News from Class 3
This week year 3 and 4 exhausted themselves during their stay at Mount Cook Adventure Centre! We faced many new and exciting challenges and for some experienced our first night away from home. Over the two days each group got a chance to complete all four of the activities below. The low ropes course [...]
Young Voices is always a fabulous experience and 2026 did not disappoint! On Monday we took 51 talented Willow Brookers people to the Birmingham Arena to sing alongside 5800 other children. After an afternoon of rehearsals, an audience of 8,000 we treated to an evening of all sorts of songs - from Sea Shanties, [...]
This half term, our science topic is 'Rocks and Fossils'. We have spent the last two weeks learning about Metamorphic, Igneous and Sedimentary rocks and investigating their properties. Can you remember any of their properties? [...]
Year 3 Spring 1 Learning Letter 2026
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Friday's Children in Need day was, as always full of fun at Willow Brook! Everyone looked fabulous in their Wild West outfits and Pudsey shirts! In the morning, we danced and sang, played a Gold Rush team game. The afternoon saw us settling down at the Willow Brook cinema to watch 'Spirit', which added [...]
Year 3 Autumn 2 Learning Letter
As part of our exploration into the significance of the River Nile in Ancient Egypt for our Dawn of Man topic, we were investigating how the Egyptians transported water from the river to their crops. We learnt about the shaduf, a simple yet effective irrigation tool that played a crucial role in ensuring crops [...]
This morning Miss Mistry taught the whole school about her Hindu faith. It's an exciting time of the year... having just celebrated Navratri, it's time to start the preparations for Diwali! We learnt all about the feasts and deities, dances and rituals and even got to admire Miss Mistry's fabulous outfits - brought all [...]
As part of our science topic we have been learning about the human body. We had lots of fun last week making movable arm models. We rolled up pieces of paper to represent the radius, ulna and humerus (the bones in your arm) and then used balloons to represent the bicep and tricep muscles. [...]
