A huge thanks to Andrew Hallsworth (Marlow Photography) for taking some super shots of our Christmas production! As promised, we share them with you and hope you enjoy them. [...]
There's nothing that makes a primary school Christmas more special than an infant performance. Our EYFS and Year 1 children added a touch of story and magic to our final few days of term by presenting The Twinkly Nativity. It was the first time our Reception children have stood under the bright lights, but [...]
At Willow Brook we know that a Christmas production is something that stays with you long after many other primary school memories start to fade. It is why we always aim to make them special. Our 2023 performance of Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits was no exception! After four weeks of rehearsals and [...]
Happy Christmas everyone!
Artistic Creations To get in the mood for Christmas, we've been singing carols in the hall, taking part in Christmas quizzes and painting some wonderfully creative pieces of festive artwork. We spent a Friday afternoon carefully listening how to blend watercolours to create our amazing backgrounds, simulating the night's sky. Afterwards, we drew our [...]
Authors Over the past two weeks in year five we have tirelessly planned, drafted, edited, reviewed and finally published our very own books. We've been inspired by the 1,001 Arabian Nights series of short stories, most notably: Aladdin, Ali Baba and The Anklet. From this, we've identified key themes and created a piece of work [...]
On Monday, six children from years 3 & 4 represented school in a multi skills festival at South Notts Academy, this also happened to be our 46th and final sporting event of 2023! The festival included stationed activities such as cone flipping, noughts and crosses, basketball shooting and the traditional egg and spoon race [...]
This week we have enjoyed delving into the story of the Polar Express. We built a train using boxes, wrote letters to the North Pole and got creative with glitter! We've had a fabulous week of Christmas fun!
Class 1 were very excited when Sinbad the sailor came to visit them in their classroom this morning! We began yesterday looking at the character of Sinbad as part of our work looking at the tales of 1001 Arabian Nights. Once in the classroom, Sinbad the sailor regaled the children with the tale of [...]
Please find our Learning Letter for Autumn 2 here: Term 2 learning letter.
