News from Class 1
As part of British Science Week, Class 1 had a week filled with time themed science... We made a sand timer as a class and (after being successful on the 4th attempt!) learnt that sand needs quite a big hole to travel through enough to make a functioning timer. We also timed existing sand [...]
After a 4 year hiatus due to COVID, Class 1 and Class 2 were thrilled to be invited back to Time Travelling hosted at St Mary Magdalene's church, Keyworth as part of churches together. We enjoyed carouselling around 4 different activities in the church: enjoying a biscuit and drink as part of the last [...]
Comic Relief Day at Willow Brook is always guaranteed to lift the spirits! From 200 children dressed in red (thank goodness for Forest tops!) and looking brilliant in the Charity's caps, t-shirts and noses, to a live open mic comedy afternoon, there was bound to be a positive vibe! Thanks to your donations, our [...]
There's nothing more exciting than the moment 200 book characters arrive on the school playground on World Book Day... From Matildas and enormous crocodiles to dragons, lions, witches and wardrobes, you never quite know who (or what!) is about to arrive! Our Year 6 children have always been 'dressing up pros', so we couldn't [...]
International Women’s Day was celebrated at Willow Brook by participating in the “Let Girls Play” campaign. A record-breaking 465,000 girls from 5000 schools across England took part. This gave the Willow Brook girls an opportunity to enjoy playing football with their peers and discover a new passion. Take a look at the photos below [...]
Here is a copy of our learning letter for Spring 2. Term 4 learning letter
We're hitting the spring term at 88 mph as we navigate time travel and head back to the future for our whole-school topic! The history of time telling took us on a whistle-stop journey to Ancient Egypt and back to Baghdad this morning as we started to understand how those early hours and minutes [...]
Henri Matisse is a famous French artist who lived over 70 years ago. He was famous for his expressive use of colour and shape. We have looked at one of his famous art works called “The sheaf” and discussed his use of colour. We have experimented with mixing primary colours to make secondary colours. [...]
This Tuesday, we were treated to the performance of Hansel and Gretel by the Roundabout Theatre Company. The children spent the morning immersing themselves in the story, before watching the performance in the afternoon. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, which had a lovely twist to the traditional tale. [...]
We started our Geography topic work in Class 1 today with lots of different activities to do with maps. Our focus in year 1 is the geography of the UK, looking at the countries that make up the United Kingdom [...]
