Our Visit To Manor Lodge
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 […]
Monthly Archives: February 2023
Year 5 leave school for Manor Lodge!
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 […]
NRICH maths in Little Acorns and Acorns
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 […]
Clay Pots in Class 5!
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 […]
Great Fire of London Outdoor Workshop
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 […]
Developing our Oracy skills through History
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 […]
Investigating Friction!
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 […]
Class 2 Great Fire of London Workshop
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 […]
Great Fire of London Workshop
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 […]
RP Rep Meeting
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 […]
Multiply: Y3/4 Maths
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 […]
Sketching Club
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 […]
STEM Boat Challenge
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 […]
Class 6 – Golden Table winners
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 […]
RP Meeting – Upstander VS Bystander
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 […]
WMIM & Children’s Mental Health Week
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’ […]
NEWSLETTER 10TH FEBRUARY
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
Class 1 Attendance Breakfast
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 […]
School Council Litter Pick
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!
UKS2 Children’s Mental Health Week Collaborative Art
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 […]
Dodgeball – Rotherham School Games
Boccia – Rotherham School Games
YOUNG VOICES 2023
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 […]
Internet Safety Day 2023
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 […]
Self gratitude bookmarks
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 […]
Finding Equal Groups
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 […]
Clay in Class 3
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 […]
Movement Evening Showcase
Class 1 Affirmation Bookmarks
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 […]
Replicating the steel process in Y3S
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 […]
Y6 create bookmarks to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week
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 […]
Wear Red Day 2023
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, […]
Forged in Steel!
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 […]
Class 6 Explore Trading and Importing Goods, During the Tudor Era…
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 […]
Class 6 investigate ‘changing solids’ in science
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 […]
Breakfast club and Lunchtime Boccia
Year 5/6 Athletics Rotherham School Games
Enjoying our home made scones in Y3S
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 […]
Nrich maths in Year 6
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 […]
NRICH maths in Little Acorns and Acorns
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 […]