Willow Brook's beginners chess club started this week and we got off to a great start! After going right back to basics of what a board looks like, we learnt (or, in the case of some children, revised!) how pawns start, move, take other pieces and can be very helpful if they make it [...]
Boomwhackers Club has returned to Willow Brook and it has been fantastic to see how enthusiastic the children are to play. We have enjoyed learning how to play the Boomwhackers correctly and have begun to add songs to our repertoire.
Year 4 - You'll need this bit of culture to help you with your homework! Enjoy!
Get involved with The Big Notts Survey and add your voice to the future of our County as they put together a new post-Covid strategy. Willow Brook children can do this too, by following this link to the Young People's questionnaire: https://consult.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/communications/thebignottsyoungpeoplessurvey/ Your views can be added until the end of September. [...]
Willow Brook - we did it! We dodged the showers and the occasional thunder and had a fabulous week of sports and games. As you'll see from the photos and the footage, there was a whole host of events on offer every day to run alongside the traditional trackside races. Our tournament day [...]
This week in our assembly time the children are learning what it means to be a refugee. At least 82.4 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Among them are nearly 26.4 million refugees, around half of whom are children. The terms “refugee”, “asylum-seeker” and “migrant” are used to describe people who [...]
Our whole-school topic this half term is all about Journeys. In history, each year group is going back in time to walk in the shoes of some well-known travellers... From the Ancient Egyptians making their final trip to the afterlife to those who stepped aboad the Titanic and the Mayflower, we will be using [...]
Dear Willow Brook, A little extra homework from me… I hope that you will be inspired to think ahead! Next Friday, like many other children across the country, everyone at school will be entering a very special competition. For more than 50 years Royal Mail’s Special Stamp programme has commemorated British history and achievement. [...]
The Windrush Generation Inspired by the stories of Mrs Best's Grandmother, who emigrated to the U.K as part of the Windrush Generation, Class 4 made it our mission to learn more about the generation of people who inspired, created and were responsible for the creation of Nottinghill Carnival. We were joined by Mr Nigel [...]
