Community Links

Sing and Sign Choir performing at ATHOS

We were delighted to be invited to perform alongside other schools within Tyldesley and Atherton at the ATHOS Singing Festival organised by Mrs Tomlinson from St Stephen’s C of E Primary School. Each school chose to perform two songs, we were blown away by the variety of talent on display. Our Sing and Sign Choir elected to perform two choir favourites ‘Sing a Rainbow’ and ‘In my Paintbox’ which they performed beautifully to a whopping crowd of at least five schools. John our Head Boy described the entire event as “Awesome!”.

Choir on this occasion was led by Jaydan and supported by Mark, Gill, Amy, Kathryn and Louise.

Cohen our Leigh Leopard’s LD Super League champion!

We are so proud of Cohen in Willow 2. He has started to play in Leigh Leopard’s LD Super League tag rugby team.

Cohen played his first match against Salford a few weeks ago and even scored a try. We are so pleased to see that Cohen is taking all of the skills he has learnt in school during P.E and Sports competition and using this to play for a team outside of school.

Fantastic Cohen!

‘Using visuals to support communication’ Workshop

 The final session of a series of 3 workshops looking at ‘Using visuals to support communication’ with some of our parents/carers led by our Autism and Communication Lead Chris Hoyle.

Chris Hoyle formerly a Sleep Tight Trafford Coordinator at the Together Trust has worked with autistic children and young people for over thirty years. Chris has become an integral part of the RTP family and offers a variety of workshops open to carers/parents throughout the year.

For more information feel free to contact school at T: 01942 883928 or E: enquiries@admin.rowantree.wigan.sch.uk.

Elm 1 and Ash 1 explore local famous people and artists

Pupils walked the whole way from Rowan Tree School to Atherton Town Centre and back (a whopping 2miles) to see the beautiful mural of Keely Hodgkinson. Keely is a local Athlete who at the age of 19, won the silver medal for the 800m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, breaking the British record. #learningeverymoment

 

Rowan Tree Primary School shortlisted for The Tes Schools Awards 2023

The most outstanding individuals and institutions that the education sector has to offer have been recognised in the shortlist for the Tes Schools Awards 2023, the 15th year of the awards. It’s been revealed that Rowan Tree Primary School has been shortlisted for the Specialist Provision School of the Year award.

The Tes Schools Awards recognises the very best teachers and schools from UK state and independents, including early years settings, primary and secondary.

The panel of awards judges include school leaders, experts and education researchers. The objectivity, professionalism and high standards of the Tes Schools Awards judges and the judging process has helped establish them as a well-respected achievement for any school chosen as a finalist or winner.

Tes editor and chief judge of the Tes Schools Awards Jon Severs said: “With these awards we honour the education community, whom we have served for over 112 years. This year has seen some incredibly high quality entries. So every teacher and school who has been named in this shortlist should be very proud – it’s a fantastic achievement.

“We are looking forward to showcasing, as we do every year, just how vital our education professionals are to every facet of this country. Teachers, leaders and support staff all play such an important role in schools: this is our chance to say thank you for all that they do.”

The Tes Schools Awards Winners will be announced on Friday 23rd June at a gala ceremony at London’s Grosvenor Park Hotel. To see the full list of who’s in the running visit www.tes.com/schools-awards

Working with Local Artists

Rowan Tree were very lucky to have the opportunity to work with a local artist Victoria. You may have seen some of our previous work in the school entrance. This time we worked together to paint and print we also used collage, felt making, stitch and ‘clay‘ modelling techniques.  We are looking forward to the finished piece of art to be displayed within the Early Years Department.

With a nature theme running throughout, the pieces will be really warm, lots of foliage, bark textures, flowers, creatures and creepy crawlies. It will be a like an immersive experience walking through it. Well done everyone on your fabulous artwork, as well as fantastic engagement and speaking & listening skills.

‘Access to Success’ Football Taster Session

On Tuesday 25th April, Rowan Tree working alongside ATSA invited 6 primary schools for the football skills ‘Access to Success’ event. 36 children took part in football skills, a penalty shoot out and small games of football. It was a fantastic, inclusive event which all children thoroughly enjoyed and learnt new skills.

Feel The Beat Workshop

This morning a group of pupils from our Sing and Sign choir have enjoyed meeting Alison from the Wigan Music Service whom has introduced us to a series of songs that we will hopefully go on to perform with five hundred other pupils from Primary School choirs from across Wigan within a live concert.

Alison first introduced us scat, also called Scat Singing, in music, jazz vocal style using emotive, onomatopoeic, and nonsense syllables instead of words in solo improvisations on a melody. Alison explained that all the different pieces we would perform would be within this genre.

Church Arts and Craft Afternoon

 We were delighted to welcome members of a church within our local community for a fun filled afternoon of Arts and Crafts alongside some Easter treats!

Learners in KS2 took this time to share some of the different things they have been learning and how this related to the different activities they were completing.

This event was organised by our Assistant Art Lead, Miss Robinson. Well done to everyone whom took part!

Easter Service

To support the learning our pupils have been doing in class around Easter, they visited their friends at our local church to join in their Easter celebration service. The pupils learnt about how God shares his love with everyone and hopes we continue to pass on this love to everyone we meet.