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: Year 2WB
2WB Virtual Library 📖
Come and visit Mrs Burkinshaw and Mrs Waller in our new virtual library with links to some lovely reads.
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 […]
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 […]
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! 🌈😊
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 […]
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.
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.
Thank you @nemesis_edu for sharing our KS1 story.
Please explore the NEMESIS website and enjoy reading some of the wonderful projects our children have been involved in. Here is our link to our story about our KS1 outdoor area, we really hope you enjoy. Thank you to all the teachers and children for making this a very special place.
Y2WB Sharing their Drama performances with their friends in China @jeffshuai1
We are so proud to share our Drama performances of the Little Red Riding Hood, we have shared these with our Partner School Tanghu Elementary School in Chengdu. The year two children in both schools have been working on a joint project, sharing their learning and stories together. We are so proud of all of […]
2WB try a rest in Music live 🎵
We started with a warm up – listening to the different notes to make our movements with. We then used a rest with the notes we already know to add a challenge to our practice.
Mr Hanson leads the way with a Fitness session.
Mr Hanson held his extra curricular activity today with a fitness session for all children in school to join, we did press ups, lunges and squats not to mention a whole range of exercises to keep us fit and healthy,
Harry Potter Escape Room with Mrs Marlow and Mr Purshouse
A huge thank you to our fabulous teachers for creating such a wonderful escape room for our children as part of our Extra Curricular Activities. What an excellent challenge and can’t wait to see more of these in school. Especially linking STEM across the curriculum. Well done everyone!
KS1 ask “Where does our food come from?” 🍽
In our DT lesson today, we thought about food that is healthy, like fruit and vegetables. We agreed some food could be healthy, but unhealthy when you eat too much of it (bread and cheese). Some healthy foods are mixed with unhealthy foods, like fish and chips, or burgers with salad. It was certainly food […]
Bring your Pets to Google Meet!
Today Mr Parkin’s Extra Curricular activity was all about pets. Children from all classes were present and brought their pets to meet everyone. We learnt so much about different animals, their habitats and special skills. We loved it thank you Mr Parkin for a wonderful session the staff loved it too.
Our EGGperiment 🥚
In key stage 1 we looked at observational changes for our science learning today. We thought about different observational changes and then we all joined in with Miss Stubbs carrying out our own experiment using egg and vinegar. I wonder what will happen?
Special Mentions Assembly
It was so lovely having our children and parents share in our special mentions assembly today. Thank you to all our teachers who are working so hard and sharing the beautiful learning our children are creating at home. Congratulations to all our winners today and good luck everyone for next week.