Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
We have been learning the Nursery Rhyme Dingle Dangle Scarecrow as part of our Harvest celebrations.
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Attendance Breakfast
Well done to Class 7 today for winning the attendance breakfast with the best attendance this term.
Visit to Wentworth Woodhouse
Several children this week had the honour of representing Roughwood Primary School at Wentworth Woodhouse as part of the John Carr 300 project. A few months ago, we were asked […]
Celebrating Autumn in Gardening Club
This week in gardening club, we have been learning about the harvest festival and the importance of the crops from this time of year, especially crops such as pumpkins, potatoes […]
Y6 learn how to play the clarinet!
Our Year 6 children are having a wonderful afternoon learning how to play the clarinet. Miss Fountain has shown us how to effectively assemble a clarinet (which is quite a […]
Harvest Festival 2023
Roughwood Primary School performed beautifully for the Harvest Festival. We are incredibly proud of all our Roughwood learners. Thank you to all parents and carers for donating this year. It […]
Golden table
Well done to Miss Browns class for winning Golden Table this week.
Multiply and MTC for Parents and Carers of Children in Year Four
As part of a project that Roughwood is involved in called Multiply, parents and carers were able to join us once again in school to learn about how we teach […]
Foundation Stay and Play
We have had a fabulous afternoon of autumn themed fun at our Stay and Play session. Thank you to everyone for coming, and of course, to our wonderful EYFS team, […]
Class 6 Analyse Geographical Images in Geography
Within our geography lessons, the children have learnt all about human geographical features using a range of satellite images. In our geography lessons, the children in class 6 were able […]
Author Visit: Sophie Kirtley
This week the children in both class 4 and 5 had the pleasure of meeting children’s author Sophie Kirtley. Sophie is the author of our current class text The Wild […]
Crucial Crew with Year 6
Earlier this week, our Y6’s had the pleasure of visiting the Lifewise Centre to take part in a variety of different scenarios relating to personal safety. We explored real life […]
Y6’s rock pools return from the kiln!
Wow! Year 6’s are in awe of their beautiful creations that were kindly returned to us on Wednesday by Mrs Lee after being in her kiln. This was the final […]
Golden Table
Congratulations Class 7 on winning the golden table this week due to your impeccable behaviour during lunch times. Well done!
NEWSLETTER 13TH OCTOBER
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 13.10.23
Adding and Subtracting ones in Class 2
In maths today children worked in pairs to solve questions that were adding and subtracting ones. Children were able to choose which method they used to solve them. They choose […]
Class 6 Visit The Space Dome at Rockingham Junior and Infant School
Having walked to one of our local academy schools where we could share an experience, the children in class 6 experience a range of space exploration learning activities and enter […]
#HelloYellow
Children have made a yellow ribbon on World Mental Health Day as part of YoungMinds’ #HelloYellow campaign which called on people to stand together in support of young people struggling […]
Y3B Exploring Harvest themed poetry, prayers and songs within Guided Reading
Today we have used our whole class guided reading session to learn more about the importance of the harvest festival which is coming up shortly. We looked at a variety […]
Y3B using different concrete resources to solve addition and subtraction number sentences
Today Class 4 used different concrete resources to help us with adding and subtracting 1’s from 3 digit numbers. Some children chose cubes, others chose counters and some chose to […]
Teach active- Addition heroes in Y4H
Children in Y4 have been using their place value knowledge to add up to two 4 digit numbers together with at least one exchange in class. To help continue this […]
Class 6 use drama and freeze frames to demonstrate ‘show not tell’, with empathy.
As part of our reading into writing process, the children in class 6 have been reading the book called ‘Cosmic’ and have analysed how Liam Digby feels at different parts […]
Willow Tree Academy – Cross Country
Number Bonds in Class 2
Today we have been exploring numbers bonds to ten using tens frames and concrete objects. We worked in a systematic way so that we didn’t miss a number bond to […]
Class 2’s Non Chronological Reports
In class 2 this week we have been learning all about non chronological reports. We began by exploring different texts and picking out the features such as a title, sub-headings […]
Tenpin Bowling – Hollywood Bowl
Governors 3D Printing
Our Governors were in school this week to speak with children about our Computing Curriculum and more specifically 3D modelling and printing. Children worked with our Governors to make and […]
Y3B Conducting an Archaeological dig
Today Class 4 took part in their very own excavation to find out more about people who lived in the Stone Age. They used brushes to uncover precious artefacts such […]
Positive play
We have been really impressed with children this week playing wonderful games on the school yard at break and lunchtimes. Well done to our sports leaders for arranging such great […]
Chestnuts tooth brushing
In Chestnuts today we learnt all about the importance of brushing our teeth regularly and correctly. We had a go at brushing our teeth in class and have added our […]