RIGHTS RESPECTING SCHOOL
Here at Rowlands Gill Primary School we are proud to have achieved the Level 1 UNICEF Rights Respecting School Award in 2014.
This whole school award is an initiative by UNICEF to make children and adults more aware of children’s rights.
To find out more visit www.unicef.org.uk/rrsa
RRSA Level 2
At Rowlands Gill Primary we are working towards our RRSA Level 2 Award. Please click on the link below to view our RRSA Level 2 Audit and Action Plan
British Values
Please click on the link below to view our British Values Policy for Rowlands Gill Primary School
Lets go fly a kite …🪁
When it is a windy day nursery, we make kites to fly....
Building Stone Age Houses
As part of our DT lessons, we had to construct a Stone Age house using natural materials. We used the mallets to hammer the solid structure into the ground, willow to create the walls and mud with straw to recreate the wattle and daub. Mrs Poad and Miss Brown were so...
The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead
Over the last few weeks in school, we have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Great Fire of London. Today, we visited the Discovery Museum where we took part in a workshop about the Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead. We enjoyed learning about the story, looking...
Forest School
We loved exploring Forest School with Mrs Beatie and the forest friends.
How can we move our bodies like different forms of transport
In PE we used our bodies to move like different forms of transport, from balancing on one leg as a motorbike to shuffling slowing across the floor as a submarine. We enjoyed travelling as a car around roundabouts, avoiding other cars and jumping over speed bumps. We...
How to travel?
This week we are enjoying exploring different types of transport. We set up our own journey and used the bikes to follow different directions. We took turns on the bikes and when we were not on the bike we were the ‘SatNav’ using both our own instructions and google...
Learning about our grandparents’ lives
We had a brilliant afternoon welcoming some of our grandparents into class, learning all about their lives and how they compared to our lives now. We enjoyed looking at photographs, old technology, collectable items and toys from the past. Thank you again to our...
Which materials is the best thermal insulator?
Phonics fun
We have worked hard building words with sounds we have learned so far in our Phonics so far, identifying the correct sounds and sounding and blending each other’s green words.
Thank you – £147.23 raised for Children in Need 2023
Thank you to everyone who made a donation to this years Children in Need Non uniform day event. Together we raised £147.23.
How do I plan a journey (using different map scales)?
Raising money for Children in Need
We enjoyed dressing up and raising money for Children in Need at school. We learned what Children in Need raises money for and learned about one of our class mates who had worked hard to raise money with his family outside of school. Well done!