Our F2 children have enjoyed meeting and caring for Rosie the chick this week, it has been so exciting watching her grow and move around the classroom. We’ve made her a castle house and decorated the area she will live in!
Category: Science
Newsletter May the 14th 2021
Celebrating our @nemesis_edu project with @AbbeyLearning
Our children have thoroughly enjoyed working with Abbey School, they have been working together throughout this year and met weekly to discuss their project based on what shopping will look like in the future. This week they shared their 3D projects based on the shops they have designed. We were so surprised that the children […]
Spotting wild plants in 2WB 🍀
We went on a hunt around school to identify wild plants.
Y4/5D and Y6H Visit the LEAF Centre
Y4/5D and Y6H Are enjoying exploring the LEAF Centre and seeing the progress of the building work, they had a wonderful discussion regarding the changes.
Inspirational writers in F2 thanks to our Chick!
Our F2 children have been inspired to write with the help of our nee addition to F2. Here they are celebrating his arrival.
The Chicks are nearly here!
Our F2 children are so excited about our baby Chicks, we have seen little holes today and heard chirping sounds, not long left now. We hope they arrive safely.
Special Mentions
Today we celebrated our children’s successes during special mentions. A wonderful assembly. We are so proud of you all.
2WB – There’s nobody here but us chickens 🐓
Feeding the chickens is an absolute joy, although they did get somewhat excited when we opened the gate! Luckily, we had kind assistance from some of the older children and we were able to give them clean water and checked they had plenty of food.
The LEAF Centre coming to life. @nemesis_edu
Our children are so excited to see the changes that are happening daily to our LEAF centre – Leading Endeavours for Aspirational futures. We can’t wait to follow its journey and create a fabulous Nurture provision for the children of Rotherham.
Healthy Eating F1
This week in F1 we have been exploring healthy eating. We named different types of food and sorted them into healthy and unhealthy.
DT/Science: 6B taste test and research the health benefits of fruit for our smoothies.
Today 6B has tried a wide range of fruit, taking notice of the tastes, textures and combinations of flavours. Children carefully considered which fruits would work best in smoothies and started to plan a new product. They then researched the health benefits for their chosen fruits as our topic is all about me and our […]
Special Mentions ⭐️
This week we had such a fantastic special mentions. Our children have completed some fabulous learning. We’ve had French and Chinese languages explored, history and computing. It has been so wonderful to celebrate their amazing achievements especially 3F winning the Sumdog competition for the whole of Rotherham this week. Cairon won the Head Teacher’s award […]
Exploring how plants grow in 2WB 🌱
Today we thought about what plants need to grow. We thought of some important scientific questions that we wanted to answer. We got ready to plant a bean using compost. Mrs B is trying to grow a bean on a wet paper towel so that we can compare what happens. Mrs O […]
DT Making a Viking Longboat Prototype Y4/5D
Today the children have been investigating the best shape for a Viking longboat. They created their prototypes and then tested them out. We then created a RUBRIC for our initial design.
Every Kid Healthy Week 26.04.21
Every Kid Healthy Week: What is it? Every Kid Healthy™ Week is an annual observance created in 2013 to celebrate school health and wellness achievements. Recognised on the calendar of National Health Observances and observed the last full week of April each year, each day of the week shines a spotlight on the great actions […]
Science- Exploring the Earth 🌍
This week for Earth day the children in Early years have learnt about the world we live . We discussed that the Earth is made up of land and sea . We looked at different animals and their habitats and categorised them in to land or sea animals.
Geography – Earth day 🌍
This week we celebrated Earth day by wearing something green . We also discussed what the word ‘Earth’ meant . What was meant by land and sea and explored some animals and their habitats linking them to land or water . We also explored some colour mixing with green and blue to make patterns to […]
6H Science – Making Blood
As part of our science learning this week, 6H looked at the different cells which make up blood in the body. Using different foods we made blood looking at the percentages of each type of cell you needed. The results were fantastic.
Newsletter 23rd April 2021
Science – 6B have been making blood.
Today, we have been looking at the main components that make up blood, in order to prepare us for writing our explanation writing about the heart and how it works. The children learnt lots of new vocabulary and can explain what blood is made up of and why blood is needed. The children were surprised […]
Well-being 1S – Visiting the goats 🐐
We loved our visit to see the goats! One of the goats even tried to eat Miss Stubbs’ hair!
Exploring materials in F1
We have enjoyed exploring materials this week. We identified what the objects were made from and sorted them into transparent and opaque. Read more about Exploring materials in F1 …
Prescott has Phoenix visit Rockingham, thank you @cllr_rob
Mr and Mrs Elliott have brought Prescott and Phoenix in to visit today. The children are learning all about baby Goats. They are one week old today.
Big Pedal/Go Green for Earth Day @BTSRotherham
Next week we have our activities to support Beat the Street. Get involved and join in the fun.
Y6B Visiting our Hens!
Y6B have enjoyed visiting our Hens this week, the children have loved checking the nest box for eggs and supporting with the cleaning and caring of our battery chickens. The children have been learning about the life cycle and care of animals. We can’t wait to have the goats in next week.
Emmie and Bella love @BTSRotherham
Emmie and Bella love finding all the Beat the Street boxes across Rotherham. We are so proud of the children as they have been posting on Twitter daily and sharing their journey with us. Congratulations girls.
REY visit the Hens.
Our Early Years Children are out exploring again. This time they have been to see if our Hens have laid any eggs. The children have learnt so much about Chicken’s and this links really well to their learning in Science.
@BTSRotherham with Gideon
Gideon is doing a fabulous job of collecting his Beat the Street points. We are so proud of him and we know he is loving finding them. Well done Gideon, keep going!
REY visits the LEAF Centre – Progress Check
Our Early Years children really enjoyed visiting our LEAF Centre site. They were asking lots of questions and listened really carefully. They are really excited to watch our amazing new site develop.