School Council Visit Town Hall
Today, children who are our elected School Council visited the Town Hall and met the Mayor. We learnt about democracy and how our wonderful towns history.
Monthly Archives: February 2020
28.2.20 Special Mention’s Assembly
Another fantastic week at Roughwood Primary School. We have class 8 with 99.8% attendance, and our learners have been resilient with their learning this week. Well done to all children […]
Year 5 & 6 Science and Media Museum
We’ve learnt about how sound travels, and we’ve found out that we watch 4 days of adverts per year! That’s a lot of Television! From the Wonderlab, to the Gaming […]
Y3D Green Screen
Class 5 have been continuing our Roscars project this week! We are really excited for our entry this year as we look back through the decades at the significant happenings […]
Year 5 and 5/6 head off to Bradford Media Museum
We have some very excited children to see the Dalek and some excited teachers to see the Zippy and George! Our coach driver says we are one of the lovelies […]
Going Bananas in Programming
This week, the children have been busy creating foil Direction pads to control their sprites within the maze during Computer club. The children have also been experimenting with Bananas to […]
Y3 Steel Investigation Day at Kelham Island Museum
Y3 children had a super amazing day at Kelham Island consolidating and expanding their knowledge of Steel. They learnt more about key people such as Henry Bessemer and Harry Brearley! […]
Poppy Art in Y6W
Our watercolour poppy artwork is progressing well. We are looking forward to the finished product.
Recalling and reciting times tables in Y3/S
Today Class 4 began their second strand of multiplication by recalling and reciting different times tables. They used their challenge skills, team work skills and reflection skills to complete different […]
Year 6 Animations: Sprites and Backdrops
Today, Year 6 (Class 9) have been designing and drawing sprites and backdrops for their animations. The animations cover World War II child evacuations and the Christmas Truce that occurred […]
Vegetative propagation Part 1
Class 7 have been learning about sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and about vegetative propagation – artificially regrowing plants. Today we set up our own investigation to regrow spring […]
Class 4 – developing our sketching and drawing techniques
Today Class 4 continued to work on editing and improving their sketching skills. They worked really hard on drawing to scale and getting a good level of detail using different […]
Collaborative learning Y3D
Class 5 have been working collaboratively, researching all about the Church, it’s purpose and why people worship in them. Each table had a specific part of the Christian church to […]
NEWSLETTER 14th FEBRUARY
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. We have had a brilliant two weeks and so much has been happening in school. Newsletter 14.02.2020
Find your brave
As part of our mental health week we did lots of work on courage. We discussed what courage was and children thought about times in their own life when they […]
Nemesis Project
As part our Nemesis Project we have been visiting Cherry Trees Residential Care home. The children and residents have thoroughly enjoyed it and we look forward to visiting again next […]
Rotherham Transport Museum
We had a wonderful trip to the Rotherham Transport Museum.
Attendance Breakfast
Well done to Class 2 this term for winning the attendance Breakfast. Thank you to all the parents who have attended. Let’s keep up the hard work and improve attendance […]
Internet Safety in Year 5/6
A fantastic session with Ann Foxley-Johnson about staying safe on the apps we use. We have now created our own posters about using these apps.
Y3S Sketching
Today class 4 were working on a variety of sketching techniques including cross hatching and stippling. They learnt how to create tone and texture too. We will be attempting to […]
Internet Safety Podcast
Children have started to develop a podcast to inform peers and parents about keeping safe online. Each new episode will tackle another issue and give you the correct up to […]
Internet safety
Ann Foxly Johnson is in school today supporting our classes with internet safety week. Children are learning about keeping safe online and how to be responsible digital citizens.
Y5M – Animation
As part of our ICT curriculum, Class 7 have been using ‘I Can Animate’ and ‘iMovie’ to create and edit a short story for the topic of this half term […]
Young Writers!
Well done to Angel and Brianne for being chosen to feature in the next Young Writers Book. This is the first time either of them have been published, so we […]
7.2.20 Special Mentions Assembly
In the penultimate week before half term begins, we could not be more proud of these children. There have been so many opportunities for deep learning and we’ve been learning […]
Y3D Outdoor Maths
We have ended our subtraction strand of maths with a challenging orienteering course!
Science club – creating different weather types
In science club this week we looked at different ways to create weather in a jar. We used soap, water and glitter to create a tornado. Then we used shaving […]
Y3D Investigating a break-in!
The KS2 corridor were disturbed during their learning this week by an unexpected crime! The children were puzzled to why anyone would destroy our fantastic learning environment!
Y3D Frottage
Year 3 showcasing our amazing ART skills! We are creating booklets based on our picture this picture ‘Sheffield Through the Ages’
Y3D – Find your brave
Find your brave… this week we have been focusing on children’s Mental Health Week and we have been exploring courage.
Find Your Brave
What can we do to help us face our fears? Class 6 voted for this question after looking at the P4C book this week for Children’s Mental Health Week.
Programming Left and Right
This week we have looked at programming a sprite to move left and right navigating obstacles. Children will then use a controller to control the program.
Courage – Mental Health Week
In Y5, we looked at some statements and decided which ones were brave and which ones weren’t. We decided on different ways to categorise them; some of us ranked them […]
A dragon in Class 2
This week in literacy we have been learning about poems. We used talk for write to write and perform our own poem.
Researching significant people in the steel industry
Class 4 have been researching all about Harry Brearley and Henry Bessemer. They used the iPads to research key information such as dates, early life and significant to the steel […]
Dragon pencil artwork in Class 7
We have been learning how to use our pencils to create effective artwork, using shade and tone.
Terrific thaumatropes
As part of our learning about animation, we made our own examples of thaumatropes to understand how animation was created many years ago. Watch our videos at the end to […]
Creating a PowerPoint quiz in Y5
We have been researching Dreamworks Animation, linking to our class text of How to Train Your Dragon. We are now creating our own quizzes and learning how to add effects […]
Investigating how light travels in Y6W
Plotting shed mystery
Today Class 4 and 5 made a shocking discovery, someone or thing had appeared to destroy our beloved plotting shed. After thorough investigation we decided to conduct our Big Write […]
31.1.20 Special Mentions Assembly
The children have really impressed us this week, with another week of high quality learning. From descriptive setting, to interview questions for Steel Men, we couldn’t be happier with the […]