Class 7 begin their balanced arguments
Before transition to Year 6 begins, the children in Year 5 begin their balanced arguments by engaging in the debate, ‘Is social media a good thing? There were some extremely […]
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Annual Music Concerts at Roughwood Primary School
Last week, Roughwood Primary School hosted two of our annual musical concerts for parents and carers to watch in school – Key Stage One and Key Stage Two Music Performances. […]
SUMDOG Rotherham contest is coming up!
Sumdog’s Rotherham Maths Contest is almost here! It starts tomorrow at 8am, and finishes at 8pm on 30th June. Good luck to all classes! Children can play at any time […]
Cherry Tree residents enjoy their Jubilee Afternoon Tea thanks to the commendable efforts of Roughwood children and staff
As the start of four days of festivities honouring the Queen commence, the residents at Cherry Trees care home enjoy an afternoon tea. As the country come together to mark […]
Year 5 and EYFS bring the Jubilee party to Cherry Trees
As we continue with our community and social innovation NEMESIS project, we return to Cherry Trees Care Home and bring the Jubilee celebrations to the residents! As we had a […]
Special Mentions Assembly towards the end of the first Summer Term
Children at Roughwood have accomplished a lot this half term. During this weeks assembly, the teachers and their classes reflect on their achievements in their different lessons. As we prepare […]
Using and creating spreadsheets and data in Year 5
During our computing sessions in our ICT suite, the children in class 7 have been using excel this week to create spreadsheets and present key data about the characters from […]
Analysing and identifying textures and patterns – Using pen and ink in Year 5 and 5/6
Class 7 and 8 experiment with patterns using ink to create textures and patterns. Our first stage was to identify different types of patterns and select the most relevant to […]
Rotherham SUMDOG competition 2022 commences tomorrow!
Roughwood announce this weeks Rotherham SUMDOG competition of 2022 commences tomorrow morning from 8am… The children in class 1 to class 9 have the opportunity to compete against other children […]
MTC and Maths Parent Sessions
We invited our Year 4 children and their parents and careers into school yesterday for our timestable and MTC (multiplication timestable check) information session. During this session, we learnt […]
P4C in Year 5 – recycling and caring for animals and sea creatures
This week, children in Year 5 have focused on recycling and the effects of this on our school, at home, the wider community and the planet. During our P4C session, […]
Year 6 Maths Residential – Day 2
We arrive home safe and sound from a fantastic couple of days in Crowden on the Year 6 Maths Residential, with other children from across the academy. The children carried […]
Year 6 Maths Residential – Day 1
Across the academy, some of our Year 6s represented Willow Tree on a challenging mathematic residential over two days with two other schools across our academy. We have returned from […]
Year 5 and 5/6 apply their fluency within their maths learning on the maths platform ‘MyMaths’.
At Roughwood primary school, we have been using different online maths platforms to support us with our maths learning and problem solving skills. Within our maths learning, class 7 and […]
Science in Year 5 and 5/6
During our science lessons, class 7 and 8 have been learning about materials and their properties, and have recently learnt about making predictions between soluble and insoluble ingredients. Over the […]
In ICT, Class 7 and 8 learn about being safe online!
As part of their learning using digital literacy in ICT, the children in Year 5/6 learnt about what it means to be an ‘Internet Legend’. The children have learnt about […]
Year 5 begins ‘hot seating’ as we are introduced to the characters in the book…
As Year 5 begin their new topic learning about the Elizabethans and Tudors, we begin studying our new class text ‘Treason’ (by Berlie Doherty). The children carefully created questions to […]
Timestable Rockstar and SUMDOG champions 2021
Wow – another successful term on TT rockstars and SUMDOG and a fabulous end to 2021. Well done to all children in school and at home who competed in the […]
Panto comes to Roughwood (virtual panto 2021)
We’ve had a wonderful afternoon at Roughwood Primary school watching the pantomime, Cinderella. With popcorn and juice, we’ve enjoyed watching Button, seeing Cinderella and watching her attend the ball of […]
Year 5 complete their script instructions within our computing lessons
During our learning on creating animations using scratch, we have been writing instructions on how to write a script to allow another user to create their own animation.
Final SUMDOG competition of 2021 begins tomorrow
Roughwood announce the final SUMDOG competition of 2021 commences tomorrow… The children in class 1 to class 9 have the opportunity to compete against other children in Rotherham. SUMDOG online […]
Computing in class 7 and 8
In ICT, class 7 and 8 have been using ‘Scratch’ as part of their programming lessons to create a script to show the changes and different phases of the moon. […]
STEM Investigation In Classes 7 and 8
As we begin to learn about air resistance, the children in Class 7 and 8 design and build rockets using only one material to support the astronaut as they travel […]
STEM challenge – Mars Rovers with forces
This week at Roughwood Primary, children in Year 5 and 5/6 have been invited to take part in a fantastic STEM challenge – as we learn about forces, the children […]
Year 5 Learnt About ‘Active Listening‘ in RP.
During our Restorative Practise learning sessions, we’ve been learning about active listening and we used freeze frames to show what positive active-listening looks like. We learnt how important open body […]
SUMDOG CONTEST BEGINS!
We have been entered into the SUMDOG maths contest across England, which begins today and ends on Friday 11th November. The children in class 1 to class 9 have the […]
Class 7 and 8 Visit Leicester Space Centre
Having visited Leicester Space Centre, the children in Year 5 and 6 experienced a range of space exploration learning activities. From entering space modules, to visiting the space tower, children […]
Year 5 practise using musical instrument with oracy to explain the true meaning of harvest.
As we prepared for our assembly for the harvest festival, the children in year 5 practised using pitched instruments (glockenspiels) to explain the meaning of harvest. From the farmers growing […]
In art, Year 5 begin their artist study about Peter Thorpe.
In our art lessons, the children have begun to learn about the abstract works of artist ‘Peter Thorpe’, who has created artwork inspired by his interest in the Solar System. […]
Year 5 learn about equal rights and the importance of Black History Month.
What do you know about Rosa Parks? We could not be more proud of our Year 5’s this week who’ve had such mature discussions with their peers. During their PSHE […]
Year 5/6 successfully complete astronaut training day
To start our topic, the children in class 7 and 8 were immersed into resilience challenges during their astronaut training day. The children wrote postcards and asked questions about the […]
Timestable Rockstars – final winners
Children at Roughwood have been in competition to achieve the quickest timestable speeds that are less than three seconds. The following children have made it to Rock Stars (under three […]
Upper Key Stage Two use water colours to create their Olympic artwork
Year 5 practise their sketching and watercolour skills in art to create a special artistic piece to prepare for the olympics. We’ve been learning about the Olympics and a famous […]
Year 5 and EYFS celebrate at the same time as the residents for our NEMESIS project
From our the NEMESIS community project, the children fundraised to create for an opportunity for the residents at a local care home – Cherry Tree’s Care home – to have […]
Year 5 explore habitats in and around the pond
In science, Year 5 explored different habitats before learning about metamorphosis in our next lesson. The children found a range of creatures and insects this afternoon that were located in […]
Year 5 apply their maths learning in the ICT suite
Year 5 make use of an ‘away from the desk’ maths lesson (in our fabulous ICT suite)! In our maths lesson, children applied their learning in a range of different […]
Year 5 and EYFS raise funds – NEMESIS PROJECT
We’ve had so many lovely donations of gifts for the NEMESIS community project for Year 5 and EYFS, as they work with Cherry Trees Care Home. Due to the number […]
Using our maths and science within our Geography
In our Geography lessons, we’ve been analysing and comparing the changes in weather (temperature) and rainfall in who different places – South Yorkshire (specifically Sheffield) and the capital of Norway […]
Year 5 learn about growing plants from cuttings
In science, class 7 have been learning how to be green fingered! They have been learning about two different types of reproduction – sexual and asexual reproduction of plants and […]
Year 5 learn about angles
Geometry lessons in mathematics have begun in Upper Key Stage Two. During this weeks ‘away from the desk’ maths learning, learning was taken to the outdoor learning spaces. Our lessons […]
Music Service Involvement and Instrumental lessons
At Roughwood Primary School, we believe that every child should learn the skills of playing an instrument during their time at our school. These skills include self-discipline, creativity, developing motor […]
Mental Health Awareness week and the outdoor classroom at Roughwood Primary School.
As part of ‘Mental Awareness Week’, class 7 have immersed ourselves into the wilderness of outdoor spaces, as we complete our immersive reading within Roughwood’s outdoor learning classroom. As we […]
Year 5 begin talk for writing to explain the functions of parts of a flower
Do you know about plants and flowers? Do you know what the stamen is? We all know that flowers are the pretty, colourful, fragrant part of a plant. They look beautiful […]
Year 5 begin their animation videos
Children in Year 5 begin their animation videos linked to the class text – ‘ How To Train Your Dragon’. Using ‘I can Animate’ software, the children in year 5 […]
Year 5 learn about rules, law and democracy
In our PHSE lessons, we’ve been learning about democracy and why rules are important. The children in class 7 set out their own classroom court that included a defendant, a […]
Only four hours left of the Academy ‘Top of the Rocks’ Timestable competition!
Children in Year 1 to Year 6 have been competing this week to reach the top. Well done to all children who have entered so far! Will Roughwood sustain their […]
From relative pronouns to relative clauses in Year 5…
Based on our class text ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, we have learnt about relative pronouns in our English session and used relative clauses to add detail to the main […]
Year 5 learn about texture and tone in art.
In our art lessons, we have learnt about using different sketching techniques including tone and texture. We have showed clear progression in both lessons from practising sketching technique, to beginning […]
Year 5 accomplish so much in only three weeks!
We have written our own Easter play scripts, used numicon to represent decimals, played maths games and also discussed different forms of Transport in French! We’ve also been learning a […]
Year 5 Donate and show awareness towards Red Nose Day – Friday 19th March 2021
At Roughwood Primary, we support Comic Relief this Red Nose Day to help tackle important issues including homelessness, child poverty, domestic abuse, and mental health stigma, all of which have […]
Class 7 return to school brilliantly – 8th March 2021
With the largest class in school (29 children), we certainly had lots of catching up and had a wonderful day back. What a fantastic first day back for class 7, […]
Class 7 celebrate their love for reading during World Book Week 2021
From making our favourite characters out of fruit and vegetables, stitching out favourite book characters and finding out favourite places to read, what a week we’ve had! The children learning […]
SUMDOG Rotherham contest begins today – Friday 5th March 2021
Good luck everyone! See if you can compete your questions at the quickest pace possible. There will be a class winner and a winning class each day and this contest […]
SUMDOG maths contest in March 2021
The time has come again… Here’s a quick reminder that the next SUMDOG Rotherham contests begins tomorrow. This time, we’d love for children in EYFS to get involved with their […]
Year 5 – Crack the code!
In maths, we have been converting fractions and it has been extremely challenging! We’ve certainly needed lots of resilience this week whilst we have been problem-solving at home and start […]
SUMDOG contest 2021 results are in…
As a school, we had a total of 323 students answer questions… 78935 questions correctly, to be precise! Well done to you all. We do hope the maths part of […]
Year 5 begin their embroidery – Lockdown 2021
After making up the art packs for the year 5 children at home, the children in year 5 had their very first live lesson on embroidery from home. We learnt […]
SUMDOG maths contest at RPS – January 2021
Are you ready for this Friday’s maths contest? Miss Newton-Smith is! It begins this week, so don’t forget to begin practising on SUMDOG in preparation. Maths agility, fluency and resilience […]
Year 5 ‘grab the bull by the horns’ – Distance learning starting success of 2021!
The idiom ‘grab the bull by the horns’ refers to ‘approaching, confronting, or dealing with a problem or difficult situation directly and with clear, confident action.’ This is exactly what […]
‘Panto’ comes to Roughwood!
As we can’t have our own panto this year, the children at Roughwood were able to watch the pantomime ‘Cinderella’ as a special Christmas treat. Oh yes we did! Live […]
Year 5 festive SUMDOG challenge
Class 7 have been incredibly resilient this week. As we approach the final stages of learning before our Christmas break, the children have logged onto ‘SUMDOG’ today to complete their […]
NEMESIS in Year 5 and Chestnuts
As part of our NEMESIS project this term, we’ve discussed helping others in our local community. Class 7 thought it would be a wonderful idea to have a penfriend and […]
Music in school, followed by instrumental lessons from home!
With thanks to Rotherham Music Service, the children at Roughwood Primary School have been creating their own Christmas rhythms and practising them on djembes. As we’re not having external visitors […]
Year 5 Distance learning – November 2020
We couldn’t be more impressed with Year 5 and their commitment and resilience to distance learning! Our most recent lessons have included music) composing our own rhythms from our very […]
Day 3 of distance learning in Year 5
Anti-bullying week has included live lessons and a range of discussions where children have reflected on how kind words can help others. Well done to all children and families for […]
Year 5 access day 1 of distance learning
I couldn’t be more impressed with my class today! They have followed the recommended timetable, had frequent breaks, been out making the most of the autumn leaves in the garden, […]
Year 5 become journalists for Willow Tree Times and Roughwood News!
After we witnessed the moon landing, we go back in time and report the landing on the moon! President Richard Nixon couldn’t believe what the American astronauts had accomplished… and […]
Y5 finish their Earth and Space Investigation!
Have you ever wondered what happens to your shadow throughout the day? In year 5, we have been analysing what happen to our shadows over a period of time. Today, […]
Year 5 help promote ‘Hands – Face – Space’, as South Yorkshire prepares the move into tier 3.
At Roughwood Primary School, children across school have helped promote the campaign to prevent the spread of coronavirus indoors this winter. The ‘Hands. Face. Space’ public information campaign urges the […]
Year 5 Historical Research
Today, we’ve been researching history about space travel. Do you know the name of the first male or female cosmonaut or astronaut in space? What about the first dog? Next […]
Tinkercad Victory Gardens in Y6
Year 6 have been designing WWII victory gardens today, in ICT with Mr Clarke. Take a look at the incredible start they have made …
Year 5 Away from the desk maths
From using the White Rose schemes of work, here’s another example of where we have revisited previous learning at Roughwood and practised using previous methods to calculate. We definitely had […]
Reasoning and problem solving in Year 5
After comparing numbers this week, which was quite a challenge, children in class 7 have been discussing which numbers could be a possibility. Is the number odd? Do the sum […]
Year 5 explore primary colours with tone, shade and tint
Only the third day back after six months away from our wonderful school, and the year 5 children explore tints, tones and shades with primary colours. They have really amazed […]
Year 5 Children finish their year reflecting about their memories
Children in Year 5 reflect on their learning and experiences since the beginning of the year, and truly make Miss Newton-Smith, Mrs Miller and Miss Brown feel teary eyed!! We […]