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 […]
Author Archives: Abigail Miller
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 […]
Roughwood’s Got Talent 2023
What an amazing talent show! This year has shown an amazing display of talent. The auditions we had blew us away and it was an extremely difficult decision to select […]
Our last singing session with Elliott
This week Roughwood has had to say goodbye to Elliott from the Rotherham Minster. For the past few years he has been helping with singing assemblies for Year 6 and […]
With Me in Mind Ambassadors Board
A HUGE thank you to our fantastic ambassadors Scarlett and Beth for our new notice board that will help all the children at our school with support and advice! The […]
Pen and ink lighthouses in Y6
In art, we have been learning pen and ink skills such as hatching, cross hatching and stippling to create tone and texture to our lighthouse art work. We began by […]
Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion
Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]
Pantomime at Wingfield
This morning our year 2s and some year 6 chaperones have been down to Wingfield to watch Cinderella! We had a great time… (oh no you didn’t) and enjoyed all […]
Mental Health Q & A Session
Our School Councillors & Mrs Hobson were visited yesterday by James and his colleague from With Me in Mind – This was a great opportunity to talk about what happens […]
Class 3’s Healthy Pizza
Today we made pizza dough! After researching and designing our own healthy pizzas it’s was time to make our very own pizza dough. When we added all of the ingredients […]
Scratch mazes in year 4
Class 6 have been learning to create and code their own mazes in Scratch. They have been using coding blocks to guide Robin Hood through a forest!
Diwali workshop with Balbir Singh
A dance company called Balbir Singh worked with Year 3/4 over Zoom to teach the children about Diwali and to teach them a dance to represent the story. We had […]
Y4 STEM Shelters
Year 4 have been doing lots of learning and research about shelters as part of our Survival/Robin Hood topic. Today we finally made our own models of shelters! The children […]
Year 4’s survival adventure with Pop’s!
Year 4 had a fabulous session with Pop’s Outdoor Adventure, learning all about making fires and building shelters as part of our Robin Hood and survival topic. It was a […]
Year 4’s survival adventure with Pop’s!
Year 4 had a fabulous session with Pop’s Outdoor Adventure, learning all about making fires and building shelters as part of our Robin Hood and survival topic. It was a […]
Zentangle leaves
Year 4 learnt a new art skill yesterday and practised zentangle patterns. We tried some in our sketchpads first and then went onto our leaf pictures. It took a lot […]
Les Couleurs
Year 4 have been practising their colours in French. Class 5 and 6 practised by playing some vocab games and then painted a colour wheel to show our learning.
Scrabble spelling in Class 6
This week we tried another spelling activity and had a go at scrabble spelling – criss-crossing our spellings through a shared letter. Class 6 did this really well – some […]
Super spelling in Class 6
We have been taking time each day to practise our spellings, looking at the rules and completing activities to practise. We had a go at shape spellings; creating shapes out […]
Creating art with nature in year 4
As part of our Survivial/Robin Hood topic, we looked at how people have used nature and natural surroundings to create artwork. We then created our own, making weavings using resources […]
Fabulous learning in Year 4
We had a great first full week in year 4. Fantastic spelling and handwriting practise, great maths learning, using drama in literacy and good collaboration and ICT skills in History. […]
A great start to learning from Class 6
I am already very impressed with class 6’s learning and attitude. They have impressed me with their maths and handwriting, and have settled back in very quickly after not being […]
Y5 moon phases animations
In Year 5 we have been learning about the phases of the moon and created animations to show this. We used paper first and then created an animation using a […]
Y5 pen and ink astronauts
Phenomenal artwork in Mrs Miller’s Year 5 bubble today! It took the children a lot of patience and resilience but the results are outstanding.
Planning for Secondary
Y6 have used Google maps to plan their route to secondary school.
Year 5 solar system pastel artwork
Year 5 created some stunning pastel artwork based on the solar system.
Year 5 colour wheels
We learnt about primary, secondary and tertiary colours and practised our colour mixing skills
Y5 problem solving in maths
We converted 2 metres into centimetres and millimetres, and then investigate how many straws we would need. We then used that to work out how many we’d need for 4m, […]
Year 5 colour wheels
Class 7 and 8 produced some fantastic colour wheels at home to show their understanding of primary, secondary and tertiary colours
Y5/6 Space Buggies
Class 7 and 8 once again wowed their teachers with their effort and creativity, and created some space buggies! They had to research them, create a plan and then find […]
Year 5M Earth Collages
It was back to distance learning on Monday and WOW! Class 7 were certainly ready and raring to go. Look at these outstanding collages they produced at home – the […]
Dragon poems from Y5M
Just before Easter, Class 7 researched and wrote dragon and Viking poems in a variety of styles, such as haikus and cinquains. Have a look at their research, fabulous writing […]
Distance learning in class 7
Fabulous distance learning from class 7 this week. Here are some fantastic examples of creative, good quality learning, children working hard and even doing some extra bingo tasks!
Antonym practise
In Class 7, we have been learning about antonyms, which are opposites. We have been practising together and then today we have tried some on our own. Â We are learning […]
Vegetative propagation Part 1
Class 7 have been learning about sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and about vegetative propagation – artificially regrowing plants. Today we set up our own investigation to regrow spring […]
Internet Safety in Year 5/6
A fantastic session with Ann Foxley-Johnson about staying safe on the apps we use. We have now created our own posters about using these apps.
Courage – Mental Health Week
In Y5, we looked at some statements and decided which ones were brave and which ones weren’t. We decided on different ways to categorise them; some of us ranked them […]
Dragon pencil artwork in Class 7
We have been learning how to use our pencils to create effective artwork, using shade and tone.
Terrific thaumatropes
As part of our learning about animation, we made our own examples of thaumatropes to understand how animation was created many years ago. Watch our videos at the end to […]
Creating a PowerPoint quiz in Y5
We have been researching Dreamworks Animation, linking to our class text of How to Train Your Dragon. We are now creating our own quizzes and learning how to add effects […]
Festive singing in Year 5/6
Class 7 and 8 learnt some festive songs (and an Imagine Dragons song!) complete with Makaton actions.
Improving Spelling in Class 7
We have been trying to learn our tricky year 5/6 words! We are collaborating and challenging each other to learn a few every week and have been doing different activities […]
Creating our Remembrance wreath in Class 7
We worked together to create our wreath, which is now proudly on display in our classroom.
Attendance Breakfast and Golden Table for Class 7
Class 7 were super lucky and won both the Attendance Breakfast AND the Golden Table this week! Superstars!
Negative numbers
In SUMMs, Class 7 have been counting through zero into negative numbers. We then practised by playing “tug of war”.
Dissolving experiment Y5M
We are learning about materials and their properties, and have recently focused on the difference between dissolving and melting – dissolving is when a solid mixes with a liquid to […]
P4C in Y5M
In class 7 we looked at “Words and our heart”. Our question was – “Should you think before you speak?” We thought of lots of other interesting questions we could […]
The Big Blast
Last week, Y4 children attended Magna and took part in The Big Blast, a Rotherham concert involving other schools and instruments.
Investigating sound with string telephones
We have been learning all about sound in Class 6. Today we investigated how sound travels over a distance using paper cup telephones. We made them in pairs and then […]
Embracing diversity and challenging stereotypes
This week we are celebrating Diversity and today we have been working alongside Mrs Ann Foxley-Johnson from the Anti-Bullying Conpany!
Using Indian Ink
In Class6, we are using Indian Ink to draw potion bottles with Mrs Robbins. A lot of us haven’t used this media for and it can be tricky but it […]
Mental maths in Class 6
We are developing our mental strategies in Class 6, thinking about how we can add and subtract efficiently. We have thought about number bonds and similarities when we add multiples […]
Lucy’s blue day – wellbeing week in class 6
We discussed what makes us happy, sad and angry and about how we know what others are feeling. After reading Lucy’s Blue Day we talked about how we show emotions […]
Class 6 and 7 visit Eyam
On a Wednesday classes 6 and 7 visited Eyam as part of their topic learning about the Plague. Despite walking in the relentless rain and cold weather, it was an […]
Terrific trumpets
Year 4 have been continuing their trumpet learning in preparation for the Big Blast concert in July! q