Today in primary the pupils participated in a Reward Easter Hunt in the garden working together to find chocolate chicks and a special super searcher found a chocolate Easter lolly. The reward was to say a great big thank you to everyone for all their hard work during Reading, RWI and Reading for pleasure. The…
After lunch Rowan class in primary voted to have a little extra play time to improve their fitness and Health and well being especially now the weather is getting better. This has helped improve their concentration during afternoon lessons. Greater friendships have formed and greater understanding of others’ abilities during play.
Today the primary children really enjoyed a pirate treasure hunt un the forest school area organised by Mrs Devlin. There were safety rules to follow so that the newly planted plants did not get trodden on and everyone was safe whilst having fun. Some lucky pirate buccaneers even found chocolate gold and silver coins which…
During PE today primary pupils worked together for team building to build up characters’ faces using a range of equipment for their shape and size. Turn taking and listening skills were very important throughout the task to ensure the group used the correct equipment to match the part of the face. They checked the learning…
During intervention this week the group have worked on developing their personal and social development skills and emotions. They followed the visual structure and routine to clean their teeth and the importance of keeping them clean and healthy. Jenson was very happy piping mashed potato out onto emotions boards and saying which emotion it was.…
This week during Chestnut intervention group the group have focused on using fine motor skills, turn taking and sharing, hand eye co- ordination, thinking skills, working together, problem solving and recognising the zones of regulation. Fun practical activities have included treasure hunt for gold coins, hand football challenge, jumping into the correct colour hula hoop…
Today in Rowan we celebrated over thirty years of Children in need by taking part in a eye spy Pudsey and his objects, watched a video clip on BBC website to learn all the facts about why and when Pudsey was created and finished with a tea party in the street with cake and popcorn. …
On behalf of all the primary staff and children we would like to say a great big THANKYOU to each and everyone of you for your support and kind donations that will be delivered to the local food bank at the Annfield Plain community centre by the end of the week. …
During Science today in Rowan the children have been learning all about the skeleton and how our bones and parts of the body help us. Once we identified the different parts of the body and labelled them we then went onto to do an investigation. The investigation was to find out if our femur actually…
Yesterday Birch visited Seaham Beach for a trip out and were surprised by some very friendly guests of Dolphins, which was amazing. Once we were at the beach we found a lovely secluded safe spot and set up for our adventure with some pop up tents for shade and beach blankets for our picnic. During…