Video Conference with Greasbrough
Greasbrough are completing their rocket car challenge today and wanted some advice from our Year 6 children. We answered questions and gave tips on building the fastest rocket cars. Good […]
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Year 4 Perform Macbeth at Magna
On Wednesday 22nd June, Year 4 went to Magna to perform the Shakespeare play, Macbeth. After months of hard work, preparation and practice, the children finally showcased their wonderful acting […]
STEM Tower Challenge
Year 6 were given an exciting challenge this week. “We had to build the tallest and strongest tower we could out of 20 paper straws, 10 paperclips and 1m of masking […]
Clifton park history
In year 3, 30 lucky children were given the opportunity to go to Clifton park to take part in a wonderful tour of the grounds and learn all about the […]
Lucy’s Praise Pod
Today we had an outstanding nomination for the praise pod for Lucy Gill Kimber in Y6G. Lucy informed me she was really excited to be finally coming to the praise […]
RotherVision WINNERS 2016!
What a FABULOUS day we have had today! We came together, as an academy, to WOW the audience at Magna with our Jungle Book Medley – little did we know, […]
Olympic measuring
This morning, Y3T have been busy on the playground, using their knowledge of measuring in a context related to ourOlympics topics. They had to work on different stations to practice […]
Newsletter Friday 17th June 2016
Dear Parent/Carer, Starlight Sleepover On Thursday, 26th May the Year 5 children took part in Herringthorpe’s sleepover. They then had a visit from the Mexborough and Swinton Astronomical Society in […]
The Big Blast
This afternoon, Y4C were lucky enough to perform and play the drums at Magna. Y4C were able to perform with lots of other schools in Rotherham, including Roughwood! We were […]
Year 6 Leavers Assembly
On Friday 17th June 2016 we held our Year 6 Leavers assembly. Needless to say it was a very sad moment to be saying goodbye to our Year 6 children […]
Herringthorpe’s Got Talent 2016!
Friday 17th June 2016 WOW!! What an amazing morning we have had at Herringthorpe Juniors today! It has been filled with so many talented children making us all laugh, cry, […]
Congratulations Shelley!
A huge well done to all pupils in Shelley House. All of your hard work and team work has paid off and you are this years House winners! On Wednesday […]
Class challenge final
Today, we were all so excited for the football match and no, we don’t mean England vs Wales, we were excited for the final of the enterprise class challenge!! The […]
Music Concert 2016
Today the children put on a wonderful musical performance for the whole school and for parents and carers. Many musical instruments were on show with such talented musicians behind them! […]
Enterprise Football
This years enterprise football has been taking place for the last 2 weeks. Our sports leaders make team selections, coach, referee and manage their teams consisting of children from all […]
Y3 Olympic Art
In year 3, we have begun to look at different techniques in art using a range of materials to present our learning about the Olympic Rings and the Olympic torch. […]
Investigating Air Resistance
Today, Y5A have been testing which material (paper, tissue paper or plastic) had the most air resistance and so made the most effective parachute.
Olympic medal designers
Linked with our previous learning about the Amazon rainforest, year 3 have turned their learning about Brazil towards the impending Olympics which will be held in Rio later this year. […]
Bloodhound STEM Challenge
Children from Herringthorpe, Roughwood and Greasbrough have taken part in a fantastic STEM challenge today, at Magna. There were some incredible demonstrations of different types of rocket and we got […]