Introduction to mass through biscuits in Y3S
This week, Y3 are covering mass and have learnt that means the weight of an object. To introduce this new topic, we looked at comparing heavier and lighter objects aswell […]
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1000 degree heat in Year 4!
What an amazing experience we had today in Year 4! We were very privileged today to watch Mr Brooks, from Casting Innovations, melt real aluminium cans and mould them into […]
Cycle Skills
Year 5 accomplish so much in only three weeks!
We have written our own Easter play scripts, used numicon to represent decimals, played maths games and also discussed different forms of Transport in French! We’ve also been learning a […]
Year 4 working hard on their nemesis project …
Work started last week on developing our new outdoor learning space, with a litter pick and general tidy of the area. This week, children have helped POPs to recycle all […]
Year 3 Tag Rugby
Year 5 Donate and show awareness towards Red Nose Day – Friday 19th March 2021
At Roughwood Primary, we support Comic Relief this Red Nose Day to help tackle important issues including homelessness, child poverty, domestic abuse, and mental health stigma, all of which have […]
Super Sewing in Class 6!
What a wonderful afternoon of sewing we’ve had in Mrs Graham’s class today! The children absolutely blew us away with their amazing sewing skills, showing incredible concentration, determination and patience. […]
STEM Club off to a great start!
Mrs Graham’s STEM Club made a fantastic start to their Knex car project, after school yesterday!
Year 4 Litter Pick
Year 4 started work today on a very exciting project with POPs! We are working towards building our very own outdoor classroom! So today, we assessed the area where it’s […]
Amazing Teamwork in Class 6
Class 6 made a fantastic start to their new learning in Maths today, applying what they already know about fractions to our new unit on decimals. We worked together in […]
Soup Success in Y3S
As part of our DT and PHSE learning, Class 4 today made home made vegetable soup, fruit salad, aswell as trying lots of different fruit juices they’d not tried before. […]
Y3S Pastel Sketchbook Work
Today Class 4 worked in their sketch books to blend primary colours to mix brand new colours – also known as: secondary colours. We then used base colours, black and […]
After School Sports Club
ORACY Skills and Persuasion
Year 5 & 6 have been using their Oracy skills to creat a video to persuade people to embark on a three-year voyage around teh world with captain Cook. Children […]
Fabric Work in Class 6
What a wonderful start Year 4 have made to their fabric artwork this week! We can’t wait to see these on display!
Year 4 get creative for Science Week!
Year 4 have made a fantastic start to Science Week, creating their own water cycles out of sandwich bags!
Functions of a plant in Y3S
Today Class 4 began science week with applying their knowledge of the different parts of a plant and each of their functions by creating a step by step visual diagram […]
First day back Science in KS1
What a fantastic first day back for KS1! We have tried 3 science experiments today which the children thoroughly enjoyed. We created underwater fireworks, a volcanic eruption and began to […]
Class 7 celebrate their love for reading during World Book Week 2021
From making our favourite characters out of fruit and vegetables, stitching out favourite book characters and finding out favourite places to read, what a week we’ve had! The children learning […]
Y3S Outdoor fractions – representing tenths using outdoor objects
Today Class 4 have been learning how to count, order and recognise in tenths. The children in school decided to wrap up warm and use the outdoor environment to make […]
Talk 4 Writing in Year 4
Year 4 had a fantastic morning today, learning to explain the 4 steps of the water cycle using Talk 4 Writing. We were all amazed at how fast we could […]
STEM Project Designs in Year 4
Year 4 made a fantastic start to their STEM projects today, carefully drawing and labelling their own wind turbine designs! We first made a prototype, to help us to visualise […]
Persuasive Leaflets in Year 4
The children in Year 4 have been working extremely hard this week, on their persuasive writing. Take a look at their final published pieces … Fantastic learning, well done Year […]
KS1 Well-being meeting
This morning to end our half term on a high key stage one all got together to have a quiz and celebrate what an amazing half term of remote learning […]
Maths escape room
Today in our live maths lesson class 3 found themselves lost in a potion lab and had to solve the clues to get out. They had to use all of […]
KS1 Live P4C
This week KS1 hosted our first live P4C session. We used our literacy text ‘Professor Puffendorf’s Secret Potions’ to create a stimulus for the children to discuss. This stimulus focused […]
Potato Power in Year 4!
Year 4 have had an exciting afternoon of investigation in Science today! We’ve been learning about electrical circuits and about what makes a circuit complete, so our research question today […]
In school afternoon Art lesson with Miss Sare
Today Miss Sare’s bubble had a screen free afternoon and continued to develop our sketching and shading skills. We looked at how to create tone to our learning. We look […]
Y5/6 PE
Persuasive Posters in Year 4
Year 4 have made a fantastic start to their new Literacy learning this week on persuasion! Take a look at their persuasive posters about taking care of our world …
KS1 Mental Health Week
This week the key stage 1 children have been completing a variety of challenges that promotes good mental health. A key element of mental health is reflection, therefore the children […]
Interesting Open ended Discussions in Y3S
Today in Literacy Miss Sare decided to host an oracy based live lesson whereby children had the chance to give their opinions on really open ended philosophical style questions. Children […]
Fractions in Year 4
Today, Year 4 started some brand new learning in Maths, all about Fractions! The children were very reflective learners – they showed us that they remembered lots about fractions, from […]
Well-being Tuesday
Since the start of lockdown class 2 and 3 have been really missing seeing each other. So today we decided to have a catch up. The children all brought something […]
Some beautifully presented published pieces in Y3S
Class 4 have finished their instructional writing genre and made time to publish their learning to the highest quality! Miss Sare was proud that the children continued to remember their […]
Year 4 P4C
Year 4 have had a fantastic live lesson this morning! We launched our new Literacy genre with a wonderful, whole year group P4C enquiry! The children had so many ideas […]
Y3S – 2D Shapes Top Trumps
Y3S were set the task of designing and creating their own 2D shaped top trump game. They had to use key mathematical vocabulary that they had learnt in their live […]
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. […]
Authors, Illustrators and Story Book Makers …
Y4G have become all 3! Mrs Graham is so proud she’s even starting to rhyme! We’ve been writing our own stories, based on our class text, Stig of the Dump, […]
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 […]
Live Handwriting Lesson in Y3S
Miss Sare thoroughly enjoyed doing a live handwriting session today in preparation for the children publishing their instructions learning from the last 2 weeks. The children loved holding up their […]
Year 5 begin their embroidery – Lockdown 2021
After making up the art packs for the year 5 children at home, the children in year 5 had their very first live lesson on embroidery from home. We learnt […]
Exploring Area in Year 4
Today’s Challenge: how many different shapes can you make with the same area of 10 squares? Take a look at some of our findings … Fantastic learning, Year 4! Well […]
Spending time together in Class 6 …
As part of Well-being Week, Class 6 decided to have an informal live session this afternoon … not about learning, but about making each other smile, enjoying each other’s company […]
Professor Puffendorf
Today in literacy we started our new text Professor Puffendorf’s secret potions. Children were asked to draw the main character and around her use expanded noun phrases and adjectives to […]
KS1 learning at school
Yesterday I had the privilege of working with these children at school. It was fantastic to see how engaged they was with the tasks that had been set. We tried […]
Class 2 well-being session
On Friday class 2 decided to have a wellbeing quiz! We shared our favourite memories of the current lockdown and had a fun film themed quiz after. It was great […]
Y3S ‘Well-being Hangout’
Since lockdown Class 4 have really been missing socialising with their class friends and teachers. So today Miss Sare decided to hold their first weekly ‘Hang out – Well-being session’. […]
Making Acute, Obtuse and Right Angles in Y3S
As part of our properties of shape unit, Y3 have been looking at turns, right angles and different directions. We are now looking at identifying and comparing acute, obtuse and […]
What happens when you put an egg in vinegar?
The children in school have been very busy over the past two days carrying out a science investigation. They put an egg in vinegar and left it for 24 hours […]
Oracy Instructional Videos from Y3S
Today Miss Sare asked the children to film themselves giving some spoken instructions. Following the live lesson, Miss Sare asked them to ensure they included time conjunctions aswell as imperative […]
First Attempt Sketches in Y3S
Class 4 were given a task to research some following Art vocabulary and then apply them to their sketching attempt number one. They then had to follow some step by […]
Observational Drawing in Y4
Year 4 children have been using their resilience skills in Art this afternoon, carefully observing and drawing what they see. Take a look … Well done everyone!
Class 2 – Learning in the snow
Snow days can be a distraction when learning but in class 2 we have been using it to our advantage. We have been practising our addition and times table in […]
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 […]
Descriptive Writing in Y4
Classes 5 & 6 have really wowed us this week with their descriptive writing about Stig from Stig of the Dump! They’ve been so creative with their language choices and […]
Y3S Spontaneous Snow Maths
As usual class 4 rose to the challenge and did such a fabulous job at creating their snow creatures and then accurately measuring them! Well done children! What a creative, […]
Miss Sare attempted her own Maths Challenge!
Miss Sare had a go at her own Maths challenge and loved it! Class 4 are excited to give it a go too! Keep checking the website to see their […]
Y3 SNOW CHALLENGE…
Y3’s have been set a spontaneous snow maths tasks seen as it’s snowing heavily. They have been learning all about length and height over the last few weeks so Miss […]
Arrays
Class 3 today in maths have been using arrays to solve multiplication questions. They were challenged to be as creative as possible with the arrays and they certainly succeeded.
How do we use the internet?
Class 3 have spent the afternoon thinking about how they use the internet and how they keep themselves safe whilst using it. As a class they have come up with […]
PE with Mr Tyas
Year 3&4 have been absolutely amazing this afternoon in PE! Well done!
Y3 Fantastic Mr Fox Farmer Freeze Frames
Y3 were set the task to create some creative freeze frames of the farmers from our class text doing different things. They had to show: Bunce full up after eating […]
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!
Class 3’s Magic Potions
Class 3 have worked so hard this week in all aspects of their learning and they have produced some amazing literacy outcomes. The children have used ‘talk 4 write’ to […]
Class 2’s talk 4 write!
Well done Class 2 for producing amazing literacy work this week at home. We have been planning and writing instructions on how to make our own potions. The children have […]
Y3S – PE Live was a success!
Year 3 loved continuing their PE lessons with Mr Tyas. They completed a short circuit and learnt all about pacing themselves, challenging themselves and reading and interpreting their own bodies […]
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 […]
Y3S Rock Investigation
Y3 have beyond impressed today. Almost 2/3 of the class accessed our live lessons and we’re aiming for 100%! The children then went on to complete a rock investigation and […]
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 […]
Attendance Breakfast
Well done to Class 9 this term for winning the attendance Breakfast. Attendance is vitally important, especially having missed so much time due to the pandemic. Every day counts, so […]
‘Panto’ comes to Roughwood!
As we can’t have our own panto this year, the children at Roughwood were able to watch the pantomime ‘Cinderella’ as a special Christmas treat. Oh yes we did! Live […]
Year 5 festive SUMDOG challenge
Class 7 have been incredibly resilient this week. As we approach the final stages of learning before our Christmas break, the children have logged onto ‘SUMDOG’ today to complete their […]
Escape Room Challenge in Y6
Y6W had a fantastic afternoon of problem solving today with their escape room challenge! The children worked in teams of 4 to find and solve clues which would unlock the […]