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Monthly Archives: February 2023

Our Visit To Manor Lodge

Tuesday, 28th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

During todays visit to Manor Lodge linked to our learning about the Tudor, we have explored the ruins of a previous grand manor house. Throughout the day, the children have […]

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Year 5 leave school for Manor Lodge!

Tuesday, 28th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

The children who are not going on the residential to Stratford-upon-Avon have the opportunity to visit Manor Lodge. Within our learning about the Elizabethans and Tudors, the children travel to […]

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NRICH maths in Little Acorns and Acorns

Tuesday, 28th Februaryby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Little Acorns and Acorns we asked our children and their parents if they could go on an object hunt in their homes and find 5 of each object. Look […]

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Clay Pots in Class 5!

Monday, 27th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a fantastic art lesson we had today in Class 5, creating our own crucible pots out of clay! We learned two new techniques for making the pot shape: pinching […]

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Great Fire of London Outdoor Workshop

Monday, 27th Februaryby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

Class 1 were incrediblu lucky enough to have a visit from ‘Alfresco Learning’ this week. In an outdoor workshop, the children were fully immersed into the experience of being a […]

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Developing our Oracy skills through History

Monday, 27th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Children in Class 5 used their teamwork and oracy skills, this week in History… Children were given historical fact sheets about the Women of Steel statue in Sheffield, linked to […]

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Investigating Friction!

Monday, 27th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Lower KS2 have been working hard this week in Science and Literacy, learning all about friction and then planning and carrying out a fair test to investigate it … We […]

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Class 2 Great Fire of London Workshop

Friday, 24th Februaryby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week we had a special workshop with ALFRESCO learning about the Great Fire of London. We started the workshop by casting our minds back to how houses were built […]

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Great Fire of London Workshop

Friday, 24th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today class 3 had a morning of fun learning more about the Great fire of London. We had a workshop outside with a company called Alfresco Learning. The first task […]

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RP Rep Meeting

Thursday, 23rd Februaryby Miss Whitworth Leave a comment

Our meeting this afternoon has been continuing our ‘Upstander VS Bystander’ posters. These posters will be displayed around our school to remind children to stand up and be heard if […]

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Multiply: Y3/4 Maths

Thursday, 23rd Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

As part of a project that Roughwood is involved in called Multiply, parents joined us in school to learn about how we teach maths. Parents learnt some of the strategies […]

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Sketching Club

Tuesday, 21st Februaryby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

For our final session of sketching club we brought together all of the skills we had previously been taught. We sketched a fruit bowl using a variety of techniques such […]

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STEM Boat Challenge

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The whole school participated in the Willow Tree boat-making STEM challenge this week. The children had basic resources to create a boat which they thought would float when holding a […]

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Class 6 – Golden Table winners

Friday, 10th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Congratulations to Class 6 this week! What a wonderful week you’ve had! You have shown a lot of kindness and respect, and on mental health awareness week, we commend you […]

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RP Meeting – Upstander VS Bystander

Friday, 10th Februaryby Miss Whitworth Leave a comment

Our most recent meeting has been focused on Upstanders VS Bystanders Upstander: Someone who recognises when something is wrong and acts to make it right Bystander: Witnessing another person in […]

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WMIM & Children’s Mental Health Week

Friday, 10th Februaryby Miss Whitworth Leave a comment

On Wednesday, as part of Childrens Mental Health Week KS2 were lucky enough to be visited by With Me in Mind and take part in the ‘Lets Connect Corridor Workshop’ […]

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NEWSLETTER 10TH FEBRUARY

Friday, 10th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 09.02.23

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Class 1 Attendance Breakfast

Friday, 10th Februaryby Miss Whitworth Leave a comment

WELL DONE to Class 1 who have had the best attendance this half term! We celebrated your achievement this morning with a special breakfast, some great music and to finish […]

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School Council Litter Pick

Friday, 10th Februaryby Miss Whitworth Leave a comment

A huge thank you our school counsellors for looking after our outdoor space this morning and spending some time litter picking! Taking pride in our school is so important!

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UKS2 Children’s Mental Health Week Collaborative Art

Friday, 10th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Our fantastic children in Year 5 and 6 have used their collaboration skills to create a fantastic piece of artwork based on this years theme, ‘Let’s Get Connected.’ Our art […]

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Dodgeball – Rotherham School Games

Thursday, 9th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Boccia – Rotherham School Games

Thursday, 9th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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YOUNG VOICES 2023

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Wow! What an amazing evening we all had. Our talented pupils attended the Young Voices concert held at the Sheffield Arena last night and became part of a choir made […]

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Internet Safety Day 2023

Thursday, 9th Februaryby Mr Clarke Leave a comment

This year’s Internet Safety Day focused on creating safe spaces to communicate online. Children watched a live assembly hosted by Internet Legends before moving on to a range of activities […]

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Self gratitude bookmarks

Thursday, 9th Februaryby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

To aid our learning during children’s mental health we have made self gratitude bookmarks. We thought about our positive character strengths and wrote these down on our bookmarks. We then […]

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Finding Equal Groups

Thursday, 9th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

In maths this week we have moved on to multiplication. We began by looking at what equal groups means and whether we can create different equal groups using the same […]

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Clay in Class 3

Thursday, 9th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week in art we have been creating clay houses. To start with we had to roll out our clay to the correct thickness before cutting out our houses. Once […]

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Movement Evening Showcase

Wednesday, 8th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Class 1 Affirmation Bookmarks

Wednesday, 8th Februaryby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

For mental health week, we have created some affirmation bookmarks. We have thought carefully about the character strengths we have and how we could celebrate these. We put these on […]

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Replicating the steel process in Y3S

Tuesday, 7th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 we’re taught by Miss Thorley, children used different coloured ice cubes to replicate different metals and had a go at melting them into their very own “crucible […]

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Y6 create bookmarks to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week

Monday, 6th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

The children in Year 6 have designed and created their own bookmarks this afternoon to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week in school. We discussed the importance of our own mental […]

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Wear Red Day 2023

Friday, 3rd Februaryby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

Today we celebrate #WearRedDay to raise money for the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, these are a fantastic organisation that with children who require life saving heart operations. Throughout the week, […]

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Forged in Steel!

Thursday, 2nd Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a fantastic day we’ve had today at Magna Science Adventure Centre! Classes 4 & 5 experienced a wonderful workshop, all about how steel is made, and then explored the […]

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Class 6 Explore Trading and Importing Goods, During the Tudor Era…

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

The children in class 6 have developed their map work within our geography session to identify and locate different countries around the world and throughout Europe. Using atlases and then […]

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Class 6 investigate ‘changing solids’ in science

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

Within yesterdays learning, Year 5 have been learning about what happens to solids when mixed with liquids During our most recent science lessons, the children have planned their investigation and […]

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Breakfast club and Lunchtime Boccia

Wednesday, 1st Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Year 5/6 Athletics Rotherham School Games

Wednesday, 1st Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Enjoying our home made scones in Y3S

Wednesday, 1st Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Children in Class 4 have been learning how to make scones this week as a character in our class text enjoyed showing other characters how to make them for her […]

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Nrich maths in Year 6

Wednesday, 1st Februaryby mrnhood Leave a comment

As part of our learning all about percentages, the children in Year 6 completed an investigation from NRICH. The investigation gave the children the task to complete questions based around […]

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NRICH maths in Little Acorns and Acorns

Wednesday, 1st Februaryby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Little Acorns and Acorns we have been encouraging the children to count and compare numbers by using ‘voting bricks’ to vote for a book for story time. We also […]

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Acorns, Little Acorns, Maths

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