Whole School
Some ideas to help when home learning
On Monday 23rd March Read, Write Inc are scheduling Phonics lessons on their Facebook page and Youtube channel for the next 2 weeks. Set 1 speed sounds at 9.30am and 12.30pm Set 2 speed sounds at 10.00am and 1.00pm Set 3 speed sounds at 10.30am and 1.30pm These are live Read more…
Science
Space rocks!
Space really does rock! A very generous parent let us look at his space asteroid collection where we saw some items that were once orbiting mars and jupiter! The children were amazed and Mrs Nuttall was excited to see the rocks that were 4.5 billion years old! We were Read more…
Safety & Wellbeing
Hand washing
We talked about the importance of hand washing today. Some adults and children used paint to represent germs because they ‘hadn’t washed their hands’. We played a clap and high 5 game where each child ended up with some blue paint on their hands. This showed how much the germs Read more…
English
Willows World Book Day 2020
We had a whale of a time during our World Book Day. Look at all the fabulous outfits that the children came in! We had amazing superheroes, Peter Rabbit characters, fairy tale princess’ and many more. All the adults came as crayons from ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’. Well done Read more…
Science
Alien snot… eurgh!
We kicked off our Moon Zoom topic this half term with a visit from some very messy aliens! They left behind some green gooey alien snot. BLEURGH! We all had a look at it and had to clean up their mess. It was fascinating to see and we were all Read more…
British Values
World Kindness Day in Willows
We looked at The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson. We noticed that the Smartest Giant in town was very kind to all the animals in the story. We decided to be kind like the Giant by giving people around the school some scrummy treats! We thought carefully Read more…
English
Library Visit
Willows went to the library on Monday where we took our books back that we borrowed. We then had a story about bears and chairs (you wouldn’t believe how many words rhyme with bear!) and we chose our own books to take back to school with us. We had Read more…
Design and technology
Healthy Flapjacks
Today we made healthy snacks and it was so much fun. They chose their dried fruit ingredients and mixed them together with all the other ingredients they had to add to make a flapjack. We did however, spot some some sneaky snackers who just couldn’t wait to taste our lovely Read more…
Design Technology
Do you want to build a…. nest or a den?
We went up to Kayden’s garden to make dens and nests for the woodland creatures that might come sniffing round in the garden during the night! We had lots of fun finding sticks of the right length to make appropriate dens and nests. It was great to see that the Read more…