This week in phonics we learnt 3 new phase 5 sounds. We learnt ir, aw and ue. We’ve had lots of fun practising our new sounds and we even finished the week off with tricky word bingo!
Category: KS1
Live lesson using Musical notation in 2WB
Today @RotherhamMusic delivered our Winter-themed music lesson online. After warming up, we learned about our diaphragm and how to use our posture for singing. We tapped to the beats in a song, then moved to the beats. We can use musical notation to represent the different movements we did e.g. walk, stride, jogging and slow. […]
2WB get active for PE ☃️🏃♂️
Today’s PE lesson was focused around ball skills, but the weather had other ideas. Children watched a video, focused on practicing skills with a tennis ball. Some children did today’s Joe Wicks workout. Many children explored our ‘Winter Wonderland’ for their exercise and had lots of fun with their families! Here is a video showing […]
2WB share our latest reading 📖
Today we read a school reading book electronically, choosing from the non-fiction genre. Our task was to make a poster for the book and include any new facts that we had just found out. Beautifully presented – well done 2WB!
Accessing Heat Maps, Guidance for parents with Mr Purshouse.
Guidance for parents on how to find out how well your child is doing on TT Rockstars, here is everything you need to know about the Heat maps.
How to access TT Rockstars with Mr Purshouse
Logging in with Mr Purshouse, showing you how to login and the games that children can access via this platform. Supporting our parents with ICT.
Wellbeing comes first!
This morning before we started our live literacy lesson it was clear from our chat and scale that the children were feeling a little unsure. We decided that before we started our learning that we would find something that helped us to feel safe, have a snuggle and then be ready and able to access […]
ICT – Using images safely
2WB have been learning about e-safety this week. The children designed their own emoji as part of our learning outcomes.
Messy Mixtures raise big questions in 2WB🧑🏻🔬❓👩🔬
2WB go musical on zoom 🥁
We were lucky to be able to keep our music lessons while home learning. We started with repeating chants, using different voices. Can you tell which is the sad chant and which is excited? We began to learn a new song with actions We finished with some rhythm work We just had time to share […]
Online phonics
We are enjoying our online phonics sessions with Miss Stubbs and Miss Parkin. We have learnt two new phase 5 sounds ‘ea’ and ‘oy’.
Our science experiments
We have started our new topic ‘Marvellous Mixtures’ this week with a topic launch day of experiments. We looked at an experiment using milk, food colouring and washing up liquid.
Our Partner School Tanghu Elementary School Year 2 Project
Our Partner School in Chengdu are working closley with our Year 2 children to develop their literacy skills through drama. The children in Year 2 have shared videos of themselves retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Our children in 2WB will be creating their own drama performance and sharing with their partner at […]
2WB launch our new science topic in style (at home) 🧪👩🔬🧑🏻🔬
Today we looked at items of equipment for an experiment. We put them in a list. We made a prediction about using the equipment. Next, we watched or participated in 3 different experiments: Fizzing Potions Milk Swirls Rainbow Skittles We even made our own videos… Finally, we drew and wrote about our observations… We really […]
2WB ❤️Christmas learning
We have enjoyed Christmas craft activity. Christmas maths has been a favourite 🎁 The cracker challenge got everyone thinking 🎅🏻
Acting debut in 2WB
Our Nativity star is extremely multi-talented and enjoyed his acting debut in the school Christmas video…
Times tables ‘practice to make perfect’ in 2WB
Mrs Slack is working her magic…
2WB party into Christmas with 🎅🏻
We started with a special message from the man himself 🎅🏻 We had lots of ‘on the spot’ dancing and games. What great moves! Finally, pass the parcel is always a favourite.
KS1 Party time.
Our KS1 Children had a fabulous Christmas party, enjoying lots of games and making memories.
Attendance breakfast winners 1S
Congratulations 1S on winning the attendance breakfast so proud of you, I know how much you love coming to school.
We will miss you Mrs Knapton, 24 years at RJI
Mrs Knapton said her goodbyes to the children in KS1 today as we celebrated her 24years at Rockingham Junior and Infant School. Thank you for all you have done for our Rockingham children, families and staff. You will be greatly missed and we wish you all the best in the future. Please keep in touch.
Newsletter December 18th 2020
Our Final Newsletter of the Term, Thank you once again for taking the time to enjoy our videos and photographs on our website, twitter and on you tube. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your families.
Celebrating achievements!
Today we celebrated children who have shown resilience beyond believe this year and overcoming barriers to learning to make sure they succeed. Continuing to learn even when bubbles have closed and school had closed embracing every second of 2020. We are proud of you all.
When Father Christmas Visits RJI.
Our Children have loved having a message from Father Christmas this year. He has been watching you all carefully and has seen what super learners you have been. I hope you all loved your presents. A special thank you to all of our children and hope you have a wonderful Christmas with your families.
We loved our Virtual Pantomime.
Today our children had a fabulous time watching the pantomime. Fun of fun, laughter and excellent comedy sketches. Thank you for making our children smile.
Mrs Buttree’s Spelling bee..
*Mrs B’s Spelling Bee Winners * Well done to our Spelling Bee winners this term. The children were all fantastic and in some year groups we had to go to knockout rounds, even using words from the next year group up. I’m so proud that we could still do this virtually. A special mention to […]
Mr Parkin’s Extravaganza @RJIMrParkin
A huge thank you to Mr Parkin for a wonderful extravaganza this afternoon. We all had such a wonderful time and the children learnt so much information about a variety of different subjects, well done everyone.
Science Investigation – Flight
In History we have been learning about Amelia Earhart and this week we continued our “Flight Science Investigation”. We made our ‘aeroplanes’ using a straw and paper strips. The children decided the length of the straw and the width and size of the paper hoops. We took our investigation to the corridor and chose to […]
Y2 Smash the Spelling Bee
This week we had our first Spelling Bee of the school year and these children were fantastic, so much so that Mrs Buttree had to move on Year 3 words to find a winner! Amazing work girls, all your hard work paid off! Special congratulations to Poppy, who was our overall winner!
KS1 Does the Nativity.
Our KS1 children have produced a fabulous production of the Nativity. Thank you to all the children and staff for putting together a wonderful performance. Parents I hope you enjoyed our zoom call this morning to showcase our very special performance. We can’t wait to have you all back in school next December.