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 […]
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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 […]
Christmas Staff Video 2020
Staff have created a bubble, socially distanced, Christmas Video this year and since we cannot sing we have used our Makaton to help us. We hope you enjoy the performance. […]
KS2 Christmas Poem 2020
A huge thank you to all the children and staff who took part in this year’s KS2 performance of “Twas The Night Before Christmas” which looks fantastic. Although we couldn’t […]
KS1 Nativity 2020
Well done to all children in key stage one for creating such a fantastic performance. You all looked amazing and worked so hard learning your lines and Makaton for the […]
KS2 Football
KS2 Hockey
KS1 Fitness
KS1 continued with their topic of fitness. The children really challenged themselves and showed great resilience during our circuit, which involved a lot of running and jumping.
FS2 Christmas Nativity
Well done to all the children in the chestnuts class who took part in our Nativity today. You looked fantastic and worked so hard to learn your lines and the […]
Year 5 Rocket Launch!
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 […]
Music in school, followed by instrumental lessons from home!
With thanks to Rotherham Music Service, the children at Roughwood Primary School have been creating their own Christmas rhythms and practising them on djembes. As we’re not having external visitors […]
Roughwood Road Safety Officers
Elainor and Charlie have been selected as our school Road Safety officers. Watch out for their Road Safety video and events coming soon.
Advent Calendar
We are counting down to Christmas in Chestnut’s class with our book advent calendar. Everyday we have been opening and sharing a Christmassy themed book. We have read The Night […]
Let it Snow, Let it Snow…
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Can’t keep us in anymore… We couldn’t wait to get out in the snow on Friday!
Christingle 2020
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 […]
KS2 Football
KS2 enjoyed being back outside for their PE lesson. After developing a greater understand of passing and moving off the ball, they participated in some small sided games. The children’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Baking up a treat!
The children in Chestnuts class have been following Mrs Lunn’s recipes to bake some tasty treats.
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 […]