Our whole school topic this half term has inspired our children to empathise with the life of those who lived 100 years ago. We have thought about the soldiers who once walked on Main Street... the children who played at the village school... the jobs that they did and the farmland that once surrounded us. [...]
Today has, indeed, been a fun-filled Yabba-Dabba-Doo day! Again, there’s a great community spirit on days where we are working together to support others. The playground always looks amazing when it’s full of costumes and smiles and today was no exception! From cavemen to veloceraptors, Pudseys to pyjamas… and even a prehistoric fire, the [...]
The girls played their first cup match of the year against Tollerton, who had already had a very successful start to the season. Our Willow Brook team took a while to get settled into playing away, with the wind in our faces and went two goals down before half time. After a little chat and [...]
Our rowing team have been attending school early each Friday morning since the start of September. They have been coached by the fabulous Miss Phillips ready for these competitions and their hard work has certainly paid off. All members of the team tried their absolute best and with the help of Quaver power successfully managed [...]
21 children from years 1 and 2 went to take part in the athletics festival at Rushcliffe school. For many of these children it was their first time representing the school and taking part against other schools from the Rushcliffe area. The children were so proud to wear their kit like the older children do, [...]
Love in a box leaflet Love in a box leaflet 2 For many years now Willow Brook School has been involved in one way or another with the Christmas Shoe Box Appeal. If you have never met the project before, its aims are to reach out to ‘Europe’s poorest, the abandoned, the terminally ill, those [...]
Class 3 have been very busy this term learning all about the period of history from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. To end our topic, we've been creating our own Iron Age shields, although as someone pointed out "they wouldn't be very good in a battle"! The children were very proud of their [...]
The year four boys represented Willow Brook school with pride on Wednesday at the South Notts Academy. They looked great in their new kits and ran their socks off. For many of the boys it was their first playing representing the school in a proper football match. For the others it was a chance to [...]
Over the last couple of days, Class R have had a wonderful time preparing for their party to celebrate Goldilocks' 5th birthday. The fun started on Tuesday morning when we walked down to the local Co-Op store in search of party supplies. The children were so well behaved and a member of the public even [...]
Since starting in September, Class R have had a wonderful time engaging with a range of fairy tales stories. We have looked at the story of Goldilocks, Jack and the Beanstalk, the Gingerbread Man and Sleeping Beauty, in addition to reading a wide range of other texts from the land of fairy tales. The children [...]
