News from Class 2
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Over the past few weeks we have been reading and retelling the story of Mr Grinling's Lunch. The children have plotted their own fabulous methods of baffling the seagulls and keeping them away from the lunch Mrs Grinling had prepared. Their stories will soon be up on display in the classroom for everyone to [...]
Here is a copy of our learning letter for our Spring 1 topic. Learning letter Spring 1
A huge thanks to Andrew Hallsworth (Marlow Photography) for taking some super shots of our Christmas production! As promised, we share them with you and hope you enjoy them. [...]
At Willow Brook we know that a Christmas production is something that stays with you long after many other primary school memories start to fade. It is why we always aim to make them special. Our 2023 performance of Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits was no exception! After four weeks of rehearsals and [...]
November has seen some of our children from years 1-6 take part in three exciting events. We have taken part in a Dodgeball Festival at East Leake Academy, a Boccia tournament at South Wolds and, most recently, travelled to South Notts Academy for a Multi Skills Festival. All the children have made school proud [...]
