News from Class 2
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07, 2022
Sports Day 2022
It was hot... It was full of competition... it was full of happy, energetic Willow Brookers! Enjoy some pictures from the 2022 Sports Afternoon! [...]
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07, 2022
Year 2’s Day of Adventure
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, [...]
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05, 2022
Welcome to Trafalgar Square!
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 [...]
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04, 2022
Jubilee!
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 [...]
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03, 2022
Let the Reading Rivers Flow!
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 [...]
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03, 2022
Doing Something Funny for the Money!
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 [...]
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03, 2022
Future School
Class 2 have explored what schools of the future might be like using AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality). We used AR to find out about the lifecycle of a butterfly, and VR to inspire our vocabulary work. Everyone really enjoyed using these technologies, and imagining how they might develop in schools of [...]
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03, 2022
International Women’s Day at Willow Brook
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 [...]
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03, 2022
A Wonderful World Book Day
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 [...]
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02, 2022
Futuropolis
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, [...]