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 [...]
Congratulations to our year six class who proudly graduated from their DAaRT course. DAaRT is the course that was formerly known as DARE and prepares our oldest children for their teenage years ahead. Here they are looking rather pleased with themselves and wearing their graduation t-shirts. [...]
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 [...]
It was a real treat for me to take two delightful children on a Friday afternoon trip to County Hall’s debating chamber for our most recent pupil parliament meeting. Two representatives from every primary school in Rushcliffe were in attendance and brought with them notes from discussions that had happened back in their classrooms. [...]
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 [...]
