Here are some photographs for you to explore as a family, this is a sign of our ever changing world. How do you communicate as a family or with friends. Lets get the discussion started. Please follow and like us:
Category: British Values
Contribution to the Wider Community.
Special mentions assembly was fabulous on Friday, we celebrated children who had achieved certificates in sport, looked at some beautiful learning outcomes and presented our children with Heads of house and prefect jobs. During the assembly some of our children bought and presented prizes to children who had bought raffle tickets in aid of Macmillan. […]
Rainy Day Activities
Today was a very wet and rainy day, we decided to start a board games club in the hall with lots of old fashioned games. Children have taught each other how to play chess, drafts, beetle drive and snakes and ladders. The children had a wonderful time working in mixed classes and mixed year groups. […]
Raising Aspirations.
Over the past two weeks we have been talking to the children about their future aspirations and what they would like to do in the future. They have created some beautiful learning to share with you. We have a range of things from a fairy, princess to a surgeon. Please follow and like us:
School council selection
Today the children read out their school council manifestos and the children voted for their favourite. We talked about democracy being one of the British values and what that meant. Please follow and like us:
Y5/6H school council election
Well done to all the children in 5/6H for wanting to take on the responsibility of being a school councillor. We had some great manifestos and it was a really hard choice to select people. Congratulations to our winners and we hope you help to make good decisions! Please follow and like us:
Helping to restore our Early Years digging area . Well done Girls .
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PSHCE – Our world would be better without…
We worked in small groups to draw and label pictures and add captions to finish the sentences: Our world would be better without… Our school would be better without… Please follow and like us:
P4C – Almost Anything
We read the story ‘Almost Anything’ and we thought about what we could ask the character and what we might say to them. We came up with some really motivating statements that we could all remember for when we feel things are tough. Please follow and like us:
Race for Life, we raised a whopping £1790.35!
A huge thank you to everyone who donated money for Race for Life we are so proud of all our families raising money for Cancer research – The Race for Life is Cancer Research UK’s biggest series of fundraising events. Taking place across the UK, the events include 5k and 10k routes for participants to […]
Social Innovation at its best!
Here we are celebrating our new crossing that allows all Wingfield children and families to cross the road safely. Thank you to our Wingfield Ward Councillors for allowing our children to be part of the iconic Beatles Album cover. We can’t wait to see the photograph in the Advertiser! We look working alongside our Community […]
Rockingham’s Got Talent
Today we held our Talent show and we were impressed with all our fabulous contestants. All 18 acts wowed the judges with their jokes, cheer leading, dancing, singing and we even had a pianist. Congratulations to USB on being our winners this year. Leighton just can’t be beat this year after winning the XFactor! Thank […]
Our new buddy system!
Today we started our new buddy system with our older children being paired with one of our new Year 3s. The children will support one another to develop socially and build relationships with one another. Here they are completing the Daily Mile together for the first time! Smiles all round! Please follow and like us:
Race for Life 2019
Today we held our Race for Life event for the second year running, a huge thank you to Miss Tyzack for organising such as wonderful event and to our parents, children and staff who have made donations. The children have been busy running in their new classes and many of our children have ran with […]
5/6H PSHE
This week the children in 5/6H discussed how are world and school could be better. Everyone has an opinion during class discussions and then we put our ideas into speech bubbles for us to remember throughout the year ahead. There were two key messages from our discussions: Our world would be better if there was […]
Pie and Pea night!
Thank you so much to our wonderful parents who joined us for a game of bingo and a quiz to meet and greet our new teaching staff. It was a lovely atmosphere and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. I hope you agree that the enterprise children were incredible and did […]
P4C in Y4/5D
The children used their P4C to generate questions about the book ‘Almost Anything’. They thought about George and Bear’s friendship and how they helped one another. Please follow and like us:
Rockingham Awards Celebration
Today we announced this years winners at our awards ceremony selected by their class teachers for children who had tried their best this year, developed excellence and shown resilience through out the year. All of our children are outstanding and work extremely hard and we are proud of everyone. Our Awards are for Boy of […]
Community Safety – NEMESIS
We are finally able to share our community safety video with you that was created to discuss some of the challenges that our young people face when in the local area. We hope to raise awareness of how a persons actions, body language can make another person feel. We hope to develop empathy within our […]
RABA Gold – Anti Bullying Award
We are so proud to announce that Rockingham Junior and Infant School have achieved the RABA Gold for the work we have completed this year on Diversity and Anti Bullying. Thank you MrsFJ for all the work you have done in school this year and the support you have given us! We are so excited […]
You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out!
In Y6B the children have been really getting to know one another on a deeper level and understanding each others similarities and differences. The children have been empowered through giving them a voice to speak out and talk about their feelings. Here is their beautiful art work which showcases the final outcome. Please follow and […]
Diversity Week in FS1, It’s good to be different!
In Foundation One we have been thinking about lots of ways in which we are different. We have talked about our different families and found out that we all have different homes. We have talked about how our bodies are very similar in some ways but very different in others. We enjoyed dressing up for […]
Diversity
Y3/4P enjoyed our circled time discussing diversity. Children had some really good discussions about how important it is to be proud of yourself and to be different. Please follow and like us:
Diversity Week
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Challenging Gender Stereotypes in 6B
During Diversity week 6B children have been challenging gender stereotypes through art. The children have generated a series of pictures thinking about what someone would look like in a particular profession, doctor, nurse or firefighter. What do you think? Please follow and like us:
75th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings
Today along with many others worldwide. D-day vividly illustrates the thanks we owe to friends, allies and Commonwealth nations who fought alongside Britain in defending its freedoms, values and way of life. We will always remember. Please follow and like us:
Ann Foxley Johnson – Diversity
This week is Diversity week at Rockingham, we have been incredibly lucky to have Ann Foxley Johnson in school teaching the children about what it is like to be different and exploring stereotypes. The children and staff came dressed in clothing to show their personality or to represent a hobby/interest or tell others who they […]
Is it important to share your emotions?
Y6B have explored the story ‘Lucy’s Blue Day ‘ through P4C, the children generated the question ‘Is it important to share your emotions?’ The children were fabulous and shared their reasons why as you can see below. Do you think it is important to share your emotions? Please follow and like us:
Y5/6H Mindfulness week
This week 5/6H have been carrying out different mindfulness activities and have held discussions in P4C about mental health awareness. Here are some photos of the children enjoying the activities. Please follow and like us:
Wellbeing Week in Foundation One
In Foundation One we have been thinking about how being active and having fun with our friends is good for our mental health. We have really enjoyed playing parachute games together, getting active and joining in. Please follow and like us: