To celebrate English Schools Football Week, all classes have held a mini football tournament between each Willow House Team throughout this week. We have seen brilliant skills and our children have loved being outside and competing in all weathers. They have also developed some of our school values, such as…

This half-term, Indigo Class have been learning about the Solar System so their reading reward was in keeping with the space theme. They had a brilliant time designing, making and launching their rockets! Well done to everyone who earned their reading reward this half-term!  

All classes in school had the opportunity to work with Andrew Hill, a local artist, last week. Here are some photos of Blue Class working on their fruit bowl sculptures in clay.

Year 6 had a great afternoon exploring the rich history of Heysham. We thoroughly enjoyed investigating the artefacts within the church grounds and in the surrounding area. Graham and Richard, our fantastic tour guides, were bursting with knowledge.

Our Year 5/6 Athletics team took part in the Year 5/6 Sports hall Athletics Competition on 25th January. It's the first time we have been involved with the competition and it was great to see us scooping some firsts and seconds. Fourth overall- narrowly missing out on a bronze medal. Not bad for a newly formed…

Orange Class have been working on their movement skills and building their fitness with the help of the Gym Stars team and their equipment. The instructors were very impressed with how the children's skills have improved in just the first two weeks!

It's been a full two weeks of football at Willow Lane! Year 6 started the excitement with an amazing win at the district competition, beating four strong teams to go through to the next stages and scoring a golden goal to see them win overall and become District Champions!! Next was the County finals,…

Today, Year 6 walked into their classroom to find tables turned over and chairs all over the place. There was "HA, HA, HA," written on the window and chocolate wrappers thrown on the floor. There were letters on the wall saying, "I can't bear to lose... time is ticking." Another message said, "Tables are…

In the run up to Christmas, Year 6 have worked incredibly hard using their design and technology skills. We began the topic exploring what we already knew about biscuits and thinking deeply about what we were aiming to achieve. From this, we taste tested a range of shop-bought biscuits to refine our ideas and…

What an incredible performance from Red, Orange and Yellow classes for their Christmas Nativity! The children sang brilliantly and there were lots of smiles and laughter on show. It was lovely to see so many parents in attendance and we even had some of our local neighbours comment on how fantastic it was to hear…