And just like that, our second week of the Autumn 2 term has flown by! This week,

the children have been busy perfecting their culinary skills, preparing their final

dishes ready to present at the exciting World Café. Our Food Fortnight has been a

brilliant opportunity for the children to explore and experience cuisine from around

the world. We are delighted to remind you that this year's World Café will take place

on Monday, November 17th, 2024! Parents are warmly invited to join us after

school—and please do consider donating a dish to share! It is a fantastic opportunity

to come together and celebrate the wonderful diversity of our community, so we truly

hope to see you there. Be sure to check our Twitter feed to see photos of this

delicious learning in action

On Thursday, we celebrated World Anti-Bullying Day. In assembly, we spoke about the

importance of being an UPSTANDER, not a bystander, and how to choose kindness every

day and to visually celebrate uniqueness and difference, the children wore odd socks too!

Thank you to everyone for supporting the children with this.

If we were not busy enough – our rehearsals for the Nativity and Carol Concert have begun

and it has been wonderful to hear all the beautiful singing filling up the classrooms, as the

children from Nursery up to Year six prepare for the Christmas festivities. The children have

been very busy practising the words to their songs and learning their lines for the Christmas

performances. We hope that many of you will be able to join us for these celebrations in the

coming weeks. These dates have all been shared with you today in our Rockliffe Winter

Calendar, more information will be shared shortly regarding these. So for now, please save

the dates!

At Rockliffe Manor, assessment is at the heart of our learning process as it provides our

children with the opportunity to demonstrate, celebrate and review their learning over the

year. Assessment looks different for different year groups and next week will see the start of

our schools summative assessment period for our children in years 2 - 6. These results will

help inform future teaching and learning. A letter was shared with the families from these

year groups today which provides more information. If you have any questions or concerns

regarding the assessment period or your child's progress please do speak to your child’s

class teacher who will be happy to support.

Although it seems a little while off yet, our Friends of Rockliffe have begun to plan our Winter

Fair. This year we are trying a different approach of holding this after school on Friday 12th

December - more information about this and our other winter festivities will be shared soon.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and engagement. Have a restful and

happy weekend—we look forward to seeing you all next week for more learning, laughter,

and festive preparations!

With very best wishes, Mrs Cook and the Rockliffe Manor team

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

In Nursery this week, the children have been exploring the concept of families and home

chores for English. Using great actions and turn-taking, they pretended to carry out the

chores they do at home. It was wonderful to hear their sharing, with Rayan excitedly

detailing her jobs and Edudzi loving the roleplay of "hoovering and cooking sizzling

sausages!"

In Reception this week, the children are thoroughly immersed in their new core text, Lima’s

Red Hot Chilli Pepper. They enjoyed a fantastic sensory activity this week: making jelly! This

hands-on experience helped them generate great descriptive language. Toni shared that it

felt "squishy and tasty" and Arlia noticed it "smelt sweet," showing great use of their senses.

In Year 1 this week, the children have shown fantastic oracy skills, recall, and retention as

they retold key events from their core text. They collaboratively created actions to support

their storytelling, especially enjoying the movement for "monster!" After sequencing the

story, they successfully added detailed captions using time adverbials.

In Year 2 this week, the children have been working hard in Maths, beginning to learn the

column method for addition. They have shown wonderful determination and a positive

mindset as they master how to accurately set out and solve these problems. In English, they

are comparing how the character of Paddington changes from the beginning to the end of

their core text, leading to thoughtful and insightful discussions.

In Year 3 this week, the children loved being immersed in their core text and were busy

upleveling sentences from the story using powerful emotive language. These descriptive

sentences will be a key feature in their own creative writing soon. They also enjoyed a

focused yoga session when wet weather stopped their usual outdoor PE!

In Year 4 this week, the children have been working really hard to improve their times tables

scores. They show great enthusiasm during their weekly assessments and are always

excited to see their scores climb. A special mention to Ronnie and Lila for showing fantastic

determination in mastering their 6 and 7 times tables—real progress in a challenging area!

In Year 5 this week, the children have started their new unit on fractions in Maths, and it has

been wonderful to see them engaging with the learning, even when it is challenging. Bessie,

who started the lesson worried, completed all the questions correctly by the end and was

very pleased with her success! They are also loving their reading intervention with Mrs. Aliaj,

where their confidence with echo reading has grown immensely.

In Year 6 this week, the children have worked exceptionally hard as they successfully

completed their in-class practice SATs assessments. They have shown great motivation and

determination to do their absolute best in every paper. Many were so engaged that they

could hardly wait for Miss Lambert to reveal their results!

Please be reminded that we are a No Nut School - We have children with severe allergies to Nut products. 

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. 

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. 

We have a uniform rail outside the office, If you have any preloved uniform that could help fill our rail we would greatly appreciate this. 

All of our school policies can be found on our school website  School Policies 

Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy 

SEND Policy 

Complaints Policy