Our children in Year 6 have been exploring food decay and how we can slow the process down, what do you think?
Category: Whole School
Internet Safety Day
F2 took part in a live talk about internet safety. We identified devices and what we use them for online. We talked about how to keep safe and who to talk to if we needed help.
Silver Modeshift Stars Award @ModeshiftSTARS
A huge congratualtions to all the staff at Rockingham and to Mr Purshouse for all your hardwork on achieveing the Silver Modeshift Stars award. You have continued to increase active travel within our school and community, an amazing achievement. We can’t wait to continue our journey towards Gold. Thank you so much to everyone at […]
2WB enjoying Pancake Day at home 🍽
What did you have on your pancakes today?
Y3M internet Safety
Can you trust what you see online? 3M explore their thoughts, feelings and ideas.
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 […]
Bare ‘Bear’ necessities of life
1/2P: Creativity through Performance Poetry and Languages
Our KS1 children are so creative in their learning, showcasing their Oracy and Performance skills 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 […]
Happy faces in 2WB
Here are a few happy faces of children in 2WB who received their very special delivery this week. We have had lots of messages of ‘thanks’ from parents and children who very much appreciated this gift!
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.
Bear love 💕 Thank you Parents and Children – we miss you.
This week the staff have been frantically delivering bears to each child in our school with a special certificate for our parents and children to tell them how proud we are of them and how much we miss them. We still have a few more deliveries to make but we hope you keep and treasure […]
NEMESIS – @GJIprimary, @roughwoodschool
Today we held our first Co-Creation lab with Greasbrough and Roughwood Primary discussing the Food Pantry Project with Chislett we discussed ideas on how we can support the project and our families. The children came up with some incredible suggestions and ideas. Starting with generating publicity, gaining local opinions and making recipe cards. We can’t […]
air ‘F2 go a little crazy!’
STEM secret messaging challenge 📩
Today we gathered some everyday household items and got ready to try some alternative ways of messaging. Firstly, we looked at how we could use objects to make images of words or phrases. Then we used some special solutions to investigate what would make the best invisible ink. Our grand finale was making Morse Code […]
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 […]
KS1 beary exciting delivery! 🐻
Yesterday we delivered bears to children for all of their hard work during home learning. Thank you for making our day super special! If you haven’t received your bear yet, keep an eye out!🐻
Construction Club
We had lots of fun completing different construction challenges in our extra curricular club. We made animals, built a tower one handed and even built a model blindfolded. Great job everyone!
Y6 Safer Internet Day
Today we explored our understanding of trusting and checking sources whilst online. Y6’s had some wonderful discussions about what the consequences would be if we trusted unfamiliar sites, pop ups and friend requests etc… Through our chat function we captured some of our great ideas.
‘er’ Digraph in F2
Today we had another fancy dress phonics. We were looking at the ‘er’ digraph so we had to dress up as something with an ‘er’ to join the ‘er’ club! Can you think of any?
1S Well-being chat 💬
This week on our well-being chat we shared some of our favourite books. Some of the children had matching story books it was so lovely to share a love of reading and books 📚 ❤️
Record of Achievement in Y1
Today we celebrated Record of Achievement Day. We attended live lessons and reflected on all of our learning so far this year. Even though we are learning from home, we have all achieved in some way including live lessons, expressing ourselves in mental health week, joining extra curricular activities and so much more!
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 […]
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 […]
Ava, using her phonics to support her reading. So proud of you!
We are so proud of Ava and mum this week, fabulous team effort in understanding the text and using her phonics knowledge to decode unknown words. Well done Ava we are really proud of you.
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.
Story Mapping in F1
In F1 this week it has been storytelling week. We have shared a number of traditional tales, looked at story mapping, retelling stories and creating finger puppets.
Josh, what an achievement!
Josh took part in a challenge this January which was to walk/run 30km in the last two weeks of January and Josh won 1st prize , he did 102km ( nearly 64 miles). We are so proud of his achievement and wanted to share this with everyone. What a wonderful role model and outstanding learner […]