Show Racism the Red Card
Show Racism the Red Card’s annual Wear Red Day will be taking place on 22nd October 2021. So today we showed our support and all children and staff wore red. […]
Show Racism the Red Card’s annual Wear Red Day will be taking place on 22nd October 2021. So today we showed our support and all children and staff wore red. […]
Congratulations to Class 9 for having the top attendance this half term! This morning we celebrated their achievement with a special, surprise attendance breakfast! Well done everyone – amazing effort!
In Class 1 this week we have been working hard to create a poem about the animals we saw at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We enjoyed creating this and recording it […]
This week class 2 have been learning about performance poetry. We have focused on alliteration and rhyming words. We separated into our animal groups and created actions. We then performed […]
We have been using talk for writing to retell the story ‘The Colour Monster goes to school’ by Anna Llenas.
As we prepared for our assembly for the harvest festival, the children in year 5 practised using pitched instruments (glockenspiels) to explain the meaning of harvest. From the farmers growing […]
Class 8 have worked extremely hard on their magnificent ‘Harvest Wreaths’ artwork. We learnt the importance of celebrating the Harvest Festival as it gives us an opportunity to give to […]
Roughwood Primary School performed beautifully for the Harvest Festival. We are incredibly proud of all our Roughwood learners. Thank you to all parents and carers for donating this year. Unfortunately, […]
What an amazing day we had yesterday at the Tropical Butterfly House! The children experienced a real rainforest habitat and even handled some rainforest animals! The children’s behaviour was exceptional […]
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been a wonderful two weeks at school and children have embraced their topics and their learning. We are really […]
Congratulations to Class 4 – this weeks Golden Table Winners! They have shown excellent manners and great behaviour this week in the dining hall and on the yard! Well done […]
This week, class 4 have been looking at the famous artist and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, who uses natural materials to create his work. Inspired by this, we decided to take […]
We have been using the text Supertato by Sue Hendra as a stimulus for our learning. We researched other books in the series and in ICT, we used the IPads […]
In class 3 this week we have continued to learn to play the notes C, A and G. The children have shown great resilience to learning a new skills and […]
What an amazing day we’ve had today at the Tropical Butterfly House with Class 5! Children experienced a real rainforest habitat and even handled some rainforest animals!
What an amazing day we’ve had today at the Tropical Butterfly House! The children experienced a real rainforest habitat and even handled some rainforest animals! The children’s behaviour was exceptional […]
In class 1 we have been thinking about what we could do to help the animals in our local environment. We have designed and created so,e bird feeders this week […]
Class 6 have been using their ICT skills to support their Science learning this afternoon, creating classification keys using Purple Mash!
Over the last week, the children in Y5/6 have been reflecting upon their experiences during the pandemic. We watched a video as stimulus to provoke our thinking skills and, from […]
This week Class 2 have continued their work with recorders. We have listen and appraised a variety of music before learning the notes G, A and C. We practised our […]
Class 6 had a wonderful morning today, using the iPads to solve our rainforest explorer challenge! Take a look …
The children enjoying lots of different activities this lunchtime!
Our film is really coming along now! The children took turns to be actors, directors and camera operators tonight, as we filmed on the green screen! We even started adding […]
To mark this year’s World Mental Health Day which was Sunday 10th October children in school have been learning about the importance of a healthy mind. During such difficult times […]
The children in little Acorns made their very own orange juice. The children had a good go at squeezing the oranges developing their fine motor skills and tasting the juice. […]
Our winners of Golden Table this week were Class 3 with 36 Golden Tokens! Children earn golden tokens for being helpful at lunchtimes and showing exemplary manners. Well done Class […]
The Acorns enjoyed creating their very own hungry caterpillar today in class. We used our hands to create these wonderful paintings!
In literacy we have been focusing on non chronological reports. Last we researched lions and today we have used talk for writing to create a model text using talk for […]
Class 6 have shown incredible teamwork and creative thinking skills this afternoon, making their own rainforest survival kits! Mrs Tempest brought in lots of equipment to help us and we […]
Today in Class 6, children carried out their own research, using a variety of sources, in preparation for writing a non-chronological report about the rainforest. Children used iPads, library books, […]
A great start to the week in Chestnuts with some brilliant phonics learning. Children are learning the tricky work the and the digraph ‘ck’. Well done everyone! Children in Acorns […]
Great to see Year 3/4 putting the skills learnt over previous weeks into practice in some small sided games. The children developed their knowledge of the rules/tactics. They all showed […]
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been a wonderful two weeks back at school and children have embraced their topics and their learning. We are […]
In literacy this week, class 4 have created and rehearsed a Talk for Writing to make their own set of instructions. Following our topic of ‘Into the Forest’, our writing […]