Y6 Artist Study – Self portraits
In Art, Year 6 will be drawing their own self portraits. We began by studying various artists who have produced portraits in different styles. By analysing artists with surrealism style […]
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.
Year 5 create internet Safety posters in ICT
This week in ICT, we have been creating posters on Comic Life that describes and identifies how to be safer and securer online. We have looked into what we use […]
Class 7 explain how the heart works using animation!
In Year 6, we have created an animation using the software I Can Animate to demonstrate how the heart pumps blood around our body. We hope you enjoy our videos!
Sensory Circuit
Children have started to engage in Sensory Circuits on their arrival to school. The children participate in a number of different stations where the focus is on alerting, organising and […]
Rotherham School Games – #Letgirlsplay
An amazing afternoon at Wath Academy at the Rotherham School Games #Letgirlsplay event. A fantastic opportunity for girls to play football and hopefully be inspired to take up the game […]
KS2 Boccia – Rotherham School Games
An amazing morning out at the Rotherham School Games Boccia event. A fantastic opportunity for children to experience a new sport. All the children showed great sportsmanship and encouraged each […]
Children’s University Awards
Outstanding to see some many children receiving Children’s University awards for their commitment to extra curricular activities. Fantastic to see new children achieving their Bronze certificates for attending 30 hours […]
Year 4 Basketball
An amazing term of PE in Year as we completed our topic of Basketball. The children covered a wide variety of skills from, dribbling, passing, defending and shooting. The children […]
Year 3 Tag Rugby
A fantastic term of PE in Year 3. The children have developed a great understand of Tag Rugby and have enhanced their skills throughout. We finished our topic with small […]
Newsletter 28th March
Please take the time to read the latest Newsletter. It has been another fantastic few weeks at Roughwood. Thank you, everyone, for your continued support. Happy Easter! Newsletter 27.03.24
Attendance Certificates
Well done to all our children with 100% attendance this term. Wear your badges with pride and let’s see if we can aim for Silver with 100% next term. Some […]
Easter Service 2024
We have finished the end of term with our wonderful Easter celebration assembly. All year groups took part in singing and celebrating the meaning of Easter. Thank you to all […]
Young Voices 2024
Young Voices 2024 was definitely a memorable one! A day full of ups, downs, tears, memorable moments but mostly lots of snow. A morning full of snow nearly put a […]
Y6 visit Eden Camp!
Our visit to Eden Camp today was a fantastic experience for all. Year 6 had the opportunity to explore the sights, sounds and smells of World War 2 through exploring […]
Year 4 Stop motion animations
In Year 4, we have been using I Can Animate to create stop motion animation that retells a story about deforestation in the rainforest for palm oil and how these […]
Year 3 animations
For the last few weeks, Year 3 have been busy creating animations using Scratch, a block based programming language, to retell a story about an Orangutan who has had to […]
WW2 Medals
Miss Inns has kindly brought her fathers inherited WW2 medals that originally belonged to her great grandfather to show our Year 6’s. The children were fascinated and honoured to be […]
Eco Committee Litter Picking
This week, our Eco Committee have been busy litter picking around school after noticing an increase in litter on school grounds. Taking pride and keeping the school clean and tidy […]
Testing the durability of our Anderson Shelters in Y6!
After working extremely hard to complete our WW2 Anderson Shelters in DT, this afternoon we tested the durability of our designs. To replicate the bombs dropped during the Blitz on […]
Science Week at Roughwood
To celebrate science week, we have been investigating ‘time’, and teachers have linked investigations and experiments to this theme. With thanks to our science leader, Mrs Beaumont, Roughwood started the […]
Class 6 travel to Manor Lodge
During today’s visit to Manor Lodge linked to our learning about the Elizabethans, we have explored the ruins of a previous grand Manor House, with taking us back hundreds of […]
Investigating how shadows are formed in Science – Year 6
This afternoon, our Year 6’s conducted a Science investigation to see how shadows are formed. Focusing on the pattern seeking strand of Science, we tested the length of shadows which […]
TAs and SMSA develop their understanding with maths – enhancing professional development
Over the last two weeks, teaching assistants and lunchtime supervisors have attended ‘multiply’ maths sessions to develop their confidence with numeracy. During these sessions, staff at Roughwood practised different strategies […]
Y6 DT – Creating our own Anderson shelters
Over the last few weeks in Year 6, we have designed and created our own WW2 Anderson shelters. The purpose for our design is to build a durable structure that […]
Year 6 create air raid instructional videos
Children in Year 6 have been creating an instructional video on what to do during an air raid as part of their topic, “How does war change lives?”
Chestnuts learn about charts in ICT
This week in ICT, children in Chestnuts have been learning to identify a chart before grouping pencils, sharpeners and rubbers to represent a chart. Children have also been counting the […]
Hungry Caterpillar
The children in Acorns class have been learning all about mini beasts. We have enjoyed dressing up as The Hungry Caterpillar from our story.
PE in Acorns Class
We have had a wonderful morning in acorns class. We used the big hall for our PE session and acted out how to be different mini beasts following on from […]
Rotherham School Games Skipping
An amazing event at the Rotherham School Games Skipping festival. The children participated in a number of different skipping challenges throughout the morning and learnt a number of different skipping […]
Rotherham School Games Basketball
A superb evening of Basketball as our Year 3 & 4s attending the Rotherham School Games Basketball festival at Thomas Rotherham College. The children have put a lot of time […]
Investigating Money in Class 2!
Today, class 2 have had purses and money baskets with different coins in. Whilst Miss Brown is away on residential, children have had to to count their money, convert it […]
School Council Meeting
Our wonderful school council committee met today to discuss creating posters to spread awareness of the increase use of vapes by children and the potential health effects caused by this. […]
Willow Tree Academy – Year 3/4 Basketball
Year 6 light up their lighthouses using Micro Bits and LED Diodes
This week in ICT, Year 6 have been using the BBC Micro Bits to create a program to control an LED Diode to flash on and off to mimic a […]
Roughwood participates in Big School Birdwatch 2024
As part of our commitment to become an Eco-school, several children have taken part in the RSPB Big School Birdwatch this year to discover and evaluate the biodiversity within our […]
Rotherham School Games Athletics
An amazing event at the Rotherham School Games Athletics. The children showed incredible resilience to participate in a number of events from speed bounce, long jump and a number of […]
Willow Tree Academy Girls Athletics
Rotherham School Games Panathlon
An amazing event at Wickersley School as children participated in Panathlon. The children developed a number of skills on a variety of different activities from, Boccia, Curling and Basketball. The […]
Spreadsheets and Using Excel in Computing
Class 6 have used data about populations from the Elizabethan Era and have begun styling and formatting a table, whilst inputting their data. Today, the children have been using formulas […]
Foods from around the World Club explore Indian cuisine
This week, foods from around the world club have been exploring Indian cuisine. Children taste and critiqued: Tadka Dahl, Veg curry, poppadoms with mango chutney and keema naan.
Wear Red Day 2024
Today at Roughwood we have been wearing red to raise money for the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund. Unfortunately not every child is born with a healthy heart and have to […]
The 100 Decker Bus in Chestnuts
In Chestnuts this week we have been learning all about jobs and reading the 100 decker bus. We created our own pictures of a bus going on an adventure to […]
Roughwood’s Eco-Committee get stuck in
Our newly formed Eco-Committee have been busy planting seasonal plants such as Snowdrops and Daffodils around school grounds this past week as well as creating a fruit orchard in our […]
Sheep biscuits at baking club
In baking club today we made sheep biscuits using marshmallows, icing and digestive biscuits. We made 1 to eat during club and a few to take home! We had a […]
Year 6 PE Orienteering
Year 6 started their new topic of Orienteering and developed to build communication and trust while showing an awareness for safety. The children were given a number of activities such […]
Year 3 PE Fitness
Year 3 started their new topic of Fitness by recognising the different components of fitness, speed, agility, balance, coordination, strength and stamina. The children then completed tests on each component. […]
Year 1 PE Gymnastics
Year 1 started their new topic of gymnastics in PE and explored a variety of travelling movements. The children disused how to use different parts of their body to replicate […]
Art work inspired by Sandra Silberzweig in Y3B
Take a look at our beautiful display full of beautiful, bold portraits inspired by the artist: Sandra Silberzweig.
The “Food from around the World Club” create a food tasting diary using book creator
Toddy the children found out the country whose cuisine they would be exploring and evaluating was: China. Children tasted the following items: lychees, prawn crackers, soy sauce, peking duck flavour […]
Hot seating, Drama and Oracy within Literacy
What a fantastic start of the year for class 6! They have fully immersed themselves into characterisation. As Year 5 begin their new topic learning about the Elizabethans, we begin […]
LKS2 create avatars to compare real and online identities
This week in LKS2, we have been learning about internet safety and the difference between real and online identities. To help us understand this, children have created their own avatars […]
Staff Christmas video 2023
Here it is! Our annual staff Christmas video … Feliz Navidad! From all of us here at Roughwood, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New […]
Christmas Fayre 2023
We have had the most magnificent Christmas Fayre this year. Children have worked hard using their enterprise skills to earn as much money as possible from their Christmas money-making ideas. […]
Y6 visit Winterhill to watch Cinderella!
What a wonderful, festive morning we have had in Year 6 visiting Winterhill to watch their pantomime, Cinderella. The children were so enthusiastic when engaging with the pantomime and danced […]
Y6 STEM – Lighthouses
We have enjoyed a busy afternoon in Y6 constructing our lighthouses using modroc. Using teamwork and resilience, we designed and made a sturdy structure and focused on precision when ensuring […]
Wreath Making At Roughwood
Several children in KS2 have been getting into the holiday spirit by handcrafting Christmas Wreaths with the help of Mr Clarke and Mrs Lennard today. The children used a mixture […]
Creating Snakes and Ladders games and Traffic Light Systems
This week in ICT Club, we have been creating a traffic light system using the BBC Micro Bit to program and coordinate a set of colours to recreate the changing […]
Class 6 Wins Golden Table
Our winners of Golden Table this week were Class 6 with nearly 30 Golden Tokens! Children earn golden tokens for being helpful at lunchtimes and showing exemplary manners. Well done […]
Rotherham School Games – Girls Dodgeball
A fantastic afternoon of Dodgeball as girls from Year 5 & 6 competed in the Rotherham School Games Dodgeball event. For some of the girls it was their first time […]
Raffle 2023
Thank you for the donations to our school raffle this year. The office have put together some wonderful hampers. There will be one per class and one big hamper for […]
Rotherham School Games Girls Hockey
Another fantastic Rotherham School Games event held at Rotherham Hockey Club. The girls were fantastic finishing 5th overall in a very competitive field. The girls have been practicing during lunch […]
Willow Tree Academy Benchball
Willow Tree Academy Dodgeball
An outstanding event as all four schools in Willow Tree Academy participated in a Year 5 & 6 Dodgeball event. Over 40 children participated and all showed amazing resilience, team […]
Rotherham School Games Boys Hockey
Internet Legends Assembly
This week at Roughwood, all classes attended an Internet Legends assembly which promotes safer internet. The theme for this weeks assembly was kindness and children voted on kind comments and […]
Using oracy skills to discuss in Year 6
Year 6 are learning how to write a balanced argument in Literacy. To support this new unit of learning, we engaged in a discussion focusing on our oracy skills ensuring […]
Y6 Music
Another successful week of learning how to play the clarinet in Year 6. Today, we had a great session learning new notes and even played ‘Jingle Bells’ to get us […]
Y6 Art – Skill development
This week, we have applied previously learnt techniques and used acrylic paint, poster paint and watercolours to begin our final piece inspired by Emily Ward We practised and explored these […]
Anti Bullying week 2023: Odd socks day
We have started our Anti Bullying week in style with Odd Socks Day! Wearing odd socks is an opportunity to encourage people to express themselves, celebrate their individuality and what […]
Anti-Bullying Week 2023: Make A Noise About Bullying
What a fantastic start to Anti-Bullying week 2023 we have had today! To kick start the day a group of our RP (Restorative practice) reps in school travelled to Gulliver’s […]
Coastal Erosion animations using Clay
In Year 6, we have been creating clay models to animate the process of erosion on a headland. We used I Can Animate to capture photos showing the process of […]
Talk for Writing in Year 6 – Coastal Erosion
In Year 6, we have been using talk for write to learn the different stages of coastal erosion by performing the stages of erosion of a headland caused by hydraulic […]
Year 5/6 Girls Football – Rotherham United
With Me In Mind
Our With Me in Mind ambassadors have been promoting mental health at our parents evening. Please pop in and take a look.
Y5/6 Football – RUFC
Children from Y5/6 participated in a football tournament hosted by Rotherham United. For some children it was their first time playing competitive football and representing school. A fantastic day with […]