Welcome to Rokesly Junior School, a fun, friendly, and exciting place to learn and grow. Rokesly Junior School has been encouraging children from the local community to make the most of their potential for over 50 years. We help every child develop academically and socially, build self-confidence and enjoy a positive attitude to learning. Pupils work together to make our school a stimulating and safe environment where every child feels welcome. Our motto is ‘Working hard, aiming high, learning together.
As a whole school, we aim to provide an environment that is purposeful, creative, and dynamic, a place where children develop a thirst for learning that will stay with them throughout their lives. We want pupils to grow into resourceful, independent learners who are equipped with all the skills they need to succeed in the modern world. We see the acquisition of technological skills as a fundamental part of this.
We want all our pupils to be able to make a positive contribution to the school community and we also provide them with opportunities and encouragement to contribute to the wider community. We hope that this may lay the foundation for them to become responsible global citizens of the future.
We aim for our school to be a place where individual strengths are nurtured so that children can achieve at an outstanding level, resulting in Rokesly becoming an outstanding school.
Rokesly has moved to a topic-based approach to learning. Research has shown that topic-based learning helps children learn for a purpose, which is both more fun and more effective.
In this approach, literacy, geography, history, design and technology and other subjects can all be linked to one topic per half term.
Sometimes numeracy can also be included or it may be taught as a separate subject. Since skills and facts are not learned in isolation from each other, children make connections and remember them better.
For instance, children whose topic covers one country will study the history of that country, how people live today, contributions that the country’s people have made to science and the country’s geography.
Many different skills are covered by this approach: writing, reading, learning about maps and different terrains, building models (part of design and technology), and using computers for research and projects. Each year group has topics geared towards a range of interests to engage children.
We have strong international links with both Spain and France. Our modern foreign language is French and every class in the school learns this language throughout the year. We are currently working with St. Agostino Colegio in Valladolid on our different cultures. At present we are developing playground games and instructions that we can share with them.
Annually pupils from France visit us from 'Ecole de Vames Sur Cosson and share in the culture of our school as well as spending the day with us and seeing London life.
