KS1 Harvest Festival

Today learners in KS1 celebrated Harvest. They sang, danced and said thank you for our food by putting our food donations into a hamper ready for it to be delivered to our local Care Home to thank staff for the fantastic work they do and to share with their residents. 

This was a fantastic achievement for all to sit in the hall and join in with the celebration. Well done everyone.

Thank you to all for your kind donations to make this hamper possible.

We are reading buddies at Rowan Tree

Every Thursday, children from all over school have the opportunity to read to each other in the reading lounge. This week was lovely. Some of the children listened to the story of Little Red Riding Hood. It was so nice to see children supporting eachother to read tricky words. Another group read The Gruffalo and used lots of expression to bring the characters to life for their audience. All of the children got so much out of this in different ways. The listeners developed attention skills and a love for listening to stories. The readers developed confidence in reading aloud, encountered unfamiliar words and cooperated with peers. Great job all round!

Colour the Clouds

On Wednesday 28th September we got invited to Atherton Library for an interactive session called  ‘Colour the Clouds’ which had been commissioned as part of our Rugby World Cup celebrations.

8 children in total from across school went and took part in an Interactive performance. They all listened intently, joined in with the activities and could answer questions related to the story of Anousha. 

‘Anousha has been signed up to play in her local rugby tournament. There is just one problem… she doesn’t know anything about rugby! After her Grandpa’s advice proves less than helpful, she decides to visit her local library to do some research, but there is so much information; it all seems very confusing. Come and help Anousha as she learns how to become brave, strong and confident, ready for her first Rugby League match’.

Flexi-Bounce Therapy in Rowan 1

We are very excited about the Flexi-Bounce Therapy that we have recently introduced here at Rowan Tree Primary School.  Flexi-Bounce Therapy is the use of an orthopaedic quality rebounder as a complement to Rebound Therapy. It is used to provide therapeutic exercise for children and adults across a wide range of additional needs.

Julie Corser who presently teachers Rowan 1 has become one of our schools Flexi-Bounce practitioners and has been delivering these sessions to the pupils within her class. The children will practice many skills including being still, showing super eye contact, learning to stop and special bounces.  It is also a super form of exercise and helps us to practice communication.

National Fitness Day

On Thursday 23rd September all pupils at Rowan Tree took part in National Fitness Day. They showed off various skills by taking part in different activities throughout the day including scoring goals in football and basketball nets, catching balls on the air juggler, jumping on the trampoline and throwing hoops over the cactus. As well as developing their gross motor skills pupils also developed skills in other areas of the curriculum for example; counting throughout each activity, recognising the different coloured balls, waiting for their turn and sharing with friends.

Little Barn Farm

Today we’ve enjoyed our first session with the Little Barn Farm. The children all enjoyed spending some time with the animals and took great care in petting them. All classes had the opportunity to visit these animals and hold them.

Videos and photographs from Elm 1.

We’re really excited to hear that the Little Barn Farm will be coming to visit us again regularly and we look forward to seeing all our new animal friends again!