Roughwood performance at Magna and we’re extremely proud of the achievements from these children today. Resilience, agility, determination and commitment. Thank you once again to our parent volunteers for coming […]

Homemade Easter nests with golden eggs, cornflake buns, Easter Rabbits and Splatty Egg biscuits 🍳

Special offers are available… only 50p for homemade Easter delights!

Celebrating achievements for commitment and courage. Here are the awards for this week… Being ambitious, being inspiring, being connected and being fair. Well done to this week’s winners!

Thoroughly enjoying time in the ICT week, super swimming achievements and working collaboratively…

They have researched their top five villains and superheroes and now using their research to create their own PowerPoint presentation.

Many of our Year 5 children developed their map reading skills and carried out an audit within the local area. They identified some safe routes in the local community, but […]

Some difficult choices for staff this week. The quality of learning and outcomes continues to grow! Talk for writing used around school too! Here is a KS1 example. Some wonderful […]

Our Master Builders are being designed and if we couldn’t be even more proud, the children are beating their personal time on timestable rockstars!

What an amazing week – Year 5 have made real success with their character descriptions for the new Master Builder designs. Watch out! Some of these have laser vision, and […]

STAR South Yorkshire – children learning how to ‘BE BRIGHT, BE SEEN’. Are you ready for Be Bright Day on Friday 25th January?

Miss Newton-Smith has entered children in Class 6, Class 7, Class 8 and Class 9 into this weeks Sumdog contest! Each class can only get onto the leaderboard if at […]

Kurgan in Year 5 entered into the Young Writer’s competition and her entry into the poetry competition won! Well done to her, and all children who entered. It must have […]

A wonderful treat for our staff made by one of our Roughwood parents. Wow!

Children are celebrating their first full term in their new classes… such fabulous dance moves too!​ ​

Some difficult decisions by the children, but this is the act which the children chose. Well done too all children who entered in the X factor.  ‘The children at Roughwood […]

Some great acts and lots of audience participation and the panel of judges are very impressed this afternoon. Well done to all children that have entered!

The winner of the elf is from class 2! The elf’s name is Rosie. Fabulous efforts and resilience from our sports leaders – keep up the fantastic work!

Roughwood and Rockingham performed at the Rotherham Minster. Here’s a sneak preview of the rehearsal. The performace was just phenomenal… Thank you to parents and careers for your attendance. It […]

I personally want to say a huge well done and thank you to all the children who have attended rehearsals and shown such commitment each week. When you think the […]

Children sharing their learning and talking about their fabulous achievements. 

Descriptive writing and high level language shared in our afternoon assembly. A difficult decision for teachers this week! A wonderful end for the week…

Can you find a word that rhymes with glistening? Such descriptive sentences in the children’s Sonnets.

Characterisation and expression during our first rehearsal in small groups. Year 5 are preparing for their REAL Project taking place at the Rotherham Civic Theatre in January. ​   ​​ […]

Mathematical verse structure and writing creative sonnets outside Anne Hathaway’s house. A wonderful day!

Not only have we learnt some techniques for the stage, but we have learnt about the famous ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’.

Roughwood and Rockingham teamwork has been brilliant. Boat trip on Stratford Canal, Shakespearean character sketching, and exploring a theatre. The rain won’t defeat us! The children are happy and well-fed, […]

Lunch in front of Shakespearean characters, Boat trip on Stratford Canal, sketching and finished with a quick visit to the theatre! Time for tea….

Some impressive pictures using pastel in this week’s art lesson! Miss Newton-Smith is impressed and is looking forward to seeing some more masterpieces next week…

Well done to all children who achieved their timetable rockstars certificate this half term. We are extremely proud of your achievements.

Some wonderful work published and written confidently and independently. Well done Year 5.

Excellent effort from children in our school. We are extremely proud of their successes.

Have a read of Year 5 persuasive letters, which are their independent writing pieces! They’ve attracted a popular audience to our Harvest Festival performance using their persuasive language… hope to see […]

Children learning to ‘stop, say, listen, think and choose’ before reacting.  Children taking deep breaths and making sensible choices – very impressive. 

High level reasoning, teamwork and problem solving involved this morning in our maths lesson.

Well done for the children this week who had a special mention in assembly. Once again, it has been difficult for the teachers to choose.  Kurtis was very confident, at […]

The children in Year 5 have been using gradients of tone to practise and create their artistic masterpieces. Don’t forget to ask the year 5s about how they have used […]

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The votes are nearly in. It was clearly difficult to vote. Well done to all candidates! So much thought and preparation went into their manifestos and speeches. Here are some […]

After two days back at school after the summer holidays, we have some wonderful use of vocabulary for our character descriptions and some impeccable calculating of challenging maths questions. Keep […]