This afternoon's Wacky Rally was the culmination of six weeks of hard work for the Willow Brook designers. Using our knowledge of Newton's Laws of Motion, teamwork, determination and with a lot of inspiration from the Wacky Races cartoon, 21 selected teams brought their powered vehicles to the track for the final showdown. The [...]
Class 1 and 2 had the pleasure of walking down to St Mary Magdalene's church in Keyworth to take part in Time Travelling activities with Churches Together in Keyworth. We split into 4 groups and worked our way through different activities that all formed part of the Christian Easter story. We waved palm leaves [...]
It was such a joy to see Willow Brook children arrive in the playground this morning excited and raring to go on World Book Day! As you can see, we had so many inventive characters, who shared their outfits with pride in our assembly. After playtime, each class received a present... Thanks to generous [...]
Our term ended with a very special performance of the Nativity story by our EYFS and Year 1 children. Here are some photos of their afternoon and evening performances. Now Christmas can really begin... [...]
The past two Wednesday's have seen us take part in two exciting festivals. Year 5 & 6 took a short walk down the fairway to South Wolds to take part in a rowing (on machines, not water!) festival. A lot of different challenges to compete in with a superb demonstration of teamwork throughout. Year [...]
Friday's Children in Need day was, as always full of fun at Willow Brook! Everyone looked fabulous in their Wild West outfits and Pudsey shirts! In the morning, we danced and sang, played a Gold Rush team game. The afternoon saw us settling down at the Willow Brook cinema to watch 'Spirit', which added [...]
Learning letter autumn 2
Class 1 tried lots of different fruits and described the taste and texture of them. We were very careful using the knives! Mrs Humphrey said that we would all have a go at trying the fruits but if we didn't like it, we could put it in the bin. Wouldn't it be an awful [...]
This morning Miss Mistry taught the whole school about her Hindu faith. It's an exciting time of the year... having just celebrated Navratri, it's time to start the preparations for Diwali! We learnt all about the feasts and deities, dances and rituals and even got to admire Miss Mistry's fabulous outfits - brought all [...]
Last Friday, Willow Brook held their annual MacMillan Coffee Morning. Whilst eating cake for breakfast may be a challenge for some, we managed it in style! Our Bake Off competition was fierce...Paul Hollywood would have had an aching arm from all the handshakes he would have given! After much deliberation (and another slice of [...]
