Welcome to Willow Class
Exploring Trees
This term Willow Class are exploring the world of trees in many different ways. We are visiting trees in many places
around us such as those on and nearby the school grounds, Beeston Sidings, those near the River Lean, Highfields, Bramcote and Wollaton Hall. We’ve been finding out so many things and the children have been full of questions. As we’ve explored we
have drawn trees, made trees from clay, collected different sticks and bark, written about trees, played hide and seek behind trees, made mono-prints, looked at tree stories and songs and so much more.
around us such as those on and nearby the school grounds, Beeston Sidings, those near the River Lean, Highfields, Bramcote and Wollaton Hall. We’ve been finding out so many things and the children have been full of questions. As we’ve explored we
have drawn trees, made trees from clay, collected different sticks and bark, written about trees, played hide and seek behind trees, made mono-prints, looked at tree stories and songs and so much more.
Learning through cooking
On a weekly basis we invite Willow Class parents to come in and help us cook with the children. The children really enjoy this and they are always learning. They use their reading skills to read the recipes, their maths skills in the weighing and mearsuring of ingredients and their fine motor skills with the cutting of fruit & vegetables. We have made some tasty dishes including ratatouille, cottage pie, blackberry and apple crumble and buttnernut squash soup.
Work with Claire
Dunkirk’s resident visual artist, Claire, works with Willow Class for 2 days each week, exploring lots of different materials and resources, investigating ideas, imaginations, the world around us and ourselves.
“Learning to see… being attentive to things, seeing familiar things anew, seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary… learning to see – with all the senses – is the starting point for learning about the world, the starting point for making things…”
Ursula Kolbe
No glue… much as we love sticking and fixing things together, quite often in Willow the children have a range of tactile materials to work with and all the glue and tape is put away. In many ways, having no glue gives an added element of freedom and it inspires the imagination. The children create the most amazing images, models, conversations and arrangements – and they can keep re-arranging things and moving them around. This gives rise to so many exciting discoveries and much rich language as the children find things out.
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