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
Planting seeds
We enjoyed planting runner beans, using magnifying glasses to look closely at what they looked like. We know that our plants need water and sunlight to help them to grow. We also learned that plants need holes in the bottom of their pots to allow the extra water to...
Parts of a plant
We have been learning about the structure of plants this week. Did you know that a stem holds a plant up and carries water from the roots to the leaves? We also looked at trees in our school grounds. We discussed whether the parts of a tree had the same name as the...
What is a plant?
Miss Salloway gave the children different objects to sort into two groups - plants and not plants. The children discussed what makes something a plant and shared brilliant ideas about where plants come from. Miss S even gave the children the challenge of deciding...
Toys from the past
This week we have enjoyed learning about toys from the past. We received a Box of Delight from the Discovery Museum which was filled with 20th century toys and we thoroughly enjoyed finding out what was inside. We found out lots of facts about the toys and then we...
Balancing!
The children in nursery have been practising their balancing skills. They used tyres and wooden boards to walk along, and then practised jumping with 2 feet together into the tyres. The children explored different ways in which they could moves across the wooden...
Reception makes pizza
Following on from our ‘Little Red Hen’ story we explored the text ‘Little Red Hen makes Pizza’ but unlike her we didn’t put worms on our pizza’s just delicious toppings. The next day we used our recall skills and sequenced pictures as a group talking through the...
What can we discover about the Stone Age?
Creating digital art
In Computing we have been learning to use different tools such as paint, erase, fill and shape to create digital paintings. We then completed a challenge to create a piece of work in the style of Piet Mondrian.
Storyboard idea animations – video content.
Last the children worked on a short storyboard for their animation and this week they have put it into action. Well done kids. Watch the videos below.
Partitioning numbers
We have been focussing on place value in our Maths lessons. We know that to partition numbers means to split into smaller parts. Today we looked at how many different ways we could partition a two-digit number. We enjoyed using the base 10 and moving the tens over.
Making numbers
Today we have been focussing on place value, looking at how many tens and ones are in different numbers. We enjoyed physically moving the dienes across the board.
Meet the Teacher 1M
Please follow the link to the slides from our Meet the Teacher event in Year 1. Meet The Teacher 1M.pdf