We started by playing along to music with our standard and non-standard instruments. We moved our learning forward with some composing of our own. We have had so much fun learning about musical notes!
Category: The Arts
Art with Miss Tyzack.
This week in Miss Tyzack’s Art session the children were learning how to draw a nose. They have been building up how to draw facial features over the past few weeks. The children will now over half term draw a face as a challenge and during the first week back we will guess who the […]
Special Mentions
Today we celebrated our children who had won class dojo and who had showcased some outstanding learning. We are so proud of all of our children this week and we know that all our children are trying their best. Miss Stubbs announced the winners of our Art Competition today so well done to all our […]
1/2P Creativity through performance Poetry and Languages.
Our KS1 children are so creative in their learning, showcasing their Oracy skills and performace as you can see here through MFL and Literacy.
Y6 Sea Shanties
To keep up the moral on long voyages, sailors used to sing and make up sea shanties to make the tough tasks onboard more manageable and take their minds off the hard work needed for their daily jobs. It gave the crew members a sense of togetherness and made them feel like they were working […]
Newsletter – Spring 1
Here is some wonderful learning outcomes from Spring 1 and our journey so far. We have had a remarkable term with live lessons, Extra Curricular Activities and competitions to make everyone smile. We hope you enjoy reading about all the wonderful learning that has taken place.
Foundation 1 : Chinese New Year.
We are artists at Rockingham! 🐭
This afternoon Miss Parkin and Miss Stubbs held a live drawing session. We all drew Mickey Mouse and what fantastic outcomes we have got! Here are lots of the drawings we have received, if you have one to share please send it to your teacher we would love to see it! Mrs Buttree did a […]
F2 – Happy Heart, Happy Mind.
Special Mentions
Today’s special mentions was so wonderful, celebrating all the achievements of our learners. We’ve seen learning linked to all curriculum areas and some fabulous ways to present learning. Congratulations to all our children today and our staff who have worked tirelessly. Well done to Miss Darby and Mrs Oram who are our staff stars of […]
Spiral artwork in F2
As we have been focusing on snails this week we have done some artwork linked to the spirals found on snail shells.
Children’s Mental Health Week in F2 #expressyourself #childrensmentalhealthweek
In F2 this week we have been focusing on children’s mental health. We have discussed what mental health is and why it is important we look after it. We have discussed about keeping healthy and made delicious healthy snacks. We listened to the story “the dot” and did some art work based on this, we […]
Our Learning reaches China!
Our Year 2 Children wanted to share how they have sent their learning all the way to China to learn with their friends in Chengdu. After the holiday the children at Tanghu Elementary school are going to be sharing some traditional Chinese fairytales with us. We are really looking forward to this.
Drawing into Talking with Miss Tyzack.
Over the last two weeks the children have been focussing on the eye and mouth when studying the face. The children have really enjoyed working with Miss Tyzack and the have really enjoyed their discussions within the group. Well done everyone.
2WB tapping along to the beat 🥁
In our music lesson today, we continued to practice moving to the beat of the music. Children are now reading a range of notes. We can also play our own musical (and improvised) instruments along to a piece of music.
Thank you Mrs Oram, joining the team with a bang!
Thank you so much to Mrs Oram and Charlotte for our Extra Curricular club this afternoon. The children loved making fruit kebabs and fruit salads. Some of our children even created artwork using the fruit. I think the teachers loved this too. I think you should have your own cookery show.
A view from my window live session
This week for Children’s mental health week we are taking part in a whole school art competition. We had a live lesson with Miss Stubbs and Miss Parkin to discuss our ideas.
F2 – Proud!
F2 Express Yourself
The children in FS2 read the story the Dot by Peter Reynolds. They were asked to ‘express themselves’ by creating a picture that starts with a dot. The children have made some wonderful pictures.
Y3/4P Express Yourself Art #childrensmentalhealthweek
Well done to Y3/4P for completing the art learning yesterday. We’ve had some lovely entries for Miss Stubbs Art challenge aswell.
Lockdown Learning in Y5P
Y5P have been working so hard with their lockdown learning. Here is a little example of what they’ve been up to.
Whole School Art Competition – The Window P4C
Please take part in our whole school competition to win prizes – we can’t wait to see your entries. Good Luck Everyone, Art Competition For the competition we would like you to create a piece of artwork with the inspiration ‘A view from your window’. This could be what you can see from your window […]
Congratulations to this weeks Special Mentions Winners ⭐️
This week we have showcased some tremendous outcomes from our children. They have all worked extremely hard and gone the extra mile. A huge staff shout out to Mrs Marlow and Mr Purshouse for achieving staff star 🌟 of the week. Well done everyone.
FS1 – Colour Week .
Thank you @nemesis_edu for sharing our KS1 story.
Please explore the NEMESIS website and enjoy reading some of the wonderful projects our children have been involved in. Here is our link to our story about our KS1 outdoor area, we really hope you enjoy. Thank you to all the teachers and children for making this a very special place.
Y2WB Sharing their Drama performances with their friends in China @jeffshuai1
We are so proud to share our Drama performances of the Little Red Riding Hood, we have shared these with our Partner School Tanghu Elementary School in Chengdu. The year two children in both schools have been working on a joint project, sharing their learning and stories together. We are so proud of all of […]
Norman The Slug with the Silly Shell.
This week our F2’s have been focusing on the book Norman The Slug with the Silly Shell. We asked them to get creative and make Norman a new shell as he uses a doughnut in the story and nearly gets eaten by a bird!
2WB try a rest in Music live 🎵
We started with a warm up – listening to the different notes to make our movements with. We then used a rest with the notes we already know to add a challenge to our practice.
F2 Art with Rosie Robin
Today’s well-being challenge was to draw, paint or create a 3D model of Rosie our well-being hero. Here is a short video of all the beautiful learning we have received today. Thank you everyone. We can’t wait for tomorrow’s challenge.
Dough Disco with Mrs McDermott
Another wonderful learning opportunity today with Mrs McDermott – Dough Disco. The children thoroughly enjoyed getting active whilst creating some fabulous shapes, well done everyone let’s keep improving that motor control.