News from Willow Brook Primary School
Before the Easter holidays year 5 and 6 exhausted themselves during their stay at Mount Cook Adventure Base! We were all certainly ready to catch up on some sleep over the holidays, here's a brief update of what we got up to, along with a few pictures from our stay. Over the three days we [...]
Friday afternoon saw the grand final of the half term's Wacky Rally - culmination of all the hard work that has been going on around school over the past 5 weeks. From children in Reception to our oldest engineers, each team produced a powered vehicle and design portfolio ready to showcase and explain on the [...]
There were a few silly songs this morning in singing to mark the wearing of Red Noses and lift the Friday spirits! Year 4 were certainly the happiest bunch!
You'll see from this small selection of pictures from Friday, that our World Book Day celebrations were filled with smiles... and plenty of reading! We had a great assembly, where extracts from books matched our costumes; did plenty of author related activities and lessons; enjoyed choosing a new book of our own from the giant [...]
For more details about how we are celebrating World Book Day this year, click on the following link. Get involved and let's get our heads into some good books! World Book Day 2019
Click below to see the school council minutes related to our latest indoor playtime project and a letter we composed. games letter Meeting Minutes 220119 Meeting Minutes 080119 Meeting Minutes 281118 Mind Map 281118
Our girls chess team played in the first girls only Nottinghamshire chess league and performed very well indeed. Nearly all of the girls came away with some points and even those who didn't manage to create any checkmates, still had a great time and gained valuable tournament experience. I'm certainly very proud of them all!
It was that fun time of year again for Class 1 and Reception to pull on their wellies and go for a walk around Keyworth. We spotted how Autumn is changing our landscape, along with a little bit of autumnal mud! !
On Monday Class 1 and Reception got very excited when they voyaged on a coach all the way back to Medieval Sherwood forest. Here we met with Maid Marion and Robin Hood. We also spotted lots of wintry woodland treats along with learning about Christmas traditions from Medieval times. It was a cold, bright sunny [...]
I took eight elite children to play chess in the South Nottinghamshire chess tournament last night. Building on a fantastic start to the season earlier in the year, the boys played fantastically with wins across the board. Unfortunately our year six boys narrowly missed out on bronze medals, coming in fourth place over the two [...]
