It was so lovely having our children and parents share in our special mentions assembly today. Thank you to all our teachers who are working so hard and sharing the beautiful learning our children are creating at home. Congratulations to all our winners today and good luck everyone for next week.
Since March 2020 we have been finding new ways to capture our learning, especially during this difficult time we find ourselves in. Together we continue to learn, grow and support our Mental Health and Wellbeing. We wanted to celebrate our children’s learning through the lockdown periods we have experienced together. We are so proud of […]
We used a video that has been going viral as inspiration for our Ball Skills lesson in PE today. We used one handed and two handed bounces to keep close control of ball movement. Using the music to keep time, we rolled the ball around our bodies and practiced throwing and catching skills towards the […]
Today in phonics we learnt the new ‘ph’ sound. We finished off our session with a game of trash and treasure. We really enjoyed reading the ‘ph’ words.
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!
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 KS1 Children had a fabulous Christmas party, enjoying lots of games and making memories.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1/2P loved learning about the history of Christingles and learning how to make them.
1/2P have been enjoying utilising the Ks1 outdoor area for learning. We have done lots of brilliant learning outside, all whilst having lots of fun! This week, we have used our area for Phonics, Literacy and Numeracy learning. For Literacy, we looked at word classes and concentrated on nouns. We thought about what we could […]
This week we have looked at the amazing text ‘After the Fall’ by Dan Santat. We considered the deeper meaning within the story and discussed how we can be resilient and have a ‘Growth Mindset’. Our children were brilliant at this and we had a really meaningful discussion. We then closed our eyes and thought […]
We are really excited about celebrating Diwali through dance with Balbir Singh. Tomorrow we have our workshops with each year group bubble to celebrate the festival of light. We wanted to share with you this beautiful creative task of making your own Diwali Lamp with your children at home.
Any excuse for cake! 😉
Our Key stage one children are really loving their outdoor environment and have been using this area to develop their daily count. Here they are in Action!
Our children in Y1/2P are thoroughly enjoying learning outdoors as you can see from their beaming smiles. On Friday, we used our Outdoor Learning area to learn the following: Numeracy: We used the stepping logs to count on from any given number between 0 and 80 We carefully counted items up to 20 to complete […]
In 1/2P, we are learning about Amelia Earhart. We are currently writing a recount on her disappearance, and we have just completed portraits of her to go up on display.
Our Ks1 children and staff have done an excellent job of developing their outdoor space. Through their Nemesis project they have contacted a range of local community members to support with donations and the children have completed some incredible designs that were showcased in assembly. They were outside this afternoon enjoying a wonderful numeracy lesson […]
This half term, 1/2P are delighted to be working with Hannah from Rotherham Music! We are so excited to learn how to play new instruments, sing new songs, and understand musical notes. On Thursday, we met Hannah for the first time and sang some songs, concentrating on the beat. We used our hands and feet […]
In 1/2P, we are starting to recognise coins and their value. We are incorporating our money knowledge with our addition and subtraction learning to work out monetary totals in word problems. Well done girls and boys, you did so well with your learning this week and we are so proud.
We have been working with the community to develop our outside learning area. Katie from Potteric Carr agreed to help us, and kindly donated some incredible logs from the nature reserve. To say thank you, we wrote letters to Katie expressing our gratitude. 1/2P have worked tremendously hard to produce some wonderful pieces of learning. […]
Today we shared our Harvest Assembly live to our children in school and our children learning at home. What a fabulous first, children were all so excited to see each other and it was evident that all of our learners support each other. They were even discussing their home learning in the chat box. Thank […]
Children in 1/2P have been using the outdoor learning area to take part in some fun away-from-the-desk Numeracy learning! Our outdoor area is being developed this year and we can’t wait to see the end product. We love going outside and being creative with our learning!
Our children loved wearing green for the #10datc challenge!
Wow what an amazing start to Friday! We had lots of children participating with phonics today. Super effort boys and girls, we are so proud of you
Today our Y1/2 children enjoyed their first live lessons with Miss Stubbs and Miss Parkin. The children really enjoyed their guided reading and phonics sessions.
Here are our Y1/2 Children exploring Mindfulness.