Let’s take a look at the learning that has happened this week… 

Nursery have enjoyed settling into their new learning environment, building relationships with their adults and getting to know their peers. The children have been becoming more familiar with the nursery routines and learning how to access the provision in the classroom. Nursery have particularly enjoyed going on listening walks around the school as they tune into sounds and begin their Little Wandle Phonics journey.        

Children in Reception this week have had an amazing start to the new term, the children have been busy exploring the environment and getting to know each other through our circle time activities. The children focused on themselves and what makes them unique during our literacy learning. The children then produced some amazing self portraits, using mirrors to identify all their features that needed to be included.

What a great start to the year it has been for Year 1! They have settled in amazingly well and are enjoying getting to know their new class adults. It was lovely to see some amazing Art learning based on primary and secondary colours. The children were having fun and using technical language to describe what they were doing. At the beginning of the week they were shocked to find a spaceship had crashed into their classroom! Darby said that the spaceship came with lots of cool things. 

Year 2 has been busy this week in all of their learning! At the beginning of the week, the children built parachutes to save an injured bird that was on our roof, hooking them into their new core text; Izzy Gizmo. The children have been immersed in their core text and loved creating a story map to retell the story. In maths the children have been looking at place value and have been using dienes to support their partitioning. 

In year 3 this week, they have been settling really well and have enjoyed an amazing science lesson on the characteristics of rocks. They were the first class to have their library visit this week which was very successful and the children thoroughly enjoyed selecting a new book for the term, despite the sudden downpour on their way back to school. 

In year 4, they have been thoroughly enjoying their new core text and all things Ancient Greek. To embed the learning, they used role play to retell the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops before writing always, sometimes, never statements regarding the morals that can be learned from this classic myth.  

Year 5 have settled in very well in their new classroom environment and they have impressed Miss Lambert with their reading strategy skills. What has impressed us the most is the children’s kindness and sense of community in the classroom as they welcomed a new peer. 

In Year 6 this week, the children have thoroughly enjoyed reading the first 3 chapters of their core text Gorilla Dawn. All the children are extremely engaged and hooked into the storyline and how it’s developing throughout. TJ said this book is very interesting because it has “mystery and murder in it.” In Geography, the children have started learning about the different layers of rainforests and how they support life.  

From September, we will have available two full time places. If you would like to show your interest please contact the office where we can give you further information. 

We would like to increase our resources and maybe have a Lego/Duplo station at playtime. If any of our parents have Lego or Duplo that your child no longer plays with we would appreciate any donations. 

Every Tuesday morning from 8:50am, Rockliffe will be holding a Coffee morning in the Music Room. Please feel free to pop along and join us. Friends of Rockllife joining to start the planning for events. All welcome

PE Kits - can we please remind you that all children should bring their PE Kits in to School. The children will need a pair of shorts, T-shirt and socks.

Due to incidents in playground with scooters, can parents please ensure that your child does not ride on the playground and other areas of the school. Children to not to be riding passed the school gates, Many thanks.

School Uniform - can we please remind you that all children are requested to wear school colours - Not Hoodies. Also now that the colder weather has begun your child should come dressed accordingly - Coats, Jumpers or Cardigans and appropriate footwear.