Heart Art
Year 6 have been learning about the parts of the heart through a mixture of art media. We have used our sewing, weaving and tapestry skills to produce stunning images. […]
Monthly Archives: April 2021
National Dance Day
The whole school has had a fantastic morning making our video for National Dance Day! We have some brilliant dancers and children with so much positive energy at our school! […]
Drama in Class 6
Today, Class 6 used their acting skills to imagine how the villagers of Eyam felt, in September 1665, on hearing that one of their neighbours had contracted the disease … […]
Beat The Streets
Some of our School Councillors have been with Miss Whitworth the our closest Beat The Street! Our school is doing amazingly well and we are currently in 32nd place! Please […]
Geography in Year 4
What a wonderful afternoon we’ve had in Year 4 today, using atlases to map out the spread of the plague, from London all the way to Eyam! This is going […]
P4C in Class 9
Class 9 have used their discussion skills to consider the question ‘Would you move away from your childhood home?’ in response to the stimulus ‘Window’. We explored the feelings of […]
Every Kid Healthy week
Mindfulness Monday This week we are celebrating Every Kid a Healthy Week by completing various activities throughout the week. Today’s focus was mindfulness so this afternoon we enjoyed some relaxing […]
Year 6 create self portraits using Tinkercad
In Year 6, we have been creating a self portrait using the 3D modelling Tinkercad program. We started by using mirrors and graph paper to recreate a self portrait and […]
P4C by the fallen tree …
Class 6 enjoyed the sunshine this morning, in our new outdoor classroom, discussing our academy P4C stimulus – Window. Our question was: why do things have to change?
Class 2 Science
This week class 2 have been learning about wild plants! We discussed what the most common wild plants are and what they look like. Afterwards we made a tally chart […]
Newsletter 23rd April
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been a brilliant first two weeks back from Easter. Children have once again excelled and proven what outstanding learners […]
Only four hours left of the Academy ‘Top of the Rocks’ Timestable competition!
Children in Year 1 to Year 6 have been competing this week to reach the top. Well done to all children who have entered so far! Will Roughwood sustain their […]
From relative pronouns to relative clauses in Year 5…
Based on our class text ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, we have learnt about relative pronouns in our English session and used relative clauses to add detail to the main […]
Year 5 learn about texture and tone in art.
In our art lessons, we have learnt about using different sketching techniques including tone and texture. We have showed clear progression in both lessons from practising sketching technique, to beginning […]
Comic Life on the iPads
Today Class 4 used an app called Comic life on the iPads to create a lovely informative piece about Queen Victoria. They discovered lots of facts such as when she […]
Foundation PE
Circulatory system STEM in Class 9
Today, we created a reconstruction of the way the human heart pumps in our STEM session. We found that only by using steady, rhythmic beat, we were able to pump […]
P4C in Class 8 – ‘The Window’
In P4C this afternoon, Class 8 have had a lot of fun stimulating our thinking skills and developing our communication skills! We watched the stimuli ‘The Window’ by Jeannie Baker […]
Y3S Diversity potions to introduce Capacity and Volume in Maths
Y3S began looking at capacity and volume in maths today. We had also been doing lots of discussion in PHSE/P4C about what makes people unique and how people are different. […]
School Council
In this afternoons meeting we discussed ways to improve and utilise our outside Quiet Areas – our councillors made posters detailing how best to enjoy our fantastic spaces, please take […]
Class 9 learn about the circulatory system
Class 9 are learning about the circulatory system for Biology in Science this half term and have been using talk for writing for a tutorial on how it works.
Using T4W in Class 8
Today, Class 8 have used their sequencing skills to arrange each step of the cycle of the heart. We have then used our ‘Talk 4 Writing’ skills to form actions […]
Beat the Street
Year 1&2 PE
Year 1&2 started their new topic of Target Games. The children looked at underarm and overarm throws toward a targets. The children showed great resilience when trying to hit the […]
Year 5/6 Netball
Y3S – Sketching and creating tone
Over the last few days, Class 4 have been practising drawing and sketching some famous L.S Lowry sketches. We used different pencils such as H, 2B and 4B to create […]
Class 9 learn ratio
Class 9 have been busy learning about ratio outdoors for maths today!
Sketching Skills in Class 6
Mrs Graham’s class have had a wonderful afternoon of careful sketching today, looking at the rat, linked to our new topic: The Plague.
Introduction to mass through biscuits in Y3S
This week, Y3 are covering mass and have learnt that means the weight of an object. To introduce this new topic, we looked at comparing heavier and lighter objects aswell […]
Outdoor Classroom
Year 4 have been developing the outside areas to create outdoor classrooms as part of their NEMESIS project. The spaces have been transformed and children have enjoyed getting busy clearing […]