Resilient and determined in Year 5
Our Master Builders are being designed and if we couldn’t be even more proud, the children are beating their personal time on timestable rockstars!
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Foundation 1 Stay and Play
Yesterday the parent’s and children in Foundation 1 had a wonderful day making houses for the three little pigs. We used different materials to build the houses and tested how […]
Ironman on his travels
It is lovely to see what our class bear gets up to when he goes home with children in our class.
Phonics Workshop
Children from Class 2 were joined by their parents in learning all about Phonics. We looked at the different ways in which you can support your children with their learning […]
Newspaper Recount Writing!
Over the last few weeks, Class 5 have started to write a newspaper recount about the mysterious break in at the local bakery which we read about in our class […]
Roughwood Masterchef
Cooking club is fully up and running now at Roughwood and what mini chefs we are becoming. Week 1 we made our very own fruit kebabs with melted chocolate. Each […]
Creating New Lego Builders
What an amazing week – Year 5 have made real success with their character descriptions for the new Master Builder designs. Watch out! Some of these have laser vision, and […]
Magna
Yesterday we had our educational visit to Magna. We enjoyed exploring the different areas Fire, Water, Earth and Air. We even made our own slime. Class 2 Class 3 Class […]
Amazing results in Y6W
Fantastic effort from all the children in Y6 on Bedrock. These 3 children even managed to hit the top score!
Aeroplane making!
As part of our topic we have been making our own minutiae aeroplanes in DT. We have used a wooden clothes peg and lollipop sticks to make them! Here is […]
Road Safety assembly today
STAR South Yorkshire – children learning how to ‘BE BRIGHT, BE SEEN’. Are you ready for Be Bright Day on Friday 25th January?
Dear Zoo
Over the last two weeks, we have read Dear Zoo, we then wrote a letter to the zoo to see if they would send us a pet. Each day, we […]
Forever Fashion Advert
Please support our children by taking part in our Clothing Exchange next week from 2.30, Mon-Thurs. The Forever Fashion Boutique is in the Spare Classroom in the juniors, but has […]
Forever Fashion 28th – 31st Jan
As part of our Nemesis project, Y4 are keen to see us reuse and ♻️ recycle clothing, rather than it ending up in landfill. Please get involved by donating any […]
SUMDOG Challenge Contest
Miss Newton-Smith has entered children in Class 6, Class 7, Class 8 and Class 9 into this weeks Sumdog contest! Each class can only get onto the leaderboard if at […]
Chameleons!
Over the past 2 weeks we have been writing a non-chronological report on Chameleons. The children have learnt all about the 171 different species of chameleons. Ask them about their […]
STEM in Y6
In science, we have been learning how light travels. We have put our knowledge to good use by making periscopes. What better way is there to test them out than […]
NEWSLETTER 18TH JANUARY
Please take the time to read the first newsletter of the New Year. It has been a fantastic first couple of weeks back and the learning outcomes for the two […]
Year 6 Art
What amazing outcomes we have had from our art sessions with Mr Williams. We have used pastel to create tone and texture. Our gas masks on sticks will be great […]
Symmetrical patterns in Y4
We have been looking at intricate patterns in nature and are now designing a new butterfly 🦋 linking to our book about survival in the rainforest.
The author David Lawrence Jones visits Roughwood!
Incredibly lucky… we have the author David Lawrence Jones visiting us this morning and talking about his collection of books. He books will be available to purchase this week in […]
Super Science
Class 3 have been sharing their Christmas gifts this week – Some amazing Science Lab and investigations. We have had so much fun from exploring how to make volcanic eruptions […]
Class 2 Capacity
Class 2 have been learning all about capacity and comparing different containers. A task was set… Which team could move water from one container to another the quickest? Knowing this […]
A Massive Thank you! Watch this space! Forever Fashion Boutique opening soon! Please get involved!
If you have any nice bags, shoes or clothes that you have fallen out of love with, please consider bringing them into school for our Forever Fashion Event. We will […]
More Hama time!
Hama time! We are using beads to create symmetrical patterns in maths in Y4.
Children in Year 5 research the history of Lego, in our new ICT suite
Do you know what date the Lego company was founded?
Rotherham Civic Theatre
Year 5 perform at the Rotherham Civic Theatre – 10th and 11th January We could not be more proud our Year 5 children! The children in Year 5 at Willow […]
Well done to Kurgan – her entry won!
Kurgan in Year 5 entered into the Young Writer’s competition and her entry into the poetry competition won! Well done to her, and all children who entered. It must have […]
Roughwood Readers!
Brilliant reading by Year 4 children. We are completely immersed in our class text and are having an amazing first few weeks back. Perhaps there will be some copies at […]
History Research
Class 5 have had an incredibly busy first week back! Alongside our fabulous Maths learning, we have been exploring the history of Sheffield in particular Steel and how it is […]
Using our digital technology to educate others
Today we have been using ICT to create educational resources to help people to keep a positive digital footprint. These will look great on display.
Magical Potions
In Class 2 we have been investigating different mixtures to see which creates the best magical potion. We mixed white vinegar with washing-up liquid, food colouring, salt, water and bicarbonated […]
Young Voices 2019
Wow! What an amazing evening we all had. Our talented pupils attended the Young Voices concert held at the Motor Point Arena last night (8th January) and became part of […]
First Day Fractions Fun!
Over the next few weeks, Class 5 are exploring fractions. We began by recognising that a fraction is a part of a whole and that they must always have equal […]
Fractions outdoors
It might have been a little bit cold and windy yesterday, but we didn’t let that stop our learning. We showed that we could remember how to write different fractions. […]
The Three Little Pigs
All ready for the new term! We can’t wait for children to show their love of reading in our new immersive reading environment.