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Monthly Archives: June 2022

Lemon Battery Power!

Thursday, 30th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

In Science, Y3&4 have been learning about electricity and simple series circuits … We have carried out a few investigations so far and these have led us to a new […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 4

Singing Assembly … in French!

Wednesday, 29th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What an amazing singing assembly we had today! I don’t think we’ve ever had so many children, singing together like this, in French! A singing assembly first! Well done, everyone! […]

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Languages, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Class 7 begin their balanced arguments

Wednesday, 29th Juneby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Before transition to Year 6 begins, the children in Year 5 begin their balanced arguments by engaging in the debate, ‘Is social media a good thing? There were some extremely […]

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Computing, Literacy, Oracy, Philosophy for Children, PSHCE, Writing, Year 5

Class 8 use their oracy skills to debate!

Tuesday, 28th Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

In our Literacy session today, Class 8 made a great start to their new unit of balanced arguments by engaging in the debate: “Is social media a good thing?” We […]

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Annual Music Concerts at Roughwood Primary School

Monday, 27th Juneby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Last week, Roughwood Primary School hosted two of our annual musical concerts for parents and carers to watch in school – Key Stage One and Key Stage Two Music Performances. […]

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Family Learning, Music, Our learning, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Uniform

Monday, 27th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

At parents evening tonight there will be uniform available to take to anyone who needs it. We know that the cost of uniform can be expensive and that buying new […]

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KS2 Football RUFC

Friday, 24th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

An amazing morning at RUFC as children from Year 5 & 6 participated in a number of training sessions followed by some small sided games. The children showed a fantastic […]

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News and Events, Sports, Year 5, Year 6

Year 3 & 4 Rounders

Friday, 24th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Foundation PE

Friday, 24th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Willow Tree Academy Football Tournament

Friday, 24th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

An amazing event that saw Roughwood, Rockingam and Greasbrough meet to play in a Willow Tree Academy Football Tournament. All games were competitive and played in a fantastic spirit. Some […]

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News and Events, Sports, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Class 1 and 3 reading buddies

Friday, 24th Juneby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

In Class 1 and 3 this afternoon we buddied up to read our story books. We enjoyed sharing our stories and seeing how much progression the year 2’s have made […]

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We’re off to … make a biscuit

Friday, 24th Juneby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Little Acorns we have been reading the story ‘We’re off to see the wizard’ we have drawn our favourite characters. We then decorated biscuits to look like our favourite […]

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A Day As A Viking

Thursday, 23rd Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

Today, our Year 5/6 experienced a day in the life of a Viking at Locko Park. We met King Cnut and explored his empire and learnt various different skills, such […]

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Class 1 wave printing

Thursday, 23rd Juneby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

Today in art, class 1 printed their wave designs onto their own tote bags. These designs were created earlier in the year and were transferred onto polystyrene ready for the […]

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The Willow Tree Oscars

Thursday, 23rd Juneby misshsingleton Leave a comment

We made a video to enter into The Willow Tree Oscars and… WE WON! Chestnuts were awarded ‘Best Costume’ on Monday at the awards.

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SUMDOG Rotherham contest is coming up!

Thursday, 23rd Juneby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Sumdog’s Rotherham Maths Contest is almost here! It starts tomorrow at 8am, and finishes at 8pm on 30th June. Good luck to all classes! Children can play at any time […]

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School Council Meeting

Thursday, 23rd Juneby Miss Whitworth Leave a comment

Our last School Council meeting was focused on Transition. The children thought of ideas to share with teachers about what activities/lessons would help children get to know their new teachers […]

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Celebrating Summer Solstice in Bushcraft Club

Tuesday, 21st Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

To celebrate the start of Summer and the Summer Solstice, we decided to create our very own summer picnic by crafting our own Elderflower Cordial (sourced from an Elder tree […]

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Willow Tree Film Festival

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Over the last few weeks, children across the school have been creating animations and videos, linked to their topics, as part of our Computing curriculum to enter into the Willow […]

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Picture This! 2022

Monday, 20th Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

Take a look at our outstanding Picture This exhibition at Gullivers Valley in Sheffield. This year, our particular focus was on the theme ‘Movement’. Across our school, we have thought […]

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Sundown Adventure

Monday, 20th Juneby misshsingleton Leave a comment

We have had an amazing day at Sundown Adventure. We have been exploring the story book village as part of our topic ‘What Makes a Happy Ending?’. We found Jack’s […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts

Music in Y4

Monday, 20th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Music, Year 4 have been learning the difference between glockenspiel (metal) and xylophone (wood) before practicing some rhythms using the notes G, E and A.

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Year 3 & 4 Rounders

Friday, 17th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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PE- Foundation

Friday, 17th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Amazing week of PE in foundation. Children from FS2 continued their Sports Day preparations by practising a variety of events they could soon be taking part in during Sports Day. […]

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Class 1 sewing

Friday, 17th Juneby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

In Class 1 this week we have been learning how to use a running stitch. It took a lot of resilience as we found it quite tricky to grasp at […]

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NEWSLETTER 17th JUNE

Friday, 17th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Winning House Treat

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This year we are pleased to announce that Keppel won the house competition by gaining the most DoJos over the year. All children should be extremely proud of themselves because […]

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Class 3’s Trip to Cleethorpes

Thursday, 16th Juneby Miss Brown Leave a comment

After a long journey because of traffic we finally made it to Cleethorpes. We had a walk along the beach and found a lovely spot to sit and have our […]

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Making electrical switches in Science

Tuesday, 14th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 used lots of STEM skills this afternoon to construct their own electrical switches! Last week, we explored materials which conduct electricity and we decided these would make the […]

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Fruit Kebabs

Tuesday, 14th Juneby misshsingleton Leave a comment

We have been making fruit kebabs at after school club. We carefully cut the fruit and put it onto skewers. The best part was the chocolate… we melted chocolate and […]

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Chesnuts, Our learning, Year 1

RP Training Begins!

Tuesday, 14th Juneby Miss Whitworth Leave a comment

Our new RP Reps started their training on Tuesday. We thought about what it means to us to be an RP Reps and what qualities are important. We also explored […]

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A Disgusting Sandwich

Tuesday, 14th Juneby Miss Brown Leave a comment

In class 3 we have started a new unit of work on instructions. Our instructions are all based around a book called The Disgusting Sandwich. Today we started to plan […]

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Oracy, Writing, Year 2

Willow Tree Olympics

Saturday, 11th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Amazing to be back competing in the Willow Tree Olympics. Children from Year 6, participated along with all the schools across Willow Tree in a Year 6 Sports Day. The […]

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100% Attendance Winner

Saturday, 11th Juneby Miss Whitworth Leave a comment

A massive WELL DONE to Stanley for winning last terms 100% attendance prize! We have a prize draw every half term for children that have been to school everyday! Great […]

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Who’s been eating my porridge?

Friday, 10th Juneby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Little Acorns this week we have been using the story Goldilocks and the three bears as a stimulus for our learning. We have really enjoyed this story and learning […]

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Roughwood Recycling Project – New Recycling Bins from KCM

Friday, 10th Juneby Miss Whitworth Leave a comment

A huge thank you to KCM for our new recycling bins as the next stage of our recycling project. Having a recycling bin in every class will help us be […]

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Support for Ukraine

Thursday, 9th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Girls in Year 4 have once again taken things into their own hands and are raising money for Ukraine refugees. They have created a video to show how you can […]

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Media & Films, Year 4

Bagels are Back!

Wednesday, 8th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Roughwood has been able to work with partners to bring back Bagels in the mornings. Bagels will be available to all children in KS1 & KS2 every morning for free. […]

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Cherry Tree residents enjoy their Jubilee Afternoon Tea thanks to the commendable efforts of Roughwood children and staff

Thursday, 2nd Juneby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

As the start of four days of festivities honouring the Queen commence, the residents at Cherry Trees care home enjoy an afternoon tea. As the country come together to mark […]

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Chesnuts, Social Innovation, Well-being, Year 5

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