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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.
Young Writers of The Future
We regularly enter competitions for aspiring writers or artists and sometimes we win. Pictured here are Erin and Isla O’Donoghue who did just that. They both submitted poems to the […]
Joseph and his Overcoat!
For the first time ever, this year we decided to do something a little different at Christmas and have a whole school concert. It is a good few years since […]
STEM Viking Longships
This afternoon, Class 9 invited their parents into class to complete a STEM activity, which was inspired by our Viking topic. With their parents, the children have made some excellent […]
Christmas is Here!
The most conclusive proof that we are firmly on the road to Bethlehem came today, when the children in our Foundation Stage performed their nativity for the rest of the […]
Out in The City With The Poetry Club
After-school clubs have finished for a while now, but the Poetry Club have left us with this little offering – the poem, “Out in The City” by Gareth Owen. To […]
Campfire Poems
Class 8 today gave parents and carers a fabulous performance of their poems and stories, whilst sitting round a cosy campfire. Afterwards, everyone enjoyed biscuits and hot chocolate. One of […]
Mokee Joe is Back!
We’re really proud and pleased to be the first school in the world to see the new (and last) book in the Mokee Joe series and to have welcomed […]
All Different, All Equal
Today, six of our Year 6 pupils attended the Anti-Bullying showcase to watch films, poems and songs from a number of schools in the authority, based around the theme of […]
Poems for Remembrance Day
Children in Key Stage 1 have been learning Remembrance Day poems ready to perform in assembly this afternoon. Poem 1 Poem 2
Remembrance
After a week of selling poppies and other items to raise money for The Royal British Legion, today we had a two minutes silence to remember all those in the various […]
Reading Buddies
                          Year 2 children in class 4 are really enjoying reading with their year 6 reading buddies and would like to thank them for giving up part of their […]
How does paint dance?
Class 2 have been investigating the question ‘How does paint dance?’ in our P4C sessions. We used the picture from ‘The Noisy Paint Box’ to explore this in more detail […]
Class 7’s Poetry Anthology
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P4C – The Noisy Paintbox by Class 5
We listened to the story ‘The Noisy Paintbox’Noisy Paintbox – Scanned and had a reflection time to understand what we have read/listened to. We then worked in pairs to come […]
The Noisy Paint Box by Class 4
       After watching the story of The Noisy Paint Box, children voted on their favourite picture from the book as a stimulus for their P4C enquiry. This is the one […]
The Noisy Paint Box
We used the stimulus of ‘The Noisy Paint Box’ for our P4C enquiry. We listened to the story and used 4 pictures from the book to discuss some questions. Each group […]
Tickled Pink
School looked a bit like candy floss today as all the staff dressed in pink to show their support for the “Tickled Pink Day” (officially tomorrow) which is to raise […]
Mental Addition – Year 3
Our maths learning this week has focused on addition strategies. Whilst we have been focusing on column addition, we also have been thinking about strategies for mental addition. We have […]
Road Safety in Class 5
This afternoon class 5 had a road safety session with the people from company ‘Gist’. They spoke to us about being safe on the roads. Did you know a lorry […]
Science Club
On Monday nights we have our after school clubs. One of the clubs is Science Club – in Science club we have been carrying out a few different experiments. These […]
Rhyme & Poetry Show
Today, the children in Key Stage 1 and Foundation Stage were treated to a great performance of poetry and rhyme by Joe Chambers and Andy Crawford, who present “The Rhyme […]
Water Transportation experiment – our predictions
In class 6, our Science topic this half term is all about plants. We have learnt about the different functions each part of the plant has and what a plant […]
Programming and Coding in Class 6
Our topic this term is all about farming, linked to our book Fantastic Mr Fox. In our Geography lessons, we are learning about maps and directions (pictures to follow soon!) […]
Roald Dahl inspired story – Class 5
During our literacy lesson we are writing our own Roald Dahl inspired story about an animal from Cannon Hall Farm doing something they shouldn’t be doing. We have used talk […]
Talk for Writing in Class 6
In Class 6, we have been using a technique called Talk 4 Writing. We read a paragraph of Chapter 2 of Fantastic Mr Fox, draw small images and then create […]
Class 5 – Cannon Hall Farm Trip
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 […]
Class 3 visited Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Tuesday 19th September. We had a fantastic day.
Cannon Hall Farm visit
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! […]
Survival Shelters
As part of our transition learning, the children in Class 9 have been busy designing and building survival shelters. This is inspired by our reading of Kensuke’s Kingdom. Before building, […]
Yes Sir!
On Tuesday 18th July, Class 9 had a very exciting visit from two martial arts instructors. The children were taught some of the basic martial arts fighting and defense skills […]
A Message from South Yorkshire Police
A message to parents and families You may be aware that RMBC are currently carrying out a large scheme of re-roofing work in the Munsborough area. Scaffolding has been put […]
Goodbye to our Year 6
We bid a fond farewell to our Year 6 pupils today, as they leave us to start at their new schools next week. They have been a fantastic group of […]
Bikeability
A huge, “Well done!” to all those pupils in Years 5 & 6 who took part in the Bikeability scheme this week, achieving either Level One or Two. After a […]
Singing in The Community
Our Year 6s had yet another exciting time today, going out into the community to sing some of the songs from World War 2 for the residents at Cherry Tree […]
Bloodhound Rocket Car Competition
It was a wet and windy day yesterday but it didn’t stop our Year 6s designing, building and racing rocket cars in a scheme based around this year’s Bloodhound SSC […]
Run, Adolf Run!
This week, Year 6 held a VE-Day Style street party to mark the culmination of this term’s topic about World War 2. There were songs, poems and dancing along with, […]
Scabbajack – Class 7
We are coming to the end of this term’s topics and thinking about what we liked and enjoyed the most. Class 7 have put together a short film to let […]
Magical Roughwood
This week saw our Foundation Stage pupils hold a Magical Market at which all sorts of special items were on sale. There were fairy doors, toadstool buns and many many […]
World Book Day
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of World Book Day, the vast majority of our children dressed up as one of the characters from their favourite book and gave us a really […]
Keeping Safe
This week, five of our Year 6 pupils travelled to the New York Stadium to take part in an Internet Safety Awareness training day. Along with pupils from other schools, including […]
School Council
Just a reminder that this is who we are. We will try to keep you updated about what we’re up to in our fortnightly meetings. We are the voice of […]
Evacuation to Kelham Island
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 […]
Happy New Year!
After a fabulous Christmas break, it’s good to be back and already some of our pupils have won a certificate. A great many received a Bronze Award Attendance Certificate for […]
Looking Forward…
We’re already thinking about the coming term in the new year and thought you might like to see the fabulous novels we are going to be studying. Y1&2 – James […]
Roughwood X Factor
After all the concerts this week, we went even better and held our annual ‘X Factor’-style contest. All the acts were fantastic, with talents ranging from magicians to dancers to […]
Christmas Concert Time
This week has been a fabulous week for concerts with performances from Foundation Stage, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two. Some superb acting and singing was seen (as usual) […]
Lights, Camera, Action!
Today, the pupils from Year 6 went to the Odeon cinema in Sheffield which had been hired out for their Film Showcase event to round off the term’s topic. Along […]
Christmas Dinner and Jumper Day
Christmas is getting ever closer. The school is looking fabulous, everyone is practising hard for our concerts next week and today was our Christmas dinner and jumper day. Â A fantastic […]
Official Pond Opening
This week, we were enormously proud to welcome the Mayor of Rotherham to officially open our pond and wildlife area. The event also featured a blessing of the pond by Mr […]
We Will Remember Them
Our School Council pupils today took part in the Remembrance service at the cenotaph in Greasbrough to remember all those who have given their lives for our country in the many […]
Dinosaur Bring and Buy Sale
Key Stage 1 recently held a bring and buy sale which was linked to their term’s topic based around the book “Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish”. It was a huge […]
Polar lands immersive reading area
 Join the penguins for an immersive reading experience.
Out an About!
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 […]
School Crossing Patrol
You will no doubt be pleased to hear that the School Crossing Patrol has resumed. They will be back on duty at the following times: 8.25 – 9.10am 3.10 – […]
New School Year
Just a quick note to say how glad we are to be back. We have a lot of really exciting things planned for this year so please keep a look […]