Year 3 Newspapers
Over the last few weeks, Y3 have been writing a newspaper recount all about the break-in at the bakery in our class text, Meet me by the Steelmen. Today we […]
Category Archives: Our learning
Year 5 & 6 Hockey
Class 9 visit Eden Camp!
Class 9 have had the most amazing day exploring Eden Camp today! The children have been absolutely fantastic – they’ve been asking so many interesting questions, looking really carefully and […]
Evacuee Art Y6
Children in Year 6 have been focusing on the proportions of the human boys while drawing evacuees. We have used pencil and markers to draw the outline and we are […]
Year 6 visit Crucial Crew
Classes 8 and 9 have had a fantastic day today, learning all about how to stay safe, at Crucial Crew.
KS1 World Food Day
Today we celebrated world food day by creating a tzatziki dip and rainbow couscous. All the children had a hand in making the food and really enjoyed trying the array […]
Y6D take on the Light Maze Challenge!
Miss Dungworth’s class had a go at completing the light maze today, using all of their scientific understanding of light and reflection from this half term … They also showed […]
A digital visit from the Anne Frank Trust!
Classes 8 and 9 have had a wonderful workshop this morning with the Anne Frank Trust, about stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. This has generated some really interesting discussion and we’ve […]
Pastel Art Year 3
Year 3 have been creating tones and textures with pastels linked to our topic about steel. Our scrap metal art is looking fantastic.
Light Maze STEM Challenge!
Class 9 had an exciting challenge this afternoon! We’ve been learning all about light and reflection, and today we were given the challenge of lighting up the tunnels of a […]
Tinkercad Victory Gardens in Y6
Year 6 have been designing WWII victory gardens today, in ICT with Mr Clarke. Take a look at the incredible start they have made …
Super Spitfires in Year 6!
Class 9 have worked so hard this afternoon, learning all about WWII Spitfires. Take a look at their amazing outcomes … it’s hard to believe these haven’t been done at […]
Remote Maths in Year 6
Year 6 have made a great start to their final day of remote learning this morning, with another fantastic live Maths lesson on Classroom! We are all so proud of […]
Remote MFL learning in Year 6
Yesterday, Class 9 had a fantastic first day of remote learning and continued to put all of the same effort, resilience and care into their outcomes. Take a look at […]
Class 4 Drama
Class 4 have been using lots of drama techniques to help support them with their new writing genre a Newspaper Recount. Today we created some frieze frames to portray the […]
Remote Learning
Well done Class 9. Children who have been asked to isolate today left school at 1:15 pm and were ready for their first online lesson via Google Classroom at 2:30 […]
Remote teaching Music
Today has been our first music lesson via Zoom with Class 5. Children have been drumming as normal and the lesson was a great success. Well done for rising to […]
Year 5 Away from the desk maths
From using the White Rose schemes of work, here’s another example of where we have revisited previous learning at Roughwood and practised using previous methods to calculate. We definitely had […]
Zentangle leaves
Year 4 learnt a new art skill yesterday and practised zentangle patterns. We tried some in our sketchpads first and then went onto our leaf pictures. It took a lot […]
Super Hero PE Year 1
Year 1 had great fun being super hero’s in PE. They developed skills such as changing director and dodging.
Lovely published learning in Year 3
The children in Class 4 have done a fabulous job at achieving Miss Sare’s super high expectations. Their ‘Dear Diary’ pieces of writing looks beautiful in our Classroom and both […]
Y3 Fire Safety
Today Class 4 learnt all about Fire Safety. The children learnt all about what to do if there was a fire and who to contact. They have a very important […]
Drumming Year 4
Our children in Year 4 have been enjoying their drumming sessions this week and have started to learn the basics on the Djembe Drum. Children have been looking at listening […]
What Makes Me a Me?
We have been using the text What Makes Me a Me? As a stimulus for our literacy teaching. Here is a video of us performing the text using the text […]
Class 2 Talk for write
Class 2 has been learning about animal poems this week. We had a mini competition between the boys and girls to see who could do the best performance! It was […]
Science & Maths in Year 6
This week in Science, we’ve been learning about light and the rules of reflection … … which linked perfectly with a challenging reflection problem that came up in this week’s […]
Place value problem solving
Class 3 absolutely loved maths learning yesterday. They worked in groups of 3 and they had 7 questions to answer. Children worked on using the greater than, less than and […]
Les Couleurs
Year 4 have been practising their colours in French. Class 5 and 6 practised by playing some vocab games and then painted a colour wheel to show our learning.
Scrabble spelling in Class 6
This week we tried another spelling activity and had a go at scrabble spelling – criss-crossing our spellings through a shared letter. Class 6 did this really well – some […]
Class 4 -More Outdoor Maths!
Class 4 took their Maths lesson outside once again. We drew a number line on the yard and then ordered a mixture of visual representation, 3/4 digit numbers and numbers […]
Investigating Reflection in Year 6
Year 6 have been using their observation skills this week, to find out what happens to a light beam when it hits a plane mirror. Here we are observing the […]
Super spelling in Class 6
We have been taking time each day to practise our spellings, looking at the rules and completing activities to practise. We had a go at shape spellings; creating shapes out […]
Y3 Expanding their vocabulary
Children in Class 4 have been writing a diary recount based around our class text, “Meet me by the Steelmen.” During our planning stages, we decided to expand our vocabulary […]
Y3S Partitioning outdoors
Today children from Class 4 took their maths outdoors. They had to find as many different numbers as possible: some visual representations, numerals and words and then partition them! They […]
Country dress up day
Creating art with nature in year 4
As part of our Survivial/Robin Hood topic, we looked at how people have used nature and natural surroundings to create artwork. We then created our own, making weavings using resources […]
Y3 Handwriting practice
Class 4 have been working extremely hard on their handwriting. They have practiced formation and posture aswell as pen grip – they are determined to learn how to join their […]
Wow Y6W! Your handwriting is beautiful!
Fabulous learning in Year 4
We had a great first full week in year 4. Fantastic spelling and handwriting practise, great maths learning, using drama in literacy and good collaboration and ICT skills in History. […]
Outdoor Maths in Year 6
Mrs Graham’s group have enjoyed taking their Maths learning outside today in the sunshine! Take a look at our fantastic place value learning …
Y2 – PE- Balancing
Y2 had great fun mastering balancing on different objects. The skipping rope challenge was a big hit with all the children.
Y3/4 Football
Y3/4 had a superb first session of football. Their focus was dribbling and how to use different parts of the foot to dribble the ball.
Y5/6 Hockey
Y5 & 6 enjoying their first Hockey lesson. Skill focus was how to dribble the ball using a variety of techniques.
Y3S Super Maths
Over the last few days Class 4 have been refreshing their memories on place value. We have been using a variety of concrete and pictorial resources to show the value […]
A great start to learning from Class 6
I am already very impressed with class 6’s learning and attitude. They have impressed me with their maths and handwriting, and have settled back in very quickly after not being […]
Class 4 – First handwriting session
Today we had our first handwriting lesson. We refreshed our memories on the correct posture and grip. Class 4 are determined to improve our handwriting and aim to remember to […]
Class 4 are learning new colouring techniques
Class 4 have been practicing some new colouring techniques that they will now be able to apply in their future illustrations. We have learnt new techniques such as gradate, layer, […]
Class 2 mathematicians
Class 3 love reading
What a fantastic start class 3 have made to year 2. They are so enthusiastic to all aspects of learning. They have a love of reading and are so inquisitive […]
Striking blitz silhouette artwork in Y6W
Children in Year 6 have started using their creative pastel techniques as we start our new topic.
Welcome Back
We have opened this morning to all children in school and what a brilliant start we have made. Thank you to children and parents for following our plans and keeping […]
Year 6 Picnic
Year 6 have had a celebration picnic today to say good bye as they move on to secondary school from September. We have had pizza and drinks. Our drinks were […]
Y5 moon phases animations
In Year 5 we have been learning about the phases of the moon and created animations to show this. We used paper first and then created an animation using a […]
Y5 Cricket
Yearly Awards 2020
We couldn’t let the awards ceremony be forgotten about during the pandemic. Thank you to everyone who joined us from home. We had close to 40 participants online and the […]
Y5 pen and ink astronauts
Phenomenal artwork in Mrs Miller’s Year 5 bubble today! It took the children a lot of patience and resilience but the results are outstanding.
Y5 persuasive writing
Miss Sare was blown away by the Y5’s pieces of writing. The children decided they wanted to write a persuasive letter to Mr Whitehouse in hope that he would choose […]
Planning for Secondary
Y6 have used Google maps to plan their route to secondary school.
Year 5 solar system pastel artwork
Year 5 created some stunning pastel artwork based on the solar system.
Year 5 colour wheels
We learnt about primary, secondary and tertiary colours and practised our colour mixing skills
Y5 problem solving in maths
We converted 2 metres into centimetres and millimetres, and then investigate how many straws we would need. We then used that to work out how many we’d need for 4m, […]
Our new space in KS2
Wow, our new learning space in KS2 is looking fantastic. We have been busy while children have not been in school creating this brilliant use of space for KS2. Our […]
Foundation Welly Walks
In Foundation today we have started as we mean to go on. Children have been out on welly walks and have been creating collages for their first day back. It’s […]
Willow Oaks Early Years
We are proud to introduce a two-year-olds provision to our Willow Oaks Early Years at Roughwood. Please take a look at the latest area of our website for more information. […]
Why do people wear masks?
That was the question this morning, so tear 6 have looked into this as part of their learning about the body and breathing. Children have also been making their own […]
Y5 Returning to School Q&A
We are inviting children back to school who are in Year 5 from Wednesday 24th June. Our Year 6 children wanted to show you what kinds of things you may […]
Y3S – A Victorian themed Big Question Debate
As part of our Victorian topic, Miss Sare has decided to set up a big question debate. The question is, ‘Should Roughwood bring back the cane like the Victorians?’ Over […]
Year 5 colour wheels
Class 7 and 8 produced some fantastic colour wheels at home to show their understanding of primary, secondary and tertiary colours
Have you seen these pirates?
Today class three have been making pirate wanted posters using tea stained paper. They have described there pirates and explained why they are wanted.
Victorian Poetry
Rhys from Class 4 has blown Miss Sare away with his fantastic Victorian poetry. He has created some amazing rhyming couplets and the finished piece is amazing! Great job Rhys!
Art in Lockdown
Pirates
On Friday as part of the literacy task children were asked to use drama to act out the pirate they had created earlier on in the week. These four children […]
Andy Warhol
Since completing our topic in Y6, we didn’t get a chance to look at the post-war history and the wonderful things which followed. Today we have studied Andy Warhol and […]
KS1 PE
PE has been a vital part in the children’s learning since returning to school. They’ve taken part in a number of assault courses this week and have shown great resilience […]
Maintaining our love of reading
Miss Sare is so proud that class 4 are continuing to work on their target of being fully fluent readers. It’s been great to hear from parents that children are […]