Our children in Year 6 have been exploring food decay and how we can slow the process down, what do you think?
Category: KS2
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 […]
Y3M internet Safety
Can you trust what you see online? 3M explore their thoughts, feelings and ideas.
Art with Miss Tyzack.
This week in Miss Tyzack’s Art session the children were learning how to draw a nose. They have been building up how to draw facial features over the past few weeks. The children will now over half term draw a face as a challenge and during the first week back we will guess who the […]
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 […]
Y6 Sea Shanties
To keep up the moral on long voyages, sailors used to sing and make up sea shanties to make the tough tasks onboard more manageable and take their minds off the hard work needed for their daily jobs. It gave the crew members a sense of togetherness and made them feel like they were working […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Outstanding learning in Y4/5D
Here are just a few examples of learning outcomes from Y4/5D. I am very proud of how hard they are working online and that they are showing so much resilience. Well done!
Josh, what an achievement!
Josh took part in a challenge this January which was to walk/run 30km in the last two weeks of January and Josh won 1st prize , he did 102km ( nearly 64 miles). We are so proud of his achievement and wanted to share this with everyone. What a wonderful role model and outstanding learner […]
Drawing into Talking with Miss Tyzack.
Over the last two weeks the children have been focussing on the eye and mouth when studying the face. The children have really enjoyed working with Miss Tyzack and the have really enjoyed their discussions within the group. Well done everyone.
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.
Scavenger Hunt with Mrs Sweeney and Mrs Lilleyman.
We had so much fun on our scavenger hunt around the house today with Mrs Lilleyman and Mrs Sweeney. Thank you both for our extra curricular fun.
Y3/4P Well Being Meet #expressyourself #childrensmentalhealthweek
Thank you for Y3/4P for a wonderful meet about our well being and mental health. We shared what we have enjoyed and not enjoyed about lockdown, what makes us happy or sad and we shared ideas on how we can help each other feel better using the 5 steps of well-being. Going forward, we discussed […]
Play Your Cards Right #beactive #childrensmentalhealthweek
Well done to everyone who completed the PE Challenge yesterday. 👏💪 Tommorow’s challenge is to squat and shoot!
Y3/4P Express Yourself Art #childrensmentalhealthweek
Well done to Y3/4P for completing the art learning yesterday. We’ve had some lovely entries for Miss Stubbs Art challenge aswell.
Lockdown Learning in Y5P
Y5P have been working so hard with their lockdown learning. Here is a little example of what they’ve been up to.
Lizzie improves our Mental Health.
Meet Lizzie our new friend at Rockingham, bringing excitement and joy to the children’s faces during Mental Health week. Thank you Mrs Tunks, we love Lizzie and hope she visits again soon.
Sharing our most treasured possessions in Y3M
PSHE, Today we shared a story and watched a video we talked about our unique items that the children had brought with them and why they were special. We discussed how they made us feel. Then we discussed how important it is to talk and take care of each other.
Ks2 Plank It Challenge #childrensmentalhealthweek #beactive
Well done for Ks2 children who have kept active today to maintain a healthy mind. It’s important to stay active for our well being and Rockingham children are doing brilliant in keeping active.
Y6 Mental Health Week – Daily discussion question on Google Classroom
Every day this week I will be posing a discussion question for Y6 children to respond to. Today’s question is: What does it mean to have a healthy mind? Comment if you have your own answers.
Y6 Mental Health Week – We have each created an A-Z of Coping/Calming Skills
Y6 Mental Health Week – Draw your feelings.
Today in Y6 we have started our Mental Health Week off by drawing our feelings in our live lesson using colour, shapes and patterns and then explained why we represented our feelings in this way.
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 […]
Family and Friends February’s, Well-Being Calendar Y6
Happy February everyone, here is our Year 6 Family and Friends well being calendar. On your daily walk please walk by our school and take a look at the activities we have on offer to support your well being. Well done Year 6 we are so proud of the work you are doing in our […]
Science Club with Miss Darby
Today we completed some fantastic science experiments with Miss Darby exploring the laws of motion. Looking at Forces, Gravity and Air Resistance. Well done everyone we are so proud of you.