Today was our first inter academy competiton against Roughwood and Herringthorpe where Willow Tree children took part in Athletics competition. We are so proud of all the children taking part today and we know our children really enjoyed meeting each other again and spending time together. Here are our scores from today, Long jump Boys. […]
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Y5P with @JamieKnightFS
A huge thank you to Jamie Knight for inspiring our children today, we were blown away.
Well done Kylan
Congratulations Kylan on your writing this week, we are really proud of your resilience and determination. You really are working hard with your literacy learning.
Environment club
This term the children have returned to school to see their beautiful daffodils that they had planted before the holiday. They are beautiful, the children have now started to plant a range of flowers around our pond area to attract more wildlife.
Children’s University with Mr Parkin @RotherhamCU
We are ready to take on the challenge of the Children’s University and support our children in achieving accreditations for their activities, clubs and boosters in and out of school. Good Luck everyone.
Scotty’s Heroes Starting on the 16th of May
We are so proud to announce our new after school provision on Monday’s. Scotty’s heroes will be providing our children will new skills not only socially but globally
Meet our new friends in F2…
In Foundation 2 our children have some new friends can you identify what they are? Our children can’t wait to name them.
Jamie Knight Freestyle Football extraordinaire!
Today we were lucky enough to have Jamie Knight in school showcasing his amazing skills from his career as a professional freestyler. He even performed on Ireland’s got talent. What aspirations do you have?
Magic Beans in F2
Miss Lilleyman found some beans. We decided to leave them outside Jack’s house before lunch to see if they were magic. Turns out they were Magic! We couldn’t believe our eyes.
Happy Mind, Happy Breathing in 5/6H and 6B
Today, in our Happy Mind session, we have been learning about how we can start to manage our brain during times of stress by learning breathing strategies that we can use right away. Children from both 5/6H and 6B stepped out of their comfort zones to engage in something new called ‘Happy Breathing’. Children even […]
Rockstars Champions League Winners
Over the past term, all of our classes have been taking part in a Times Tables Rockstars competition. This was weekly rockstars battled which allowed children to compete against each other and the classes. Congratulations to 4D who were our overall champions and were presented with our new trophy! Hopefully the competition will encourage all […]
Maths Times Table Picture Competition
Last half term we held our photo competition for times tables to see different creative ways of learning and recalling tables. The winners for the images showed children practicing on the beach and creating different fortune tellers. Thank you to everyone who was involved and congratulations to the winners!
Thank you Active Fusion
We have had a wonderful term with Active Fusion. We can’t thank enough for the opportunities they have given our children this term.
Reading Champions – Hilary Ford Award
Congratulations to our reading champions this term. Making excellent progress in their reading. Well done everyone.
Parents enjoy 1M stay and play.
Mrs McDermott wanted to showcase her children’s learning for parents this week. Again another opportunity to welcome our parents back into school. It has been an incredible term and one we will always remember.
Special Mentions
We held our final special mentions assembly of the term and again had some outstanding learning and awards to share. All of our children have shown maximum effort this term and have such a wonderful desire and passion for learning. Well done to all our winners this week.
F2 take on the Easter Egg Hunt Challenge
Our F2 children and their parents took on the challenge of the Easter Egg hunt with their classes this week. I’m not sure whether the Teachers enjoyed it more than the children. What a wonderful event to finish off our Easter Parent week.
Willow Tree Warriors introducing our vlog 💻
Welcome to our introductory vlog – The Willow Tree Warrior team at RJI have been monitoring computing chat on the playground and bring you their latest news and advice… 💻
Stay and Play in REY!
This week we have had our parents come and play with us in REY! We were very excited and so were our parents as some have never been in our setting before so it was lovely for them to get to see our environment. They were able to see our children sing the morning song […]
Musical Extravaganza
Today our KS1 and KS2 children performed a musical extravaganza for our parents. They sang a range of songs from films, Disney and musicals. They sounded amazing. We are all so proud of their achievements this term and what a wonderful way to do this with our parents. Thank you all for coming and sharing […]
Congratulations Girls – You make us all so proud!
Our Year 3/4 Girls finished second today the Rotherham Girls Football Final. I am so proud of their resilence, deterimation and team work. Together they are an unstoppable team and I can’t wait to see them grow as they come through school. Thank you to our amazing sports leaders who acompanied the girls and coached […]
F1 Modelling their Easter Bonnets
How wonderful are our Foundation 1 creations, the detail, creativity and ideas that have gone into their hats this year is incredible. Well done all I know it was very difficult to choose a winner as they are all so amazing.
Punctuation in F2L
Writing in F2L is really improving their sentence skills are really developing and we are really proud of how hard they are working to ensure they learn every day. Can you see the pride in their faces?
Congratulations Hunter
Hunter has been working extremley hard and showing resilience towards his Art learning this term. He has used a range of skills within his sketch book to create this beautiful masterpiece using pastel. We are proud of you Hunter.
Bugs in F2 – Using Natural Materials
From their visit to the butterfly house the children have been using natural materials in the continuous provision to make their own minibeasts. Ove the week the children have really engaged in this activity and have created some amazing bugs!
F2W Enjoy the butterfly house.
Foundation 2 really enjoyed their visit to the butterfly house to consolidate all their learning about minibeasts. They had so much fun exploring the outdoors with their parents and teachers.
F1 Say goodbye to Mrs Millward
Our F1 children have been so creative this week, making a lovely card for Mrs Millward. I know they are really sad to say goodbye but wanted to wish her well. Mrs Millward has really enjoyed her time at Rockingham and wanted to say a special goodbye to her children.
Congratulations 3WB – Attendance Winners for the Term.
We are so proud of 3WB this term winning the attendance breakfast, they love coming to school and you can see from the smiles on their fances that they are very happy to win this special treat.
Easter Service at St Mary’s Church
Today we shared our Easter Service with parents at St Mary’s Church, it was such a wonderful celebration after being absent for two years. The joy on everyones faces was amazing to see. Thank you to our wonderful children and staff for putting together such a beautiful service to celebrate the true meaning of Easter. […]