The Community Department have been very busy recently, working hard on a new parking policy. This came about from a whole school School Council assembly where the children were discussing what it was like on Willow Brook and the Fairway before and after school. A sea of hands went up as children shared concerns about [...]
From Vikings to dragons! We move on in our learning this half term to explore the world of dragons, with lots of opportunities for creative thinking as we join a quest to prove that dragons were once real. Take a look at our learning letter for this half term to find out more. Learning letter [...]
Please click on the link to see the Learning Letter for this half term. Year 6 Learning Letter Autumn 2 2017
Monday 2nd October was a very important day in the Willow Brook calendar! It was election day! Elections took place to appoint our school council representatives for our three pupil voice departments: the Care Department; the Creative Department and the Community Department. During the previous week, after a meeting to discuss the continued importance of [...]
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The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring the exhibition centre where they tried on chainmail, helmets and dresses from the 15th century. They experienced shooting an archer's bow and watched a re-enactment of the battle on film. Many weapons were displayed for them to see and four different characters shared their experiences throughout the exhibition. Then it [...]
We've had a wonderful start to the half term in year 5. The children were very keen to get discussions flowing over their new history topic of the Vikings and we quickly discovered that we have some expert historians in the class, who were very eager to share all of their knowledge. To read more [...]
This week year 5 set off an adventure to York to visit the Jorvik Viking Centre. After carrying out lots of research about the Viking's in our history lessons, the children were already well equipped with lots of Viking knowledge but the experience at the Jorvik Centre definitely made all of our learning come to [...]
