Remembrance Service
“On the 11th Hour on the 11th Day of the 11th Month, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM” We held our Remembrance service on the KS2 yard today, distanced from each other, […]
Harvest Festival 2020
Roughwood Primary school perform beautifully for the Harvest Festival. We are incredibly proud of all our Roughwood learners. Thank you to all parents and carers for donating this year. Unfortunately, […]
World Mental Health Day
To mark this year’s World Mental Health Day which was Saturday 10th October children in school have been learning about the importance of a healthy mind. During such difficult times […]
Remote Learning
Well done Class 9. Children who have been asked to isolate today left school at 1:15 pm and were ready for their first online lesson via Google Classroom at 2:30 […]
Drumming Year 4
Our children in Year 4 have been enjoying their drumming sessions this week and have started to learn the basics on the Djembe Drum. Children have been looking at listening […]
Attendance Certificates 2019-2020
Well done to all our children with 100% attendance last year. We know that for some of the time last year school was closed, but for every day they could […]
Google Internet Legend Assembly
We have been extremely lucky today to have a personalised assembly delivered by Google. We were also joined by our Rotherham MP, Sarah Champion! Our children really enjoyed the assembly […]
School Council 2020/2021
We are proud to introduce you to the School Council for the year 20/21. This year will be challenging and it is your school council who will support the leaders […]
Sports Day 2020 #Virtual
What another wonderful Sports Day we had this year! It may have been different from what we are used to but nether the less, it was a truly magnificent experience. […]
Y6 Create Air Raid Precaution Video’s for WWII
Year 6 have been busy creating Air Raid Precaution (ARP) video’s to demonstrate the importance of being prepared during World War 2.
NSPCC Dance-a-Thon
As part of our schools fundraising for the NSPCC each class from year 1-6 created and performed a sponsored dance routine. The children were amazing and staff have loved watching […]
School Council Visit Town Hall
Today, children who are our elected School Council visited the Town Hall and met the Mayor. We learnt about democracy and how our wonderful towns history.
Year 5 & 6 Science and Media Museum
We’ve learnt about how sound travels, and we’ve found out that we watch 4 days of adverts per year! That’s a lot of Television! From the Wonderlab, to the Gaming […]
Y3 Steel Investigation Day at Kelham Island Museum
Y3 children had a super amazing day at Kelham Island consolidating and expanding their knowledge of Steel. They learnt more about key people such as Henry Bessemer and Harry Brearley! […]
Rotherham Transport Museum
We had a wonderful trip to the Rotherham Transport Museum.
Class 4 – investigating the effects of friction
Class 4 have been investigating the effects of friction to moving objects. We had a look at which surface would contain the most friction.. we found out the wood surface […]
Shakespeare at the Civic
What a performance from our Year 5 children at Rotherham Civic. All the children were absolutely fantastic and did the school proud. We are all incredibly amazed by their achievements […]
Year 6 – Online Safety
Keeping safe online is becoming increasingly difficult in today’s world where technology can advance quicker than we can keep up. Our Year 6 children have written and filmed some short […]
Year 5/6 explore Graham Grimm’s mind
Hooked on new vocabulary, our children explore what Graham Grimm might have seen. Grimm and Co. bring exploration, ore and wonder, and mystery to life… we can’t wait to be […]
Young Voices 2020
Wow! What an amazing evening we all had. Our talented pupils attended the Young Voices concert held at the Sheffield Arena last night and became part of a choir made […]
X-Factor 2019
Our yearly X Factor has been a huge hit this year. Once again our talented children continue to shine and we are proud of everyone who entered. Well done to […]
Magnificent Performance of Dick Whittington
Children in KS2 have given some out of this world performances of the Christmas classic, Dick Whittington. Once again the children on Roughwood prove they can perform and boy can […]
Christmas Video 2019
Staff and children have created a magical video this week, using our green screen, to celebrate the countdown to Christmas. There has been lots of laughter and smiles this week. […]
A Miracle in Town – KS1 Nativity 2019
We are so proud of all of key stage one for there performance this morning. They did themselves, parents/carers and the school proud. Children were able to recite al their […]
Foundation Nativity 2019
Children have performed a magnificent nativity for parents this week. Children knew all their lines and sang beautifully (as usual). Thank you to all the parents and carers who joined […]
Christingle 2019
On Wednesday 4th December, Roughwood children presented a wonderful assembly to parents. There were some extremely confident children reading during the performance and the Christingles children have made lit up […]
Making bird feeders
On Friday 15th November 2019 class 3 had a family learning morning where parents came in to follow our instructions to make bird feeeders. Lots of fun was had by […]
Green Screen Poetry
We have recently installed a green screen in school and we were so excited to try it we put this together. We hope you like Year 6 reading some of […]
Visit to Tropical World
Class 4 had a fantastic trip at tropical world to help us delve deeper into our topic based all around the Rainforest. We learnt lots of new information about the […]
Harvest Festival Assembly
Roughwood Primary school perform beautifully for the Harvest Festival. We are incredibly proud of all Roughwood learners. Thank you to all parents and carers for attending. We are so very […]
Times Tables Rock Star
This week we have had an amazing 74 Families engage with our Tea, Toast and Tables mornings which have seen parents and children playing tables games to raise awareness of […]
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Class 3 have had a fantastic day at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We have seen lots of different animals with fur, feathers and skin. We stood and watched the polar […]
Yearly Awards
We have celebrated some magnificent achievements today and recognised some wonderful behaviours in children. Respect, Friendship and Excellence awards have been given out as well as Teacher Awards and our […]
Music Concert at Roughwood
What a brilliant assembly we had today to showcase what children have been learning in class. Some children have only been playing an instrument since Easter and the progress made […]
Sports Day 2019
What a wonderful Sports Day we had this year! Thank you to Wingfield Sports Leaders for supporting us in our teams. There were many different activities ranging from basketball to […]
Year 6 Leavers Assembly
So many awards have been given this afternoon to our fantastic Year 6 children. We celebrate all the achievements of our Year 6s. They have worked incredibly hard, and we […]
Class 2’s trip to Sheffield
Class 2 caught the bus and the tram-train to Sheffield. Once in Sheffield we spotted lots of landmarks we have been learning all about. We visited the Cathedral and had […]
The Great Fire of London
This week we started our new topic. We began by coming up with some questions about what we wanted to find out about The Great Fire of London. Some of […]
Class 4’s Visit to Tesco Bakery
On Wednesday 6th March class 4 caught a public bus to Tesco. When we arrived at Tesco we were shown around the warehouse to see where the bread was kept […]
Year 5 animation sets
We could not be more proud of the children in Year 5 at Roughwood Primary School this week. They have used the iPads to begin creating their animations in groups. […]
Year 3 Magna Visit
We have all been immersed in some incredible learning about air, earth, fire and water, today as well as consolidating information we found out about the steelworks for our topic. […]
Rotherham Civic Theatre
Year 5 perform at the Rotherham Civic Theatre – 10th and 11th January We could not be more proud our Year 5 children! The children in Year 5 at Willow […]
Magical Potions
In Class 2 we have been investigating different mixtures to see which creates the best magical potion. We mixed white vinegar with washing-up liquid, food colouring, salt, water and bicarbonated […]
Young Voices 2019
Wow! What an amazing evening we all had. Our talented pupils attended the Young Voices concert held at the Motor Point Arena last night (8th January) and became part of […]
POP’s Outdoor Adventure
We had an AMAZING time with POP’s Outdoor Adventure Team. We went into the forest with the team on a stickman adventure. We searched the forest for stick man so […]
Year 6 WWI Drama
Year 6 have been working hard on their huge part in the WWI performance at Magna. The play was about Rotherham soldiers going to war in 1914 and they lived […]
Butterfly House
Year 3 visited the Butterfly house this week to support their topic about habitats. We were able to see lots of different creatures in different habitats. This all links with […]
Class 3’s Science investigation – How to hatch a dinosaur egg.
This week in Class 3 we have been investigating to find out which liquid will make a dinosaur egg hatch. On Thursday, we created our very own dinosaur eggs using water, […]
Moorland Discovery Centre
This term in Class 2 we are learning all about recycling and conservation. Today we have enjoyed ourselves at the Moorland Discovery Centre. First we explored the woodlands, collecting different […]
Elected School Council
We have elected our School Council at Roughwood in our classes this week. It has been a long process since children have written their manifestos to deliver to the class. […]
Tea Time Club
Wednesdays and Thursdays until 5 pm children can join Tea Time club. This week the children chose their own ingredients for their pizzas and enjoyed eating what they had made. […]
Stone Age Workshop – Class 6
Last week, class 6 has a wonderful time taking part in a Stone Age Workshop. We built fires (yes, real ones!), fired arrows from bows (yes, real ones!) and chased […]
Bloodhound Rocket Car Challenge
Yesterday, the children in Class 9 were challenged to create the fastest rocket-powered car. They spent the morning designing, decorating and naming their cars and spent the afternoon racing them. […]
Book Week Fancy Dress
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 […]
Dance Project
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 […]
All smiles in Y6D
It was lovely to see so many smiling faces today, eager and ready for remote learning … Y6D made a wonderful start to learning from home again today and we […]
Bus stop division teaching and learning with food – Y3 Distanced learning
Throughout the week Miss Sare has been holding daily live maths sessions and has been astounded by how quickly and fabulously Y3 have picked up the written method for division. […]
Data Loggers in Y6
Year 6 have had a very noisy afternoon in Science today, investigating voltage! Our research question was: how does increasing the voltage change the volume of a buzzer? The children […]
Freeze Frame Drama in Y6
Year 6 have made a wonderful start to their new unit of writing today, with some fantastic drama! They were thinking about how it would feel to experience a real […]
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 […]
Y3 “Miss Sare” Pleaser Machine Designs
Y3 are beginning their new genre, explanation texts. This morning children were set a task of designing their own Miss Sare pleaser machine. They thought about what Miss Sare would […]
Newsletter 27th November
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been a challenging two weeks but there has been some amazing work taking place. Please take a look in […]
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 […]
We are so lucky to have Mr Tyas hosting virtual PE lessons!
Y3 loved their PE lesson with Mr Tyas today. A fabulous Joe Wicks style session. Well done children!
Sumdog
Class 1 have loved being back in school this morning. In our ICT session, we decided to try out our new learning platform ‘Sumdog’ to practise our shape learning. It’s […]
Y5/6D Fractions – Maths Live Sessions
It is our second and final week remote learning in Class 8 and what a great experience we have had! Although we haven’t been able to see each other in […]
Healthy or unhealthy
During our final day of home learning today children have had to sort food from there cupboards into healthy and unhealthy. Some children even looked into the five different food […]
Class 8 Quiz!
Class 8 took on the WWII Kahoot quiz today and did a fantastic job! It was so wonderful to see how confident the children are with their knowledge of our […]
Where is God?
Class 3 today did some work about different religion and beliefs about God. Children had to discuss with their grown ups where they believed God was. After having this discussion […]
Science Assembly LIVE!
What a fantastic assembly today! Some of us joined in at home and some of us joined in at school but we were all joining in together and that’s what […]
Money, money, money!
Today class 3 had to select coins and notes to make the correct amount to pay for an item in a shop. They were fully immersed in their activity using […]
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 […]
Quiz Time for Class 9!
Class 9 had a fantastic time competing for gold in our Kahoot quiz this afternoon! We tested all of their WWII knowledge and they were amazing! Well done everyone who […]
KS1 PE at home with Mr Tyas
Wow! Today we had over 30 key stage 1 pupils join in with Mr Tyas for his live PE lesson. It was great to see all the children being physically […]
Baking up a treat!
The children in Chestnuts class have been following Mrs Lunn’s recipes to bake some tasty treats.
Class 2 home learning!
Last week Class 2 produced fantastic pieces of work whilst engaging in their home learning. We learned about South America in literacy, shapes in mathematics and designed our own planes […]
Lending Library
Due to isolating, we have not been able to change our library books at our weekly lending library. Mrs Lunn and Mrs Scrimshaw have been reading a story on Dojo […]
Phonics Live Sessions
Well done to all the children in Chestnuts Class for a fantastic week of phonics learning. It has been lovely to see so many of you join in each day […]
Repeating Patterns
For our numeracy distance learning task, we have been continuing and creating simple repeating patterns.
Y6D Remote Learning – Women at War
Our first week of remote learning is over and I am truly amazed and impressed with Class 8 for their hard work and resilience that has been displayed over the […]
Be bright, be seen day
As part of our Road Safety Week this week we have been trying to promote road safety throughout the winter months. Children have dressed in their brightest and boldest colours […]
Live lessons have been a success
Class 3 began distance learning on Monday. We have been having a live maths and phonics lesson everyday. Children have been taking a full and active part in the lessons […]
Y5 & 6 Live Fitness Session
All about South America
In literacy this week we began by researching all about South America. We found lots of interesting facts. Today we started creating our information booklet. We designed our front cover […]
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 […]
Anti-bullying week in Year 1
This week is Anti- bullying week and we have been wearing our odd socks at home (as we are isolating) to celebrate individuality and to show that we are all […]
How far will your aeroplane travel?
Over the past two days class 3 have designed and made an aeroplane. There challenge was to create a plane that would fly 2 metres or more. They have worked […]
Anti-Bullying Week Assembly
Just incase you missed it … here is the wonderful assembly we had this morning with Mrs Foxley-Johnson, Mrs Fearnley and the rest of our academy:
Thank you Miss Bogle
In Chestnuts Class we have been learning about Road Safety. As part of our creative topic afternoon, some of the children chose to make our lovely lollipop lady Miss Bogle […]
Learning all about South America
The children in class 3 have loved literacy today. They have been researching all about South America. They have found interesting facts, the languages that are spoken, countries in South […]
Sorting
In Numeracy today, we have been learning that collections of objects can be sorted into sets based on attributes such as colour, size and shape. We have being helping our […]
Y3 Distanced Learning
Over the last few days, Class 4 have been set the challenge of designing their own new and original shop that would be in Meadowhall. Yesterday they drew, thought of […]
KS1 PE
Phonics at home
Our live phonics session didn’t go as well as planned, but hopefully tomorrow will be better. Well done to all the children in Chestnuts Class who have had a go […]
Odd Socks Day in Chestnuts Class
This week is Anti-Bullying week and it began today with Odd Socks Day. A day where children are encouraged to where to odd socks to school (or at home, because […]
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, […]
Roughwood Sport Leaders
Odd Socks Day 2020!
We are overwhelmed with the wonderful pictures sent in to teachers for Odd Sock’s Day as part of Anti Bullying Week. Our Odd Socks send out our message of equality and […]
Class 3 know how to stay safe when crossing the road
Being at home hasn’t stopped class 3 from creating some amazing videos to let others know how to cross the road safely. We read the story Super Cat’s Road Safety […]
Y3 Science Distanced Learning
Some lovely pieces of Science learning during distanced learning today! Well done – you have learnt lots about the human body and its organs.
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 […]
Our first day learning from home
Today is the first day the KS1 bubble have spent at home. We had our first zoom meeting so that we all know what to expect on Monday and we […]
Children in Need Day
Children at Roughwood Primary School have dressed in spots today to support Children in Need. A big thank you to all parents and carers who made a donation!
Newsletter 13th November
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. We have had a great first two weeks back at school. The newsletter this week contains important information about Christmas. Thank […]
Y3 STEM ROBOTS
Over the last few weeks, Y3 have been discussing the future of the steel industry and whether or not workers will be replaced with machine robots. We have done lots […]
Mental Health Ambassadors
Our Mental Health Ambassadors have been taking part in their first training session with ‘With me in Mind’ and have been challenged to how our children view mental health and […]
Air Raid Evacuation Videos 2020
As part of the Year 6 topic (How Does War Change Lives) this term, the children have been busy creating WW2 air raid evacuation videos detailing what to do in […]
Electrical circuits in Y6
Year 6 have made a fantastic start to their new electricity topic in Science today! This afternoon, we’ve been reflecting on previous learning by building simple circuits, and then observing […]
2020 Remembrance Day Assembly
This week, Year 6 have been busy preparing our Remembrance Day assembly. The video covers the importance of Remembrance Day and why a Poppy is used to symbolize this special […]
German word hunt in Y6
Class 9 had a fantastic time, this afternoon, learning some new German vocabulary with a hunt around the yard!
Year 1 & 2 Fitness
Year 3 & 4 Hockey
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 […]
Y6 Video Editing
Year 6 have made a fantastic start to video editing this morning on iMovie! Take a look …
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, […]
Long Division Relay in Y6W
Today we have used teamwork, communication and problem solving in our ‘away from the desk’ maths.
Foundation
This morning, Foundation have been extremely busy with there learning. What a wonderful environment and such creative activities. It’s wonderful to see children using ICT to support their learning too. […]
Filming has started in Year 6!
This morning, classes 8 & 9 began filming their videos on how to survive an air raid. Their teamwork skills have been exceptional and we can’t wait to share the […]
Year 5&6 Football
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 […]
NEWSLETTER 23RD OCTOBER
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. Have a wonderful week for half-term and keep safe. We hope to see all children back in school on Monday 2nd […]
Year 3 Newspapers
Over the last few weeks, Y3 have been writing a newspaper recount all about the break-in at the bakery in our class text, Meet me by the Steelmen. Today we […]
Year 5 & 6 Hockey
Class 9 visit Eden Camp!
Class 9 have had the most amazing day exploring Eden Camp today! The children have been absolutely fantastic – they’ve been asking so many interesting questions, looking really carefully and […]
Evacuee Art Y6
Children in Year 6 have been focusing on the proportions of the human boys while drawing evacuees. We have used pencil and markers to draw the outline and we are […]
Y6D ‘Away from the desk’ Maths
Today, in Y6D, we decided to take our learning outdoors and have some fun with exploring short division by applying our knowledge of bus stop method to questions in different […]
Year 6 visit Crucial Crew
Classes 8 and 9 have had a fantastic day today, learning all about how to stay safe, at Crucial Crew.