Category: Story Time at Rockingham
KS1 cart👀ners get going with their own ideas 🤔
This week, we started on story boards for our own cart👀n ideas. The children were really creative and enjoyed drawing out their cartoons ✍️
Old Friends, New Friends
In P4C this afternoon we looked at a book called ‘Old friends, new friends’ and then had a think about what we could do to make new friends before looking at our question. Is it ever OK to make new friends? We had some really insightful thoughts and we have concluded that we are pretty […]
Celebrating our Successes
During special mentions today we celebrated some amazing successes and celebrated our learning together. The children looked incredible in Yellow Supporting mental health charities. Thank you to everyone for all your hard work this week. Congratulations Jack on achieving the Head Teachers Award this week and to Mrs Buttree – our staff star of the […]
Supermarket Sweep
We were excited to get into the supermarket to help Supertato save the poor veggies from the evil peas traps.
We love Special Mentions
Sharing some fabulous learning outcomes this week we are really proud of all of our dojo winners this week.
6B – #NationalPoetryDay
Today we have been appreciating poetry looking at a range of narrative poems around our key person in history, Grace Darling. Children were able to express their likes and dislikes about the anthology presented and give reasons for their choices. We then added in a drama frieze focussing on the famous painting ‘The Wreck of […]
News letter 01/10/2021
1/2B use drama to retell a creation story in RE 🌎
1/2B used drama to retell creation stories as part of our RE learning about the world around us 🌎
The Tiger who came to Tea.
Exploring the F1 provision with our Foundation 1 children. Can you count how many teeth the tiger has? We have been learning about our healthy body and now to clean our teeth. We have helped the tiger too.
Meet Robbie our class Mascot in F2L
Everyone, please meet F2L’s class mascot, Robbie Rabbit. Everyone will get a chance to take Robbie home for the weekend and write about their adventures. We can’t wait to see what Robbie will get up too.
Reflecting on our learning so far
We were really lucky this afternoon as we got to have a look at our topic books. This is a special book where we put all our learning that we try so hard with. We were feeling very proud when we were looking back on what we have done so far.
Silence is golden for cart👀n clubbers in KS1
We enjoyed examining silent cart👀n characters in Cart👀n club today – what clues are we given about the characters?
Immersive story time in 1/2B 📚
We love sitting in our immersive reading area for story time! 📖
Special Mentions Assembly
What a wonderful celebration of learning, we really do have the most amazing children on the planet.
Playtimes at Rockingham are the best.
We love spending our social time together especially in our reading but and practicing our tables on our new boards.
Sharing our Successes
I love visiting different classrooms to share in our children’s successes. I am so proud to see their smiles, learning and confidence blossom.
Monkey Puzzle F2L
This week we will be thinking about animal families, our families, our class family and our school family. Our class story this week is Monkey Puzzle so our classroom has changed for us to do our new learning. 🐒 We have some beautiful jungle flowers added to our jungle this morning 🌄
Extra Curricular off to a flying start.
We have a wide range of opportunities on offer for our Children this term. What a wonderful time our children have had in their first session.
We love to learn in F2L
This week our classroom has been buzzing with excitement. Our children love learning and using their environment to gain new knowledge.
Character drama in 1/2B 🎭
Today we used drama to immerse ourselves in character scenarios from our class text: The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me 🎭
Y6 Librarians in Training
Yesterday, Rotherham Library Serviced helped our new Y6s understand how to run a loaning library. We just have a few finishing touches and we will be relaunching to the whole school.
Book Bag Launch, we love Reading!
All of our children have received their Willow Tree Book bag which look amazing, the children have everything ready for an exciting year ahead. How wonderful do they look, we hope they take pride in their home learning and reading.
Our First Day in F2
First day in F2 and they have smashed it! Absolute superstars 🌟we are so proud of how they have settled.
Y2 suggested holiday reading available in our virtual library 📖
Our Year 2 virtual library is open through the holidays for your children to enjoy 📖👀
Y1 suggested holiday reading available in our virtual library 📖
Our Year 1 virtual library is open through the holidays for your children to enjoy 📖👀
Newsletter 16th July 2021
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 […]
We are writers.
Wow, what amazingly grown up F2 children! Our first ever handwriting lesson and what a fantastic job they did. Very proud grown ups today!
Congratulations Mia!
Our Reading Champion Mia has been out shopping today to spend her book voucher. Mia loves reading and has made lots of progress this year. We are just so proud of you.