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 [...]
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 [...]
Today Willow Brook celebrated International Women's Day and made sure that every girl who shares our space knows that they are strong, valued and able to chase any dream that they might have! In assembly we thought about the number of girls (a staggering 130,000,000) who would not be going to school today... and [...]
In our pursuit of yet more reading happiness, Willow Brook children enjoyed a fabulous day celebrating the 25th World Book Day! Since the launch of our Waterstones Challenge, there has been a new enthusiasm for reading around school - new authors and recently released texts have filled the classroom shelves and the best of [...]
Today we had a wonderful time exploring our forest school learning environment. We played cooperatively, taking turns with the climbing equipment and pushing each other on the swing. We challenged ourselves to climb to the top of the pallets and balance along the log beams. Before we left, we enjoyed making recipes in the [...]
Over the past few weeks Class R has had a wonderful time designing and creating their own superhero metropolis. We talked about the shape of buildings and the features of city skylines at night, before creating our own building. We constructed these using box modeling materials and use papier-mache to create a smooth finish [...]
This half term, the whole school is moving into Future Street! History often takes us back in time, but who knows what will happen as we arrive bemused and wide-eyed in the world of 2050. Keyworth might feel a little different as we experiment with alternative sources of energy; investigate the potential of drones, [...]
Last Friday, we joined with the rest of the nation to watch and enjoy the many feathered friends who share the Willow Brook garden with us! We are lucky to have such an array of birds in the fields. There are woodpeckers, robins, wrens and finches... not to mention the two buzzards who circle [...]
