News from Class 5
On Monday 27th June, eight children from Year 5 and 6 represented Willow Brook at a striking and fielding festival at Radcliffe Junior School. They played in friendly Scatterball matches against other schools and I was really impressed with the teamwork and skills shown throughout. Take a look at the photos below of to [...]
On Tuesday 21st June, the Willow Brook Cricket Team took part in the annual Keyworth Cricket Club Festival. Victories against St. Edmund Campion and Crossdale saw us finish top of our group and qualify for the CT Cup semi-final against Bunny. A great win secured our place in the final against Willoughby, 3 wins [...]
On Tuesday 14th June, our girls netball team took part in the U11 County Netball Tournament. They competed in 5 games, coming 4th overall in their group with their best result being a 5-1 win! The girls were all excited to take part in their first netball tournament and I am very proud of [...]
Thank you so much for your incredible response to this half term's creative homework! In an attempt to encourage the artists of the future, children (and their grown ups!) have been working over the past three weeks on an installation for our very own Fourth Plinth. The result was a school full of [...]
It is always a pleasure to accompany the Willow Brook choir to a gig, but our annual visit to the Young Voices Concert at the NEC Arena in Birmingham continues to be the year's highlight! We performed as part of a strong choir to an audience of thousands and the day certainly lived [...]
A big thank you to Mrs Hatfield, an experienced England coach, for offering her time to coach Years 5 and 6 in Netball every Friday. Glorious weather graced our first session last Friday and the Class excelled! [...]
Year 5 are already in the 'zone' this half term! We have immersed ourselves in all things Royal. The class have shown incredible focus and determination with their observational drawings of the Crown Jewels - what's not to love about the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign Orb or the Sovereign Scepter set with a [...]
Welcome to the Summer Term and to our final whole-school topic of the academic year. What could be more fitting (or motivating) than a national celebration... A jubilee! Over the next six weeks we will be building our knowledge of the Queen and her 70 year reign, learning all about our capital city and [...]
Class 5 have attacked algorithms with vigor this term. They have thoroughly enjoyed making their own maze and collecting games on Scratch, coding and debugging where needed. It has been brilliant to see both their ideas and their teamworking skills. They have really excelled themselves. I am proud of them and they should be [...]
This term we have embraced all things STEM and we were lucky enough to have Mr Hands to help Class 5 build some robots. There were 3 different robots with plenty of bits and detailed instructions. Some [...]
