News from Class 2
Class R, 1 and 2 took part in a mixed team scatterball tournament at school. We had 6 teams ready and raring to go on Monday afternoon and the light drizzle certainly didn't dampen spirits (or stop play!). The rules of scatterball are simple (and work as a great introduction for rounders later on [...]
Year 6 did a brilliant job of organising a school fair for the other children at Willow Brook! Friday's FunFest was a perfect community event! There were stalls and games, prizes to be won and wet sponges to throw! Year 6 were expert face painters and tattooists and, as you can see from the [...]
Welcome to the last whole-school topic of the year! It's going to be a great one! We are off to Ancient Greece to experience life during the very first Olympiad. Have a look at our plans and look forward to joining us for our exhibition of work on July 17th. [...]
A first for me in my time at Willow Brook. 7 children from our year 2 class, represented Willow Brook in a year 2 football match vs our good friends at Costock Primary School. The team played fantastically well in front of a sold out Brook Arena, winning the game 5-0! I was super [...]
Here is our learning letter for the first half of the Summer term. Learning Letter
It was an absolute treat to welcome the author LD Lapinski to Willow Brook on Friday! We have had such a great half term in the company of Flick and Jonathan from the 'Strangeworlds Travel Agency' trilogy, that it was a treat to meet their creator. We started the day with the whole school [...]
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 [...]
As part of British Science Week, we set to work investigating which boat would float for the longest time. We made boats out of different materials and were very surprised by our findings, especially the boats that were still floating when we left for hometime. [...]
We have been busy investigating time in Year 2. We started looking at sundials and how shadows are created before moving on to looking at how sand and water can be used to track the passing of time. Here are a few photographs of us in action.
