Makerspace project at Greasbrough library
This week, Class 5 have had an exciting morning at Greasbrough library thanks to the Makerspace project. The Makerspace project is all about people coming together to share their creative […]
Monthly Archives: September 2023
Y3B Showing pride and resilience when publishing
Today children have been working on publishing their non chronological report they have been writing within their history and science learning. Children have been developing skills to have autonomy and […]
Year 6 create news reports
This week in Year 6, we have been creating a news report to inform audiences about the disappearance of Cherry from our topic book, “The Giant’s Necklace”.
Abbey School – Cross Country
1st School Council Meeting of the Year
Our school counselors met yesterday and thought about ideas for their legacy project for this school year. We discussed previous projects such as Roughwoods work with KCM waste, our litter […]
NEWSLETTER 29TH SEPTEMBER
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been another fantastic few weeks at Roughwood. Thank you, everyone, for your continued support. Newsletter 29.09.23
WMIM Autumn Newsletter
Two of our With Me in Mind Ambassadors have been handing out the With Me in Mind Autumn Newsletter to our students at break! There are lots of helpful resources, […]
Y5 & Y6 Banter Vs Bullying Sessions
Our Year 5s & 6s were visited by Ann Foxley Johnson from the Anti Bullying Company on Wednesday to complete a session on Banter Vs Bullying. This session focused on […]
Assembly with Swapna Haddow
Today Class 1 was lucky enough to join a virtual assembly with the author Swapna Haddow who wrote a story called My Dad is a Grizzly Bear. She read her […]
Assembly with Swapna Haddow
Today Class 1 was lucky enough to join a virtual assembly with the author Swapna Haddow who wrote a story called My Dad is a Grizzly Bear. She read her […]
Gardening club achieves Level 3
This week in gardening club, we have been busy harvesting the last of our Tomatoes, potatoes and broad beans. We have also received our RHS gardening club Level 3 for […]
Investigating pitch and volume in Y3B
Today children took part in a scientific enquiry: Does the volume and pitch affect how well rice “dances”? This followed on from last week’s learning where we discovered that sound […]
3D printing in ICT
This week, we have been making use of our new 3D printer by designing our initials in TINKERCAD before printing them on our FDM printer!
With Me in Mind Assembly
This week at Roughwood Primary, we had a visit from With Me in Mind to discuss how emotional minds can have positive and negative effects on our wellbeing and how […]
3D prints in ICT Club
This week in ICT Club, we have been advancing our 3D printing skills by creating bookmarks and badges which look amazing!
Trim Trail Agreement Competition
Our School Counsellors have met and decided on the Agreement for our new Trim Trail to ensure every child stays safe and has lots of fun. We take care of […]
Y6 Clay Rock Pool Workshop – Session 3
What a fantastic final session we have had with Mrs Lee today completing our ceramic rock pools. We were thrilled to see how our rock pools returned after being in […]
Class 7 – Golden Table Winners
Congratulations to Class 7 this week! Due to their kindness and respect shining through during lunch times, Class 7 won the most golden tokens and therefore are the golden table […]
NRICH Maths – Spiralling decimals in Y6
Children in Y6 have put their problem solving skills to the test when completing the spiralling decimals challenge from NRICH. We had to think logically of where we would place […]
Virtual talk about St Cuthbert with Reverend Skidmore
Year 6’s enjoyed meeting with Reverend Skidmore with Herringthorpe Junior School last week to learn all about the life of St Cuthbert. This will be valuable when visiting Northumberland next […]
Creating Lava lamps and experimenting with anti- gravity water in Science club
Children in Science club created their very own lava lamps using water, vegetable oil, effervescent tablets and food colouring. They then predicted how many extra effervescent tablets would make the […]
Creating Lava lamps and experimenting with anti- gravity water in Science club
Children in Science club created their very own lava lamps using water, vegetable oil, effervescent tablets and food colouring. They then predicted how many extra effervescent tablets would make the […]
Class 2’s visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Today class 2 have had an amazing day at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We were so lucky to see so many out and exploring. Some of the animals the children saw […]
School Council Trim Trail
It has been some time in the making but our Trim Trail is finally being installed. Remember last year when our school council came up with the idea that we […]
Year 4 PE – Football
A superb first two weeks for Year 4 as they started their new topic of football. The children developed their dribbling skills and went onto play some 1v1 matches. Week […]
Year 3 PE – Hockey
An amazing start to the year for Y3B as they were introduced to their topic of Hockey. Firstly, the children went through the safety aspects of playing hockey and then […]
Year 1 PE – Invasion Games
Fantastic first two weeks of PE in Year 1. The children were introduced to what an Invasion Game is and then looked and dribbling with their feet. The children gained […]
Y3B creating our very own Stone Age scratch art
Today children created their very own Stone Age scratch art replicating the inside of a cave. We used acrylic paint and washing up liquid alongside oil pastels to create the […]
NEWSLETTER 15TH SEPTEMBER
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been another fantastic few weeks at Roughwood. Thank you, everyone, for your continued support. Newsletter 15.09.23
Using iPads to draw a flower in Chestnuts
This week in ICT, Chestnuts have been learning how to turn the iPads on and open a whiteboard program to paint their own flowers!
Y3B Using counters to solve reasoning problems
Today Class 4 were given using concrete resources to support us with answering challenging word problems which meant we had to show our reasoning skills. Some children then chose to […]
Tomatoes at Gardening Club
This week in gardening club, we have been tasting our tomatoes that we have been growing for the past few months before making leaf prints from paint that we mixed […]
Class 1 are golden table winners
Due to their amazing behaviour and respect during lunch times class 1 collected the most golden tokens. This resulted in us winning the golden table. We got special treatment and […]
T4W in Class 1
This week class 1 have been reading the book Meerkat Mail. In this story a meerkat called Sunny leaves home to see his family and friends. He writes postcards back […]
Talk for write in Class 2
In class 2 we have been using talk for write to learn a postcard. We began our learning at looking at what the features of a postcard were. Our postcard […]
Y6 Clay Rock Pool Workshop – Session 2
Another fantastic afternoon working on our clay rock pools with ceramics artist, Mrs Lee. Today, we have sculpted creatures that live in rock pools and used techniques such as scoring […]
Escape room in class 2
Today class 2 have tried a comparing numbers escape room. The questions used a variety of pictorial and numerical concepts in which the children had to compare the amounts. We […]
Y6 Clay Rockpool Workshop – Session 1
This afternoon, our Y6 children have had the privilege of meeting and working together with ceramic artist Caroline Lee from CLEE Ceramics! Over the course of 3 sessions, Mrs Lee […]
Astronaut Training Day Complete!
As part of our learning about space in class 6, the children have completed a range of resilience challenges during their astronaut training day and undergone a range challenges to […]
Away from the desk maths in class 2
In maths children have been looking at recognising tens and ones in two digit numbers. Children used different objects that they could find outside to represent the tens and the […]
Outdoors maths in Class 1
In class 1 we have introduced the greater than and less than symbols. We decided to play a throwing game in which we would count the amount of bean bags […]
Place Value Challenge – what fantastic start in class 6!
In the first week of the academic year in class 6, the children have been using the skills of the week: patience, tolerance and team work, to solve some maths […]
Y3B using Green Screen to show the 3 main periods of the Stone Age
Today Class 4 used the Green Screen to recreate small re-enactments of what life would be like throughout the 3 main time periods of the Stone Age. They showed the […]
Hokusai Artist Study in Y6
This afternoon, Y6 have learnt about the famous artist known as Hokusai and completed an artist study by analysing some of his famous artwork. We evaluated the work of Hokusai […]
Mini melodies in Chestnuts
This week Chestnuts enjoyed a mini melodies session from the Rotherham music hub. We sang lots of different songs about the weather with important message about putting sun cream on. […]
Year 6 perform Poetry
This week in Year 6, we have been identifying features of a poem before creating a performance for the poems “The Sea” and “SeaFever”.
Music in Class 1
Today was our first glockenspiel lesson with Mr Kinman. He introduced his two puppets and used them to teach the children pitch. We then got to play the pulse on […]
Drama Class 1
In Class 1 we have introduced a new books called Meerkat Mail. Our objective for the lesson was to predict what will happen in the story. We separated into groups […]
Drama in Class 2
Today in literacy we used drama to act out our predictions for the book Meerkat Mail. Some of our predictions included meerkats visiting a beach, meerkats going to a play […]
A busy first day back in Y3B
Today Class 4 am have jumped straight back into engaging in some fantastic learning. We began the day with reading aloud using expression with our class friends. We have then […]
Year 6 learn Place Value
Today in Year 6, we have been enjoying the beautiful outdoor weather whilst learning place value. Children started by identifying the different place values from one’s up to ten thousand […]