News from Class 5
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12, 2023
Ali Baba – Photo Album
A huge thanks to Andrew Hallsworth (Marlow Photography) for taking some super shots of our Christmas production! As promised, we share them with you and hope you enjoy them. [...]
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12, 2023
Ali Baba
At Willow Brook we know that a Christmas production is something that stays with you long after many other primary school memories start to fade. It is why we always aim to make them special. Our 2023 performance of Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits was no exception! After four weeks of rehearsals and [...]
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12, 2023
Artistic creations from class five!
Artistic Creations To get in the mood for Christmas, we've been singing carols in the hall, taking part in Christmas quizzes and painting some wonderfully creative pieces of festive artwork. We spent a Friday afternoon carefully listening how to blend watercolours to create our amazing backgrounds, simulating the night's sky. Afterwards, we drew our [...]
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12, 2023
Year 5 are authors
Authors Over the past two weeks in year five we have tirelessly planned, drafted, edited, reviewed and finally published our very own books. We've been inspired by the 1,001 Arabian Nights series of short stories, most notably: Aladdin, Ali Baba and The Anklet. From this, we've identified key themes and created a piece of work [...]
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11, 2023
Sporting Events in November
November has seen some of our children from years 1-6 take part in three exciting events. We have taken part in a Dodgeball Festival at East Leake Academy, a Boccia tournament at South Wolds and, most recently, travelled to South Notts Academy for a Multi Skills Festival. All the children have made school proud [...]
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11, 2023
Captain Connection’s Baghdad Adventure!
Thanks to a second visit from our trusted superhero, Captain Connection, Willow Brook children have once again used their mathematical minds to defeat Lord Homework! In a time-travelling escapade, our algebra skills were needed to crack the code to free Scheherazade from the evil vizier in ancient Baghdad. Every year group rose to the [...]
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11, 2023
Children in Need
We had three wishes for Children in Need Day from the genie... Our first was to raise over £1,000 and hit a new fundraising target. Our second was to order blue skies and no rain so that we could complete the outdoor Aladdin challenge. The third was to have a day where the Willow [...]
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11, 2023
Make a Noise About Bullying!
On Monday, Willow Brook marked the start of Anti Bullying Week. Everyone wore odd socks and understood that whatever the difference, standing side by side was still wonderfully possible. Throughout the day the children made pledges, wrote a policy, learnt how to speak out, added words of kindness to their socks and enjoyed Andy [...]
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11, 2023
Football at Gotham
The Willow Brook boys put on a show last night playing Gotham in a football match. After going 1-0 down early on, the boys responded just before half time to take us into the break at 1-1. In the 2nd half the boys turned up the heat and hit 5 past Gotham to bring [...]
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11, 2023
Year 5 Autumn 2 Learning Letter
November Nights Welcome back from, what I hope, has been an enjoyable half term break! I’m looking forward to seeing everyone again and I’m eagerly anticipating the stories of how many sweets you managed to get during Halloween. I have had a lovey half term break; it felt like it was longer than two [...]