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Monthly Archives: February 2020

School Council Visit Town Hall

Featuredby Mr Williams

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.

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28.2.20 Special Mention’s Assembly

Friday, 28th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Year 5 & 6 Science and Media Museum

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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 […]

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Computing, Design & Technology, Educational Visit, News and Events, Year 5

Y3D Green Screen

Thursday, 27th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Year 5 and 5/6 head off to Bradford Media Museum

Thursday, 27th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Going Bananas in Programming

Wednesday, 26th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Y3 Steel Investigation Day at Kelham Island Museum

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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! […]

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Poppy Art in Y6W

Wednesday, 26th Februaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Our watercolour poppy artwork is progressing well. We are looking forward to the finished product.

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Art, News and Events, Year 6

Recalling and reciting times tables in Y3/S

Tuesday, 25th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Year 6 Animations: Sprites and Backdrops

Tuesday, 25th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Vegetative propagation Part 1

Tuesday, 25th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

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 […]

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Class 4 – developing our sketching and drawing techniques

Monday, 24th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Collaborative learning Y3D

Monday, 24th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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NEWSLETTER 14th FEBRUARY

Friday, 14th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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

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Find your brave

Friday, 14th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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 […]

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Nemesis Project

Friday, 14th Februaryby misshsingleton Leave a comment

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 […]

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Rotherham Transport Museum

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We had a wonderful trip to the Rotherham Transport Museum.

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Attendance Breakfast

Friday, 14th Februaryby Mr Williams

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 […]

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Internet Safety in Year 5/6

Thursday, 13th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

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.

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Y3S Sketching

Wednesday, 12th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Internet Safety Podcast

Wednesday, 12th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Internet safety

Tuesday, 11th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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.

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Y5M – Animation

Monday, 10th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Young Writers!

Monday, 10th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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7.2.20 Special Mentions Assembly

Friday, 7th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Y3D Outdoor Maths

Friday, 7th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We have ended our subtraction strand of maths with a challenging orienteering course!

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Science club – creating different weather types

Friday, 7th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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 […]

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Y3D Investigating a break-in!

Thursday, 6th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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!

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Y3D Frottage

Thursday, 6th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 3 showcasing our amazing ART skills! We are creating booklets based on our picture this picture ‘Sheffield Through the Ages’

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Y3D – Find your brave

Thursday, 6th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Find your brave… this week we have been focusing on children’s Mental Health Week and we have been exploring courage.

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Find Your Brave

Thursday, 6th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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.

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Programming Left and Right

Wednesday, 5th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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.

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Courage – Mental Health Week

Wednesday, 5th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

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 […]

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A dragon in Class 2

Wednesday, 5th Februaryby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

This week in literacy we have been learning about poems. We used talk for write to write and perform our own poem.

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Researching significant people in the steel industry

Wednesday, 5th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Dragon pencil artwork in Class 7

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been learning how to use our pencils to create effective artwork, using shade and tone.

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Terrific thaumatropes

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

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 […]

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Creating a PowerPoint quiz in Y5

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

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 […]

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Investigating how light travels in Y6W

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

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Plotting shed mystery

Monday, 3rd Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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31.1.20 Special Mentions Assembly

Saturday, 1st Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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