Sensory Circuit
Children have started to engage in Sensory Circuits on their arrival to school. The children participate in a number of different stations where the focus is on alerting, organising and […]
Monthly Archives: March 2024
Rotherham School Games – #Letgirlsplay
An amazing afternoon at Wath Academy at the Rotherham School Games #Letgirlsplay event. A fantastic opportunity for girls to play football and hopefully be inspired to take up the game […]
KS2 Boccia – Rotherham School Games
An amazing morning out at the Rotherham School Games Boccia event. A fantastic opportunity for children to experience a new sport. All the children showed great sportsmanship and encouraged each […]
Children’s University Awards
Outstanding to see some many children receiving Children’s University awards for their commitment to extra curricular activities. Fantastic to see new children achieving their Bronze certificates for attending 30 hours […]
Year 4 Basketball
An amazing term of PE in Year as we completed our topic of Basketball. The children covered a wide variety of skills from, dribbling, passing, defending and shooting. The children […]
Year 3 Tag Rugby
A fantastic term of PE in Year 3. The children have developed a great understand of Tag Rugby and have enhanced their skills throughout. We finished our topic with small […]
Class 6 combine maths and art to design their knot gardens
Children in class 6 have visited Stratford-upon-Avon and Manor Lodge this term, where they have observed gardens designed symmetrically. Originally used as a way for gardeners to organise edible plants […]
Newsletter 28th March
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. Happy Easter! Newsletter 27.03.24
Attendance Certificates
Well done to all our children with 100% attendance this term. Wear your badges with pride and let’s see if we can aim for Silver with 100% next term. Some […]
Easter Bonnets
Children at Roughwood Primary have been celebrating the beginning of Spring and Easter today by wearing their very own Easter bonnets which signify new life and rebirth. We particularly loved […]
Easter Service 2024
We have finished the end of term with our wonderful Easter celebration assembly. All year groups took part in singing and celebrating the meaning of Easter. Thank you to all […]
Class 5 make chocolate!
Continuing the fantastic learning all about the states of matter, class 5 used their knowledge to make their very own chocolate to sell at the Easter fayre. Take a look […]
Young Voices 2024
Young Voices 2024 was definitely a memorable one! A day full of ups, downs, tears, memorable moments but mostly lots of snow. A morning full of snow nearly put a […]
Developing our gross motor skills
We have been using the apparatus in PE to develop our gross motor skills. Gross motor skills are the skills that we develop using our whole body. We practised jumping, […]
FS1 retell the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
We have been retelling the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We used talk for writing to orally rehearse the story. We learnt a song and made props. We performed […]
Y6 visit Eden Camp!
Our visit to Eden Camp today was a fantastic experience for all. Year 6 had the opportunity to explore the sights, sounds and smells of World War 2 through exploring […]
Flower biscuits
We have been learning about the parts of a plant. We decorated biscuits using ready to roll icing to create the stem, leaves and flower.
Year 4 Stop motion animations
In Year 4, we have been using I Can Animate to create stop motion animation that retells a story about deforestation in the rainforest for palm oil and how these […]
Year 3 animations
For the last few weeks, Year 3 have been busy creating animations using Scratch, a block based programming language, to retell a story about an Orangutan who has had to […]
WW2 Medals
Miss Inns has kindly brought her fathers inherited WW2 medals that originally belonged to her great grandfather to show our Year 6’s. The children were fascinated and honoured to be […]
Tudor and Elizabethans at the Banquet
This morning, the children in class 6 had the exciting opportunity to attend the Elizabethan and Tudor banquet to celebrate the learning this term. The children took part in a […]
EYFS maths and ‘multiply’
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 […]
Eco Committee Litter Picking
This week, our Eco Committee have been busy litter picking around school after noticing an increase in litter on school grounds. Taking pride and keeping the school clean and tidy […]
NEWSLETTER 15TH MARCH
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 15.03.2024
States of matter- Science investigation
This week the children in class 5 have been taking part in a science investigation as part of British Science Week 2024. The main focus this year is completing an […]
Class 2’s visit to Bolsover Castle
As part of our topic ‘Towers, Tunnels and Turrets’, class 2 visited Bolsover Castle. We had an amazing day exploring the castle and using our knowledge to discuss what we […]
Cake Sale
We have been busy baking in foundation to prepare for our cake sale tomorrow. We are raising money to develop our outside water area. Don’t forget your 50p! Buns will […]
Testing the durability of our Anderson Shelters in Y6!
After working extremely hard to complete our WW2 Anderson Shelters in DT, this afternoon we tested the durability of our designs. To replicate the bombs dropped during the Blitz on […]
Science Week at Roughwood
To celebrate science week, we have been investigating ‘time’, and teachers have linked investigations and experiments to this theme. With thanks to our science leader, Mrs Beaumont, Roughwood started the […]
Class 6 Use Clay Techniques
To prepare and create a model of a Tudor rose, the children in class 6 developed their skills using clay and explored a range of techniques in our recent art […]
Fine Motor Carousel
We have introduced Fine Motor carousel to our daily timetable. Developing fine motor skills helps children do things like writing and manipulating objects. Today, the children in Mrs Staples group […]
World Book Day In Acorns Class
The nursery children had a great day celebrating World Book Day.
Water in containers
We have had a wonderful morning in Acorns class exploring water in containers. Thank you to everyone who has donated their recyclables to help develop our outdoor water area.
Combining our maths learning with our DT to make our very own curry in Y3B
This week in Maths, Class 4 have been learning all about how to measure mass and have identified you often measure using grams and kilograms. In DT we have been […]
Dragon Eye Art
In art we have been using pastels to create dragon eyes. The children worked really hard to make sure they added as much detail to their dragon eye as they […]
World Book Day 2024
Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day. Children and teachers dressed up as characters from their favourite book or in comfy pyjamas. The costumes were fantastic and very colourful.
Class 6 travel to Manor Lodge
During today’s visit to Manor Lodge linked to our learning about the Elizabethans, we have explored the ruins of a previous grand Manor House, with taking us back hundreds of […]
Class 6 wins ‘golden table’
Our winners of Golden Table this week were 6 with the most amount of Golden Tokens. Children earn golden tokens for being helpful at lunchtimes and showing exemplary manners. Well […]
Predicting and exploring through irreversible changes
Yesterday, class 6 carried out a science investigation to see what would happened when vinegar and bicarbonate of soda are mixed. As we have been learning about reversible and irreversible […]
Investigating how shadows are formed in Science – Year 6
This afternoon, our Year 6’s conducted a Science investigation to see how shadows are formed. Focusing on the pattern seeking strand of Science, we tested the length of shadows which […]
Exploring values and the importance of good actions in RE
Today Class 4 have looked at the difference between values and actions and how this is important to different people and how they live their lives. They created their very […]
TAs and SMSA develop their understanding with maths – enhancing professional development
Over the last two weeks, teaching assistants and lunchtime supervisors have attended ‘multiply’ maths sessions to develop their confidence with numeracy. During these sessions, staff at Roughwood practised different strategies […]
Y6 DT – Creating our own Anderson shelters
Over the last few weeks in Year 6, we have designed and created our own WW2 Anderson shelters. The purpose for our design is to build a durable structure that […]
Year 6 create air raid instructional videos
Children in Year 6 have been creating an instructional video on what to do during an air raid as part of their topic, “How does war change lives?”
Drawing Daffodils in FS1
One of our lovely Acorns children brought in some Daffodils this morning. We have enjoyed drawing them on the mark making table. We are going to use them as inspiration […]
Chestnuts learn about charts in ICT
This week in ICT, children in Chestnuts have been learning to identify a chart before grouping pencils, sharpeners and rubbers to represent a chart. Children have also been counting the […]
Hungry Caterpillar
The children in Acorns class have been learning all about mini beasts. We have enjoyed dressing up as The Hungry Caterpillar from our story.
PE in Acorns Class
We have had a wonderful morning in acorns class. We used the big hall for our PE session and acted out how to be different mini beasts following on from […]