The Tropical Butterfly House
What an amazing day we had yesterday at the Tropical Butterfly House! The children experienced a real rainforest habitat and even handled some rainforest animals! The children’s behaviour was exceptional […]
Category Archives: Our learning
Outdoor Art
This week, class 4 have been looking at the famous artist and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, who uses natural materials to create his work. Inspired by this, we decided to take […]
Class 3 recorders
In class 3 this week we have continued to learn to play the notes C, A and G. The children have shown great resilience to learning a new skills and […]
Butterfly House
What an amazing day we’ve had today at the Tropical Butterfly House with Class 5! Children experienced a real rainforest habitat and even handled some rainforest animals!
Class 6 experience a tropical rainforest!
What an amazing day we’ve had today at the Tropical Butterfly House! The children experienced a real rainforest habitat and even handled some rainforest animals! The children’s behaviour was exceptional […]
Rainforest Animal Classification Keys
Class 6 have been using their ICT skills to support their Science learning this afternoon, creating classification keys using Purple Mash!
Recorders in Class 2!
This week Class 2 have continued their work with recorders. We have listen and appraised a variety of music before learning the notes G, A and C. We practised our […]
QR Code Maths Challenge!
Class 6 had a wonderful morning today, using the iPads to solve our rainforest explorer challenge! Take a look …
Green Screen Action in Film Making Club
Our film is really coming along now! The children took turns to be actors, directors and camera operators tonight, as we filmed on the green screen! We even started adding […]
Our freshly squeezed orange juice.
The children in little Acorns made their very own orange juice. The children had a good go at squeezing the oranges developing their fine motor skills and tasting the juice. […]
Year 4 Football
Fantastic Lions
In literacy we have been focusing on non chronological reports. Last we researched lions and today we have used talk for writing to create a model text using talk for […]
Rainforest Survival Kits
Class 6 have shown incredible teamwork and creative thinking skills this afternoon, making their own rainforest survival kits! Mrs Tempest brought in lots of equipment to help us and we […]
Research in Literacy
Today in Class 6, children carried out their own research, using a variety of sources, in preparation for writing a non-chronological report about the rainforest. Children used iPads, library books, […]
A morning in Chestnuts
A great start to the week in Chestnuts with some brilliant phonics learning. Children are learning the tricky work the and the digraph ‘ck’. Well done everyone! Children in Acorns […]
Year 3/4 Football
Great to see Year 3/4 putting the skills learnt over previous weeks into practice in some small sided games. The children developed their knowledge of the rules/tactics. They all showed […]
Class 4 Talk for Writing
In literacy this week, class 4 have created and rehearsed a Talk for Writing to make their own set of instructions. Following our topic of ‘Into the Forest’, our writing […]
Year 6 Hockey
Another superb lesson with Year 6. The children developed the importance of moving into space to support a team mate. The children played small sided games, covering the skills developed […]
Survival Skills Investigation in Class 6
Class 6 have had a wonderful week this week, writing our instructions on how to survive the rainforest. During that Literacy learning, we thought about how we might find and […]
Class 2 Creation Story
Today Class 2 have being learning about the creation story in RE. We have used this story to create a piece of drama. We used props to aid our learning […]
Recorders
In class 3 this week we have begun to learn a new skill in music. We have started learning the recorder. The notes we focussed on this week were G, […]
Art club
This week saw the start of our after school clubs. In art club we went on a nature walk to collect leaves, twigs, feathers and flowers to create a person […]
Class 2 Maths!
This week we have introduced the part whole model to class 2. They have grasped the concept and even attempted creating their own models using objects to help them. We […]
Class 8 Remote learning
Miss Sare has had the pleasure of teaching the wonderful Class 8 this week. It has been great to see children continuing to show their resilience and hard work during […]
Year 3&4 Sports Club
Year 2 Invasion Games
Comic Life in Year 4
Class 6 used their RE homework in ICT today, to create Comic Life collages of their life journeys! The objective was to insert images from a variety of sources (this […]
Year 3/4 Survival Skills – Shelter Building
Classes 4, 5 and 6 have been learning all about how to survive in the rainforest, ready to write instructions next week. Today’s objective was to follow a set of […]
Year 3/4 Music
Classes 4, 5 and 6 have been having a wonderful afternoon with Ms Daws today, making lots of progress with their Samba Music.
Brass Lessons
Lunchtime Play
It has been great to see our Playground Friends supporting games outside this lunchtime. Sports leaders have also been busy running sports on the playground too.
Class 2 Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Yesterday Class 2 loved their trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We experienced a fantastic workshop about Fur, Feathers and Skin. In this the children were given the opportunity to […]
Pastel Art in Class 6
Class 6 made a fantastic start to their rainforest leaves in Art today! We started with the outline (yellow on white paper and charcoal on black) then we added the […]
How many invertebrates live on our school grounds?
Class 6 had a fantastic time searching our school grounds this afternoon, looking for invertebrates! In Science, we’ve been learning to group living things in a variety of ways. Today, […]
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
What an amazing day we have had at the wildlife park. We have seen lots of animals and some very brave children even stroked a lizard and a cockroach. All […]
Class 2 escape room
To challenge the children we created a escape room! To escape they had to crack the code by getting the correct answer for 7 questions. We continued to focus on […]
Class 2 Outdoor Maths
Last week class 2 have been learning how to compare numbers using the correct terminology. To test our knowledge we played a throwing game in which we needed to compare […]
Talk for writing
In literacy we have been thinking about setting descriptions and using adjectives to describe. Children came up with words like abandoned, old and wooden to name just a few. Today […]
Year 3 &4 Sports Club
Y3 & 4 Football
Year 3 and 4 take their Drama learning ‘Into the Forest’ …
What a wonderful morning we’ve had in Year 3 and 4 today! As part of their new ‘Into the Forest’ topic, Lower Key Stage Two took their learning outside, into […]
Invasion Games in KS1
Samba Music in Year 4!
Year 4 have made a fabulous start to a new term of Music, trying out a variety of instruments from Brazil… Why might Brazil be significant to our topic on […]
Home Learning in Class 6
Class 6 have returned to school this week with some amazing pieces of home learning! Take a look … These will look fabulous on our display! Well done, everyone!
Year 5/6 successfully complete astronaut training day
To start our topic, the children in class 7 and 8 were immersed into resilience challenges during their astronaut training day. The children wrote postcards and asked questions about the […]
P4C in Class 6!
Mrs Graham’s new class had a fantastic P4C session this afternoon in the sun, all about being kind to our friends … Our question was: is it ever right to […]
Class 2 Talk for write
This week Class 2 have been learning about the Paralympian David Weir. We learnt about the event he takes part in and investigated the medals he won and where he […]
Roghwood’s Got Talent
Another fantastic Roughwood’s Got Talent today at Roughwood Primary School. This year, we have had a wide range of acts ranging from tap dancing and drums to singing and football. […]
Attendance Certificates
Well done to all our children with 100% attendance this year. We know that for some of the time this year school was closed, but for every day they could […]
Year 6 Football
Year 6 Leavers Video
Year 6 have enjoyed their last week at Roughwood this week before moving on to secondary school. To celebrate the end of a profound journey at Roughwood children have created […]
Year 6 Prom
Year 6 children from Roughwood joined together for an unforgettable prom. The theme was an outdoor festival and there were some magnificent outfits (and that was just the staff). The […]
Willow Tree Olympics
Year 5 and EYFS celebrate at the same time as the residents for our NEMESIS project
From our the NEMESIS community project, the children fundraised to create for an opportunity for the residents at a local care home – Cherry Tree’s Care home – to have […]
Year 6 Awards
We have celebrated some magnificent achievements today and recognised some wonderful behaviours in our Year, 6 pupils. Respect, Friendship and Excellence awards have been given out as well as Teacher […]
Finishing Touches in Year 4…
This afternoon, the children in Year 4 finished off their clay cottages by adding some colour … Well done, everyone!
Y3S – playing their very own designed Victorian monopoly
On Monday, Class 4 finally got to the stage of the STEM/Maths they were hoping for – they got to actually play the game they had created! Children thoroughly enjoyed […]
A letter arrives in class 3
A very exciting letter appeared on my desk this morning addressed to class 3. Children began predicting who it might have been from. Lots of children thought the letter might […]
Year 6 Prom Fundraiser
Thanks to the generosity of our children and families at Roughwood we have raised £177 to make sure our wonderful Year 6 have an amazing prom! Well done to everyone […]
Spring Art Competition winner announced…
A huge Well-Done to Ellie Rose for being our Spring Art competition winner! A wonderful painting completed during lockdown Ellie! Miss Sare was over the moon and thinks you thoroughly […]
Persuasive writing
This week in literacy class 3 have been working very hard. We have created adverts using our persuasive skills to persuade someone to visit a landmark in Rotherham. We used […]
Y3S – Creating our own Victorian/Mathematical Monopoly game
Over the last few days, Class 4 have been working with their partner to create a Victorian inspired monopoly game which they will be playing once finished. They initially researched […]
Year 5 explore habitats in and around the pond
In science, Year 5 explored different habitats before learning about metamorphosis in our next lesson. The children found a range of creatures and insects this afternoon that were located in […]
Y3S creating our very own “Famous Victorians” Top Trump Cards
Class 4 created some wonderful top trump cards during their history lesson today. They were given 6 famous Victorians: Queen Victoria Prince Albert William Morris L.S Lowry Charles Dickens Dr […]
Clay Cottages in Year 4
Class 6 worked extremely hard this afternoon, taking lots of care, to create these amazing plague cottages out of clay… Well done, everyone! Can’t wait to see these painted!
Innovating our T4W text map
Over the last two week, Class 4 have been writing their very own narrative based on creating an alternate event from our class story, Street Child. We created a class […]
Observational Science in Year 4
This week, Class 6 have planned and carried out an investigation to see which liquids cause the most tooth decay. We used eggs to represent our teeth, because the shell […]
Year 3 Rounders
Year 6 Football
Year 6 Rounders
Picture This 2021
Take a look at our magnificent Picture This exhibition at Gullivers Valley in Sheffield. Children have focused on the picture ‘Sheffield Through the Ages’ and have created a range of […]
Year 5 apply their maths learning in the ICT suite
Year 5 make use of an ‘away from the desk’ maths lesson (in our fabulous ICT suite)! In our maths lesson, children applied their learning in a range of different […]
Year 4 ICT: Outdoor Photography Lesson
Today in ICT, Year 4 have been busy taking photos for a purpose (Spring and Summer) whilst also enjoying the amazing outdoor weather. We have also been learning how to […]
Y3S Light investigation
Today Class 4 completed an investigation to see which objects and materials were opaque, translucent or transparent. Initially we did lots of recapping key scientific vocabulary such as light source, […]
Science Ambassador Visit!
Our Year 4 Science Ambassadors went on a very special visit this morning, to Casting Innovations in Canklow! We saw the final stages of the recycling project that we’ve been […]