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Book Week Fancy Dress

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Unfortunately, the snow interrupted our plans to have a Fancy Dress Day to celebrate World Book Day last week . However, we are aware of just how much time and effort […]

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Dance Project

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Today was the first practical session for all our pupils in Y3, Y4 and Y5 who are taking part in a dance project, working in collaboration with the Balbir Singh […]

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Power Cadets Are Go!

Wednesday, 17th Januaryby ropkc Leave a comment

In conjunction with the CLC, our ‘Power Cadets’ from Year 5 are primed and ready for action. They will host a series of assemblies and competitions, as well as keeping […]

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Young Voices Sing Out!

Wednesday, 17th Januaryby ropkc Leave a comment

Last night, a group of children from Roughwood joined with others from the Willow Tree Academy, who joined with approximately 5,000 other children from the region to sing in this […]

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Young Writers of The Future

Wednesday, 20th Decemberby ropkc Leave a comment

We regularly enter competitions for aspiring writers or artists and sometimes we win. Pictured here are Erin and Isla O’Donoghue who did just that. They both submitted poems to the […]

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Joseph and his Overcoat!

Wednesday, 20th Decemberby ropkc Leave a comment

For the first time ever, this year we decided to do something a little different at Christmas and have a whole school concert. It is a good few years since […]

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Christmas is Here!

Tuesday, 12th Decemberby ropkc Leave a comment

The most conclusive proof that we are firmly on the road to Bethlehem came today, when the children in our Foundation Stage performed their nativity for the rest of the […]

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Out in The City With The Poetry Club

Monday, 27th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

After-school clubs have finished for a while now, but the Poetry Club have left us with this little offering – the poem, “Out in The City” by Gareth Owen. To […]

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Campfire Poems

Monday, 27th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Class 8 today gave parents and carers a fabulous performance of their poems and stories, whilst sitting round a cosy campfire. Afterwards, everyone enjoyed biscuits and hot chocolate. One of […]

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Outlaws Taking Over

Friday, 24th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

The outlaws (pupils) in Class 7 took over, as they led the learning for the day. They had decided that for their REAL Project outcome, they would be sponsored to […]

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Mokee Joe is Back!

Tuesday, 21st Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

  We’re really proud and pleased to be the first school in the world to see the new (and last) book in the Mokee Joe series and to have welcomed […]

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All Different, All Equal

Monday, 13th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Today, six of our Year 6 pupils attended the Anti-Bullying showcase to watch films, poems and songs from a number of schools in the authority, based around the theme of […]

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Poems for Remembrance Day

Friday, 10th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Children in Key Stage 1 have been learning Remembrance Day poems ready to perform in assembly this afternoon. Poem 1 Poem 2

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Remembrance

Friday, 10th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

After a week of selling poppies and other items to  raise money for The Royal British Legion, today we had a two minutes silence to remember all those in the various […]

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EYFS Mathematics

Friday, 20th Octoberby ropkc Leave a comment

This week children have enjoyed learning how to represent numbers. They have used playdough, written in sand and have worked on large paper, writing numbers and drawing round Numicon equipment.

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Road Safety Visit

Friday, 20th Octoberby ropkc Leave a comment

This week children enjoyed learning about how to keep safe on the road.

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Tickled Pink

Thursday, 19th Octoberby ropkc Leave a comment

School looked a bit like candy floss today as all the staff dressed in pink to show their support for  the “Tickled Pink Day” (officially tomorrow) which is to raise […]

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Rhyme & Poetry Show

Friday, 13th Octoberby ropkc Leave a comment

Today, the children in Key Stage 1 and Foundation Stage were treated to a great performance of poetry and rhyme by Joe Chambers and Andy Crawford, who present “The Rhyme […]

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A Message from South Yorkshire Police

Monday, 10th Julyby ropkc Leave a comment

A message to parents and families You may be aware that RMBC are currently carrying out a large scheme of re-roofing work in the Munsborough area. Scaffolding has been put […]

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Goodbye to our Year 6

Friday, 7th Julyby ropkc Leave a comment

We bid a fond farewell to our Year 6 pupils today, as they leave us to start at their new schools next week. They have been a fantastic group of […]

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Bikeability

Thursday, 15th Juneby ropkc Leave a comment

A huge, “Well done!” to all those pupils in Years 5 & 6 who took part in the Bikeability scheme this week, achieving either Level One or Two. After a […]

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Singing in The Community

Thursday, 18th Mayby ropkc Leave a comment

Our Year 6s had yet another exciting time today, going out into the community to sing some of the songs from World War 2 for the residents at Cherry Tree […]

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Bloodhound Rocket Car Competition

Thursday, 18th Mayby ropkc Leave a comment

It was a wet and windy day yesterday but it didn’t stop our Year 6s designing, building and racing rocket cars in a scheme based around this year’s Bloodhound SSC […]

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Looking Grimm Again

Wednesday, 26th Aprilby ropkc Leave a comment

Year 5 & 6 this week visited the fabulous Grimm & Co in Rotherham town centre, to immerse themselves in a magical environment and write some fantastic stories. Magic, mystery […]

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Run, Adolf Run!

Friday, 7th Aprilby ropkc Leave a comment

This week, Year 6 held a VE-Day Style street party to mark the culmination of this term’s topic about World War 2. There were songs, poems and dancing along with, […]

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Scabbajack – Class 7

Thursday, 30th Marchby ropkc Leave a comment

We are coming to the end of this term’s topics and thinking about what we liked and enjoyed the most. Class 7 have put together a short film to let […]

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Magical Roughwood

Sunday, 5th Marchby ropkc Leave a comment

This week saw our Foundation Stage pupils hold a Magical Market at which all sorts of special items were on sale. There were fairy doors, toadstool buns and many many […]

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World Book Day

Friday, 3rd Marchby ropkc Leave a comment

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of World Book Day, the vast majority of our children dressed up as one of the characters from their favourite book and gave us a really […]

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Keeping Safe

Friday, 17th Februaryby ropkc Leave a comment

This week, five of our Year 6 pupils travelled to the New York Stadium to take part in an Internet Safety Awareness training day. Along with pupils from other schools, including […]

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School Council

Friday, 3rd Februaryby ropkc Leave a comment

Just a reminder that this is who we are. We will try to keep you updated about what we’re up to in our fortnightly meetings. We are the voice of […]

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Evacuation to Kelham Island

Tuesday, 24th Januaryby ropkc Leave a comment

Yesterday, the pupils in Year 6 were evacuated from school to visit Kelham Island Museum where they took part in a special “Children of World War 2” day. Everyone (including […]

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Happy New Year!

Tuesday, 10th Januaryby ropkc Leave a comment

After a fabulous Christmas break, it’s good to be back and already some of our pupils have won a certificate. A great many received a Bronze Award Attendance Certificate for […]

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Looking Forward…

Thursday, 22nd Decemberby ropkc Leave a comment

We’re already thinking about the coming term in the new year and thought you might like to see the fabulous novels we are going to be studying. Y1&2 – James […]

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Roughwood X Factor

Friday, 16th Decemberby ropkc Leave a comment

After all the concerts this week, we went even better and held our annual ‘X Factor’-style contest. All the acts were fantastic, with talents ranging from magicians to dancers to […]

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Christmas Concert Time

Wednesday, 14th Decemberby ropkc Leave a comment

This week has been a fabulous week for concerts with performances from Foundation Stage, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two. Some superb acting and singing was seen (as usual) […]

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Lights, Camera, Action!

Friday, 9th Decemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Today, the pupils from Year 6 went to the Odeon cinema in Sheffield which had been hired out for their Film Showcase event to round off the term’s topic. Along […]

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Christmas Dinner and Jumper Day

Thursday, 8th Decemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Christmas is getting ever closer. The school is looking fabulous, everyone is practising hard for our concerts next week and today was our Christmas dinner and jumper day.  A fantastic […]

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Official Pond Opening

Sunday, 20th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

This week, we were enormously proud to welcome the Mayor of Rotherham to officially open our pond and wildlife area. The event also featured a blessing of the pond by Mr […]

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We Will Remember Them

Friday, 11th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Our School Council pupils today took part in the Remembrance service at the cenotaph in Greasbrough to remember all those who have given their lives for our country in the many […]

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Dinosaur Bring and Buy Sale

Friday, 11th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Key Stage 1 recently held a bring and buy sale which was linked to their term’s topic based around the book “Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish”. It was a huge […]

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Out an About!

Tuesday, 8th Novemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Many of our pupils in Year 5 and 6 are recovering from their recent residential visits. Year 6 spent four nights in Northumberland and had visits to Bamburgh Castle, Lindisfarne […]

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Poetry Week!

Tuesday, 4th Octoberby ropkc Leave a comment

As this Thursday is National Poetry Day, Roughwood has decided to have a poetry week this week and to kick things off, we had a visit from our old friend, […]

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Crucial Life Lessons

Monday, 26th Septemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Last week, all the pupils in Year 6 visited the Lifewise Centre in Hellaby to attend the Crucial Crew event. The whole day was to help raise the pupils’ awareness […]

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School Crossing Patrol

Friday, 16th Septemberby ropkc Leave a comment

You will no doubt be pleased to hear that the School Crossing Patrol has resumed. They will be back on duty at the following times: 8.25 – 9.10am 3.10 – […]

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New School Year

Friday, 16th Septemberby ropkc Leave a comment

Just a quick note to say how glad we are to be back. We have a lot of really exciting things planned for this year so please keep a look […]

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All Awards!

Friday, 15th Julyby ropkc Leave a comment

Today saw Roughwood hold its Special Awards celebration assembly where our star pupils were given badges and certificates for various achievements.  These included awards for friendship, for respect and  for […]

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Basic Skills Quality Mark

Friday, 15th Julyby ropkc Leave a comment

We are very proud to be able to say that we have been awarded the Basic Skills Quality Mark Accreditation. The award celebrates our dedication to promoting the basic skills […]

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Goodbye and Thank You

Friday, 8th Julyby ropkc Leave a comment

We are really sad to say that today has been Miss King’s last day with us as she moves on next week to take up her new post in another […]

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Walk On The Wild(flower) Side

Thursday, 7th Julyby ropkc Leave a comment

     After quite a few months of hard labour, our school pond and wildflower meadow are now complete.  The results are spectacular and far better than we could have […]

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Summer Afternoon In The Garden

Thursday, 7th Julyby ropkc Leave a comment

A fabulous time was had by all yesterday at our Summer Fayre. Thank you to everyone who came and supported us, helping us raise a massive £375.

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Success at The Roscars

Saturday, 2nd Julyby ropkc Leave a comment

This week saw yet another success for Roughwood, this time at the Roscars film competition held at Magna.  It was a very glitzy affair indeed, hosted by ‘The Beast’ from […]

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Playground Flash Mob!

Thursday, 30th Juneby ropkc Leave a comment

During playtime this morning, a Flash Mob consisting of everyone in Key Stage 2 (including the staff) arrived to perform a dance and present a bouquet of flowers to Mrs […]

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All The World’s A Stage

Friday, 24th Juneby ropkc Leave a comment

On Wednesday this week, our Y4 pupils took part in the Rotherham Shakespeare Festival 2016 performing their section of Macbeth in what was a fantastic and highly moving piece of […]

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RotherVision Success

Wednesday, 22nd Juneby ropkc Leave a comment

A few of our obviously very talented Y3 pupils joined with our partner schools yesterday to take part in the RotherVision competition, which is one of the events of this […]

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Rebecca’s Steps To Success

Friday, 10th Juneby ropkc 1 Comment

We have been filled with pride this week as Rebecca Michie, one of year 6 pupils, took on the lead role of Annie in the musical of the same name, […]

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Magical Marketplace

Thursday, 26th Mayby ropkc Leave a comment

All things magical arrived at Roughwood this week, as the hall was transformed into a Magical Marketplace. Pupils, parents and staff mingled with witches, wizards and warlocks to trade their wares: […]

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Kruschmeister Is Coming!

Monday, 23rd Mayby ropkc Leave a comment

Terror and general all-round spookiness came to Roughwood today, as author Peter J Murray visited to unveil his latest spine-tingling book: “Kruschmeister.” Pupils from Key Stage 2 were gripped as […]

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Easter Bonnet Parade

Wednesday, 16th Marchby ropkc Leave a comment

There were chickens, rabbits and eggs running all over the place at today’s Easter Bonnet Parade in the school hall. A massive thank you to everyone who took part and […]

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It’s Grimm Up North

Wednesday, 16th Marchby ropkc Leave a comment

Today, pupils from Year 6 visited the Grimm & Co Apothecary for The Magical in Rotherham town centre, for a fantastic story writing workshop. We walked past displays of Goblin […]

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World Book Day

Friday, 4th Marchby ropkc Leave a comment

To celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March, our school had a fancy dress day where pupils and staff came as characters from some of their favourite books. We had […]

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