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 [...]
Every child at Willow Brook was given the same homework task on World Book Day... to create their very own Reading River. In a simple picture map, everyone sailed from their earliest memory of books to charting the last book that they read. The results were staggering and the buzz of conversation as rivers [...]
Red Nose Day was a day full of fun at Willow Brook! With over 24 acts reaching the afternoon final of The Willow Brook Comedy Show, the day lived up to its 'Funny is Power' theme! Imogen in Year 4 was our ultimate comedy champion with an 'improv' routine to rival Michael McIntyre and [...]
Today Willow Brook celebrated International Women's Day and made sure that every girl who shares our space knows that they are strong, valued and able to chase any dream that they might have! In assembly we thought about the number of girls (a staggering 130,000,000) who would not be going to school today... and [...]
In our pursuit of yet more reading happiness, Willow Brook children enjoyed a fabulous day celebrating the 25th World Book Day! Since the launch of our Waterstones Challenge, there has been a new enthusiasm for reading around school - new authors and recently released texts have filled the classroom shelves and the best of [...]
