It is so lovely to see our children taking care of the environment, the children are getting the willow domes in shape. Well done everyone.
Category: Science
Rockingham Enters the WOSCARS 2022
Here are all our entries to this years Willow Tree Oscars, we hope you enjoy following our filmmaking journey, congratulations to all our entries.
WOSCARS 2022, congratulations all.
Today we held our annual Willow Tree Oscars, showcasing our ICT skills through a range of films and catagories such as animation, poetry and song, green screen and voice over. Just to name a few. Congratulations 2S, 5P and Y5/6H and Y6B on your winning films today. We are proud of each and everyone who […]
Foundation 2 join Special Mentions
Special Mentions Assembly, today we celebrated all our winners of this week sharing their outstanding learning and positive behaviours. Congratulations everyone we are so proud of you. Foundation 2 also made a special appearance for their first assembly in preparation for Year 1.
Newsletter 17th June 2022
Please enjoy this week’s Newsletter, we hope you enjoy celebrating all the wonderful learning opportunities,
Science in 3WB – Food chains
In 3WB we have enjoyed identifying and generating food chains.
Environment club, thank you Mr Robins
Mr Robins’ Dad has supported our Environment club with identifying weeds and new plants in our outdoor area. The children have been so grateful for his help and advice and of course making sure they are watered on Fridays.
STEM activity in REY!
This week we have been reading the story Chicken Licken and have been thinking about things that fall from the sky! We carried out a STEM activity to see which objects float and sink in water! We began by using an acorn from the story and the children had a go guessing if they thought […]
We love Textiles at Rockingham
This week we have been looking at all the opportunities we have in design and technology with a focus on textiles. From our youngest children to our oldest they are all developing some excellent skills when it comes to joining materials.
Gardening Club with Mrs Elliott
Our children have been busy observing their handy work. Everything they have planted is starting to grow and our sunflower competition is starting take off. Our tiny duckling has been watching them in action with our chickens.
Celebrating our success.
These week we have been celebrating all things that make us unique and special. Here are our personal and in school achievements.
Environment Club enjoying their planting.
Our Environment are fully focussed on our outdoor provision. Here they are making planters and planting in the sunshine. I know they are keen to put their plans into action.
3WB Explore Circuits!
This week the children named the components and then were challenged to make a circuit. The children explored trying to make bulbs, buzzers and a motor work. Great work 3WB!
F2 raise Froglets
Our F2 children are so excited about raising Froglets. They have been observing the tadpoles daily and can’t believe that they are witnessing the life cycle right in front of their eyes. We love science at Rockingham.
We love our Willow Tree Explorer Suits @JaneFearnley
We really enjoyed trying on our new Willow Tree Explorer suits in REY even when the sun was out. We can’t wait to wear them out and about when learning about the environment.
Special mentions, another week of successes.
Our special mentions assembly again showed all the wonderful learning experiences, outcomes and achievements of our amazing children and staff.
Newsletter 6th May 2022
Here is this week’s Newsletter with all the fabulous events that have happened over the last two weeks.
1/2B have been planting our sunflower seeds 🌻
1/2B have been planting our sunflower seeds as part of a whole school initiative 🌻
Maths through Orienteering in Y6B
Today we had the most exciting lesson exploring the outdoors in maths using orienteering as a tools to test our knowledge from this weeks learning. The children worked really hard in teams to calculate answers based on rounding, multiplication, division and fractions. Well done everyone.
Special Mentions Assembly
Our first special mentions of our he Summer Term, celebrating our successes and achievements. We are so proud of our Rockingham children and staff you are all incredible.
Planting sunflower seeds.
Today we have made a start planting our class sunflowers 🌻. We will water them daily until they are big enough to plant outside and then hopefully win the wholeschool growing competition 😀.
Environment club
This term the children have returned to school to see their beautiful daffodils that they had planted before the holiday. They are beautiful, the children have now started to plant a range of flowers around our pond area to attract more wildlife.
Scotty’s Heroes Starting on the 16th of May
We are so proud to announce our new after school provision on Monday’s. Scotty’s heroes will be providing our children will new skills not only socially but globally
Meet our new friends in F2…
In Foundation 2 our children have some new friends can you identify what they are? Our children can’t wait to name them.
Magic Beans in F2
Miss Lilleyman found some beans. We decided to leave them outside Jack’s house before lunch to see if they were magic. Turns out they were Magic! We couldn’t believe our eyes.
Special Mentions
We held our final special mentions assembly of the term and again had some outstanding learning and awards to share. All of our children have shown maximum effort this term and have such a wonderful desire and passion for learning. Well done to all our winners this week.
Bugs in F2 – Using Natural Materials
From their visit to the butterfly house the children have been using natural materials in the continuous provision to make their own minibeasts. Ove the week the children have really engaged in this activity and have created some amazing bugs!
F2W Enjoy the butterfly house.
Foundation 2 really enjoyed their visit to the butterfly house to consolidate all their learning about minibeasts. They had so much fun exploring the outdoors with their parents and teachers.
Foundation 2 Visit the Butterfly House
Today our Foundation 2 children really enjoyed their visit to the butterfly house. They enjoyed exploring the different minibeasts and butterflies they have come across in their story this term. During the visit they even had time to rehearse their Easter song.
F2 Performance Poetry
Our Foundation 2 children have all enjoyed learning about performing poetry linking to their topic and class text, all about worms. Can you guess the text?