Our Year 2 class spent the day at Colwick Adventure Base this week for a day packed full of adventure. I've never had a class so excited to go for a ride on a coach and there wasn't a quiet moment as they pointed out places they knew along the way. Once we arrived, [...]
On Tuesday 21st June, the Willow Brook Cricket Team took part in the annual Keyworth Cricket Club Festival. Victories against St. Edmund Campion and Crossdale saw us finish top of our group and qualify for the CT Cup semi-final against Bunny. A great win secured our place in the final against Willoughby, 3 wins [...]
Willow Brook was at its best yesterday as we celebrated the Queen's Platinum Jubilee! The children looked resplendent in their red white and blue, as did the playground, and the day was full of royal activity! The Queen herself graced us for our street party playground lunch... there was a Corgi Hunt... a [...]
Thank you so much for your incredible response to this half term's creative homework! In an attempt to encourage the artists of the future, children (and their grown ups!) have been working over the past three weeks on an installation for our very own Fourth Plinth. The result was a school full of [...]
It is always a pleasure to accompany the Willow Brook choir to a gig, but our annual visit to the Young Voices Concert at the NEC Arena in Birmingham continues to be the year's highlight! We performed as part of a strong choir to an audience of thousands and the day certainly lived [...]
Congratulations to our year six class who proudly graduated from their DAaRT course. DAaRT is the course that was formerly known as DARE and prepares our oldest children for their teenage years ahead. Here they are looking rather pleased with themselves and wearing their graduation t-shirts. [...]
Class 3 and 4 were tremendously excited to have their first school residential experience this week. For many children, it was their first night away from home! The children have had the most amazing time, as you'll see from the pictures- there was wall to wall smiling faces for the 2 days! We enjoyed [...]
Welcome to the Summer Term and to our final whole-school topic of the academic year. What could be more fitting (or motivating) than a national celebration... A jubilee! Over the next six weeks we will be building our knowledge of the Queen and her 70 year reign, learning all about our capital city and [...]
Every child at Willow Brook was given the same homework task on World Book Day... to create their very own Reading River. In a simple picture map, everyone sailed from their earliest memory of books to charting the last book that they read. The results were staggering and the buzz of conversation as rivers [...]
Red Nose Day was a day full of fun at Willow Brook! With over 24 acts reaching the afternoon final of The Willow Brook Comedy Show, the day lived up to its 'Funny is Power' theme! Imogen in Year 4 was our ultimate comedy champion with an 'improv' routine to rival Michael McIntyre and [...]
