1000 degree heat in Year 4!
What an amazing experience we had today in Year 4! We were very privileged today to watch Mr Brooks, from Casting Innovations, melt real aluminium cans and mould them into […]
Category Archives: News and Events
News and Events contain everything. Here you can find all posts that show what has been happening in school but if you want to find something specific, take a look at the ‘Our Learning’ or ‘Subjects’ menus.
Cycle Skills
Easter Celebration Video
This year, the children at Roughwood Primary have created a video to celebrate the meaning of Easter by retelling the Easter story and sharing some of their artwork and poetry.
Attendance Winner Breakfast
What a great start to our morning on the last day of term! The children in Class 8 have enjoyed our attendance winner breakfast this morning. A huge well done […]
End of Term Assembly
Today we have held our end of term assembly. We have passed on our DoJo trophies for the last time this term and we have also given out some awards. […]
Easter bonnets
Children at Roughwood Primary have been celebrating the beginning of Spring and Easter today by wearing their very own Easter bonnets which signify new life and rebirth.
Year 4 working hard on their nemesis project …
Work started last week on developing our new outdoor learning space, with a litter pick and general tidy of the area. This week, children have helped POPs to recycle all […]
Spring Picnic
Staff and children at Roughwood Primary have been busy enjoying the good weather we have had over the last few days by having a picnic outside.
Year 3 Tag Rugby
Daily Mile
Year 5 Donate and show awareness towards Red Nose Day – Friday 19th March 2021
At Roughwood Primary, we support Comic Relief this Red Nose Day to help tackle important issues including homelessness, child poverty, domestic abuse, and mental health stigma, all of which have […]
Super Sewing in Class 6!
What a wonderful afternoon of sewing we’ve had in Mrs Graham’s class today! The children absolutely blew us away with their amazing sewing skills, showing incredible concentration, determination and patience. […]
Scooter Safety
This afternoon, Year 1, 2, 3 and 4 children have been learning about riding their scooter safely. We have had lots of fun whilst learning new skills and how to […]
Counting Cars
Unfortunately the children in Chestnuts class are learning at home this week due to bubble closure. But it hasn’t stopped us celebrating the National Census. We have met the Counting […]
STEM Club off to a great start!
Mrs Graham’s STEM Club made a fantastic start to their Knex car project, after school yesterday!
Year 4 Litter Pick
Year 4 started work today on a very exciting project with POPs! We are working towards building our very own outdoor classroom! So today, we assessed the area where it’s […]
Class 9 use persuasive language to create Captain Cook video
Class 9 have been busy creating videos to persuade people to embark on a three-year voyage around the world with captain Cook! The video’s include special offers, emotive language and […]
After School Sports Club
Class 7 return to school brilliantly – 8th March 2021
With the largest class in school (29 children), we certainly had lots of catching up and had a wonderful day back. What a fantastic first day back for class 7, […]
“Ecstatic about static electricity” – Science in Y6D
What a brilliant first day back! The children in Class 8 have been exploring and observing the effects of static charges and learning about atoms and how they are formed. […]
Hair-raising science in Y6W
This week is our science week and we have made a wonderful start to our investigation about static electricity. We have explored and observed the effects that static charges have.
Y5/6 Tag Rugby
Dinner Time Activities
Class 7 celebrate their love for reading during World Book Week 2021
From making our favourite characters out of fruit and vegetables, stitching out favourite book characters and finding out favourite places to read, what a week we’ve had! The children learning […]
Masked Reader
This week for World Book Week, teachers at Roughwood Primary have been busy sharing their stories with others. Can you guess which story belongs with which teacher? Click on the […]
SUMDOG Rotherham contest begins today – Friday 5th March 2021
Good luck everyone! See if you can compete your questions at the quickest pace possible. There will be a class winner and a winning class each day and this contest […]
SUMDOG maths contest in March 2021
The time has come again… Here’s a quick reminder that the next SUMDOG Rotherham contests begins tomorrow. This time, we’d love for children in EYFS to get involved with their […]
World book week
Reading in an unusual place. The children in class 1 took their books out of class today to find an unusual place to read.
Weaving potions
We have been developing our fine motor skills by creating some weaved potion bottles. The children were so resilient and proud of their creations that we have put them on […]
Special Mentions
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 […]
Hot-seating as Nicholas Young in Class 8
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 […]
Special Mentions
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 […]
Class 8’s ‘End of half term Kahoot Quiz’
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 […]
Y6D – Creatively converting Decimals to Fractions!
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’ […]
Happy Friday in Class 9
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 […]
Peer critique in Class 9
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 […]
Investigating microorganisms in Y6
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 […]
Y5/6 PE
Special Mentions
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 […]
Year 5 – Crack the code!
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 […]
Y6D are ‘Internet Safety’ superstars!
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 […]
Snow day
The children in Foundation had a wonderful day yesterday exploring our snowy school grounds.
Princess Pearl needs…
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 […]
Roughwood’s Spring Art Competition
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’ […]
KS1 PE
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. […]
SUMDOG contest 2021 results are in…
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 […]
Special Mentions
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 […]
‘Well-being Wednesday’ in Year 1
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 […]
Scavenger Hunt
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 […]
Waterproof
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 […]
The journey of a letter
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 […]
Class 8 create decimal function machines in Maths
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 […]
Brilliant biographies in Class 8
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 […]
Special Mentions
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 […]
Showing tone and texture in Class 9
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.
SUMDOG maths contest at RPS – January 2021
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 […]
Place value chart creations in Class 8!
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 […]
Acrostic poems
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 […]
Special Mentions
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 […]
Outstanding written outcomes in Class 9
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. […]
Using our history skills in Class 9
Class 9 have shown an excellent understanding of chronology for important historic events with their creative timelines about Captain Cooks voyages.
Live French in Year 4!
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 […]
PE with Mr Tyas
Year 3&4 have been absolutely amazing this afternoon in PE! Well done!
Exploring Captain James Cook in Class 8
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 […]
Class 6 love reading!
It’s been lovely to see so many photos of children reading at home this week – we had to share a few … Well done, Year 4! Keep it up!
Insightful, deep-thinking learning in RE from Class 9
Eager home learners in Y5/6D
Today, in our Maths distance learning live session, Y5/6D have been learning how to label our ‘x’ and ‘y’ axis and plot co-ordinates accordingly. I have been blown away by […]
Drama in Y4G
Y4G have really gone above and beyond today, getting into character as Stig from their new class book! We thought it might not work remotely but these children have shown […]
Year 5 ‘grab the bull by the horns’ – Distance learning starting success of 2021!
The idiom ‘grab the bull by the horns’ refers to ‘approaching, confronting, or dealing with a problem or difficult situation directly and with clear, confident action.’ This is exactly what […]
A great turn out for our live lessons in Class 9
Class 9 made a fantastic start to their online learning with an excellent turn out for our maths lesson, including some ‘hybrid’ learning with children in school and children at […]
Marvellous Mixtures
Children is class 3 today have made a fantastic start to distance learning and have been extremely creative. For literacy today they had to imagine that they worked in a […]
Back to school
Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 key worker children have loved being back in school today. Phonics, reading, potion making, french, maths, circle time, outdoor play, smashing ice and building […]
Measuring and Converting in Y4G
Mrs Graham’s class have made a wonderful start to remote Maths learning today, recapping how to measure in cm and convert to mm. Take a look at their amazing outcomes […]
Christmas Tinkercad designs in Y5/6D!
During our first week back at school after isolating but our last week of the term, we have been getting into the Christmas spirit by using Tinkercad in ICT to […]
End of Term Assembly
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 […]