NEWSLETTER 30TH SEPTEMBER
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been another fantastic few weeks at Roughwood. Thank you for your continued support as always. Newsletter 30.9.22
Monthly Archives: September 2022
T4W In Class 4
Children are at the final stage of their narrative writing and are beginning to think about writing their story ending. To help us put ideas into sentences, we are starting […]
SUMDOG maths completion begins tomorrow!
Roughwood announces the first one of the academic year, ‘Rotherham SUMDOG contest of 2022’, and it commences tomorrow… The children in class 1 to class 8 have the opportunity to […]
Improving Presentation in Class 5
Class 5 have been working especially hard on their presentation over the past few weeks, and we are already seeing a huge improvement! Take a look … Well done, Class […]
Making Blackberry Jam at Bushcraft Club
This week in Bushcraft Club, we have been busy making blackberry jam. We first explored the school grounds and identified key features of the blackberry bramble bush before heading indoors […]
Being conductive in ICT Club
This week in ICT Club, we have started learning about electrical circuits and conductive materials by creating interactive pianos or words that create a sound when pressed.
Y6’s expedition to Robin Hoods Bay
Today, our Year 6 pupils visited the picturesque Robin Hoods Bay. We had a fantastic day learning about the history of the town, sketching the headland, exploring rock pools and […]
In our art lessons, Year 5 begin to learn about tint, tone and shade using pastels.
In only the fourth week of term, the children in year 5 children explore how to use and apply tints, tones and shades with primary colours. Following our artist study […]
Willow Tree Academy Sports Cup – Year 5 & 6 Football
Movement Evening Club
Year 6 PE Gymnastics
Year 3 & 4 PE Fundamentals
Year 1 & 2 PE Fundamentals
Making faces in nature
In Acorns and Little acorns this term we are asking the question what makes me,me? As part of this we went into the outdoor classroom on a joint welly walk […]
Florence’s Hospital T4W
In class 2 we have been learning about setting descriptions. We decided to describe the hospital Florence Nightingale visited in Germany. We focused on adding adjectives to describe and conjunctions […]
Virtual Visit from author Suzy Senior
Today children from key stage one and foundation stage were very lucky and to got to meet the author Suzy Senior. Suzy is a local author from Sheffield. We listened […]
Book Club
The children in Chestnuts and Class 1 had a wonderful time at Book Club. We read The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and used the text as a stimulus for our […]
Bubble Wands
We made bubble wands using sticks collected on our welly walk.
Sewing club
Today the children at sewing club began their introduction into sewing. The children learnt how to thread a needle and then practiced the running stitch and a semi half crossed […]
Excellent writing in year 2
Over the last couple of weeks, Class 3 have been working on producing excellent writing. This doesn’t mean that it has to be perfect but it does mean that it […]
Excellent writing in Y3S
Over the last few weeks, Class 4 have been working on completing learning that is excellent. We have discussed that this doesn’t necessarily mean perfect but something which the children […]
Breakfast Club PE
Year 1&2 PE – Fundamentals
Year 6 PE – Gymnastics
Willow Tree Academy Sports Cup- Football
Whole School Special Mentions Assembly, before the Bank Holiday
As we reflect on what has been a momentous week with the sudden death of our reigning monarch, we come together to reflect. The children at Roughwood have been showcasing […]
Newsletter 16th September
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been another fantastic few weeks at Roughwood. Thank you for your continued support as always. Newsletter 16.09.22
Let’s make faces
In Little Acorns we have been using the text ‘Let’s make faces’ by Hanoch Piven as a stimulus for our learning. This week when we have been on our welly […]
Y6 visit Crucial Crew
Today, the Year 6 children have had the pleasure of visiting the Lifewise Centre to take part in a variety of different scenarios relating to personal safety. Throughout the day, […]
Learning Whole Class Violin in Year 5
As part of our cultural and creative offer at Roughwood Primary School, we are privileged to offer every child in our school the opportunity to learn to play a musical […]
Ordering negative numbers in context
Today in numeracy, Y6 have applied their knowledge of the value of negative and positive numbers whilst using their map reading skills. We enjoyed comparing the lowest recorded temperatures of […]
Outdoor maths in Y3
Class 4 were set a task of finding a card which either had a number, pictorial representation or a number in words. They then had to use their knowledge of […]
Drama in Year 4
Class 5 had a fantastic morning today, acting in role to explore the character, Jim Jarvis … We thought carefully about our facial expressions and body language as we acted […]
Class 2 Maths escape room
Today class 2 challenged themselves in an escape room game. The children had to answer questions on comparing which provided them with letters to form a secret password to escape. […]
Class 1 Sketching Skills
In Class 1 we have been practicing our sketching skills in art. We used these skills to sketch a picture of the Queen to celebrate her life and leadership.
Year 5 Astronaut Training Day
Today, the children in Year 5 competed a range of resilience challenges during their astronaut training day. The children wrote postcards and asked questions about the unknown about different planets […]
What Time is it Mr Wolf?
Today on our Welly Walk, we have been practising counting to 10. We counted in different ways, whilst jumping, running and spinning. We learnt how to play the game ‘What […]
Year 5 PE- Gymnastics
Year 3 & 4 PE- Fundamentals
Year 1 & 2 PE- Fundamentals
School councillors nominated and selected in Year 5…
In Year 5 in our first week back, the children have thought carefully about who will be appointed for 2022-23 as our class’ School Councillors. After generating thought showers of […]
Class 3 – Future Aspirations
Today class 3 came to school dressed as a famous person. Children dressed as musicians, actors and sports people. We spoke about what being famous meant to us and the […]
Creating ‘synonym’ rolls in Y3
Today Class 4 looked at some vocabulary that we would have probably used in our character description and decided to make them even better! We used the iPads and thesaurus’ […]
Class 3 Representing Numbers
In maths today we were learning to represent numbers to 100 in different ways. We used different objects to represent the tens and the ones. Look at all the different […]
We have had a Baaa-rilliant day baking in the Chestnuts Class.
Class 2 Worry monster
To help our children with their worries each class has a worry monster. We had a group discussion of our worries and explained how we can write down our worries […]
Class 1 Florence Nightingale Fact file
In History this week, Class 1 have been learning all about Florence Nightingale. We researched some fun facts and made them into fact file. We then used this to make […]
Class 2 Comparing numbers
Class 2 combined maths with PE to help us learn how to compare numbers. We introduced the > and < signs with a catchy song. After, we went outside and […]
Colour Hunting on our Welly Walk
Everyday in FS2 we go on a Welly Walk. Exploring our wonderful school grounds and taking our learning outside is so much fun! Today we worked with a partner to […]
Little Acorns Writing
Our youngest children are learning to make marks today. We are building our strength in our fingers to help us with our pencil grip in the future.
Year 4 Brass
What a fantastic start to a new school year … playing a brand new instrument!
Y3S Practical maths
Class 4 have wasted no time in showing off their fantastic maths skills. Today the children used dienes to represent the values of different numbers. They then used their place […]
Y6 – School Council manifesto
Our fantastic Year 6 children have had an impressive first day of term. They have thought carefully about who will be appointed as our class’ School Council Representatives and have […]