drizzle to create some floating and sinking sorting diagrams on the playground. First of all we predicted which materials [...]
Class 2 are really enjoying this half term's topic learning about the journey of Titanic. We started off being historians, and discovered facts about Titanic hidden on the trim trail. We learned about the ship itself and helped Captain Smith plan the journey across the Atlantic. Then we found out about some of the [...]
