by Willoughby School | Nov 14, 2022 | Extra curricular, Willoughby School
Birthday girl Eleanor helped Miss Smith cut the ribbon on the completion of the second phase of the Playground Refurbishment Project. In place of the bin store there is now a wonderful play house with an astro-turf carpet. The wobbly football goal has been replaced...
by Willoughby School | Oct 14, 2022 | Curriculum, Willoughby School
Key Stage 2 children have been learning about the ear in Science lessons and last week we welcomed some audiology experts to our class! The audiologists used a device with a video camera to show the children the inside of their ears! KS2 also experienced...
by Willoughby School | Oct 7, 2022 | Curriculum
Last week a fire fighter crew visited school as part of the Reception’s topic ‘People who help us’. The children were a buzz with excitement as the crew talked about fire safety, what to do if there was a fire at home. The children got to try on a...
by Willoughby School | Sep 25, 2022 | Trips & Visits
Class 1 had the opportunity to visit the Great Central Railway in Loughborough! They enjoyed a tour of the main Loughborough station and platform and then an exciting ride on the steam train to Leicester and back. They saw the water tower and had a picnic lunch before...
by Willoughby School | Sep 23, 2022 | Extra curricular, Willoughby School
Years 5 and 6 visited Holme Pierrepont in West Bridgford to attend the annual Safety Zone event. The children are provided with important safety messages from a wide variety of organisations. There were 7 stations: Fire Safety, Road Safety, Electrical Safety, Cyber...
by Willoughby School | Sep 20, 2022 | Charity
The Air Ambulance visited Willoughby park along with Blade the mascot! We joined with villagers and the Playgroup children, to wave as the helicopter landed on the football pitch. It was noisy! School Council were ready to hand over the big cheque – all money...
by Willoughby School | Sep 20, 2022 | Extra curricular
The Tour of Britain raced through Wysall and we were all there to support! We all waved our flags and cheered the out riders and cyclists, standing along the wall in Wysall church. Afterwards the whole school went to meet the animals at the Calnan’s –...
by Willoughby School | Jul 17, 2022 | Sport
Sports Day 2022 was a close one! The Red, Black and White teams all competed hard on a hot and sticky day with the Black team eventually winning by just one point! The Walter Skinner Memorial Trophy was awarded to 2 pupils this year – Freddie O and Sam N –...
by Willoughby School | Jul 17, 2022 | Extra curricular, Willoughby School
The Year 5/6s have been busy creating, baking and making for their Enterprise Scheme. The challenge was to ‘Make £5 Grow’. Each child was given £5, paired with another pupil and asked to come up with an idea to create some profit. And they did just that!!...
by Willoughby School | Jul 13, 2022 | Extra curricular
DAaRT is a new programme that has replaced DARE – it stands for Drug, Awareness and Resilience Training. The year 4, 5 and 6 children followed a ten week course with DAaRT officer Ms Carter, covering a range of life skills such as learning to say no, facts about...
