News from Willow Brook Primary School
On Tuesday 28th June, the Year 5 & 6 mixed cricket team played against Costock in a friendly match. For most of the children, this was their first experience of playing a cricket match and despite not winning the game, myself and Mr Magner were incredibly proud and delighted with the teams performance against [...]
On Monday 27th June, eight children from Year 5 and 6 represented Willow Brook at a striking and fielding festival at Radcliffe Junior School. They played in friendly Scatterball matches against other schools and I was really impressed with the teamwork and skills shown throughout. Take a look at the photos below of to [...]
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 [...]
On Tuesday 14th June, our girls netball team took part in the U11 County Netball Tournament. They competed in 5 games, coming 4th overall in their group with their best result being a 5-1 win! The girls were all excited to take part in their first netball tournament and I am very proud of [...]
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 [...]
Class 3 were invited to take part in the Top Link festival held at South Wolds this week and did a brilliant job of representing the school! We rotated around 10 activities before taking part in a variety of races against other local schools. Here are the words of Annabel in Class 3 to [...]
We had quite a challenge in our observational drawing task today...copy the Queen's Coat of Arms! It is an incredibly intricate design and I was so impressed by the children's artistic skills and perseverence. We learnt that making something slightly too big, too long, too close resulted in parts of the design not matching [...]
