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

Nursery this week have been loving engaging in ice breaker activities to support them learning all of their peers names. The children had the opportunity to introduce themselves and share something special about themselves. In maths Nursery have been learning number rhymes, they particularly enjoyed learning the song ‘10 fat sausages sizzling in a pan’. The children took turns to take a sausage out the pan each time and count how many were left.          

Children in Reception this week have enjoyed identifying and learning all about our Rockliffe Manor School values. We focused on the value of kindness, learning what being kind means and how being unkind makes others feel. The children shared lots of positive ideas of how they can foster this value and promote it through their actions and attitudes. Reception then created a song about kindness to promote the value to others, using the melody Frere Jacques. 

Year 1 has had a great week! In English, the children imagined they had been transported into space, they used their senses to describe what they encountered on their journey. Year 1 then used all of this vocabulary to generate noun phrases! The class also had a great PE lesson with Mr O’Regan where they played team building games and had lots of fun. 

Year 2 has been busy this week in Art looking at their focus artist; Jim Dine. The children used his art as inspiration to practise their shading techniques and started to have a go at outlining the negative space of their tool first. In English, the children have wowed Miss Roper! The class looked at how Izzy Gizmo sets herself goals and thought about what goals they would like to set for themselves. 

Year 3 this week had an amazing Art lesson inspired by the Stone Age.  The children used natural dyes to create a print onto pieces of cloth. They used tea, mud and coffee to create their tie-dye techniques. They are so excited to then build on these further by adding charcoal drawings in their next lesson. 

In year 4’s Science learning, they have been learning about states of matter and were very surprised when their predictions were incorrect about CO2 gas making a liquid weigh more. Through a practical investigation, the children learned that even gas is made of matter and therefore has its own weight.

Year 5 have been enjoying their swimming lessons. Miss Lambert said that the children have shown great attitudes and behaviour at the swimming pool and that she was very proud of them. Well done to Miss Lambert for setting high expectations for everyone in her class.

Year 6 really enjoyed their English lesson this week where they got to infer the character's emotions. The children did a fantastic job at using evidence from the text to justify their choice. The children have also been enjoying their science lessons learning about the different classifications of living things. 

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 wanted to share with you that this morning in assembly we spoke to the children about not bringing Pokémon cards into school. Lately, they’ve been causing a bit of fuss and upset among some of the children, and it’s beginning to take away from important learning time.We know the children really enjoy them, but we’d appreciate your support in making sure they leave their cards at home from next week. This will help us keep the focus on learning and keep things calm in the classroom. 

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.