Today we hosted a Willow Tree Academy orienteering event. The children from all schools enjoyed every second. Great team work, residence and sportsmanship. Thank you Mr Purshouse for organising such a fabulous event.
Category: Sports
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.
Y5P – Netball
Y3/4 Football with RUFC
Well done to our Y3/4 team at the Rotherham United Tournament on Friday. We are growing as a team and came 4th in the tournament.
Gymnastics Lunchtime Club
Our Y3/4 girls have been preparing for their Gymnastics festival at lunchtimes by practicing balances, different movements and safety in gymnastics.
PE
This week in PE we have been learning about balance and Co ordination using bean bags to balance and then use an underarm throw.
1/2B continue with target skills 🎯
Using an over arm throw was no problem for the children – practising target skills with beanbags in 1:2B 🎯
Cosmic Yoga Y6
This morning before our assessments we relaxed with Yoga, the children really enjoyed cosmic yoga. This definitely put a smile on their face and alleviated any worries with laughter. We are so proud of you.
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.
Rackets at the ready Y1/2B 🎾
1/2B started learning new racket handling and ball control skills for our ‘Net and Wall’ lessons 🎾
PE Netball Passing Skills 4D
This week the children have had an introduction to netball and have been focusing on passing.
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.
1/2B enjoy some freestyling with @JamieKnightFS ⚽️
Our children loved learning new freestyle skills with Jamie today ⚽️
6B with @JamieKnightFS
Children were amazed at Jamie’s freestyle skills today and couldn’t wait to have a go themselves.
Freestyle football
Today we had the privilege of working with freestyle footballer Jamie Knight , who showed us lots of skills and helped us to practice our own. All the children absolutely loved the session.
Athletics at Willow Tree Academy
Today was our first inter academy competiton against Roughwood and Herringthorpe where Willow Tree children took part in Athletics competition. We are so proud of all the children taking part today and we know our children really enjoyed meeting each other again and spending time together. Here are our scores from today, Long jump Boys. […]
Y5P with @JamieKnightFS
A huge thank you to Jamie Knight for inspiring our children today, we were blown away.
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
Jamie Knight Freestyle Football extraordinaire!
Today we were lucky enough to have Jamie Knight in school showcasing his amazing skills from his career as a professional freestyler. He even performed on Ireland’s got talent. What aspirations do you have?
Thank you Active Fusion
We have had a wonderful term with Active Fusion. We can’t thank enough for the opportunities they have given our children this term.
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.
Congratulations Girls – You make us all so proud!
Our Year 3/4 Girls finished second today the Rotherham Girls Football Final. I am so proud of their resilence, deterimation and team work. Together they are an unstoppable team and I can’t wait to see them grow as they come through school. Thank you to our amazing sports leaders who acompanied the girls and coached […]
Super sprinting in 1/2B 🏃
Peer feedback on using our arms and legs in harmony helped 122B to improve our sprinting efficiency in our PE lesson today 🏃
WSL Manchester United vs Everton
Some of our Rockingham children and their families received tickets from school to attend the first ever women’s game at Old Trafford over the weekend.
KS2 Playground Games – Spanish Dodgeball
Ks2 had fun this dinner time playing Spanish Dodgeball. Every Tuesday and Thursday, Mr Purshouse will start to lead different games to help promote sportsmanship and good behaviour on the Ks2 yard.
Y5P – Tag Rugby
Y5P have been doing Tag Rugby in PE in the last few weeks focusing on passing and attacking. We looked at how we can run aggressively towards the try line by dodging defenders and running at speed.
REY join the Daily Mile
Our Rockingham Early Years children have really enjoyed joining our daily mile. Our RP reps have supported them in their physical development and how we keep healthy.
@Active_Fusion Thank you
This week the children really enjoyed active fusion as they began to develop their gymnastics skills and key vocabulary. Children across all year groups engaged really well together and were so supportive of one another it was lovely to see.
Newsletter 25.03.22
Newsletter Please enjoy our Newsletter showcasing all the wonderful learning and achievements this week.