This week in REY to celebrate the harvest festival our children have been using the IPAD and colouring in their own harvest festival basket on purple mash. This supports children’s manipulation and control using their finger to carefully choose the different colours and then colour in the picture and also exploring how things work. We […]
Today in REY some of our children made the most of the big puddles on our garden! We made our very own paint puddles mixing the powder paint with the rain water and watching what happened! The children loved jumping in the paint and seeing the colours mix together and telling the adults what colours […]
This morning we held our harvest assembly in school for the children, where we shared all that has been done to celebrate harvest time. We would also like to take this moment to thank all families for the donations that have been sent in to school- it really makes a huge difference. Thank you. Please […]
We love celebrating all our successes and learning weekly with our children in the special mentions assembly. All our children have produced high quality learning outcomes and developed new knowledge. It is so lovely to hear about what makes our school so special. Congratulations Jenson on winning this weeks Head Teachers Award for alway being […]
This week in REY linked to our story ‘I Can Eat A Rainbow’ we have been exploring different coloured powder paints. We named the colours and then using the different tools mixed the paints together and watched what happened when the paints were mixed. The children really enjoyed this and loved seeing the paints turn […]
This week in REY we have been reading the story ‘I Can Eat a Rainbow’ so to link to the book we have been making our own fruit kebabs! The children showed great persistence and resilience when doing this as it can be quite tricky to do! We have loved trying lots of different fruit […]
We loved wearing yellow today to show our support for Mental Health charities. We all brought in donations toward raising awareness. Thank you F1 for joining in with our whole school effort.
During special mentions today we celebrated some amazing successes and celebrated our learning together. The children looked incredible in Yellow Supporting mental health charities. Thank you to everyone for all your hard work this week. Congratulations Jack on achieving the Head Teachers Award this week and to Mrs Buttree – our staff star of the […]
Here is Harper our little Superstar Writer. Well done Harper we are so proud of you.
Sharing some fabulous learning outcomes this week we are really proud of all of our dojo winners this week.
Our children in REY love singing nursery rhymes and familiar songs on a daily basis. Today we celebrated national poetry day by choosing our favourite songs and we spoke about the rhyming words we could hear. Our favourite was ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’. We used the hand puppets to bring the rhymes to life, afterwards our […]
In F1, we have practised an autumnal poem about hedgehogs! Together, we even came up with some actions! This is our poem: I’m a little hedgehog, Brown and small, Very prickly, Not that tall. When I’m feeling frightened, Away I crawl, And curl up into a ball! Well done, F1. You were very resilient and […]
In F1, we have been looking at the works of artist Charles Gaines. We have loved looking at his artwork and discussing the colours he uses to make them bright and beautiful. We even noticed that Charles uses numbers in his art! We have put our own spin on his artwork by creating a tree […]
Today we have had a lovely visit from Wendy from the outreach team. She has been into setting and done some lovely activities linked to healthy eating and our bodies. The children warmed up their bodies following some action songs and then we tried lots of delicious fruit! Parents have also been given a handout […]
In REY we love being outside, whatever the weather we are always enjoying our outdoor space. Today the children loved putting on their wetsuits and wellies and going outside to splash in the puddles!
What a wonderful celebration of learning, we really do have the most amazing children on the planet.
This week in REY our book of the week is ‘The Family Book’. We have been talking about what family means and sharing pictures of our own families! To support our literacy skills we have been singing the ‘Finger Family’ song, the children have loved singing this and throughout the week have sung this independently […]
This week we have been reading our new story The Tiger who Came to Tea. We have set up areas in the classroom to support the children’s understanding of the text. T
This week in REY linked to our book of the week ‘George goes to playgroup’ the children have been working hard to complete the Peppa Pig jigsaws! This supports our maths skills by combining objects together and completing inset puzzles. All the children have worked so hard showing great persistence and resilience to complete the […]
Today we celebrated our Willow Tree Oscars where some of our children were awarded an Oscar for their animation and film making skills all based on areas of the curriculum and the topic they have been learning. We are so proud to announce that our Winners were …. Year 6 Animation of the Heart Year […]
Our Reading Champion Mia has been out shopping today to spend her book voucher. Mia loves reading and has made lots of progress this year. We are just so proud of you.
Today we celebrated the children’s achievements in their new class. It appears everyone has had a fantastic first week and really enjoying finding new friendships, getting to know their Teacher and learning new things. Well done to all our winners and we really enjoyed our Olympics theme.
This week our children in REY have been learning all about the olympics, we have looked at the Olympic Rings and spoke about what shape they are, how many they can see and the different colours! Throughout the environment we have had a variety of maths opportunities in different areas for the children to explore, […]
Our children in our early years have really enjoyed taking part in the Willow Tree Olympics. They showed some excellent skills, the favourite event was the sprint! We have some fantastic young Olympians here at Rockingham!
Today we celebrated our successes across all classes in school. It was lovely to see the smiles on so many faces. We awarded children with trophies, certificates and book vouchers for – Excellence Friendship Respect Reading Champion Sportsman Sportswomen Overcoming Adversity Boy of the Year Girl of the Year, Here are our winners –
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What a fabulous celebration this week, discussing all the wonderful achievements. A huge thank you to Miss Stubbs our staff star of the week and Chloe who received our Head Teachers Award. We are really proud of you all.
We are so proud of our Golden shield winners and showcasing some fantastic learning outcomes. We are so proud of you all. A huge well done to Charlie receiving the Head Teachers award for his positive attitude, resilience and how he has grown in confidence.
This week in early years we have been learning all about where we live and our school . We went for a local walk around Rockingham and spotted lots of different numbers in the community.