Anti Bullying week 2023: Odd socks day
We have started our Anti Bullying week in style with Odd Socks Day! Wearing odd socks is an opportunity to encourage people to express themselves, celebrate their individuality and what […]
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Anti-Bullying Week 2023: Make A Noise About Bullying
What a fantastic start to Anti-Bullying week 2023 we have had today! To kick start the day a group of our RP (Restorative practice) reps in school travelled to Gulliver’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
Makerspace project at Greasbrough library
This week, Class 5 have had an exciting morning at Greasbrough library thanks to the Makerspace project. The Makerspace project is all about people coming together to share their creative […]
Year 4- Stone Age codebreaker
In maths, year 4 have been using their problem solving skills to solve codebreakers. The challenge was for the children to use their place value knowledge to ‘crack the code’ […]
Instructional writing in class 5: Stone Age fruit stew
After a fantastic first week of learning all about the Stone Age, today our Y4’s have fully immersed themselves into what food was like during the Stone Age. Following on […]
Y6 Prom 2023
Year 6 children from Roughwood joined together for an unforgettable prom. It was a wonderful way to celebrate a tremendous journey here at Roughwood. The children had a wonderful time […]
Heart dissection in Year 6!
What a fantastic morning the children in year 6 have had! Following on from all the fantastic learning the children have done so far learning about the heart. Mr Hood […]
Story mapping in science – A journey of a red blood cell
Following on from our learning all about the heart, this week the children have been investigating the journey of a Red blood cell. To help support our understanding further, the […]
Year 6 recreate the circulatory system through animation
As part of our new science topic for this term, year 6 have been learning all about the circulatory system. Linking our focus of an explanation text in literacy we […]
Year 6 go to Kelham island!
The children in year 6 visited Kelham Island Museum as part of their World War II topic learning. The children were able to fully immerse themselves as they dressed up […]
Nrich maths in Year 6
As part of our learning all about percentages, the children in Year 6 completed an investigation from NRICH. The investigation gave the children the task to complete questions based around […]
Y6 Art- Evacuee sketches
Following on from last week’s lesson, the children in Year 6 have been using their knowledge on proportions of the human to sketch their own evacuees. We have used pencil […]
Y6 Art – Drawing proportions of the human body
Class 7 have demonstrated excellent art skills today as we explored how to draw the human body in proportion. We started off by using mathematical skills such as measuring skills […]
Christmas Fayre Winners
We have had the most magnificent Christmas Fayre this year with lots of different Christmas money-making ideas. Lots of these included games in which prizes could be won. Two games […]
Y6- Lighthouse STEM
Yesterday, the whole of Y6 enjoyed a busy afternoon constructing their lighthouses using modroc. We used teamwork and resilience to design and make a sturdy structure. I think you will […]
Film making club!
Today we had our first session of our film making club. We made a fantastic start towards our spooky plague videos set in the village of Eyam. With the use […]
A day in the stone age!
What a fantastic day Class 5 had at Creswell Crags! We went back in time to the Stone Age and experienced life in a cave, making a shelter, hunting and […]
T4W all about the Digestive system!
Class 5 have had lots of fun recently learning all about the Digestive System and today we used Talk For Writing to retell all the steps that take place. First, […]
P4C- Internet safety in year 3
Today in school, as part of us celebrating Safer Internet Day, year 3 have explored different ways in which we can be safer online. The children watched a video as […]
P4C in CLASS 5- ‘THE BLACK HOLE’
This afternoon in our philosophy for children session, Class 5 watched a short film called ‘The Black Hole’ and we tried our best to form philosophical questions based on this. […]