Category: Early Years
Dough disco
dough disco session as a pre warm up for our writing ✍️
Meeting a chick 🐣
Today some of our children in early years had the experience of meeting a little chick 🐥. The children were so calm and gentle and gave the little chick a cuddle.
Maths – positional language.
This week linked to our book of the week Goldilocks and the three bears 🐻. We are been looking at following simple instructions – positional language . The children have placed baby bear in a number of different places in relation to his bowl . The children have shown great listening and understanding skills in […]
Letters and sounds .
This week some of our children have been looking at phase 1 letters and sounds aspect 4 rhythm and rhyme . The children have been identifying picture card clues and matching them to objects and sounds that rhyme . We have also looked at phase 1 aspect 3 body percussion following a rhythm and beat […]
Physical Development in REY
Our Early Years children really enjoy visiting our school hall for their physical development. They have been learning how to roll, creep and crawl. Some wonderful gross motor skills were evident today.
PSED- How does baby bear feel ? 🐻
This week in Early years for the book Goldilocks and the three bears we have been thinking how baby baby felt when he saw that all his porridge had gone ,how he may have felt when he saw his chair broken as well thinking how he may feel getting out in the forest with his […]
Special Mentions ⭐️
This week we had such a fantastic special mentions. Our children have completed some fabulous learning. We’ve had French and Chinese languages explored, history and computing. It has been so wonderful to celebrate their amazing achievements especially 3F winning the Sumdog competition for the whole of Rotherham this week. Cairon won the Head Teacher’s award […]
Our learning environment.
Can you guess our book of the week for next week 🐻? Here are some pictures of the set up ready for the children to explore.
Literacy – Early writers ✍️
Look at some of our youngest children building up the finger muscles to hold a pen or pencil and attempt to write their names .
Every kid healthy week
This week in Early years to support the ‘every kid healthy week’ we have been completing small daily tasks to ensure that we are focusing on our mental health and wellbeing. On Monday we celebrated mindfulness and completed some Yoga 🧘♀️. Tasty Tuesday we ate some lovely fresh fruit and vegetables. On Wednesday we went on […]
Every Kid Healthy Week 26.04.21
Every Kid Healthy Week: What is it? Every Kid Healthy™ Week is an annual observance created in 2013 to celebrate school health and wellness achievements. Recognised on the calendar of National Health Observances and observed the last full week of April each year, each day of the week shines a spotlight on the great actions […]
Geography – Beat the street.
We have been promoting the beat the street initiative and our Early years children have loved participating and being active . The children have been walking , riding or scooting around Rotherham learning about the Town that we live in and the places that are local to us at Rockingham. In accordance to beat the […]
Science- Exploring the Earth 🌍
This week for Earth day the children in Early years have learnt about the world we live . We discussed that the Earth is made up of land and sea . We looked at different animals and their habitats and categorised them in to land or sea animals.
Physical development – making a bridge.
This week linked to our text the three Billy goats gruff We made a bridge and a walk way so that the children could re-enact the story and walk, balance and move across their bridge in a number of ways. The children really enjoyed this and showed great concentration trying to balance and cross the […]
P4C -The Window.
This week in Early years we have explored the text ‘The Window’. We looked at the pictures then discussed what a window was, what could we see through the window? We then went outside and explored with chalks drawing and talking about what we would like to see as we look outside. The children came […]
Geography – Earth day 🌍
This week we celebrated Earth day by wearing something green . We also discussed what the word ‘Earth’ meant . What was meant by land and sea and explored some animals and their habitats linking them to land or water . We also explored some colour mixing with green and blue to make patterns to […]
Newsletter 23rd April 2021
Big Pedal F1
Today was our turn to ride to school on our bikes and scooters. We have added lots of decorations and bling to make them stand out.
Geography – A walk around our school grounds .
In REY we have been on a little adventure around our school grounds this week to look at the surrounding areas. We walked to the new leaf centre site across the car park and all held on to the hoops to ensure we were safe , we then walked across the school yard to see […]
Geography- Joining in the beat the street campaign .
Here’s Emily exploring some of the routes around Rotherham on her bike to keep active and use her fob pick up points 🚲 🗺
Big Pedal/Go Green for Earth Day @BTSRotherham
Next week we have our activities to support Beat the Street. Get involved and join in the fun.
Special Mentions with a History Twist!
This week we celebrated History within our Special mentions. The children across school are learning about a variety of Historical Events that changed the lives of many people. Our KS1 children are learning about he History of London and the Great Fire of London. Our Year 3 children are studying ‘The Victorians’, in Year 4 […]
Congratulations Alfie – Head Teacher Award Winner
Alfie in Rockingham Early Years is my Head Teacher Award Winner this week. His resilience, determination and enthusiasm for learning is outstanding. Mr Hanson loves visiting Alfie to play football with him as he has a passion for sports and really enjoys getting active. We are proud of you Alfie!
REY visit the Hens.
Our Early Years Children are out exploring again. This time they have been to see if our Hens have laid any eggs. The children have learnt so much about Chicken’s and this links really well to their learning in Science.
REY visits the LEAF Centre – Progress Check
Our Early Years children really enjoyed visiting our LEAF Centre site. They were asking lots of questions and listened really carefully. They are really excited to watch our amazing new site develop.
Looking after our plants 🌱
We have been busy taking care of our plants . Making sure that they have water in order to grow 🌱. The children have been working together to water the plants.
Exploring our book of the week : The Enormous turnip.
Expressive Arts and Design in REY!
Our story this week was ‘Planting a Rainbow’, we have enjoyed looking at the different coloured flowers in the story and which colour is our favourite. For our learning outcome we have explored colour and colour mixing with primary colours using powder paint. Children were encouraged to mix the paints in the pallet and see […]
Census Learning 2021
Our children from REY to Year 6 loved getting involved in the Census and completing some fabulous learning. All children understand the history of the census and thoroughly enjoyed data collection. Thank you Mr Hanson for organising such a wonderful day.