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Category Archives: Educational Visit

At Roughwood, every year group plan three educational visits per year to enhance the topic and to bring learning to life. Visits are a key part of our curriculum and give children first-hand experiences which last a lifetime.

Year 4’s survival adventure with Pop’s!

Thursday, 5th Novemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

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 […]

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Year 4’s survival adventure with Pop’s!

Thursday, 5th Novemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

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 […]

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Y6 Visit Kelham Island

Tuesday, 3rd Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 6 visited Kelham Island today to discover Sheffield’s involvement within WWII. They have learned about the lives of those who worked in the steel industry during WWII, the importance […]

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School Council Visit Town Hall

Featuredby Mr Williams

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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Year 5 & 6 Science and Media Museum

Featuredby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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

Featuredby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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

Featuredby misshsingleton Leave a comment

We had a wonderful trip to the Rotherham Transport Museum.

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Shakespeare at the Civic

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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

Anti-Bullying Drama

Wednesday, 18th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

A huge thank you to the students at Rotherham College for delivering their Anti-Bulling Drama performance to all of our pupils across the academy.  We really appreciate and value you […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Well-being, Year 5, Year 6

Rotherham Minster

Thursday, 5th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 5 took part in a concert for parents and the public at the Rotherham Minster. It was the first time many of our children had been inside the Minster […]

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Educational Visit, Music

Singing at McCalls

Wednesday, 4th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Roughwood has spread some Christmas cheer today by singing carols at the local shop. We raised over £20 for school and all the residents who joined us had a wonderful […]

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Christmas, Educational Visit, Music

“I’m not scared,” said the Gruffalo’s Child!

Monday, 2nd Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In Acorns, we had a wonderful time with Pop. He set up the outdoor area based on the book we have been reading, The Gruffalo’s Child. To start with, we […]

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POP’s Outdoor Adventure

Wednesday, 27th Novemberby misshsingleton 1 Comment

We have had a wonderful afternoon in FS2 and have created some fantastic pictures based on our Literacy Text ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’.

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Meeting MP Sarah Champion

Friday, 22nd Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week our School Council were lucky enough to spend an afternoon with MP Sarah Champion. We got the opportunity to ask her lots of questions about her role as […]

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Banquo is doomed!

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

This morning, we watched the scene where Macbeth kills the King, blames it on the guards and is made King of Scotland.

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Educational Visit, Literacy, News and Events, Year 5

Year 5 and Year 5/6 take part in a Shakespeare performance workshop

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

Such a treat on Tuesday morning to have a workshop and short performance of ‘Macbeth’ from the talented ‘Young Shakespeare Company’.‘

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Water Works!

Thursday, 14th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 6 have spent a fascinating afternoon at Ewden Water Treatment Works today. Huge thanks to our guides, Charlotte and Helena, from Yorkshire Water 💦 who made it so interesting! […]

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Together Old and Young: Integrational Learning

Wednesday, 13th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This afternoon in Acorns, we have taken part in the first piece of our Nemesis project. Our goal for Nemesis is to create sustainable partnerships between different communities. We kick […]

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Acorns, Educational Visit, News and Events, Our learning, Social Innovation

Crucial Crew with Y6

Friday, 18th Octoberby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

The children have learnt so much today at Crucial Crew. We have learnt about road safety, first aid, criminal responsibility, internet safety and hate crime. A very informative but fun […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Philosophy for Children, Year 6

From rain to sun on Lindisfarne

Wednesday, 25th Septemberby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

We have crossed the causeway to Holy Island and are now stranded till 4 when the tide goes out. It’s a good job there’s lots to see and do and […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Residentials, Year 6

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Featuredby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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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Leanimals Mobile Zoo

Friday, 12th Julyby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

What a fantastic first week in Year 1 this week, the children have really settled in well. Today we were lucky to have Leanne and her animals visit from Leanimals […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Year 1

Year 6 Prom

Tuesday, 25th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This evening, year 6 children from Roughwood, Greasbrough and Rockingham joined together for an unforgettable prom. The theme was neon and there were some magnificent ourfits and that’s just the […]

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Educational Visit, Well-being, Year 6

A visit to Church

Tuesday, 25th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today Class 2 have enjoyed a visit to church. In RE we have been learning all about Bible stories. We thought it would be interesting to experience a Bible story […]

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Roughwood at Rufford

Thursday, 20th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Hoober were the house cup winners this year, so a fantastic day was had by all at Rufford Abbey! A beautiful setting and fabulous day all round. Well done, Hoober!

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Class 2’s trip to Sheffield

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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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Year 5 Visiting Science and Media museum

Monday, 18th Marchby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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Class 4’s Visit to Tesco Bakery

Featuredby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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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A few more moments from Kelham Island

Monday, 4th Marchby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Year 6 have has a magnificent visit to Kelham Island as part of their learning about WWII. Children all dressed up as Evacuees and had a brilliant immersive day of […]

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F1- Curious Kids Town

Sunday, 3rd Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week we visited Curious Kids Town in Sheffield. This visit is to support our topic, learning all about people who help us. The children had a great time dressing […]

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Curious Kids Town

Tuesday, 26th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today our F2 children are visiting Curious Kids Town in Sheffield. This visit is to support our topic, learning all about different occupations. Children are having a fantastic time being […]

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Ilam Hall

Friday, 15th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Over the past few days (12th to 14th) the children from class 6 and 7 have been explorers in Ilam. On Tuesday, we settled into the hall, unpacked our clothes […]

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Year 3 Magna Visit

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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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Harry Potter Sleepover

Saturday, 2nd Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Well what a success the sleepover has been. The children were transported through Platform 9 and 3/4 to Hogwarts. From here they were all sorted into the four houses. Each […]

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Magna

Friday, 25th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Yesterday we had our educational visit to Magna. We enjoyed exploring the different areas Fire, Water, Earth and Air. We even made our own slime. Class 2  Class 3 Class […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Year 1, Year 2

Rotherham Civic Theatre

Featuredby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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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POP’s Outdoor Adventure

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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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Crucial Crew

Friday, 30th Novemberby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Y6 had a fun and informative day at Crucial Crew today. We explored how to keep ourselves and others safe in lots of different scenarios.

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Year 6 WWI Drama

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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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Beekeeping

Tuesday, 16th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children in FS2 have had a lovely time this morning learning all about bees and beekeeping. They had the opportunity to learn about how wax is made and had a […]

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Butterfly House

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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

Zoo Lab

Saturday, 6th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week children had a visit from Zoo Lab. Children learnt many facts about a selection of animals, through an interactive and hands on session. Meet Sally Snail, Carla Cockroach, […]

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Chesnuts, Educational Visit, News and Events, Science

Kelham Island

Monday, 22nd Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today, the children in Class 9 visited Kelham Island Museum as part of their World War II topic learning. The children really got into the spirit by dressing up as […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Year 6

Class 5 – Cannon Hall Farm Trip

Thursday, 28th Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Firstly, we were so glad that the rain stayed away and the sun shone for our trip to Cannon Hall Farm. Once we arrived at the farm the children were […]

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Class 3 visited Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Tuesday 19th September. We had a fantastic day.

Tuesday, 26th Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Cannon Hall Farm visit

Tuesday, 19th Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

  Class 6 visited Cannon Hall Farm on Tuesday 19th September, and what a day we had! Firstly, we were all really glad that there wasn’t any sign of rain! […]

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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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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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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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