Yesterday Class 5 had a brilliant afternoon at the Keyworth Tennis Club thanks to a couple of the coaches opening up and offering us a session. We got a feel for what it would be like to play on the full courts and enjoyed lots of different skill based games and activities. We learned a [...]
Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate Willow Brook's sporting talents this afternoon! I'm sure you will agree with me that the children were full of the joys of summer and showed great stamina and sportsmanship. Miss Johnston, as always, did a sterling job of putting together a programme of events... and I was [...]
Today, four girls from year 5 had the privilege of attending a STEM event at Nottingham Girls' High School where they took part in science activities in biology, chemistry and physics. They thoroughly enjoyed all of the activities including learning more about birds, with egg and owl pellet dissection, as well as learning about and [...]
We've had a great start to the half term in year 5 as we've become immersed in our new topic of Earth and Space. Our learning on this topic stretches from English to Science to P.E! Take a look at our learning letter for this half term to find out more...Summer 1 learning letter
As always, Willow Brook had a fabulous day celebrating the wonderful world of books! After snow and then Ofsted delayed our fun, the day finally arrived and Dr Seuss did not disappoint! The playground was awash with Cats in Hats, Things 1 and 2, foxes in socks, green eggs (and hams!) and some wonderful residents [...]
Last week, along with other classes across school, Class 5 joined in with the fun of Science week discovering lots of new information from what must be a record number of experiments carried out in just one week! At the beginning of the week we thoroughly enjoyed merging with class 4 to carry out experiments [...]
Here's the link to our latest Learning Letter which will tell you all about our plans for the half term in Class 5 : Spring 2
The Great Willow Brook Science Showdown Thursday March 15th 2018 As part of our involvement in National Science and Engineering Week, we are inviting you to take part in a competition to find Willow Brook’s first ‘Young Scientist of the Year’. The whole school has the same homework task over the next two weeks and that [...]
Four of our talented year 5 children have been getting their scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical minds together and representing Willow Brook at an inspiring STEM day at the Nottingham High School. Using their design skills and computers technology, they worked as a team to create a robot out of LEGO. A successful and exciting [...]
Thank you to all those who attended our Reading Information Evening this week - we hope it was a useful insight into how children learn and progress through the school. Having you as partners in the journey is very important and from simple tips for intervening in your child's reading at home to understanding our [...]
