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
Computing – Branching Data bases
In computing, we created and selected attributes to create a data base to find animals using yes or no questions.
Potential Strike Action
Please see the letter from Mrs Clarke below regarding potential strike action during February and March. [pdf-embedder url="https://rowlandsgillprimary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/potential-strike-action.pdf" title="potential strike action"]
A frosty forest school
Parts of our body
We have been learning all about the parts of the body, and we then drew around each other and labelled it with the parts we had learned.
Cushions
Throughout our cushion unit we discussed the different functions of a cushion and researched some designers to help understand why cushions are made for aesthetic purposes. Children have worked very hard to: attach buttons create a button fastening use a range of...
Y6 Vocabulary
Today, we looked very closely at the illustrations in our text 'The Island'. We had to describe them to our partners using our most precise word choices. Our favourites were: raging, destruction, obliterate, fierce and awful.
Snow Much Fun!
We couldn’t have asked for better weather this morning! We took the opportunity to go outside and use real snow to build a snowman like Lily from our story. We all agreed that it was a lot colder than the snow we used in school last week!
STEM Glider Project in 6B!
6B had a brilliant day on Friday 13th January as part of a project with the Small Piece Trust. We followed their livestream throughout the day and planned, built and tested gliders. We learned about the science behind flight and how the thrust and lift on a plane...
Digital Literacy – Lily and the Snowman
We have really enjoyed watching ‘Lily and the Snowman’ this week, which is our digital literacy focus for English this half term. We made our own snowmen in the tuff tray which enabled us to get into character and think about how Lily made her snowman. We also used...
Fruit Tasting
For our food unit in DT, we have been learning about different fruits and where they grow in the world. We have also been thinking about food hygiene and how to keep surfaces and equipment clean when we are preparing and cooking food. Today we enjoyed tasting fruits,...
Directions
We used different vehicles and followed instructions such as ‘left, right, forwards and backwards’ to ‘zoom’ around the room. We also then used the language ourselves to describe our journey around with the vehicles.
We are stick man, that’s us!
This week our story has been ‘Stickman’ across the week we engaged in different activities including stick hunts, making our own stickman or lady from different materials, story maps, comic strips and role play within our child initiated play. Each child had amazing...