by Willoughby School | Mar 5, 2023 | Extra curricular
World Book Day was once again celebrated with great enthusiasm by all the children and staff at school. There was a wonderful selection of characters across a wide variety of book genres from EYFS up to Year 6. This finished off a week of book related activities...
by Willoughby School | Mar 2, 2023 | Design & Technology, History
KS2 had a great DT day designing, creating and making life-size Roman shields. A Roman shield was called a scutum. It was made to be light, so it could be easily carried with one hand and curved, to fit the body. The metal protrusion in the middle acted as a weapon,...
by Willoughby School | Feb 1, 2023 | Curriculum
EYFS and KS1 found out it was the year of the...
by Willoughby School | Feb 1, 2023 | Curriculum
‘Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread man!’ EYFS have been reading fairy...
by Willoughby School | Jan 30, 2023 | Christmas
Willoughby Nativity 2022 was a wonderful event and all the children put on a lovely performance. What a lovely way to celebrate...
by Willoughby School | Jan 27, 2023 | Sport
A mixture of KS2 pupils recently went to the South Notts Academy to compete against other local Primary School at Sports Hall Athletics. They joined in a mixture of activities that involved skills and races. This is one of the events run by the Rushcliffe Schools...
by Willoughby School | Jan 16, 2023 | Sport
Drumming, dancing and keeping fit are all things we love about Drumba. We are brushing off the winter blues on a Friday with Jake and Adam from Rockley Music – keeping the rhythm and energy going with lively music and fast paced routines. What a great way to...
by Willoughby School | Dec 13, 2022 | Christmas
The School Christmas Fair was back in full swing this year! As is traditional, KS2 planned, organised and ran their own games, which were as popular as ever. The old classics : Pin the Nose on Rudolph and Lucky Dip were mixed in with newer games such as Christmas...
by Willoughby School | Nov 28, 2022 | Charity
Children in Need was a great success this year! Everyone came dressed as something beginning with ‘P’ for Pudsey and brought in a donation. The costumes ranged from P for Pilot (Mrs Barker) to an amazing P for Postbox. Thank you to everyone for joining in...
by Willoughby School | Nov 14, 2022 | Willoughby School
The whole school gathered on the playground on Friday 11th November 2022 at 11am in an act of Remembrance. Every child painted a poppy and Mrs Dornan made a Remembrance wreath using the poppies and the children’s hand prints as the green edging. Year 3/4 wrote...
