Year 6 WWI Drama
Year 6 have been working hard on their huge part in the WWI performance at Magna. The play was about Rotherham soldiers going to war in 1914 and they lived […]
Category Archives: Our learning
Remembrance Day
Class 3 had a very special visitor to tell us more about Remembrance Day. Jo shared his stories about his Great Uncle Thomas Reid and his dad John Leach. He […]
Handwriter of the week!
In class 6 we are improving our presentation of handwriting every day! I have introduced a hand writer of the week award. The child who’s handwriting has improved each week […]
Linking Project
Class 6 are involved in the Rotherham schools linking project. This project is to link children with other children from different schools to learn about diversity. Today the children had […]
Class 2 Compliments!
This week is Anti-Bullying Week and in Class 2 we have been thinking about why some people might bully others. We discussed that some people may bully others when they […]
Pastel Masterpieces
Once again Class 5 have been lucky enough to have an art session with Mrs Taylor! We have been learning how to create texture and tone using pastels. We learnt […]
Having fun in French!
We have been extending our french vocabulary even further this week! As you can see we had lots of fun labelling our class friend’s body parts with the correct […]
Class 6 this week.
During this week class 6 have been busy doing a range of different learning. In our maths we have been looking at measures using rulers and then developing into finding […]
Learning in Chestnuts
There has been some fantastic creative learning happening in Chestnuts this week. Children have made owls to represent the characters from our story Owl Babies, firework pictures linked to our […]
Plastic Pollution
Class 7 members have been creating some interesting watercolour and pen zentangle designs depicting creatures affected by plastic pollution.
WW1 Animation – Trenches
A wonderful animation created by Y6 at Roughwood this week. Well done everyone who helped create the backdrops and props. A great effect and a great way to learn about WW1. #wewillrememberthem #animation
Fantastic Fireworks
Here are some amazing examples of the fireworks we have created in Class 2. As part of our Literacy lesson today we have drawn fireworks whilst thinking of the different […]
Class 2 Remembers
I have a little poppy, As red as can be, To show that I remember Those who fought to make me free. In Class 2 we have created some amazing […]
Attendance Breakfast
Year 6 have celebrated having the best attendance in school this term with an attendance breakfast. Parents were invited into school to celebrate with their children. Thank you to everyone […]
Harvest Festival
On Tuesday 23rd October we held our Harvest Festival Assembly to celebrate and give thanks for this special time of year. We are so very grateful and amazed at the […]
Dark Night Assembly
PC Paul and PC Helen 👮🏻♂️👮🏻♀️ have been in to speak to the children about staying safe during the darker nights. They spoke to the children about Halloween 🎃 about […]
Roughwood Remembers …
We have been learning about the sacrifices made by soldiers during wartime. We have made sun catchers in Class 7 to represent our gratitude. These will be on display in […]
Grace Darling
While the majority of year 6 have been on residential in Northumberland, back at school we have been writing newspapers and creating pen and ink images of the ocean. We […]
Sewing with Parents
On Thursday parents came into school to help with our Rags to Bags project. We really appreciated all the help to get our t-shirt bags nearly completed.
Art Club
Our Poppies are finished this week. Children have been using pen and ink to create tone using hatching and cross-hatching. Then we used watercolours to give a dash of colour. […]
Bird Boxes in the making
This week Class 5 have been thinking about how to put their fantastic bird home designs into an outcome. Together we began to make a whole class prototype. We discussed […]
Positive words make for a positive day!
During this half term, Class 5 have been fortunate to have had some circle time sessions with Mrs Storer. We are learning to see the impact of our kind words […]
Sewing Session 4
Today we are adding embellishments to our innovative designs in preparation for the big stitch up next week. This is our penultimate session and I just wanted to say a […]
Dinosaur Art
Today in Class 2 we have created dinosaur skins using pastels. In previous weeks we have practised our pencil skills, putting them to use today. First, Ms. Taylor modelled using […]
Pen and Ink
While most of Year 6 are in Northumberland, back at school we are creating some stunning pen and ink pieces of art to go with our Grace Darling newspapers.
