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Monthly Archives: March 2020

Day 7 Distance Learning Class 3

Tuesday, 31st Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Another day of amazing learning. The children in class 3 have done arrays using different objects in there house. They completed some very challenging multiplications sums. Another activity they completed […]

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Year 2

100 Activity Challenge

Tuesday, 31st Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

The CLC has created a range of resources and instruction sheets to support family learning at home. Creative Ideas for family Learning at Home. These are generally fun learning activities that […]

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Daily Message – Day 7

Tuesday, 31st Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Good afternoon everyone, I am blown away with your creativity, resilience and passion for learning over the last week in such strange times. I would like to thank you, your […]

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Distance learning in class 3

Monday, 30th Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Class 3 have started the week by completing some brilliant distance learning. They have found a cosy place to enjoy a book, tried to beat there score on times table […]

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Angel working hard at home!

Monday, 30th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Distance learning in class 7

Monday, 30th Marchby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Fabulous distance learning from class 7 this week. Here are some fantastic examples of creative, good quality learning, children working hard and even doing some extra bingo tasks!

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Distance Learning, Our learning, Year 5

Class 5 Thank the NHS in Special Video

Friday, 27th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today, Class 5 have been busy creating posters for a video to say a BIG thank you to the NHS and key workers and remind everyone the importance of social […]

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Rainbows to brighten up Kimberworth

Friday, 27th Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Class 3 were set the task of creating rainbows to brighten up the community and they certainly didn’t disappoint. They have all put a smile on my face.

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Reading at home

Friday, 27th Marchby Miss Sare Leave a comment

I love that Class 4 have continued to keep up their hard work throughout our school from home period. Class 4 have always enjoyed reading and as you can see […]

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Investigating Shadows

Friday, 27th Marchby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Y6 made the most of the spring time sunshine with a ‘day long’ investigation. The children observed and measured how the shadow cast from an object changes in length as […]

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Rainbow window

Thursday, 26th Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Team B added to the rainbow window. Sharing positivity with the community. #hope #sharingpositivity #teamb    

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Fabulous distance learning from Class 6

Thursday, 26th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Distance Learning – Learning from Home at Roughwood Primary School

Thursday, 26th Marchby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

From FS1-Year 6, We could not be more proud of the children and families for their resilience and efforts with learning from home. Ours teachers have received such supportive messages […]

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Orienteering course

Wednesday, 25th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

The children planned their orienteering course and placed markers around the grounds. Numbers, letters and symbols used for a variety of sessions.

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A message from Mrs Fearnley

Tuesday, 24th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

A message from Mrs Fearnley after a successful first day of home learning.

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Rainbows

Tuesday, 24th Marchby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

The children decided to paint rainbows and decorate the windows in order to spread happiness in these testing times. We hope to continue this and see the rainbow grow as […]

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Homeschooling Day 1

Tuesday, 24th Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

I was blown away by the amount of work Class 3 completed on day 1. You all worked extremely hard and put so much effort into each task. This is […]

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Rainbows of hope

Tuesday, 24th Marchby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

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Class 6 tableaux of The Easter Story, Part 2!

Wednesday, 18th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Miss Would explored the thoughts and feelings of the characters from the Easter Story in the Garden of Gethsemane

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Y6 Create Air Raid Precaution Video’s for WWII

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Year 6 have been busy creating Air Raid Precaution (ARP) video’s to demonstrate the importance of being prepared during World War 2.

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Year 5 Maths Residential

Tuesday, 17th Marchby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Some of our Year 5s have just come back from a maths residential of ‘problem solving and challenge’ at Crowden. Children have taken part in challenges which included mathematical archery […]

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Year 5 Maths Residential

Tuesday, 17th Marchby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Crowden 2020 The Year 5s have returned from their problem solving residential with resilience, determination and such fantastic attitudes about working as a team. Well done to all children from […]

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And…Action!

Tuesday, 17th Marchby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Today we are filming our instructional videos on ‘How to Survive an Air raid’ Look out for the finished products!

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Maths Residential

Monday, 16th Marchby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Miss Newton-Smith has called to say that the children have had a fantastic day doing their maths-themed outdoor pursuits. The children are exhausted and are settling down for a well-earned […]

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Sport Relief

Monday, 16th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

A fantastic week of sport was finished off by all classes from FS1 to Y6 completing the Sport Relief Mile. The children showed outstanding resilience to complete the course and […]

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How could we create the most effective catapult?

Monday, 16th Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

As part of science week we were set the challenge to find the best material to make our very own catapult. We looked at different designs before we designed what […]

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Silly science workshop

Monday, 16th Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

As part of our science week we went into the hall to do a silly science workshop. We saw lots of different science experiments and learnt some new scientific vocabulary […]

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Antonym practise

Monday, 16th Marchby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Class 7, we have been learning about antonyms, which are opposites. We have been practising together and then today we have tried some on our own.  We are learning […]

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Sport Relief Penalty Shootout

Saturday, 14th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

The children arrived in numbers to test their shooting skills against goalkeeping legends Mr Tyas & Mr Ducker. The children had great fun and raised over £130 for Sport Relief. […]

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13.3.20 – Special Mentions Assembly

Friday, 13th Marchby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

With another week of hard work and creativity with our teaching and learning, the children have impressed us once again. Well done to all children with their achievement. We have […]

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Class 6 Eruptions!

Friday, 13th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week for Science Week, class 6 have built a volcano to predict and evaluate the reactions of different liquids with Mentos by measuring the distance (height) the liquid travels […]

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Class 8 Investigate the different levels of light emitted within the classroom

Wednesday, 11th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In science this week, we have looked at the amount of light emitted from different locations within the classroom to evaluate the impact of shadows and objects. The children have […]

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Y3/S building bug hotels with our carers

Wednesday, 11th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

As part of Science week Class 4 were set with a task of designing and building a contraption that would encourage local wildlife to our environment. The children initially thought […]

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Class 8 Excel in Computing

Wednesday, 11th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Computing, class 8 have been using Microsoft Excel to record results of their favourite dragons from “How to Train Your Dragon” by creating tables and pie-charts. The […]

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Science Week in Y6W

Wednesday, 11th Marchby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

To celebrate science week, we have been investigating how light travels and properties of materials to test materials that would be best-suited to make a blackout curtain in WW2. We […]

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Y5 Excel!

Tuesday, 10th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Computing, Year 5 have been using Microsoft Excel to record results of their favourite dragons from “How to Train Your Dragon” by creating tables and pie-charts. The […]

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Reading at Roughwood

Friday, 6th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children throughout school have been reading books by their favourite authors to celebrate World Book Day this week. Here are a few video clips of children reading aloud.

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NSPCC Dance-a-Thon

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

As part of our schools fundraising for the NSPCC each class from year 1-6 created and performed a sponsored dance routine. The children were amazing and staff have loved watching […]

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NEWSLETTER 6TH MARCH

Friday, 6th Marchby 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 06.03.2020

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World book day

Friday, 6th Marchby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

Class 2 enjoyed reading in their pyjamas with a cup of hot chocolate this afternoon to celebrate world book day.

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DEAR – Drop everything and read!

Friday, 6th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Letters from the government

Friday, 6th Marchby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Year 6 have been using their formal writing skills to write letters from the government in war time. They are informing the citizens of Great Britain about Operation Pied Piper […]

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Bedtime books at breakfast!

Friday, 6th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 6 enjoyed reading in their pyjamas this morning, to celebrate World Book Day. I hope that they will develop a lifetime love of reading.

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Tag Rugby

Thursday, 5th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Y5/6 first Tag Rugby training session preparing for the upcoming festival. Children developed their passing skills and how to effectively carry the ball.

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Class 4 finding European countries on a map and investigating some of their local cuisines!

Wednesday, 4th Marchby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today class 4 learnt how to find countries on a map of Europe and we used an atlas to help us. We then used our shading skills we have developed […]

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Y3D Multiplication Hunt

Tuesday, 3rd Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 5 working collaboratively hunting for matching calculations around the classroom! Keep up the hard work!

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Y6 Visit Kelham Island

Tuesday, 3rd Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 6 visited Kelham Island today to discover Sheffield’s involvement within WWII. They have learned about the lives of those who worked in the steel industry during WWII, the importance […]

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Investigating reflection

Monday, 2nd Marchby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Today, we have investigated reflection using our scientific enquiry skills. We have used IT to present our learning.

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Success on Timestable Rockstars #mathsrules

Sunday, 1st Marchby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Children: Can you beat your timestable rockstar score? These children have at home! The best score so far is 46 questions, and the quickest time is 1.3 seconds per question! […]

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