Sport at Willow Brook in May has certainly been one of the better months for sport this year. Every month is special for sport, but May has seen 4 fantastic victories in football (2 for the boys and 2 for the girls) and 2 of these wins being played back on our home turf [...]
Class 3 had a marvellous morning at 'The van Gogh Immersive Experience' this week. After spending the past 5 weeks exploring and recreating Vincent's art in our Fields of Gold topic, it was fantastic to see it come to life. The highlight of the morning was watching over 250 of Vincent's paintings fill the [...]
Class 3 had a brilliant time at Top Link this week, a sporting event run by the Year 12 Sports Leaders at South Wolds. The children were split into countries and then competed in a series of events including speed bounce, javelin throw and long jump. Mr Clarke, Mr Boyd and I were all [...]
It's been another wet month but, two Saturday tournaments and two midweek games since the Easter break have seen a couple of wins (we're back!) and some positive individual and team performances. We have also been involved this week in an Outdoor Adventurous Activities Festival at Rushcliffe Country Park with year 3 & 4. [...]
Class 3 had lots on fun yesterday afternoon planting peas for our 'Room for Growth' science investigation. We are investigating whether the amount of space available will affect the growth of the peas. Each group planted 4 pots of seeds. In pot A there are 2 seeds, B 4 seeds, C 6 seeds and [...]
Here is a copy of the Class 3 learning letter for Summer 1. Year 3 Summer 1 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 [...]
We had lots of fun is Class 3 yesterday baking biscuits for the staffroom. The day began with some product research where we tasted a variety on supermarket biscuits, followed by a biscuit questionnaire for the staff. After we had gathered all of this information, we designed our products thinking about appearance as well [...]
It’s always exciting for me to have the opportunity to watch the future Willow Brook footballing talent and earlier today, eight year 3 girls’ got their first moments of wearing the world famous Willow Brook football kit. An exciting start to a session organised by Keyworth Football Club at Platt Lane in the sunshine [...]
Class 3 had a fantastic session with LD Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency. We created blob characters as a team, made our own mini books and followed LD's top tips to create a skeleton plan for our own adventure! We also loved showing LD our Strangeworlds display full of our adventure stories [...]
