Our children in Year 6 have been exploring food decay and how we can slow the process down, what do you think?
Category: Year 6H
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 […]
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 […]
Y6 Safer Internet Day
Today we explored our understanding of trusting and checking sources whilst online. Y6’s had some wonderful discussions about what the consequences would be if we trusted unfamiliar sites, pop ups and friend requests etc… Through our chat function we captured some of our great ideas.
Y6 Mental Health Week – More daily discussions
Y6 have made excellent contributions towards our daily discussions. We have kept it going everyday. The adults have enjoyed giving their thoughts 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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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!
Celebration of Learning outcomes Year 6
We are so proud of our children’s resilience this term and wanted to showcase the outstanding outcomes that have been created, drawn or written. Here is a portfolio of the Year 6 learning so far we hope you enjoy.
Corona Chronicles with Huddersfield University.
Our children and staff loved their art workshop today with the Cheer team. Sharing stories and updates about lockdown. A huge thank you to the staff for the fabulous learning resources and workshop today. The children have got so much out of it and can’t wait for the next session.
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.
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.
Drawing into Talking with Miss Tyzack.
This weeks session the children were set the challenge to draw faces, looking at where different features would go. The children drew what they thought a face looked like and the discovery was incredible. The children learnt lots of new schools and worked together. Here is some pictures from last week to show some of […]
PE with Mr Hanson
Loved today’s PE, fitness workout, we planked, squatted, lunged and challenged ourselves with press ups. Children and staff from all key stages joined in and felt energised. Thank you Mr Hanson.
Y6 PE
Today year 6 carried out fitness sessions with Mr Hanson both at home and school. The children did a brilliant job of keeping up and working on their fitness. We know how important it is to keep fit at the current time and will continue to build upon this in future sessions.