WILLOW CLASS
Welcome to Willow Class
The wonderful Year 5 and 6 children in Willow Class are taught by
Mrs Pontet, ably assisted by Mrs Jackson, Mrs Larkins and Mrs Weliwita.
Sports Day fun
Hard labour in a Victorian prison!
Amazing drumming workshop as part of Wargrave Festival
The Year 6's had to present their business ideas to the "Dragons".
Practising for sports day


Summer 2022
We have so much to look forward to this term. Crime and Punishment is our history focus and our key concepts are Grace, Justice and Power. We will be exploring how the law, legal system and punishments have changed over the past 2000 years from the Romans to present day. Lots of our English work will focus on crime as we will be studying the famous poem "The Highwayman" and reading the novel "Holes" - both which will make us question the idea of whether the punishment always fits the crime!
In science we will develop our understanding of the physics topic 'light' and then learn about human development. Portraiture will be our focus in art and in music we will be learning about hip-hop. We will also be applying our programming skills to create sounds and melodies in Computing and thinking about whether saints are encouraging role models in RE discussions.
Fingers crossed the weather will be good, as in PE lessons we'll be over on the field developing our athletic skills and playing some team games including rounders.
And don't forget Bushcraft and PGL too!
So much to fit in - I can't wait!
Don't forget to bring a reading book to school everyday.
You always need your pencil case with 'Super Six', (Handwriting pen, pencil, rubber, sharpener, ruler and glue stick) all named, a refillable water bottle, a reading book and a positive attitude.
P.E. is on Mondays and Thursdays, so please wear your school PE kit on these days.
Useful dates:
Monday 6th June - Back to school
Thursday 16th June - Festival of Drums (Wargrave Festival)
Thursday 23rd June - Junior Sports Day
27th June - 1st July - Year 6 to Treygoyd PGL
4th July - Year 5 Bushcraft Day
4th - 6th July - Year 6 Bikeability
Friday 15th July - School disco
Tuesday 19th July - Year 6 Leaver's service at St Mary's Church
Wednesday 20th July - School term ends at 1.30pm
Year 6 SATs and PGL information
May 2022
Our Jubilee tea party celebrations
Thanks to Mr Miller for teaching us about aerodynamics
We were delighted to invite our parents into school to join us in our Class Collective Worship about 'Peace'.
Some of Willow Class were very naughty this week!
Our wonderful, amazing, fabulous Year 6s celebrating the end of SATs
Making light-shades using opaque, translucent and transparent materials.
April 2022
Celebrating Easter at St Mary's Church
Weeding our allotment ready for planting!
March 2022
STEM Week 2022
The Science Fair
Making silly putty
Learning about motorbike mechanics
Lego Challenge with Dr Stratful
Inter-house Engineering Challenge
Designing buggies and playing badminton
Badminton skills and responding to 'Hoe Down' by American Composer Aaron Copeland.
World Book Day fun!
We spent the day studying the book "Mother Earth is Weeping" by Claire Donald and writing responses to the environmental themes of the story. The poems, descriptive writing and art work were amazing.
Our Phase 2 book swap was very successful and we all enjoyed reading a new book that has been recycled from one of our classmates.
And of course, we loved dressing up as some of favourite books characters: Paddington, Alex Rider, Dennis the Menace, Voldemort and the Dork Diary girls among others.
February 2022
We had a wonderful time at Maidenhead Mosque, developing our understanding of the Muslim faith
Year 6 had fun learning Spanish at The Piggott
January 2022
Learning about blood composition, raising our heart rate in PE, writing Native American tales and designing Pop art. Another busy week!
Yay - we're back in school learning! North American geography, colour mixing and Talk for Writing for starters.
December 2021
A very Merry Christmas from Willow Class!


Enjoying our yummy Christmas lunch!
Singing carols to the residents at The Mount


Friday Fun! A visit from Father Christmas and then disco dancing.
Filming our Carol Service at St Mary's Church
We loved our Shakespeare workshop with Dr Bullard.Β Developing our knowledge and understanding of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.Β Which is more powerful: love or magic??
Designing and Making Greek vases
November 2021
In our P.J.s supporting Children in Need
A visit from Santa's helpers
Exploring different forces
Designing and making clay tiles depicting a Greek Mythological creature or God. Fantastic results!
October 2021
Researching inspirational Black people for Black History Month
Having fun looking after our allotment
Today we learnt about road safety from Louis Taylor
Celebrating Harvest at St Mary's Church
September 2021