Come and visit Mrs Burkinshaw and Mrs Waller in our new virtual library with links to some lovely reads.
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Silver Modeshift Stars Award @ModeshiftSTARS
A huge congratualtions to all the staff at Rockingham and to Mr Purshouse for all your hardwork on achieveing the Silver Modeshift Stars award. You have continued to increase active travel within our school and community, an amazing achievement. We can’t wait to continue our journey towards Gold. Thank you so much to everyone at […]
2WB enjoying Pancake Day at home 🍽
What did you have on your pancakes today?
2WB grand musical finale 🎼
We started by playing along to music with our standard and non-standard instruments. We moved our learning forward with some composing of our own. We have had so much fun learning about musical notes!
Y3M internet Safety
Can you trust what you see online? 3M explore their thoughts, feelings and ideas.
Special Mentions
Today we celebrated our children who had won class dojo and who had showcased some outstanding learning. We are so proud of all of our children this week and we know that all our children are trying their best. Miss Stubbs announced the winners of our Art Competition today so well done to all our […]
Bare ‘Bear’ necessities of life
Newsletter – Spring 1
Here is some wonderful learning outcomes from Spring 1 and our journey so far. We have had a remarkable term with live lessons, Extra Curricular Activities and competitions to make everyone smile. We hope you enjoy reading about all the wonderful learning that has taken place.
Bear love 💕 Thank you Parents and Children – we miss you.
This week the staff have been frantically delivering bears to each child in our school with a special certificate for our parents and children to tell them how proud we are of them and how much we miss them. We still have a few more deliveries to make but we hope you keep and treasure […]
NEMESIS – @GJIprimary, @roughwoodschool
Today we held our first Co-Creation lab with Greasbrough and Roughwood Primary discussing the Food Pantry Project with Chislett we discussed ideas on how we can support the project and our families. The children came up with some incredible suggestions and ideas. Starting with generating publicity, gaining local opinions and making recipe cards. We can’t […]
air ‘F2 go a little crazy!’
STEM secret messaging challenge 📩
Today we gathered some everyday household items and got ready to try some alternative ways of messaging. Firstly, we looked at how we could use objects to make images of words or phrases. Then we used some special solutions to investigate what would make the best invisible ink. Our grand finale was making Morse Code […]
We are artists at Rockingham! 🐭
This afternoon Miss Parkin and Miss Stubbs held a live drawing session. We all drew Mickey Mouse and what fantastic outcomes we have got! Here are lots of the drawings we have received, if you have one to share please send it to your teacher we would love to see it! Mrs Buttree did a […]
KS1 beary exciting delivery! 🐻
Yesterday we delivered bears to children for all of their hard work during home learning. Thank you for making our day super special! If you haven’t received your bear yet, keep an eye out!🐻
‘er’ Digraph in F2
Today we had another fancy dress phonics. We were looking at the ‘er’ digraph so we had to dress up as something with an ‘er’ to join the ‘er’ club! Can you think of any?
1S Well-being chat 💬
This week on our well-being chat we shared some of our favourite books. Some of the children had matching story books it was so lovely to share a love of reading and books 📚 ❤️
Record of achievement in y1
Today we celebrated record of achievement day. We attended live lessons and reflected on our learning so far this year. Even though we are learning from home we have all achieved in some way including live lessons, expressing ourselves in mental health week, joining extra curricular activities and so much more!
F2 – Happy Heart, Happy Mind.
Special Mentions
Today’s special mentions was so wonderful, celebrating all the achievements of our learners. We’ve seen learning linked to all curriculum areas and some fabulous ways to present learning. Congratulations to all our children today and our staff who have worked tirelessly. Well done to Miss Darby and Mrs Oram who are our staff stars of […]
Story Mapping in F1
In F1 this week it has been storytelling week. We have shared a number of traditional tales, looked at story mapping, retelling stories and creating finger puppets.
Drawing into Talking with Miss Tyzack.
Over the last two weeks the children have been focussing on the eye and mouth when studying the face. The children have really enjoyed working with Miss Tyzack and the have really enjoyed their discussions within the group. Well done everyone.
Counting coins in 2WB 💰
Our challenge today was if I had 5 coins, what amount of money could I have? The children came up with a range of answers. Can you think of any that we missed?
2WB tapping along to the beat 🥁
In our music lesson today, we continued to practice moving to the beat of the music. Children are now reading a range of notes. We can also play our own musical (and improvised) instruments along to a piece of music.
2WB just sittin’ on a wall 🧱
These children took up Mr Pursehouse’s challenge as part of #childrensmentalhealthweek Well done girls, looks like a lot of fun!
Thank you Mrs Oram, joining the team with a bang!
Thank you so much to Mrs Oram and Charlotte for our Extra Curricular club this afternoon. The children loved making fruit kebabs and fruit salads. Some of our children even created artwork using the fruit. I think the teachers loved this too. I think you should have your own cookery show.
A view from my window live session
This week for Children’s mental health week we are taking part in a whole school art competition. We had a live lesson with Miss Stubbs and Miss Parkin to discuss our ideas.
Olaf joined our Phonics!
Today we had a special visitor on our phonics lesson. Olaf joined in learning the i-e split diagraph. I hope he will now start to use it in his writing!
Scavenger Hunt with Mrs Sweeney and Mrs Lilleyman.
We had so much fun on our scavenger hunt around the house today with Mrs Lilleyman and Mrs Sweeney. Thank you both for our extra curricular fun.
F2 – Proud!
Lockdown Learning in Y5P
Y5P have been working so hard with their lockdown learning. Here is a little example of what they’ve been up to.