The children have painted amazing pictures of the characters from Red Riding Hood. They explored colour mixing and adding detail such as facial expressions. Can you guess who they have painted?
Category: Story Time at Rockingham
Sunday night extra home learning by Ruby in 6B. Inspired by our class reading study. Wow
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 […]
International storytelling in 2WB 🌎📖
We love working with our Chinese partners as part of an international project. After exchanging ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ stories, we have learned about a traditional Chinese story called ‘The Three Monks.’ We learned the story in English, then the children were really enthusiastic about reading the story in Chinese. Watch our video to see […]
Special Mentions with a History Twist!
This week we celebrated History within our Special mentions. The children across school are learning about a variety of Historical Events that changed the lives of many people. Our KS1 children are learning about he History of London and the Great Fire of London. Our Year 3 children are studying ‘The Victorians’, in Year 4 […]
We love our Immersive Reading Environments.
Our children have loved coming back after Easter to their new Reading Environments. It’s been wonderful seeing the children fully immersed in the class texts. I can’t wait to hear all about your reading.
F2 Environment ready, Jack and the Beanstalk.
Mrs Sweeney and Mrs Houghton has been changing the environment ready for Summer 1 ensuring that our continuous provision looks inviting for our children.
Newsletter 26.03.21
Easter Service
Our children beautifully told the story of Easter through the arts, drama and literacy. The children worked collaboratively together to celebrate Easter. Our youngest children talked about the joys of Spring and Growth. Thank you to all our parents who were able go join and to Reverend Lyn Wortley for sharing a beautiful video for […]
Special Mentions – Science Week edition!
Today we celebrated science week during special mentions, we have had some fabulous learning outcomes and our children have loved every second. A big thank you to Miss Darby for organising such a spectacular week with a range of online workshops.
Newletter 12th March 2021
Welcome back Rockingham, we are delighted to share with you this weeks Newsletter, please take the time to read about all the amazing learning that has been happening in school. Newsletter 12th March 2021
We love Reading in F1!
Our children in F1 love to read, here are the wonderful reading opportunities that are on offer for our children. The children explore texts in all areas of continuous provision
How does your Garden Grow?
Our REY children are loving learning all about planting, mini beasts and exploring the outdoors. Our new starters have loved making friends and getting to know each other. What a wonderful day to be outside.
Special mentions
Today we focussed on our world book week as part of our special mentions assembly. This week we have made characters from vegetables, build dens and created story TShirts. The children have been phenomenal but a big special mentions goes to Mrs Buttree for her organisation and amazing ideas that has made it such a […]
World Book Week – REY
What a fun week we have had celebrating World Book Day! We have seen some lovely t-shirts the children have decorated with their favourite book on and seen some amazing reading dens they have made at home. Our staff even took part and we found a cosy reason den in REY to do our live […]
Thank you Parents and Children
A huge thank you to all our parents, carers and children for putting together such a special video it means so much to each and everyone one of us. We can’t thank you enough and couldn’t have got through the year without you. Together we have achieved so much and I know that because of […]
Reading hangouts in 2WB 📖
It was book t-shirts galore today, for World Book Day! We had a go at building a reading den in school for our World Book Day activities. Later, we went live with our class to see how the den building was going on at home. It was lovely to hangout together, sharing extracts and chatting […]
World Book day FS1
In foundation we have had so much fun for world book day dressing up, creating T-shirt’s and decorating potatoes.
Live Lesson from the Reading Dens Y6
Today, we all logged on to our live lessons from our homemade reading dens and talked about what we had gotten up to during this book week, showing off our t shirts and book character vegetables. We even had some children read extracts from their favourite books. The adults also got involved too.
F2 Reading Dens
The children have made wonderful cosy reading dens to enjoy there favourite books in.
Creating Reading Dens in school at Y6
Reading Dens in KS1
Reading and Building in Y5P
Y5P have been building dens and enjoying reading as part of World Book Week. There are some incredible outcomes and wonderful reading. I am looking forward to hearing the children read and see their developments next week. Mr Parkin
An interview with Tom Palmer and The Anne Frank Trust Live now
Children in Y6 are currently interacting with the wonderful author Tom Palmer. We are live now asking questions, listening to extracts being read from Anne Frank’s Diary and discussing his texts with over 1000 children from around the country for World Book Day. A wonderful experience for our children having covered Ww1 and WW2 last […]
World Book Day!
Can you guess which story we have chosen for our T-Shirt Design? We have really enjoyed creating a story ready to wear today for world book day. Watch out for our reading dens.
Olivia, reading Jack and the Beanstalk – Wow!
Olivia has been working hard to develop her reading fluency and expression to engage an audience. We are so proud of her achievements and I am sure you will be blown away.
F2 World Book Day Activities
The children in F2 have been very busy making there t shirts and characters for world book day.
World Book Week with Y3M
3M have been busy this week creating their T-Shirts for World Book Day can you guess which story they have chosen to create? Thank have also started preparations on their reading Dens. We are so proud of you all and your achievements this week.
World Book Week 2021
This week is book week and we have some exciting things planned for all year groups, Mrs Buttree has been thinking hard this week about how we can make the activities as creative as possible. You could get the whole family involved. Please read the attached presentation and see what we have in store for […]
It is virtually World Book Week already! 📖👀
Mrs Burkinshaw and Mrs Waller have a new set of readers for 2WB. Taken from a recommended Pie Corbett Y2 list, we hope you enjoy the new selection of reads in our virtual library! Click on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IM8m5Ejsjvff-PTFz_Pqt8jBgiRusqVL/view?usp=sharing to explore…