Category: British Values
WOSCARS 2021
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 […]
Olympic winners in 4D
Congratulations to our winners in 4D on achieving great results in our Willow Tree Olympics. We are really looking forward to our closing ceremony today.
We love learning.
We have been learning all about our rainbow of rewards. We have put all our pictures on and we are happy to be there because it means we are following the rules and on task. If we do something amazing then our picture will be moved to the golden sunshine and we will be able […]
Art/STEM – Origami Olympic Rings 6B
Today we challenged ourselves to making the Olympic Rings using folding of paper techniques (Origami). It was really challenging but we persevered. We most definitely did not use a dot of glue to secure a couple of the main joins. Did we 6B? 🙈
Mo Farah in F2, can you do the Mo Bot?
We had a look at our countries flag, we talked about what we would like to do if we were in the Olympics and read a story and listened to some facts all about Mo Farah. We even did the Mo bot.
Mrs Sweeney’s Olympic Secret!
We were very lucky today as we got to see some real Olympic medals and hold some things that have been to the Olympics all over the world.
Special Mentions Assembly
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.
Year 6 Prom 2021 Thank you @chrissy05379386 for such fabulous photographs!
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 […]
Awards 2021
Today we celebrated our successes across all classes in school. It was lovely to see the smiles on so many faces. We awarded children with trophies, certificates and book vouchers for – Excellence Friendship Respect Reading Champion Sportsman Sportswomen Overcoming Adversity Boy of the Year Girl of the Year, Here are our winners –
Mini Olympics 5/6H and 6B
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 […]
Goodbye Year 6 we miss you already!
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
Newsletter 02/07/21
Information for parents Updates for Parents 2021-2022
Year 6 Prom – Official Photographs to follow!
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 […]
Recycling in F1
The F1 children did an excellent job of sorting different materials ready for recycling ♻️
Rockingham A Team Winners of Willow Tree Olympics
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.
WMIM workshop with Y6
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.
Thank you @WingfieldHead Mr Davies for visiting our Year 6s
Our children really enjoyed having a visit from Mr Davies today. Discussing transition and all the wonderful things to look forward to.
Celebrating Attendance in Y6
Congratulations on attendance winners in Year 6 we are so proud of your achievements.
Year 6 Willow Tree Olympics
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.
Lunchtimes Rock at Rockingham
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.
Special Mentions
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.
Year 6 Leavers Assembly
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.
We love playtime in KS1 with Mrs Oram
Mrs Oram has been working hard on the KS1 Playground to come up with creative ways to develop teamwork. Our children have loved the new the activities that are on offer, thank you so much Mrs Oram we are so lucky to have you in our school.
Last ever environment club for our Y6 Girls.
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.
Cleaning up our environment.
Tonight our environment club went hunting for litter, they have done an incredible job of making our school look amazing.
Film Festival @nemesis_edu
So proud of all our schools today and all the schools within our partnership for being involved in such a fantastic opportunity. Over the past four years we have been involved in NEMESIS projects. Novel, Educational, Model for Social Innovation Skills. Where we have developed social invocation skills within our children and our curriculum. Today […]
Pollution in our Oceans
We couldn’t believe how much our oceans can be polluted. We enjoyed reading the story of Finn and Skip who wanted to go fishing but couldn’t catch any due to all the rubbish. They were so kind and thoughtful and helped to remove all the rubbish from the ocean, even though they just wanted to […]
Our Oceans
We had such an interesting afternoon thinking about our oceans. We first thought about what we expect to find in them and then looked at what things find their way there that don’t belong. We couldn’t believe how much pollution changed our oceans. We thought about how we could remove some of the pollution but […]
Special Mentions Celebrations.
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.