Newsletter 31st January
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. We have had a brilliant two weeks and so much has been happening in school. Newsletter 31.01.2020
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Writing 500 Words – wish us luck!
Class 6 writers are editing and improving our final drafts for the BBC 500 Words story competition. We have our fingers crossed that we may have some good news in […]
Quality writing in Y6
Year 6 have shown excellent resilience, independence and creativity this week building their character descriptions of our main characters from our class text, Goodnight Mr. Tom. The standard of writing […]
Digital Media
Children in school have been creating scripts and bringing them to life as part of our digital media learning this term. What brilliant special effects, we can’t wait for the […]
Programming Games
We are the game makers of tomorrow in the programming club with Mr Clarke. Children have been creating their own maze game and controlling the characters with controllers.
Art
Mrs Robbins has been in class 2 today teaching us some key skills for painting using water colours. First we painted primary colours and then mixed these to make secondary […]
Y5 Team Building
Class 7 using a variety of skills to complete team building exercise.
Hygiene Handbags for the Homeless
Members of Class 6 have been working tirelessly to persuade their families and members of the public to donate sanitary and hygiene products to help the homeless people of Rotherham. […]
Shrek stories
We have been writing our own version of the well known story Shrek. This morning we used our best handwriting to publish so that we can make our very own […]
24.1.20 Celebrating learning in Special Mentions assembly
Such fantastic learning outcomes shared at the end of this weeks special mention assembly. Class 9 have won the best attendance, and golden tokens have been their highest in school […]
What type of house do you live in?
We have been looking at different house types. We practiced writing our names underneath the house that we live in and talked about the most/least popular. Most of the children […]
Green Screen Fun
We have been using the Green Screen in ICT with Mr Clarke. In Friday’s session, we are going to be using the Green Screen to perform ‘The Tiger Who Came […]
Online Safety Videos
Here are some of the fantastic videos created by Year 6 to show what can happen if you do not act responsibly online. Children have written their own scripts and […]
Class 4 – Grimm and Co
Please take a look at all the fantastic outcomes that Class 4 produced during the two week Grimm and Co sesssions. The creativity blew Miss Sare away!
Class 4 – Finding out about Steel
Today class 4 have used the chrome books to research our new topic steel. We discovered that many things are made from steel and why that material is chosen above […]
Harriet Goodwin
Some Y5&6 pupils have had the opportunity to attend a writing workshop with author Harriet Goodwin. They have been inspired by her creativity and have started writing their own exciting […]
Year 5/6 Research the history of animation
Using our fantastic ICT suite, children use search engines to research DreamWorks and the development and history of animation. Did you know how many years were between releasing Kung fu […]
Hunting for Roman Numerals!
Members of Class 6 are now expert translators of Arabic and Roman Numerals and can convert easily between the two! They set out on a quest to count items in […]
Using our geography in history
Class 9 have used their mapping skills and Atlas skills to locate places where children were evacuated from and to during WW2. We have researched evacuation and will use our […]
Grimm and Co
In class 3 we were lucky enough to visit Grimm and Co twice and help to reclaim some of Graham’s memories. We found many different objects and helped to come […]
Grimm & Co Celebrations
On Friday 17th January, we held a celebration event in school to Mark the end of Grimm & Co. It has been an incredible 2 weeks and the outcomes from […]
Newsletter 17th January
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. We have had a brilliant two weeks of the New Year and so much has been happening in school. Newsletter 17.01.2020
Class 4 – investigating the effects of friction
Class 4 have been investigating the effects of friction to moving objects. We had a look at which surface would contain the most friction.. we found out the wood surface […]
LEAF Centre
Our children from all Willow Tree Schools have met to discuss the LEAF Centre (Leading Endeavours for Aspirational Futures). We are coming up with ways to raise money for the […]
Shakespeare at the Civic
What a performance from our Year 5 children at Rotherham Civic. All the children were absolutely fantastic and did the school proud. We are all incredibly amazed by their achievements […]
Less than 24 hours until our Shakespeare performance 2020…
Not long to go now! Well done to HJS and GPS who performed this evening. Such talent, confidence and courage on the stage this evening at the Rotherham Civic Theatre.
Year 6 – Online Safety
Keeping safe online is becoming increasingly difficult in today’s world where technology can advance quicker than we can keep up. Our Year 6 children have written and filmed some short […]
Year 5/6 explore Graham Grimm’s mind
Hooked on new vocabulary, our children explore what Graham Grimm might have seen. Grimm and Co. bring exploration, ore and wonder, and mystery to life… we can’t wait to be […]
TikTok – What you need to know
TikTok is a video-sharing social media app available on iOS and Android which lets users create, share, and view user-created videos much in a similar manner to Facebook, Instagram and […]
Creating Tone with Pen
Using our tone skills in Year 1 with different pens and pencils ready for our picture this work based on our wonderful local city Sheffield. Looming forward to the outcomes.
Young Voices 2020
Wow! What an amazing evening we all had. Our talented pupils attended the Young Voices concert held at the Sheffield Arena last night and became part of a choir made […]
Setting Descriptions
In year 1 we have been creating some pastel art to help us with our literacy where we are writing setting descriptions.