News from Class 6
The past two Wednesday's have seen us take part in two exciting festivals. Year 5 & 6 took a short walk down the fairway to South Wolds to take part in a rowing (on machines, not water!) festival. A lot of different challenges to compete in with a superb demonstration of teamwork throughout. Year [...]
Friday's Children in Need day was, as always full of fun at Willow Brook! Everyone looked fabulous in their Wild West outfits and Pudsey shirts! In the morning, we danced and sang, played a Gold Rush team game. The afternoon saw us settling down at the Willow Brook cinema to watch 'Spirit', which added [...]
A couple of positive results for both girls and boys have got our season up and running! The boys recently played at home against Sutton Bonnington and won an exciting end to end game that finished 5-3. The girls enjoyed a trip to Costock today and there was late drama as we scored [...]
This morning Miss Mistry taught the whole school about her Hindu faith. It's an exciting time of the year... having just celebrated Navratri, it's time to start the preparations for Diwali! We learnt all about the feasts and deities, dances and rituals and even got to admire Miss Mistry's fabulous outfits - brought all [...]
Last Friday, Willow Brook held their annual MacMillan Coffee Morning. Whilst eating cake for breakfast may be a challenge for some, we managed it in style! Our Bake Off competition was fierce...Paul Hollywood would have had an aching arm from all the handshakes he would have given! After much deliberation (and another slice of [...]
Our first whole-school sporting event of the academic year was a roaring success this afternoon! With 190 children, an enthusiastic team of teachers and TA's and a wonderful band of parents, grandparents and volunteers, we spent a happy and successful two hours competing in team challenges - an event we call Potted Sports. Mr. [...]
On Saturday 13th (Girls) and Saturday 20th (Boys) the Willow Brook football teams attended the annual Rushcliffe Schools Football Tournament at St Peter’s Junior School, Ruddington. A challenging but great experience for both teams, the children represented Willow Brook enthusiastically and picked up a few results on the way. It was great for the [...]
Friday was a wonderfully sunny day, which made our Beach Afternoon perfect! We had fish and chips 'take-away' style and ice-lollies were wonderfully welcome! There were plenty of beach games to take part in and picnic rugs to relax on and we had a happy couple of hours getting ourselves in a holiday frame [...]
Tonight rounded off our sporting year with a trip to our friends over at Costock for a netball match. Tammy (our netball coach) has been working incredibly hard with the year 5&6 children on Friday afternoons and tonight it really showed as we came out 9-8 winners in a thrilling end to end match! [...]
As the year comes to an end, let's reflect on what's been a special year for the girls' football team. Rushcliffe Schools Division 5: The girls can come out of it with their heads held high after securing safety in a division filled with two / three form entry schools. All their games against the [...]
