Willow Brook Contact Newsletter
Willow Brook contact - week 1
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03, 2020
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03, 2020
With love
On Friday we said a heartfelt goodbye to each other. Whether we will find ourselves in each other's company again during this academic year is unknown, which made it a difficult day to judge. We sang together and talked about our community and wanted to send our love to all of our friends who were [...]
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03, 2020
Latest Covid-19 communication to parents
Dear Willow Brook families, From the contact I have had with parents this evening, I know that Parentmail is struggling under the weight of schools' communication and this may take several hours to reach you... Today has been a very long and busy one and we continue to await directives from the government to let [...]
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03, 2020
World Book Day
Thursday 5th March was, yet again, a World Book Day to remember at Willow Brook! This year we dressed up in 'genres' and there was certainly a wonderful array of creative costumes. We started the day together and met our new characters... From spacemen... to bears and rabbits... There were wardrobes (but thankfully no [...]
28
02, 2020
Nottingham Forest share their vision for glory!
Willow Brook had some special visitors in assembly on Thursday and learnt just what it felt like to work as a team and turn ambition into success. NFFC's Dream Big message was inspiring and the story of Brian Clough taking Forest all the way to being European Champions left us with an upbeat feeling! [...]
16
02, 2020
Geography Mastermind
Thursday saw a very exciting culmination of a whole half term's geography focus. Twelve very brave children took it in turns to sit in the black chair and be bombarded by some very tough questions. I think we can all agree that our contestants did themselves proud. Many of the children have been asking me [...]
14
02, 2020
Class 3 Poetry
Class 3 have been exploring the famous Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar, in particular her poem titled "My Country". We pondered over the new vocabulary and the different meaning that could be taken from several phrases. At our class assembly last week, we shared some of our own poems based on Mackellar's. Unfortunately, due to [...]
9
02, 2020
Rushcliffe Schools Alliance Pupil Parliament
As much as I love LEGO and jigsaw puzzles, it was a treat to swap year two's play afternoon for a trip to County Hall's debating chamber for our most recent pupil parliament meeting. Two representatives from every primary school in Rushcliffe were in attendance and brought with them notes from discussions that had happened [...]
9
02, 2020
Willow Brook girls through to the next round!
I had the pleasure of taking the Willow Brook girls football team to Abbey Road Primary School in West Bridgford to take part in a first round match of the Rushcliffe Primary Schools Football Cup. As soon as kick off had taken place, any nervous energy was transformed into fire and determination as the girls [...]
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02, 2020
Keyworth Trail Run
The Keyworth Trail run is back! Following a year of world cups and busy work the Friends of Willow Brook Primary School are pleased to announce the return of the KTR15 and fun run for 2020. This is the third of the Keyworth running events including the Turkey Trot half marathon and the [...]