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Monthly Archives: November 2018

Crucial Crew

Friday, 30th Novemberby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Y6 had a fun and informative day at Crucial Crew today. We explored how to keep ourselves and others safe in lots of different scenarios.

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NEWSLETTER 30TH NOVEMBER

Friday, 30th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Please take a look at the exciting things that have been happening in school since half-term. Don’t forget to check the school calendar for the useful Christmas dates coming up. […]

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Disgusted!

Friday, 30th Novemberby Mr Williams 1 Comment

Class 7 members shared their disgust at the certificate that had been ‘found’ screwed up on the floor. They have been trying to work out who was culpable and might […]

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Writing in Y5

Friday, 30th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Great writing this morning in Y5. Children have been writing their own play scripts based on the performance we are currently working on in school. The performance will be in […]

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Christmas decorations

Thursday, 29th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week teachers have been busy transforming the hall into a winter wonderland. Children have created some stunning pieces of learning linked to their topics and science.

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Plotting! Class 7 are learning to plot coordinates in an attempt to find the gold coins!

Tuesday, 27th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Class 6 this week!

Tuesday, 27th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In class 6 this week we have moved on with out literacy to looking at Instructions. Today we have looked at the features of instructions. We have also instructed Miss […]

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Snow Bears

Tuesday, 27th Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Last week in literacy we created setting pictures to help us with our setting descriptions. We used pastels to create our pictures. They really helped us to uses adjectives and […]

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Nativity rehearsals

Tuesday, 27th Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This is an exciting time of the year. Rehearsals are in full swing for this years KS1 nativity. Children are excited to show their grown ups. Keep checking back to […]

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Special mentions assembly showcasing the children’s achievements 

Friday, 23rd Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Descriptive writing and high level language shared in our afternoon assembly. A difficult decision for teachers this week! A wonderful end for the week…

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Y5 Shakespearean Sonnets with maths calculated sentences 

Friday, 23rd Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Can you find a word that rhymes with glistening? Such descriptive sentences in the children’s Sonnets.

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Newsletter 16th November

Friday, 23rd Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Please take a look at the exciting things that have been happening in school since half-term. We have published the list of useful Christmas Dates so you won’t miss a […]

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Y3 Maths Fun

Thursday, 22nd Novemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today we took our Maths learning outside! We used ourselves as a way of learning division with remainders and quickly realised that it wasn’t always possible to divide a number […]

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Children In Need Baking

Thursday, 22nd Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In Acorns, we have enjoyed reading about Pudsey Bear, we decided it would be a good idea to bake our own biscuits to raise money. We had lots of fun […]

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Attendance Circle Time

Monday, 19th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

After finding a screwed up 100% attendance letter we spoke about our thoughts and feelings towards attendance and how important it is to come to school. The children in Class […]

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Children in Need

Friday, 16th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We are busy raising money this morning for Children in Need. Year 3 have baked buns this week to sell, year 4 have a name the bear competition and the […]

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Year 5 – Act 3 rehearsal workshop 

Friday, 16th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Characterisation and expression during our first rehearsal in small groups. Year 5 are preparing for their REAL Project taking place at the Rotherham Civic Theatre in January. ​   ​​ […]

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Year 6 WWI Drama

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 6 have been working hard on their huge part in the WWI performance at Magna. The play was about Rotherham soldiers going to war in 1914 and they lived […]

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Anti-bullying week – choose respect!

Thursday, 15th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Odd socks hit Stratford! A Roughwood and Rockingham taster of their collaboration performance of ‘odd socks’ – team ‘RoughRock’  

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Day 3 – Year 5 residential outdoor learning

Wednesday, 14th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Mathematical verse structure and writing creative sonnets outside Anne Hathaway’s house. A wonderful day!

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Remembrance Day

Wednesday, 14th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 3 had a very special visitor to tell us more about Remembrance Day. Jo shared his stories about his Great Uncle Thomas Reid and his dad John Leach. He […]

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Friendship

Wednesday, 14th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In Acorns, we have been looking at friendship. We started by looking at who our friends are. We then chose one special friend and painted a portrait of them, using […]

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Handwriter of the week!

Wednesday, 14th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In class 6 we are improving our presentation of handwriting every day! I have introduced a hand writer of the week award. The child who’s handwriting has improved each week […]

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Linking Project

Tuesday, 13th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 6 are involved in the Rotherham schools linking project. This project is to link children with other children from different schools to learn about diversity. Today the children had […]

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Class 2 Compliments!

Tuesday, 13th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week is Anti-Bullying Week and in Class 2 we have been thinking about why some people might bully others. We discussed that some people may bully others when they […]

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Day 2 – A Shakespearean Workshop with the RSC

Tuesday, 13th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith 1 Comment

Not only have we learnt some techniques for the stage, but we have learnt about the famous ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’.

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Pastel Masterpieces

Tuesday, 13th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Once again Class 5 have been lucky enough to have an art session with Mrs Taylor! We have been learning how to create texture and tone using pastels. We learnt […]

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Having fun in French!

Tuesday, 13th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

  We have been extending our french vocabulary even further this week!  As you can see we had lots of fun labelling our class friend’s body parts with the correct […]

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Day 1 – Year 5 are having a great time in Stratford, and have made some new friends.

Monday, 12th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith 3 Comments

Roughwood and Rockingham teamwork has been brilliant. Boat trip on Stratford Canal, Shakespearean character sketching, and exploring a theatre. The rain won’t defeat us! The children are happy and well-fed, […]

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Day 1 – It’s been an extremely exciting day…

Monday, 12th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith 2 Comments

Lunch in front of Shakespearean characters, Boat trip on Stratford Canal, sketching and finished with a quick visit to the theatre! Time for tea….

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Class 6 this week.

Monday, 12th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

During this week class 6 have been busy doing a range of different learning. In our maths we have been looking at measures using rulers and then developing into finding […]

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Acorns Harvest Performance

Sunday, 11th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

For anyone who couldn’t attend the Harvest Festival, you can watch our performance below.  

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Exploring Pumpkins

Sunday, 11th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Acorns, we have enjoyed exploring pumpkins using all of our senses. We cut the top off and opened it up to see what was inside. “It’s like […]

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Tasting Bonfire Night Food

Sunday, 11th Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

In maths this week we have focussed on data handling. On Tuesday we had the chance to taste hot dogs, marshmallows, Parkin, toffee apples and toffee to see which food […]

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Learning in Chestnuts

Saturday, 10th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

There has been some fantastic creative learning happening in Chestnuts this week. Children have made owls to represent the characters from our story Owl Babies, firework pictures linked to our […]

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Plastic Pollution

Friday, 9th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 7 members have been creating some interesting watercolour and pen zentangle designs depicting creatures affected by plastic pollution.

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Careful detail in Y5 artwork

Thursday, 8th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Some impressive pictures using pastel in this week’s art lesson! Miss Newton-Smith is impressed and is looking forward to seeing some more masterpieces next week…

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Remembrance

Thursday, 8th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

“On the 11th Hour on the 11th Day of the 11th Month, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM” We held our Remembrance service on the KS2 yard, with children contributing to the […]

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WW1 Animation – Trenches

Tuesday, 6th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

A wonderful animation created by Y6 at Roughwood this week. Well done everyone who helped create the backdrops and props. A great effect and a great way to learn about WW1. #wewillrememberthem #animation

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Problem solving in Y6 to find equivalent fractions

Tuesday, 6th Novemberby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Today we put our skills to the test using logic, problem solving, team work and communication to find equivalent fractions.

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Fantastic Fireworks

Monday, 5th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Here are some amazing examples of the fireworks we have created in Class 2. As part of our Literacy lesson today we have drawn fireworks whilst thinking of the different […]

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