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Potato Power in Year 4!

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Year 4 have had an exciting afternoon of investigation in Science today! We’ve been learning about electrical circuits and about what makes a circuit complete, so our research question today […]

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Science, Year 4

Authors, Illustrators and Story Book Makers …

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Y4G have become all 3! Mrs Graham is so proud she’s even starting to rhyme! We’ve been writing our own stories, based on our class text, Stig of the Dump, […]

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Literacy, Year 4

End of Term Assembly

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This week we have held our end of term assembly to wish all children a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We have also celebrated some of the wonderful […]

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X Factor 2020

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Our yearly X-Factor has been a huge hit this year despite the challenges we faced. This year we have performed virtually, which is a huge challenge for our acts because […]

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Christmas, Well-being

CHRISTMAS DINNER & JUMPER DAY

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Christmas is getting ever closer so today we held our traditional Christmas Dinner & Jumper day. Children and staff had wonderful outfits in school.   Our wonderful cooks prepared a brilliant […]

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Christmas

Year 5 Rocket Launch!

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What an amazing morning we’ve had today in Y5NS!   We launched our model rockets into space from the playground and watched them fall back to Earth … but did […]

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Design & Technology, News and Events, Science, Year 5

Christingle 2020

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We have not forgotten our traditions at Roughwood and we have continued with our Christingle celebrations this year in 2020. All children in school have created a Christingle to celebrate […]

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Christmas, News and Events

Remembrance Service

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“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, […]

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History, News and Events, PSHCE, Well-being

Harvest Festival 2020

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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, […]

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Media & Films, News and Events, RE, Seasonal

World Mental Health Day

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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 […]

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Well-being

Remote Learning

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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 […]

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Distance Learning, History, Year 6

Drumming Year 4

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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 […]

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Music, Year 4

Attendance Certificates 2019-2020

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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 […]

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News and Events, Well-being

Google Internet Legend Assembly

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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 […]

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Computing, News and Events, Online Safety, Well-being

School Council 2020/2021

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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 […]

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Sports Day 2020 #Virtual

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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. […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, News and Events, Sports, Well-being, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Y6 Create Air Raid Precaution Video’s for WWII

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Year 6 have been busy creating Air Raid Precaution (ARP) video’s to demonstrate the importance of being prepared during World War 2.

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Media & Films, News and Events

NSPCC Dance-a-Thon

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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 […]

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Media & Films, News and Events, Social Innovation, Sports, Well-being, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

School Council Visit Town Hall

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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.

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Educational Visit, News and Events, PSHCE

Year 5 & 6 Science and Media Museum

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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 […]

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Computing, Design & Technology, Educational Visit, News and Events, Year 5

Y3 Steel Investigation Day at Kelham Island Museum

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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! […]

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Educational Visit, History, Science, Year 3

Rotherham Transport Museum

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We had a wonderful trip to the Rotherham Transport Museum.

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Educational Visit, News and Events

Class 4 – investigating the effects of friction

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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 […]

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Science, Year 3

Shakespeare at the Civic

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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 […]

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Educational Visit, Literacy, Year 5

Year 6 – Online Safety

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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 […]

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News and Events, Online Safety, Year 6

Year 5/6 explore Graham Grimm’s mind

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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 […]

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News and Events

Young Voices 2020

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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 […]

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Music, News and Events, Well-being

X-Factor 2019

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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 […]

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Christmas, News and Events, Well-being

Magnificent Performance of Dick Whittington

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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 […]

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Christmas, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Christmas Video 2019

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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. […]

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News and Events

A Miracle in Town – KS1 Nativity 2019

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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 […]

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Christmas, News and Events, Year 1, Year 2

Foundation Nativity 2019

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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 […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, Christmas

Christingle 2019

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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 […]

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Christmas, News and Events, RE

Making bird feeders

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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 […]

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News and Events, Social Innovation

Green Screen Poetry

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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 […]

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Computing, Literacy, News and Events, Year 6

Visit to Tropical World

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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 […]

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Geography, Science, Year 3

Harvest Festival Assembly

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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 […]

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Art, Music, News and Events

Times Tables Rock Star

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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 […]

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Family Learning, Maths, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

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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 […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events

Yearly Awards

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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 […]

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Chesnuts, News and Events, Philosophy for Children, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Music Concert at Roughwood

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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 […]

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Music, News and Events

Sports Day 2019

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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 […]

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News and Events, Sports, Well-being

Year 6 Leavers Assembly

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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 […]

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News and Events, Year 6

Class 2’s trip to Sheffield

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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 […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Year 1

The Great Fire of London

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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 […]

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History, News and Events

Class 4’s Visit to Tesco Bakery

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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 […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events

Year 5 animation sets

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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. […]

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Computing, News and Events

Year 3 Magna Visit

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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. […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Year 3

Rotherham Civic Theatre

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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 […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events

Magical Potions

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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 […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 1

Young Voices 2019

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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 […]

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News and Events, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

POP’s Outdoor Adventure

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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 […]

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Acorns, Educational Visit, News and Events

Year 6 WWI Drama

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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 […]

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Educational Visit, Year 6

Butterfly House

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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 […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Year 3

Class 3’s Science investigation – How to hatch a dinosaur egg.

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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, […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 1, Year 2

Moorland Discovery Centre

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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 […]

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News and Events, Year 1

Elected School Council

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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. […]

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Tea Time Club

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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. […]

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Stone Age Workshop – Class 6

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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 […]

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News and Events, Our learning, Year 3

Bloodhound Rocket Car Challenge

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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. […]

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News and Events, Year 6

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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Special Mentions

Friday, 26th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Another brilliant week of remote e-learning this week. We are proud of everyone for their resilience and determination to continue learning from home. As we usually have Special Mentions in […]

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Talk 4 Writing in Year 4

Thursday, 25th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 had a fantastic morning today, learning to explain the 4 steps of the water cycle using Talk 4 Writing. We were all amazed at how fast we could […]

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Literacy, Year 4

STEM Project Designs in Year 4

Wednesday, 24th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 made a fantastic start to their STEM projects today, carefully drawing and labelling their own wind turbine designs! We first made a prototype, to help us to visualise […]

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Design & Technology, Science, Year 4

Hot-seating as Nicholas Young in Class 8

Monday, 22nd Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

What a brilliant first day back it has been today in Class 8. In our Literacy live session this morning, we have used the drama technique ‘hot-seating’ as an explorative […]

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Persuasive Leaflets in Year 4

Friday, 12th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

The children in Year 4 have been working extremely hard this week, on their persuasive writing. Take a look at their final published pieces … Fantastic learning, well done Year […]

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Year 4

Special Mentions

Friday, 12th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Another brilliant week of remote e-learning this week. We are proud of everyone for their resilience and determination to continue learning from home. As we usually have Special Mentions in […]

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Class 8’s ‘End of half term Kahoot Quiz’

Friday, 12th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

To celebrate our achievements at the end of this challenging half term of remote learning, Miss Dungworth and Mr Calvert arranged a Kahoot Quiz with Class 8 testing their general […]

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Y6D – Creatively converting Decimals to Fractions!

Friday, 12th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

In Maths, Class 8 have begun to look at how to display decimals as fractions and had a go at converting these on our very own designed ‘Decimals to Fractions’ […]

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News and Events

KS1 Well-being meeting

Friday, 12th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This morning to end our half term on a high key stage one all got together to have a quiz and celebrate what an amazing half term of remote learning […]

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Distance Learning, Year 1, Year 2

Maths escape room

Friday, 12th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today in our live maths lesson class 3 found themselves lost in a potion lab and had to solve the clues to get out. They had to use all of […]

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Distance Learning, Maths, Year 2

Newsletter 12th February

Friday, 12th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been a challenging yet rewarding term for remote learning. We could not be prouder of our children, parents and […]

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Happy Friday in Class 9

Friday, 12th Februaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

As we are at the end of a very strange half term, we have taken some time this morning to reflect on the things that make us happy. It has […]

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News and Events

KS1 Live P4C

Wednesday, 10th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week KS1 hosted our first live P4C session. We used our literacy text ‘Professor Puffendorf’s Secret Potions’ to create a stimulus for the children to discuss. This stimulus focused […]

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Distance Learning, Philosophy for Children, Year 1, Year 2

In school afternoon Art lesson with Miss Sare

Wednesday, 10th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Miss Sare’s bubble had a screen free afternoon and continued to develop our sketching and shading skills. We looked at how to create tone to our learning. We look […]

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Art, Well-being, Year 3

Peer critique in Class 9

Wednesday, 10th Februaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Over the last 2 weeks, class 9 have been writing detailed setting descriptions using extended metaphors based on our class text, Stowaway. Today we have praised each other’s efforts and […]

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Literacy, News and Events

Investigating microorganisms in Y6

Tuesday, 9th Februaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Over the last 2 weeks, Class 9 have been investigating conditions that increase or restrict the development of organisms. The children observed how fungi, a type of microorganisms which we […]

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News and Events, Science

Y5/6 PE

Friday, 5th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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News and Events, Sports, Year 5, Year 6

Persuasive Posters in Year 4

Friday, 5th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 have made a fantastic start to their new Literacy learning this week on persuasion! Take a look at their persuasive posters about taking care of our world …

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Literacy, Year 4

KS1 Mental Health Week

Friday, 5th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week the key stage 1 children have been completing a variety of challenges that promotes good mental health. A key element of mental health is reflection, therefore the children […]

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Distance Learning, Our learning, Well-being, Year 1, Year 2

Special Mentions

Friday, 5th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Another brilliant week of remote e-learning this week. We are proud of everyone for their resilience and determination to continue learning from home. As we usually have Special Mentions in […]

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News and Events

Year 5 – Crack the code!

Friday, 5th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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News and Events

Y6D are ‘Internet Safety’ superstars!

Thursday, 4th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

This week, Class 8 were asked to create an internet safety poster including some of the SMART rules we have learnt about in ICT. We have focused on the importance […]

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News and Events

Interesting Open ended Discussions in Y3S

Thursday, 4th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today in Literacy Miss Sare decided to host an oracy based live lesson whereby children had the chance to give their opinions on really open ended philosophical style questions. Children […]

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Distance Learning, Literacy, Philosophy for Children, Year 3

Snow day

Wednesday, 3rd Februaryby misshsingleton Leave a comment

The children in Foundation had a wonderful day yesterday exploring our snowy school grounds.

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News and Events

Princess Pearl needs…

Wednesday, 3rd Februaryby misshsingleton Leave a comment

We have been using the book Zog and the Flying Doctors by Julia Donaldson as a stimulus for our topic learning. As a creative hook, we have been making the […]

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Fractions in Year 4

Tuesday, 2nd Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Today, Year 4 started some brand new learning in Maths, all about Fractions! The children were very reflective learners – they showed us that they remembered lots about fractions, from […]

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Maths, Year 4

Well-being Tuesday

Tuesday, 2nd Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Since the start of lockdown class 2 and 3 have been really missing seeing each other. So today we decided to have a catch up. The children all brought something […]

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Distance Learning, Year 1, Year 2

Some beautifully presented published pieces in Y3S

Tuesday, 2nd Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 have finished their instructional writing genre and made time to publish their learning to the highest quality! Miss Sare was proud that the children continued to remember their […]

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Literacy, Year 3

Year 4 P4C

Tuesday, 2nd Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 have had a fantastic live lesson this morning! We launched our new Literacy genre with a wonderful, whole year group P4C enquiry! The children had so many ideas […]

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Philosophy for Children, Year 4

Roughwood’s Spring Art Competition

Monday, 1st Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Do you love being creative and using your imaginative skills? Do you love expressing yourself using many different art techniques? If so, create a unique piece of art using ‘Spring’ […]

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Art, Distance Learning, News and Events

Y3S – 2D Shapes Top Trumps

Monday, 1st Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Y3S were set the task of designing and creating their own 2D shaped top trump game. They had to use key mathematical vocabulary that they had learnt in their live […]

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Art, Maths, Year 3

KS1 PE

Monday, 1st Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Superb effort from the children in school during our live PE lesson. They all showed amazing resilience throughout. Outstanding from all the children at home who joined in live PE. […]

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News and Events, Sports, Year 1, Year 2

SUMDOG contest 2021 results are in…

Sunday, 31st Januaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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News and Events

Special Mentions

Friday, 29th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Another brilliant week of remote e-learning this week. We are proud of everyone for their resilience and determination to continue learning from home. As we usually have Special Mentions in […]

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News and Events, Our learning

NEWSLETTER 29TH JANUARY

Friday, 29th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been a challenging yet rewarding two weeks of remote learning. We could not be prouder of our children, parents […]

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Newsletters

Live Handwriting Lesson in Y3S

Friday, 29th Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Miss Sare thoroughly enjoyed doing a live handwriting session today in preparation for the children publishing their instructions learning from the last 2 weeks. The children loved holding up their […]

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Literacy, Year 3

Year 5 begin their embroidery – Lockdown 2021

Thursday, 28th Januaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, Year 5

Exploring Area in Year 4

Thursday, 28th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Today’s Challenge: how many different shapes can you make with the same area of 10 squares? Take a look at some of our findings … Fantastic learning, Year 4! Well […]

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Maths, Year 4

Spending time together in Class 6 …

Thursday, 28th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

As part of Well-being Week, Class 6 decided to have an informal live session this afternoon … not about learning, but about making each other smile, enjoying each other’s company […]

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Philosophy for Children, Well-being, Year 4

‘Well-being Wednesday’ in Year 1

Wednesday, 27th Januaryby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

A chance to have a chat with our friends. Since lockdown Class 1 have are really missing the day to day conversations with our friends, the opportunity to share our […]

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Scavenger Hunt

Wednesday, 27th Januaryby misshsingleton Leave a comment

This week is our school’s Mental Health Awareness week. Our morning tasks have been fun but relaxing activities which promote good mental health and set us up for the day […]

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Waterproof

Wednesday, 27th Januaryby misshsingleton Leave a comment

As part of our topic, we have been looking at the uniforms worn by postal workers around the world. We have discussed how their uniform is suited to the weather […]

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The journey of a letter

Wednesday, 27th Januaryby misshsingleton Leave a comment

We have been using the book, The Jolly Postman as a stimulus for our topic learning. We have been learning about the role of a postman and the important job […]

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Professor Puffendorf

Tuesday, 26th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today in literacy we started our new text Professor Puffendorf’s secret potions. Children were asked to draw the main character and around her use expanded noun phrases and adjectives to […]

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Distance Learning, Literacy, Year 2

Class 8 create decimal function machines in Maths

Tuesday, 26th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Today, Class 8 have been learning about how to divide decimals by 10, 100 and 1000. We used visuals on our live session to demonstrate that when dividing, the numbers […]

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KS1 learning at school

Tuesday, 26th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Yesterday I had the privilege of working with these children at school. It was fantastic to see how engaged they was with the tasks that had been set. We tried […]

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Our learning, Year 1, Year 2

Class 2 well-being session

Tuesday, 26th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

On Friday class 2 decided to have a wellbeing quiz! We shared our favourite memories of the current lockdown and had a fun film themed quiz after. It was great […]

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Distance Learning, Family Learning, Well-being, Year 1, Year 2

Y3S ‘Well-being Hangout’

Monday, 25th Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Since lockdown Class 4 have really been missing socialising with their class friends and teachers. So today Miss Sare decided to hold their first weekly ‘Hang out – Well-being session’. […]

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Well-being, Year 3

Making Acute, Obtuse and Right Angles in Y3S

Monday, 25th Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

As part of our properties of shape unit, Y3 have been looking at turns, right angles and different directions. We are now looking at identifying and comparing acute, obtuse and […]

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Maths, Year 3

Brilliant biographies in Class 8

Monday, 25th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Class 8 have been finding out about the life of explorer Captain James Cook and have conducted research into each of his famous expeditions in order to be able to […]

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News and Events

Special Mentions

Friday, 22nd Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Another brilliant week of remote e-learning this week. We are proud of everyone for their resilience and determination to continue learning from home. As we usually have Special Mentions in […]

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Showing tone and texture in Class 9

Thursday, 21st Januaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Today, the children have used shading and techniques such as cross hatching and blending to create detailed pictures of sea shells. The results are stunning.

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What happens when you put an egg in vinegar?

Thursday, 21st Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

The children in school have been very busy over the past two days carrying out a science investigation. They put an egg in vinegar and left it for 24 hours […]

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Science, Year 1, Year 2

Oracy Instructional Videos from Y3S

Thursday, 21st Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Miss Sare asked the children to film themselves giving some spoken instructions. Following the live lesson, Miss Sare asked them to ensure they included time conjunctions aswell as imperative […]

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Literacy, Year 3

First Attempt Sketches in Y3S

Thursday, 21st Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 were given a task to research some following Art vocabulary and then apply them to their sketching attempt number one. They then had to follow some step by […]

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Art, Year 3

SUMDOG maths contest at RPS – January 2021

Tuesday, 19th Januaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Place value chart creations in Class 8!

Tuesday, 19th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Our current Maths unit in Class 8 is decimals. One of the first things to learn about decimals is the place value which is the position of a digit in […]

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Observational Drawing in Y4

Monday, 18th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 children have been using their resilience skills in Art this afternoon, carefully observing and drawing what they see. Take a look … Well done everyone!

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Art, Year 4

Acrostic poems

Monday, 18th Januaryby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

Today, Class 1 have been identifying features of acrostic poems in preparation for our literacy learning this week We had a go at creating some of our own acrostic poems […]

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Class 2 – Learning in the snow

Friday, 15th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Snow days can be a distraction when learning but in class 2 we have been using it to our advantage. We have been practising our addition and times table in […]

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Distance Learning, Maths, Reading, Year 1, Year 2

Special Mentions

Friday, 15th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

What a brilliant week of remote e-learning this week. We are proud of everyone for their resilience and determination to continue learning from home. As we usually have Special Mentions […]

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Outstanding written outcomes in Class 9

Friday, 15th Januaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Over the last week, we have learnt about the amazing life of Captain James Cook. The children have written biographies describing the life and times of this historically significant explorer. […]

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Using our history skills in Class 9

Friday, 15th Januaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Class 9 have shown an excellent understanding of chronology for important historic events with their creative timelines about Captain Cooks voyages.

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Newsletter 14th January

Friday, 15th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. Thank you for your support in making the transition to remote learning as smooth as possible. Newsletter Spr Wk 2   […]

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Live French in Year 4!

Friday, 15th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a fantastic first live French lesson today for Year 4!  The children were absolutely amazing – joining in, following on with the actions and even learning a brand new […]

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Languages, News and Events, Year 4

Descriptive Writing in Y4

Friday, 15th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Classes 5 & 6 have really wowed us this week with their descriptive writing about Stig from Stig of the Dump! They’ve been so creative with their language choices and […]

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Literacy, Year 4

Y3S Spontaneous Snow Maths

Thursday, 14th Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

As usual class 4 rose to the challenge and did such a fabulous job at creating their snow creatures and then accurately measuring them! Well done children! What a creative, […]

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Distance Learning, Geography, Maths, Well-being, Year 3

Miss Sare attempted her own Maths Challenge!

Thursday, 14th Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Miss Sare had a go at her own Maths challenge and loved it! Class 4 are excited to give it a go too! Keep checking the website to see their […]

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Distance Learning, Geography, Year 3

Y3 SNOW CHALLENGE…

Thursday, 14th Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Y3’s have been set a spontaneous snow maths tasks seen as it’s snowing heavily. They have been learning all about length and height over the last few weeks so Miss […]

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Design & Technology, Distance Learning, Geography, Well-being, Year 3

Arrays

Wednesday, 13th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Class 3 today in maths have been using arrays to solve multiplication questions. They were challenged to be as creative as possible with the arrays and they certainly succeeded.

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Distance Learning, Maths, Year 2

How do we use the internet?

Tuesday, 12th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Class 3 have spent the afternoon thinking about how they use the internet and how they keep themselves safe whilst using it. As a class they have come up with […]

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Distance Learning, PSHCE, Year 2

PE with Mr Tyas

Tuesday, 12th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 3&4 have been absolutely amazing this afternoon in PE! Well done!

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News and Events, Year 3, Year 4

Exploring Captain James Cook in Class 8

Tuesday, 12th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

In our Guided Reading session this morning, we had the opportunity to ‘explore the explorer’ Captain James Cook from our book Stowaway. We combined our prior knowledge and new learning […]

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