We made tangram pictures of Olympic sports today, practising our fine motor skills in 1/2B 🔷🔺🟢
Category: KS1
WOSCARS 2021
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 […]
Guess which Olympic sport in 1/2B? 🔍
In Y1/2B, we have been practising some of our sketching skills to reveal our Olympic sporting theme. Can you guess from our work? 🔍
Will it be bronze, silver or gold in Y1/2B? 🏅
As part of our DT project, we designed, made and evaluated our own Olympic medals in Y1/2B. We decided our medals must have the Olympic rings and the goddess of victory, Nike. They should be shiny and durable. They could have a ribbon attached, to wear around the neck. 🏅
May the force be with you Y1/2B 🎾⚽️
Our Science investigation on push and pull forces (in sports) generated the question: How much force will make a ball travel the furthest? 🎾⚽️
Art – Olympic Clay medal making.
This week in year 1 we have been exploring the Olympics and the different types of medals that can be won. The children then had a go at making their own Olympic medals ensuring that they were round and featured an emblem to represent the Olympics either the Olympic Rings, a mascot , the year […]
Special Mentions Assembly
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.
Awards 2021
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 –
Music
Today we had our music session with the Rotherham music service and really enjoyed our session.
Feeling the beat in our Y1 music lesson today 🎶
In Y1today, children moved along to a familiar song and tapped back a set of beats, using a musical instrument 🎶
Place Value in Y2
In y2 this week we have been learning all about place value. We have been discussing the value of tens and ones.
Place Value in Y1 numeracy 🔢
Today our Y1 numeracy learning was about sorting objects and preparing to count. Objects can be sorted by their shape, colour and size. We also realised that objects can be sorted by their type. We discovered that when we line our objects up, it makes counting easier.
Ooh la la KS1! Le golf? le ping pong? ⛳️🏌️♂️🏓
In KS1, we enjoyed matching 🇫🇷 vocabulary to the correct sporting activity. It was surprising to see some of the words were very similar to our English words for sports!
Olympic go-getters in Y1 🏅
Our new Y1 children enjoyed collecting scores in our Olympic themed activities yesterday.
What a great way to practise our number skills!
We are always going for gold🏅
French olympics in 1M
Today the children looked at different Olympic events in French and matched the pictures to the words.
Olympics in 1M
In 1M we have enjoyed learning about and the recreating some Olympic Games . The children had their own score cards to record all their times and outcomes. They really enjoyed being active and taking part.
Willow Vision – Congratulations Roughwood!
Today we held our first ever Willow Vision, competing against our four schools in a competition. All the children sang beautifully in French. Congratulations Roughwood, what a performance. We already have ideas buzzing for next year.
Newsletter 02/07/21
Information for parents Updates for Parents 2021-2022
We are artists! 🧑🎨
Our art leader Miss Stubbs has been blown away this week. She was thrilled with the amount of concentration and resilience the children are putting into sketching and using our new techniques to make our sketches more detailed. Here are the artists of 3/4P with their amazing art learning!
DT Red Buses
This week we finished our DT project by making a moving London bus. We did an amazing job! We even used equipment to cut the dowel for our own axels.
Publishing our final piece of literacy in Year 2
This week the children have spent time publishing their non chronological reports about ‘London Landmarks’. This piece of learning has taken quite a few weeks to write, edit and improve and the children have taken such pride in the presentation of their final published piece of the school year!
PE – Striking and Fielding skills
2WB have been working hard to improve their skills in PE. We have been practising our over and underarm throws, catching and fielding skills.
London Buses!
This half term the children have worked incredibly hard to research, plan, design, make and evaluate their own London Bus with moving wheels. The resilience, problem solving and teamwork these children have shown has been amazing and is reflected in the excellent outcomes they produced.
Special Mentions
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 love playtime in KS1 with Mrs Oram
Mrs Oram has been working hard on the KS1 Playground to come up with creative ways to develop teamwork. Our children have loved the new the activities that are on offer, thank you so much Mrs Oram we are so lucky to have you in our school.
More peer reading in 2WB – we love storytime! 📖
It is amazing to see our super confident reading champions taking over at story time! We are enjoying sharing our favourite stories from home 📖
In 2WB, we consider medicine or not? 💊
After considering what medicines can include and how they might look, we discussed some real life scenarios and thought about how we would handle the same situation. The children then wrote about what they had learned.
Yoga in Y1S
Today, the children really enjoyed their Yoga class, exploring a range of positions to improve their balance and posture.
Special Mentions Celebrations.
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.
Congratulations to Keppel our Winning House.
Congratulations to Keppel on winning this years house treat and over taking Hoober who have won for the last three years. Well done to all 99 children and 12 staff who were successful. We can’t wait to start the challenge again in transition. Good luck everyone and keep collecting your points.