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EYFS – Celebrating their NEMESIS Success
NEMESIS Y3/4P Celebrating their Success
Y6 NEMESIS Mindful March
The Year 6 NEMESIS project has reached March. Make sure to look at the calendar at the front of school for some different mindfulness activities. Hope you enjoy doing the activities.
World Book Week 2021
This week is book week and we have some exciting things planned for all year groups, Mrs Buttree has been thinking hard this week about how we can make the activities as creative as possible. You could get the whole family involved. Please read the attached presentation and see what we have in store for […]
Special Mentions
A huge congratulations to our winners this week. We showcased some fabulous examples of learning to our families this week. Thank you for all your support and commitment to remote learning. We are proud of all of our children and enjoy sharing their amazing achievements.
1/2P and 1S: Fractions are Fun!
This week, we have been learning all about fractions. We know that ‘whole’ means to have all of an object or shape. We also know that ‘half’ means our object/shape has been split into two equal parts. We even know that to make a quarter, we must have 1 of 4 equal parts. We have […]
1/2P and 1S: Food Tasting for DT
In our DT lesson this week, the children explored and evaluated a range of vegetables in preparation for soup making. We tried a variety of raw and cooked vegetables, letting our senses help us with our evaluations. Using cocktail sticks to handle each item of food, we considered the smells, textures and flavours. We rated […]
It is virtually World Book Week already! 📖👀
Mrs Burkinshaw and Mrs Waller have a new set of readers for 2WB. Taken from a recommended Pie Corbett Y2 list, we hope you enjoy the new selection of reads in our virtual library! Click on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IM8m5Ejsjvff-PTFz_Pqt8jBgiRusqVL/view?usp=sharing to explore…
Dotty or square in 2WB? 🔺🔸
We have been using geo boards to draw examples of basic 2D shapes. We then moved on to drawing shapes, using a set of instructions: Draw a large rectangle on squared paper or dotted paper. Draw a square inside the rectangle. Draw a triangle below the rectangle. Draw a pentagon that is bigger than the […]
Testing and tasting in 2WB 🥕🍠
In our DT lesson today, we explored and evaluated a range of vegetables in preparation for soup making. We tried new things and let our senses guide us. Using cocktail sticks to handle the food items, we described what they smell like, feel like and gently put them on our tongue to see what flavour […]
2WB Virtual Library 📖
Come and visit Mrs Burkinshaw and Mrs Waller in our new virtual library with links to some lovely reads.
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 all of 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 […]