News from Willow Brook Primary School
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07, 2021
Year 6 Graduate from D.A.R.E.
Watch as the year six children show us what they have learned over the 10 week D.A.R.E. course. [...]
16
07, 2021
Year six go climbing!
How very lucky to have not one, but two sporting trips in two weeks! On Tuesday, the children boarded a coach to make a journey to Nottingham Climbing Centre. We had the entire centre to ourselves and we had a bunch of enthusiastic, knowledgeable and fun instructors who gave us plenty of time to [...]
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07, 2021
Class 3’s Ukulele Performances!
After 7 weeks of focus, hard work and enthusiasm, Class 3 are incredibly proud to present their learning from our ukulele sessions! We've included some of our personal favourites that are guaranteed to be stuck in your head for the rest of the day! A big thank you to our wonderful Ms Fletcher for [...]
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07, 2021
The Champions of Sports Week
Willow Brook - we did it! We dodged the showers and the occasional thunder and had a fabulous week of sports and games. As you'll see from the photos and the footage, there was a whole host of events on offer every day to run alongside the traditional trackside races. Our tournament day [...]
11
07, 2021
Gardeners’ World!
Our Year 6 gardeners have put in many hours in the fruit and vegetable patch this season and they are certainly reaping the rewards of their labours. Mrs Graham has worked hard as head gardener to lead her team and harvest the crop! There were strawberries and peas, mange tout, broad beans, onions and [...]
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07, 2021
Floating and sinking
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 [...]
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06, 2021
Windrush Day 22nd June
To mark Windrush day, the children in Year 1 created beautiful paintings depicting the original journey of the HMT Empire Windrush from the Caribbean to England. On board, more than a 1000 Caribbean people coming to England to help rebuild after the war. [...]
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06, 2021
Titanic!
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 [...]
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06, 2021
We cannot walk alone – 2021 Refugee Week
This week in our assembly time the children are learning what it means to be a refugee. At least 82.4 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Among them are nearly 26.4 million refugees, around half of whom are children. The terms “refugee”, “asylum-seeker” and “migrant” are used to describe people who [...]
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06, 2021
Where the wild plants are
This week, the children enjoying going out onto the school grounds to look for wild plants. They used their brilliant investigative brains to find dandelions, nettles, daisies and other common wild plants.