Year 5 and EYFS bring the Jubilee party to Cherry Trees
As we continue with our community and social innovation NEMESIS project, we return to Cherry Trees Care Home and bring the Jubilee celebrations to the residents! As we had a […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
Class 2 Jubilee Day
Today we have celebrated The Queen’s Jubilee. We started the day by writing our own poem titled: If I was King/ Queen. We hope you enjoyed the performance. We then […]
Platinum Jubilee 2022
This week we have been learning about the Queen in school to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee. We have been writing poetry, creating art and reading lots of stories about the […]
Jubilee Celebrations
Children in Little Acorns and Acorns had a wonderful time yesterday at our Jubilee party. We invited our parents to celebrate with us. We had lots of fun showing our […]
Filming in Class 4
Throughout this terms topic, year 3&4 have been learning about the outbreak of the plague in Eyam. To help us understand what that might have been like, we have interviewed […]
Press Printing in Year 4!
What a fantastic afternoon of art we’ve had today! We created incredible press prints linked to our plague topic …
Shelter Building at Bushcraft Club
This week at Bushcraft and Outdoor Club, we have been learning how to use Paracord (cordage) to set up our very own tarp shelters before enjoying a light picnic with […]
Active Travel Breakfast
Children were invited early into school this morning to have breakfast if they travelled to school in an active way such as, walking, cycling or scooting. Children enjoyed having breakfast […]
Year 3/4 Gymnastics Rotherham School Games
Fruit Kebabs!
This week the cooking after school club have been making fruit kebabs. We have focused on using the bridge and claw techniques when cutting our fruit. We also discussed how […]
Extra Special Extra Curricular
This term we have really gone to town with our offer of Extra-Curricular activities. Since joining Children’s University, children can now earn credits towards awards for their engagement in activities […]
Roughwood Orienteering
Children from Years 3,4,5 & 6 competed in a Willow Tree Academy Orienteering event at Rockingham Junior & Infant school. The children arrived and quickly studied the map and formed […]
Year 3 & 4 Netball
School Council Academy Meeting
This morning our councillors met with the school councillors from our academy to discuss and vote on this year House Prize! Our children had some fantastic ideas and contributed some […]
Class 6 & 5 Golden Table
This week we have had two sets of Golden Table. Class 6 were the Golden Table winners this week. Children from Class 6 have been consistently kind, helpful and considerate […]
Year 1 & 2 Throwing Golf
Year 1 & 2 continued their topic of Target Games by completing a Throwing Golf course. Children had to thrown bean bags to a variety of holes and attempt to […]
Class 3’s Art
This week in art we have been designing a pattern using the waves of the sea as inspiration. These pattern will then be printed and sewn onto beach bags. We […]
NEWSLETTER 20TH MAY
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been another fantastic few weeks at Roughwood. Don’t forget to register for your child’s Residential visit next year. Please […]
Class 2 Singing in French
Today class 2 have been learning how to tell the weather in french. We started with some word matching games and progressed onto singing a weather song in french. We […]
Class 1 French Weather Report
In French, Class 1 have been learning how to say the different types of weather in French. We used the green screen and iMovie to create our own weather reports.
Mental Health Week
To mark this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, children in school have been learning about the importance of a healthy mind. All children have made green ribbon bows to remind […]
Chantez en Français avec Class 6!
Class 6 have been learning a new song in French this week, as we prepare for our upcoming WillowVision Song Contest! This video was taken during rehearsal, after just two […]
Story Spoons on the Green Screen!
Year 4 took their drama learning to the next level today, using the story spoons to conduct their eye-witness interviews on the green screen! Take a look at their fantastic […]
Special Mentions Assembly towards the end of the first Summer Term
Children at Roughwood have accomplished a lot this half term. During this weeks assembly, the teachers and their classes reflect on their achievements in their different lessons. As we prepare […]
RP Rep Empathy Workshop
Our RP Representatives have had a fantastic session this afternoon, recapping Empathy and how it can help and support all children at Roughwood. All of the reps used their skills […]
Eye-Witness Interviews in Drama
Year 3 & 4 have become journalists this week, preparing for writing a newspaper report about the outbreak of plague in Eyam … In Drama today, children interviewed eye-witnesses for […]
KS1 Cooking club
Yesterday children from class 1 and 2 had their first baking session. We used our mixing, melting and crumbling techniques to create amazing chocolate cheesecakes! We worked efficiently to ensure […]
Baking Club
The children in FS2 and Year 1 have had a Baaaa-rilliant time at Baking club!
Film making club!
Today we had our first session of our film making club. We made a fantastic start towards our spooky plague videos set in the village of Eyam. With the use […]
VE Day celebration in Class 9
This afternoon, children enjoyed an afternoon of fun, games, music and lots of yummy treats to mark the end of our topic on WW2 as a VE Day celebration.
Class 1 Narrative Writing
In class 1 we have been using our class text ‘Sally and the Limpet’ to write our own creative stories. This is one that we created called ‘Billy and the […]
Times Tables Morning Maths
To get ready for our Times Tables tests in June, Year 4 children are busy practising their TT Rockstars skills when they first come into school. A great start to […]
Acorns Road Safety
Investigating Money in Maths
Class 6 had a fantastic Maths lessons today, exploring and investigating with money! First, everyone had their own purse with different coins in. We had to count our money, convert […]
The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs
Everyone has heard the story of the 3 Little Pigs, but have you heard the True Story? We have been using Talk for Writing to orally retell the story. Watch […]
Year 3 & 4 Football RUFC
Fairytale crafts
In Acorns and little acorns we have been learning about fairytales and the characters in the stories. We wanted to immerse ourselves into the stories so we created character masks. […]
Making Interactive Controllers in ICT Club
This week in ICT club, we have been making interactive controllers by using conductive materials to complete a circuit to control a character on a game (Space Invaders and Flappy […]
Natural Cordage at Bushcraft Club
This week at Bushcraft/outdoor club, we have been learning how to process and make cordage using natural materials such as Bramble or Nettles. We all had a go at making […]
Using and creating spreadsheets and data in Year 5
During our computing sessions in our ICT suite, the children in class 7 have been using excel this week to create spreadsheets and present key data about the characters from […]
Class 4 Make 3D Shapes!
To round off our learning of shapes in maths, class 4 spent this morning having a go at making their own 3D shapes! We used printed nets to make a […]
Ofsted Report
You will have hopefully heard that Roughwood Primary School was inspected by Ofsted on the 16th-17th February 2022. We are extremely pleased to share the report with parents and carers. […]
Year 3 & 4 Orienteering
Dragon Eye Art in Y5/6 – Applying skills to create texture
This week, children in Year 5/6 have continued their learning of using different techniques to create pattern and texture and have applied this within their own sketchbooks when drawing a […]
Exploring Electrical Circuits!
Class 6 had a fantastic afternoon of investigation today, finding out how to make a complete electrical circuit! Take a look …
Getting our day off to the right start with a Y6 SATs breakfast!
Y6 have made a fantastic start to their day yet again with a nutritious breakfast with their class mates. We are sure that this will have been just the fuel […]
Year 5 Football RUFC
NEWSLETTER 6TH MAY 2022
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been a wonderful two weeks back at school. Thank you to all our parents for your continued support. Good […]
Eyam 2022
What an amazing residential we’ve had this week with Year 3 & 4 children! For these children, it was their first ever residential and they were absolutely fantastic, asking so […]
Analysing and identifying textures and patterns – Using pen and ink in Year 5 and 5/6
Class 7 and 8 experiment with patterns using ink to create textures and patterns. Our first stage was to identify different types of patterns and select the most relevant to […]
Year 6 Athletics
Year 5/6 PE Netball
Year 5/6 started their new topic of Netball. The children develop a variety of passes such as, chest and shoulder pass. The children then progressed to passing and moving and […]
Year 3/4 PE Netball
Year 1/2 PE Target Games
Year 1 & 2 started their new topic of Target Games in PE. The children develop the underarm and overarm throw and challenged themselves to throw with accuracy towards a […]
Dragon Eye Art – Creating Texture
Very proud of Class 8 today who have demonstrated their outstanding artistic skills by using ink to create texture. We considered the several ways a dragon eye could be interpreted […]