Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Thank you to the 'Friends of Willowbank' for purchasing Dyslexia Friendly Books for our SEND children.

  Tue 21 Jun 2022 Haidee Frost

  The school are incredibly grateful for the wonderful fundraising that has taken place in order to purchase this selection of books specifically for our SEND children with dyslexia.  These books help our pupils through having extra spacing between lines, coloured pages and preferred fonts.  They are books that are all in our Accelerated Reader programme and by authors the children love to read.  

  Thank you to all the Friends of Willowbank for supporting our SEND children once more!

  Mrs Frost

  

• Beach Soccer 2022 - WINNERS

  Mon 20 Jun 2022

  We end the week WINNERS of the Beach Soccer 2022 tournament! 

  We took 18 Year 5 and 6 children to Croyde Bay in North Devon for the 2022 Beach Soccer tournament hosted by Exeter City Community Trust and Premier League Primary Stars. 

  After playing a series of qualifying games in the heat on what was the hottest day of the year so far on sand (which is a lot harder then you think) our team won the plate final and walked away with an impressive trophy.

  We had the pleasure of meeting and getting a picture with Hannah and Connie Short, England Women Beach Soccer players. 

  Well done to all children who took part - it was such a lovely day. 

  

• Coastal Walk trips

  Mon 20 Jun 2022

  Last week our 4 KS1 classes each took in turns to visit South Devon to take part in a Coastal Walk led by David Glenny.

  Tadpoles and Caterpillars had lots of fun during their beach trip. Walking along the coast, waving at steam trains and rolling down the hill (lots of times) before reaching the cove. Whilst at the cove, they threw pebbles in the water, discovered a variety of crabs when rock pooling and climbed the rocks before lunch. After lunch, they walked to Broadsands beach where they paddled, found even more crabs,  a fish, drew in the sand, created sculptures and covered their feet in the wet sand.

  

• Strawberry Planting

  Tue 24 May 2022

  Children in Dragonflies class have been busy planting strawberry plants - They're looking forward to reaping some fruits soon. 

  

• Outdoor Classroom Week

  Tue 24 May 2022

  Willowbank celebrated Outdoor classroom day with a week of outdoor learning activities. Learning outdoors is not only fun but great for children's mental health and wellbeing. Our activities were designed so that children could connect with nature and also have some fun. Some children enjoyed gardening, nature art with natural materials, Happa Zome printing and cooking outdoors. We cooked pancakes, campfire bread on sticks and chocolate bananas!

  

• Thank you Culm Valley Carpets

  Wed 11 May 2022

  Mrs Walrond the the children in Hedgehog class would like to say a big 'Thank you' to Cum Valley Carpets for their kind donation of a new rug for the class reading area. 

  

• Book Fayre

  Tue 03 May 2022

  With thanks to so many of you buying books at last weeks book fayre we took over £1000.  This means we have £500 to spend on books for the school. This is amazing, and we are so grateful for your support. Thank you and enjoy your books. 

• East Devon Rugby Megafest

  Thu 28 Apr 2022

  On the Wednesday before half term, a group of children in Year 3/4 attended a Tag Rugby Megafest at The Kings School. They worked incredibly well as a team and were impeccably behaved. They LOVED getting their photo taken with the Perry the bull, the East Devon mascot. 

  

• Easter Extravaganza

  Fri 08 Apr 2022

  The children enjoyed their Easter Extravaganza lunch yesterday with yummy treats cooked by the kitchen staff. Followed by an egg-citing Easter egg hunt in the afternoon. Luckily the weather stayed dry! We would like to wish all of our families a Happy Easter.

  

• Lyme Regis Fossil trip

  Mon 28 Mar 2022

  The first of 3 classes to visit Lyme Regis museum and take part in a fossil hunt was Hedgehog class. They had a great time hunting for fossils and listening to an interesting talk from a museum volunteer who showed the class fossils. More photo's will be uploaded over the course of the week. Tomorrow is the turn of Otter class.