Today, 5/6H and 6B used their knowledge of place value and the Olympics to complete a challenging orienteering course. This included so many skills including map reading, place value knowledge and spelling. Everyone had a great time carrying out the activity!
5/6H looked at some famous moments from the Olympics including Usain Bolt winning the 100m, Super Saturday from 2012, Derrick Redmond in Barcelona and Eric the Eel. We then discussed what makes a winner. There were some very well thought out responses. We decided that winning gold didn’t just mean you were a winner!
The last couple of weeks, 5/6H have been producing some different pieces of artwork and design technology learning. They have focused on Olympic posters for painting and Olympic kits to design. The children tried really hard with the learning they produced.
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 […]
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.
On Wednesday the 30th of June we celebrated our Year 6’s journey at Rockingham with a Prom, the children chose a black and gold theme and wanted to have a formal evening. We had the most amazing time and I hope these photographs capture a wonderful time had by all. A huge thank you to […]
Great afternoon in Y5/6H and 6B where children have practiced lots of skills from seated throw and Javelin to sprints and target throwing as part of our mini Olympics. Unfortunately, we had to compete inside today due to the changeable weather but Ms Tyzack made sure that we didn’t miss out by setting up the […]
Today we took a Year 6 and Year 5 team to compete against Greasbrough Primary school to open the Multi Sports Centre. The children were really lucky to have the Mayor of Rotherham who presented the children with medals. Congratulations everyone a wonderful afternoon had by all.
Today we had a wonderful final day with our Year 6, we smiled, laughed and cried. We are tremendously proud of you and we can’t wait to hear all about your transition to your new school. This isn’t goodbye. https://youtube.com/shorts/topwnkFmLcI?feature=share
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.
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What a wonderful send off to our Year 6 children at the prom. We had the most amazing evening celebrating with smiles and laughter, the children really enjoyed spending the evening together and everyone looked fantastic. A huge thank you to our parents for fully supporting us and we are really going to miss you […]
So proud of all our children across Willow Tree Academy taking part in the Olympics. Everyone worked well as a team and enjoyed every second. Congratulations to all Rockingham children for supporting one another.
Tonight we hosted our first competitive sporting event with Roughwood School. The children enjoyed meeting each other ready for transition next week. The final score was 1:1 and the game went to penalties. Rockingham were the overall winners with a 6 : 3 win. We can’t wait to do this again. Thank you to all […]
Today Mrs Elliott and Miss Elliott had a fabulous time in the environment. The children were planting and creating shadows. Two science concepts in one evening.
Our Y6s really enjoyed their Huge bag of worries workshop with ‘With me in Mind’ children were able to explore their feelings about transition. Thank you for supporting our children and their emotions.
Our children really enjoyed having a visit from Mr Davies today. Discussing transition and all the wonderful things to look forward to.
Congratulations on attendance winners in Year 6 we are so proud of your achievements.
What a fantastic sporting event we have had. Our Willow Tree Olympics was underway and all children were actively involved in all events. After resilience, determination and team work our Rockingham A Team came in first place successfully achieving 246 points collectively. Congratulations to al children across Willow Tree for giving it your all.
Today we have launched new games on the playground to bring some team work, positivity and excitement to our children’s lunchtimes. We have loved every second and can’t wait to the same again tomorrow.
So proud of Annie and her resilience towards her last piece of Art learning at Rockingham. Your skills have really progressed and I am so proud of your achievements throughout school.
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.
Today we celebrated our Year 6s by sharing our Y6 leavers video. The children have created something extra special to share with their family and friends and we hope you enjoy watching their celebration. We are proud of each and everyone of you and can’t wait for further celebrations this week.
During Art, using skills of water colour, we have developed some lovely images of monkeys and chimpanzees. The ideas came from us learning about evolution and Charles Darwin. The results were superb!
Today as part of Design Technology and Maths, 6H designed and created pulleys which acted as flagpoles to raise flags. We discussed how a flagpole is used at the Olympics which we are participating in this week. Everyone worked well together to complete the problem solving challenges.
Today was an emotional day, Maisie, Jaye and Hannah’s last environment club. We hope the girls come back to support us. We are going to miss them so much.
Tonight our environment club went hunting for litter, they have done an incredible job of making our school look amazing.
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.
This week the children have used the orienteering course to locate a range of birds they may find in Britain. The children had a fantastic time outdoors you can see from their smiles.
6H have been looking at developing their close sketching techniques. They have looked at different patterns and pencil movements which can create different effects.