News from Class 5
Before the Easter holidays year 5 and 6 exhausted themselves during their stay at Mount Cook Adventure Base! We were all certainly ready to catch up on some sleep over the holidays, here's a brief update of what we got up to, along with a few pictures from our stay. Over the three days we [...]
You'll see from this small selection of pictures from Friday, that our World Book Day celebrations were filled with smiles... and plenty of reading! We had a great assembly, where extracts from books matched our costumes; did plenty of author related activities and lessons; enjoyed choosing a new book of our own from the giant [...]
Our girls chess team played in the first girls only Nottinghamshire chess league and performed very well indeed. Nearly all of the girls came away with some points and even those who didn't manage to create any checkmates, still had a great time and gained valuable tournament experience. I'm certainly very proud of them all!
I took eight elite children to play chess in the South Nottinghamshire chess tournament last night. Building on a fantastic start to the season earlier in the year, the boys played fantastically with wins across the board. Unfortunately our year six boys narrowly missed out on bronze medals, coming in fourth place over the two [...]
Click below to read the minutes from our meeting on 13.11.18 Meeting Minutes 131118 This picture shows the comic strip created by the previous School Council at the end of last academic year, ready to be launched this year, which clearly outlines our expectations of behaviour and conduct at play times in order to ensure [...]
The children in Class 5 thoroughly enjoyed creating poppies using collage for our contribution to the Willow Brook wreaths to be displayed at the church and in our school grounds to remember those who died in World War 1 and the conflicts that followed.
The girls played their first cup match of the year against Tollerton, who had already had a very successful start to the season. Our Willow Brook team took a while to get settled into playing away, with the wind in our faces and went two goals down before half time. After a little chat and [...]
Over a series of art sessions, as part of our 'History's Greatest Invaders' topic, we created these beautiful mixed media scenes of Viking longboats sailing towards their next invasion! First we used the technique of wax resist painting to create interesting skylines. Then we used various painting techniques to create the waves: splatter painting, [...]
Our rowing team have been attending school early each Friday morning since the start of September. They have been coached by the fabulous Miss Phillips ready for these competitions and their hard work has certainly paid off. All members of the team tried their absolute best and with the help of Quaver power successfully managed [...]
Many of you will have heard the sad news that Julie Cook passed away last week. As a parent and a huge supporter of Willow Brook school, she blessed us all with her energy, sense of fun and her positive determination to get things done. Julie took the helm of our Friends Association for many [...]
