On Tuesday, after the live maths lesson the children were challenged to make 2D and 3D shapes. Here are some of the amazing examples the children made using items like pasta, marshmallows, straws and blu tack!
Category: KS1
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!
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 […]
1/2P Creativity through performance Poetry and Languages.
Our KS1 children are so creative in their learning, showcasing their Oracy skills and performace as you can see here through MFL and Literacy.
Happy faces in 2WB
Here are a few happy faces of children in 2WB who received their very special delivery this week. We have had lots of messages of ‘thanks’ from parents and children who very much appreciated this gift!
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 […]
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!🐻
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!
Record of Achievement Day!
ROA day got off to a great start. Together we thought of our achievements and proud moments over the last few months. We popped them in a jar to show that we are all in this together. Lots of the things the children said, other children thought too! 🌈😊
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 […]
Ava, using her phonics to support her reading. So proud of you!
We are so proud of Ava and mum this week, fabulous team effort in understanding the text and using her phonics knowledge to decode unknown words. Well done Ava we are really proud of you.
Our Learning reaches China!
Our Year 2 Children wanted to share how they have sent their learning all the way to China to learn with their friends in Chengdu. After the holiday the children at Tanghu Elementary school are going to be sharing some traditional Chinese fairytales with us. We are really looking forward to this.
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!
1S Mindfulness Meet
Today we had a live lesson for ‘expressing ourselves’. We looked at the story ‘I am perfectly designed’ and thought about how we are all different in so many ways. We discussed the things that we loved and used objects and clothes to show who we are. Some of us came dressed as a hero, […]
2WB – #expressyourself #childrensmentalhealthweek
This afternoon, we kicked off our week with our Mindfulness Meet. We loved hearing all about each other and chatting. We told our friends our favourtite colour, what we aspired to be when we are older and also all about ourselves and what we brought to the meet.
Whole School Art Competition – The Window P4C
Please take part in our whole school competition to win prizes – we can’t wait to see your entries. Good Luck Everyone, Art Competition For the competition we would like you to create a piece of artwork with the inspiration ‘A view from your window’. This could be what you can see from your window […]
Congratulations to this weeks Special Mentions Winners ⭐️
This week we have showcased some tremendous outcomes from our children. They have all worked extremely hard and gone the extra mile. A huge staff shout out to Mrs Marlow and Mr Purshouse for achieving staff star 🌟 of the week. Well done everyone.