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Monthly Archives: October 2018

Class 2 Remembers

Friday, 26th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

I have a little poppy, As red as can be, To show that I remember Those who fought to make me free. In Class 2 we have created some amazing […]

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Times table rock stars band members achieve high results!

Friday, 26th Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Well done to all children who achieved their timetable rockstars certificate this half term. We are extremely proud of your achievements.

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Y5 acrostic poetry published, as we learn about Armistice Day

Friday, 26th Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Some wonderful work published and written confidently and independently. Well done Year 5.

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Final assembly of autumn half term 1 – celebrating success

Friday, 26th Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Excellent effort from children in our school. We are extremely proud of their successes.

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NEWSLETTER 26TH OCTOBER

Friday, 26th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We have had a magnificent first half-term back and the school continues to go from strength to strength. Children have engaged in some outstanding learning this term and we are […]

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Attendance Breakfast

Friday, 26th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 6 have celebrated having the best attendance in school this term with an attendance breakfast. Parents were invited into school to celebrate with their children. Thank you to everyone […]

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Harvest Festival 2018

Tuesday, 23rd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

On Tuesday 23rd October we held our Harvest Festival Assembly to celebrate and give thanks for this special time of year. We are so very grateful and amazed at the […]

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Dark Night Assembly

Tuesday, 23rd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

PC Paul and PC Helen 👮🏻‍♂️👮🏻‍♀️ have been in to speak to the children about staying safe during the darker nights. They spoke to the children about Halloween 🎃 about […]

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Another 100%er! Rocking Bedrock!

Tuesday, 23rd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Roughwood Remembers …

Tuesday, 23rd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We have been learning about the sacrifices made by soldiers during wartime. We have made sun catchers in Class 7 to represent our gratitude. These will be on display in […]

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Bees!

Tuesday, 23rd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week we have been learning all about bees. We enjoyed watching a video of how honey is made. After that made some honey sandwiches following simple instructions, we really […]

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Year 5 persuasive letter – attracting an audience!

Monday, 22nd Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Have a read of Year 5 persuasive letters, which are their independent writing pieces! They’ve attracted a popular audience to our Harvest Festival performance using their persuasive language… hope to see […]

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Grace Darling

Saturday, 20th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

While the majority of year 6 have been on residential in Northumberland, back at school we have been writing newspapers and creating pen and ink images of the ocean. We […]

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Sewing with Parents

Friday, 19th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

On Thursday parents came into school to help with our Rags to Bags project. We really appreciated all the help to get our t-shirt bags nearly completed.

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Art Club

Thursday, 18th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Our Poppies are finished this week. Children have been using pen and ink to create tone using hatching and cross-hatching. Then we used watercolours to give a dash of colour. […]

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Bird Boxes in the making

Thursday, 18th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week Class 5 have been thinking about how to put their fantastic bird home designs into an outcome. Together we began to make a whole class prototype.   We discussed […]

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Positive words make for a positive day!

Thursday, 18th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

During this half term, Class 5 have been fortunate to have had some circle time sessions with Mrs Storer. We are learning to see the impact of our kind words […]

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Sewing Session 4

Wednesday, 17th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today we are adding embellishments to our innovative designs in preparation for the big stitch up next week. This is our penultimate session and I just wanted to say a […]

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Anti-bullying assembly – KS2

Wednesday, 17th Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Children learning to ‘stop, say, listen, think and choose’ before reacting.  Children taking deep breaths and making sensible choices – very impressive. 

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Dinosaur Art

Tuesday, 16th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today in Class 2 we have created dinosaur skins using pastels. In previous weeks we have practised our pencil skills, putting them to use today. First, Ms. Taylor modelled using […]

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Pen and Ink

Tuesday, 16th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

While most of Year 6 are in Northumberland, back at school we are creating some stunning pen and ink pieces of art to go with our Grace Darling newspapers.

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Beekeeping

Tuesday, 16th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children in FS2 have had a lovely time this morning learning all about bees and beekeeping. They had the opportunity to learn about how wax is made and had a […]

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The Enormous Turnip

Saturday, 13th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Last week in literacy we learned all about The Enormous Turnip. We made a collage of the Old Man and Woman to help us with our character description. We have […]

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NEWSLETTER 12TH October

Friday, 12th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Another fantastic couple of weeks here at Roughwood. Everyone is working extremely hard to meet our targets and make progress. Attendance getting better and we have had a 100% Award […]

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Butterfly House

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Year 3 visited the Butterfly house this week to support their topic about habitats. We were able to see lots of different creatures in different habitats. This all links with […]

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Great teamwork in maths booster

Thursday, 11th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Long division is pretty tricky but with the help of our team (and a lot of fun) we are getting the hang of it!  

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Another Brilliant Bedrocker!

Thursday, 11th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Well done, Mckenzie, for getting 💯 on Bedrock! Keep it up!

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Family Sewing Session

Wednesday, 10th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Another glorious afternoon spent sewing our designer bags 💼 to save the planet.

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Hands on Geography in Y6

Monday, 8th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today we have been using our sculpting skills to demonstrate our knowledge of coastal erosion. Using clay, we have created models showing the headland, caves, arches, stacks and stumps which […]

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Year 5 Tudor House designs 

Monday, 8th Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Some collaboration with Y5 cross sectional Tudor designs. Did you know that glass was extremely expensive? Designs included steep roofs and wooden beams.

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The Scarecrow’s Wedding

Monday, 8th Octoberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Last week in literacy we looked at the beginning of The Scarecrow’s Wedding. We made a collage of both Betty and Harry to help us with our character description. As […]

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Class 6 Dividers

Monday, 8th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week class 6 are starting to look at division. Some children have been using resources to divide by grouping whilst other children have been using the bus stop method […]

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What a Busy Week!

Monday, 8th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

On Tuesday, we took advantage of the windy weather in Foundation 1, we made kites and ribbon sticks for children to run and dance in the wind. We quickly learnt […]

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Making Recycled Paper

Sunday, 7th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Class 3 we have been recycling old pieces of paper to make new paper. On Tuesday we had to shred the paper and leave it to soak over […]

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Minibeasts

Saturday, 6th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Our foundation 2 children are now approaching their 6th week of full time education. We are so proud of the learning experiences children have had in this short time and […]

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Bug Homes

Saturday, 6th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

What a great turn out for our family learning session. Thank you to everyone who came to support us, we hope you had a fantastic time.      

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Zoo Lab

Saturday, 6th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week children had a visit from Zoo Lab. Children learnt many facts about a selection of animals, through an interactive and hands on session. Meet Sally Snail, Carla Cockroach, […]

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Shakespearean outdoor maths calculation hunt!

Friday, 5th Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

High level reasoning, teamwork and problem solving involved this morning in our maths lesson.

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Fantastic Friday assembly showcasing acheivements 

Friday, 5th Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Well done for the children this week who had a special mention in assembly. Once again, it has been difficult for the teachers to choose.  Kurtis was very confident, at […]

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Champion Readers

Thursday, 4th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Our lunchtime staff at Roughwood have been listening to children read after lunch and our children are loving the extra reading time with adults. Reading is one of our priorities […]

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Jigsaw challenge

Thursday, 4th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We had a go at solving column multiplication questions on the back of jigsaw pieces as part of our maths learning! This took a great deal of team work, resilience […]

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Home Learning

Wednesday, 3rd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 2 have completed some fantastic home learning in relation to our topic this term ‘what a wonderful world.’ J-Jay has created a paper-mache volcano and world. Lucas has also […]

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In stitches!

Wednesday, 3rd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 7 engaged with some fabulous assistants this afternoon who shared in our learning – designing bags from rags! We have had a lovely time changing the world and tackling […]

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Talk 4 Writing in Class 7

Wednesday, 3rd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We are learning to use persuasive techniques and trying to persuade our audience to rethink their shopping habits using talk for writing. Here is our introduction… And some of our […]

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