Looking for a new school for September 2024 or a change of school now? Pop in and see us, as we have a few spare places in some of our classes, and many places in our FS2 class this year too. 😀
A double celebration for two very special people at Whiston J&I. Happy 60th birthday to Mrs Angell and Mr Roberts. We hope your day is as special as you are.💙💚
FS2 had a wonderful visit to
@RSPB_OldMoor
today. We enjoyed learning about different birds, identifying these birds in their natural habitat and observing winter weather. Thank you Abbie, Alan and Claire for sharing your expert knowledge and passion for wildlife with us.
Super news for our artist Isaac in Y6!! His 'snowman entry' into the Dolce Christmas Card competition has not just won for Whiston, and not just for Rotherham but for the whole of ENGLAND!!! Fab-u-lous!!!! Mrs Ax 👏🧑🎨😊
Never underestimate the power of a cardboard box. This afternoon the children decided they wanted to do a puppet show. After a rummage through the junk modelling box and layers of sticky tape, I give you the FS2 theatre.
#notjustacardboardbox
#openingtimescomingsoon
A few weeks ago, we sent a letter to Sir David Attenborough. We were absolutely delighted to receive this in the post today. Mrs Dronfield is getting a frame ready as we speak! Thank you Sir David for our reply.
#bestpostever
@WhitWoodsPAT1
A wonderful check in this morning in FS2. Full of chatter from Christmas trees, snow angels, lights switch ons and trips to Disney on ice. One of my favourite parts of the week ☺️
When you hear little voices say “can we show you something?” FS2 are so engrossed in their learning this half term. Their independent art skills and observations are amazing!
Our KS2 Ambassadors did an amazing job of presenting to our governors and
@WWPATPremises
this afternoon. They shared their vision for our House Teams for September and for the rebrand of the school hall. Exciting times!
@WhiteWoodsPAT1
@julie_tallant
Pupil voice impact 🐯🦅🐦🔥
We say an emotional farewell and a sincere thank you to Mrs Goodwin who has supported us at Whiston for the last 7 years. We hope she has an amazing adventure in Monaco 😘
After writing descriptions of a world through a portal, Y5 used AI to bring them to life and help us with the editing process. Breath taking results…
@mel_4nie
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Denwood, on the arrival of baby Alice Georgia yesterday. Congratulations also to Emmie for becoming a special big sister too!! 👏🤗😘
An incredible afternoon celebrating the many talents of our incredible children. Thank you to Mrs Lockwood and Mrs Fretwell for organising the event and to other staff and parents for supporting. 😍
FS2 are very excited for their home learning task. Children have taken home some bird feed along with the instructions they have been writing in literacy.
Don’t forget to post photographs of your finished bird feeders… we can’t wait to see them!
FANTASTIC NEWS!!!! Miss Hunt was nominated for the Rotherham PE Coordinator Award for Rotherham at Magna last night and I am thoroughly proud to say she won!!! Well done Miss Hunt you are a true inspiration for children's sport, PE and well-being🥇
A huge congratulations for our fantastic year 3/4 boys football team who won the Rotherham finals and are now through to the South Yorkshire round! Brilliant team work and skill!
We are so proud of two of our children who travelled to Loughborough on Saturday to represent school in the X Country Final. They ran brilliantly, competing against at least 400 other children in their race:
EF came 41st & NW 51st!!! A super well done children 😍🏃♀️🏃♂️
Our Governors and our Trust Team were super impressed with our FS2 children and their environment, both inside and out. Excellent job, Mrs Dronfield, Mrs Green and our Trust Caretakers 👍🏽😊
@Kathryndavies
@WWPATPremises
@BethDeak
We have been enjoying our Red Nose Day exercise trail which was organised by our Student Ambassadors. Smiling faces with their partner class for a great cause
Week 3 - what a busy one it has been in FS2! We have been making representations of our families in our natural art area, weaving and cutting to develop our motor skills outside and we have welcomed the rainy weather in our mud kitchen!
Look what a beautiful pond Year 5 have completed during nature detective sessions. We now have tadpoles living there too.
#naturedetectives
#outdoorlearning
In just 7 weeks, our Student Ambassadors have identified areas to develop our breaktimes, collaborated on the solutions, put in the hard work to organise resources and led an assembly to introduce it to the whole school. We are so proud of you and appreciate you!
Oh FS2! You never fail to impress us with your efforts and this week has been no exception. Everyone is so proud of you. We would also like to thank our families and community for joining us at this special time of year. Your attendance and kind words are very much appreciated.
We had a very special visitor in school today. Mr Hartland was very happy to meet him! Thank you
@RU_CST
for the Year 5 and Year 6 sessions over this half term ⚽
What an brilliant morning at Clifton park yesterday! Well done to all the amazing children who took part in the daily mile challenge. We are very proud to have come 3rd school overall! 🏃🏽♀️ 🎖
Thursday in FS2… writing our own sentences in provision and then taking our own photos of our wonderful learning. Independent little learners making their adults in class so proud.
FS2 have been learning all about sunflowers today. We have read information books about sunflowers, planted some seeds with Mrs Dronfield, drawn the sunflower lifecycle during provision and have started to make some clay sunflowers with Mrs Green…what a busy day 🌻
Harrison and Amelia showing great entrepreneurship by asking for a donation for the apples and pear they collected from the trees in their garden. They wanted to help reduce the cost of their upcoming school trip. Well done, we are very proud 😊
Look at this collaborative work from FS2 this morning! It started out as David Attenborough’s house but has since been upgraded to a zoo for cars to visit.
FS2 have enjoyed exploring the new mud kitchen today. A huge thanks to
@WWPATPremises
for moving the mud in yesterday's downpour.
@julie_tallant
we appreciate all your finds for our new outdoor area.
This morning we read a story about the life and work of David Attenborough. During provision, one of our FS2 pupils made Sir David a certificate for his work. 😊
We want to share and celebrate some of the fantastic independent writing from FS2 this week. It is lovely to see how proud you are of yourselves and the progress you are making.
Today we have made our boats from recycled materials. Children are keen to test them at home. Please send us any photographs of your tests at home. We can’t wait to see them!
Year 5 have loved their biography writing, celebrating the amazing local inspiration,
@Mdawg1bright
Resilience, collaboration and determination to succeed
@ChelseaFCW
@Lionesses
Our Christmas reading buddies have been busy this weekend. They have enjoyed stories with FS2 children at home and have also been to visit Santa, made gingerbread men and even been to a swimming lesson!
What a busy morning we have had in FS2! We've been sharing stories with new friends about our home, who we live with and what we do to help our grown ups in the kitchen. A fantastic start to our time at Whiston J&I.
We all love reading at Whiston and we miss not being able to use our school library but with the help of class librarians, we are 'genrefying' our KS2 class book shelves now too!!
Today FS2 found this camera footage from school. WE believe this is the tiger who came to tea but we are still investigating why he has come to Whiston J & I
In FS2, we were all curious and excited when we met our visitors for the week! We cannot wait to get to know our new friends Turbo and Spark. They are two baby African land snails that we will be basing our learning around this week.
What a fantastic achievement - Year 5 had a wonderful cycle ride from school to Clifton Park with Dom and Paula from Modeshift Stars South Yorks, after 6 weeks training. Even the rain couldn't dampen our spirits!
FS2 visited their reading partners in Y5 today. FS2 read their very own stories to their partner. Year 5 were blown away and so proud - WOW awards all around!
Year 2 loved our unplugged computing lesson looking at how IT benefits us in supermarkets. We soon realised how IT makes tasks so much quicker and easier.
Today we used our curiosity to explore and play in our new digger area. Thank you to Mr Hartland for moving all the stones and facilitating yet another job Mrs Dronfield’s has added to his list. ☺️
Poignant and considered reflections from our children about the heroes of 80 years ago.
At pick up time, if families would like to add their own reflection, please bring them to hang up.
And we would just like to add that our FS2 children behaved amazingly. They were engaged throughout the trip and made all of their grownups very proud. Well done FS2.
Ava has made her bird feeder
@JennyDronf
@WhistonJandI
we will keep an eye out for any hungry birds over the next few days 🐦⬛🐦🐦⬛🐦 brilliant project idea 🙏
What a wonderful sight we had after school today. Our school community, coming together to celebrate Ramadan and Eid. Thank you to our amazing parents for cooking and donating food and those of you who donated your time to do Mehndi patterns. We enjoyed sharing this special time.
Our Student Ambassadors were visited by
@RotherhamMayor
to learn all about democracy and the qualities needed to be a great representative for your community.
Open for business!!
To keep your bicycles and scooters safe, the cycle and scooter station has now been fitted. Please feel free to use them but remember to bring a padlock to keep them safe. Many thanks to
@SY_STARSAwards
Year 3 Parent Workshop was a huge success, with lots of fantastic Tin Forest themed plants and animals. Have a look at our school website for more photos of the crafts.
The sun might have vanished this week but FS2 are still enjoying their outdoor learning on this drizzly Wednesday. Great to see and hear their collaboration. 💪🏻