News from Class 5
Welcome back Hello everyone! I trust that your holidays were enjoyable and filled with fun moments that the children will be keen to tell both myself and others about. I’m looking forward to hearing about them! I have been incredibly fortunate over the holidays and managed to ‘escape’ twice! Once to Norfolk (with extended [...]
Sketches On a sunny summer's afternoon, class five sat down to complete the final step in their art journey this year. Armed with their Greek jars wobbling in the breeze, they sought to capture them in sketches from various positions and orientations. As you can see from the photographs, the children concentrated and were [...]
Gillian the giraffe has been the mascot of my class for the past 7 years (5 years in Class 3 and 2 years in Class 1). Each week, she has dutifully gone home with a different child who has impressed me with their writing and gone on some fabulous adventures over the weekend with [...]
Rounders The last week of term is a very special time for everyone at school. No more so than when doing a class-wide competition of rounders. Can you believe the scores were tied at 15 - 15 at 'full time'? So of course, naturally, we had to go to sudden death! It was a [...]
Greek Pottery You'd be forgiven for thinking we'd unearthed some Ancient Greek pottery, such is the level of detail within year five's work. They have tirelessly (and painstakingly at times) created their own Greek pots which have been on display for all to see. From inception of ideas - sketching Greek patterns - to [...]
At the beginning of the Euros, Willow Brook classes pulled three teams out of the hat. As well as following the teams in the tournament in Germany, it also put them in to a lottery to play in our own final match. When England were defeated by Spain last Sunday, Year 2 (representing Spain) [...]
The girls finished off their season with a 3-1 victory against Cropwell Bishop. After an early Cropwell goal, a great team move resulted in Emilia showing brilliant composure to bring the scoreline level. Emilia soon added to her goal tally, striking a super free-kick low into the bottom corner. Emily wrapped up the victory [...]
Welcome to Ancient Greece and the Willow Brook Olympics! We cheered, we ran, we conquered! There were chariot races, Argos eyes and Zeus's lightning bolts and the stadion race became a marathon by the end of the afternoon. With thanks to Andrew Hallsworth for bringing his camera and capturing the afternoon so well... even [...]
In a half term full of Olympic learning, what could be better than being taught by an Olympic athlete?! The Gymnast, Sam Oldham, who was part of Team GB in the 2012 Games in London, came to Willow Brook and wowed us all in a day full of handstands, back flips, strength and motivation. [...]
Year 6 did a brilliant job of organising a school fair for the other children at Willow Brook! Friday's FunFest was a perfect community event! There were stalls and games, prizes to be won and wet sponges to throw! Year 6 were expert face painters and tattooists and, as you can see from the [...]
