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
What is a Sentence?
In English today, the children discussed what they thought a sentence was. They decided that a sentence was an idea that needed to make sense. The children then worked together to order a group of words into a sentence and then add the correct punctuation....
Getting into Character
This half term we have been reading The Tunnel and writing about a character who doesn’t like the dark but is forced to enter a very and mysterious tunnel in order to find her brother. To get into character and use their senses, the children travelled down their own...
Magnets – we’re attracting attention
3M have been learning all about magnets and investigating how they work. They have asking questions and wondering how strong magnets are. They have been testing their theories and having lots of fun doing so.
FoRGPS – Buy Your Child’s Class Teatowel
FoRGPS have asked each class to draw a beautiful self portrait's to be printed on a Mothers Day Tea Towel. Each Tea Towel will be £7. The school shop product is linked to each individual child. So please ensure that you place an order on each of your children's...
Science – Investigating rocks
In year 4, we tested to see how permeable, dense and durable different rocks are.
Children’s Mental Health Week 2023
The theme for this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is ‘Let’s Connect’. Year 2 thought about strategies and things they could do to support their mental health.
What’s that smell?
Today we used our nose to explore objects discussing the different smells and deciding which was our favourite and least favourite.
Happy and healthy minds
This week we have been focusing on different ways to keep happy and healthy minds, including sharing things that that make us happy, discussions around emotions and an active yoga story session.
Researching Tim Peake
In Year 1 we have been using the iPads to research Tim Peake and write down facts about his life and work to use to plan our biographies about him.
Using Beebots
We had lots of fun using the Beebots in Year 1, practising giving them commands and seeing how they travel. We described the directions of travel using forward, backward, left and right.
Filling our bowls
Just like Handa we filled our bowls of our favourite fruit to make milkshakes to deliver to our friends. During our group times we discussed the differences between where we live and where Handa lives in Kenya.
What Do We Know About Pesach?
We have been learning about the story of Moses, his upbringing and his eventual exile from Egypt because of his actions. We have explored what type of character he was, how God chose him to be his messenger, but that he felt unworthy of the task. Through the stories...