Elmer’s Birthday Party
We have been reading the book ‘Elmer’s Birthday’ by David McKee and using it to learn about how birthdays are celebrated. Throughout the week, we have made invitations, birthday card […]
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POP’s Outdoor Adventures
We have had a wonderful morning in FS1 learning about Autumn. Adrian and Kai from Pops Outdoor Adventure Company led an outdoor learning session based on our class text ‘We’re […]
EYFS Diwali Celebration
Today EYFS have had a Diwali celebration. Diwali is a Hindu celebration that can also be known as the ‘festival of lights’. We watched a video of a girl who […]
Bonfire Party
We have been using the text Hovis the Hedgehog to learn about Bonfire Night. On our Welly Walk we had our own Bonfire party. We collected sticks to make a […]
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
We have been learning the Nursery Rhyme Dingle Dangle Scarecrow as part of our Harvest celebrations.
Foundation Stay and Play
We have had a fabulous afternoon of autumn themed fun at our Stay and Play session. Thank you to everyone for coming, and of course, to our wonderful EYFS team, […]
Foundation Sports Day
Wentworth Farm Visit
The children in Acorns and Chestnuts had a wonderful day at Wentworth Farm. We learnt about the animals and how they are cared for. We fed the animals and helped the […]
NRICH maths in Little Acorns and Acorns
In Little Acorns and Acorns we asked our children and their parents if they could go on an object hunt in their homes and find 5 of each object. Look […]
NRICH maths in Little Acorns and Acorns
In Little Acorns and Acorns we have been encouraging the children to count and compare numbers by using ‘voting bricks’ to vote for a book for story time. We also […]
Pizza making at Cooking Club
At cooking club this week, we made mini pizzas. We didn’t use a traditional base, we used crumpets. We washed and prepared the ingredients and designed what we was each […]
Staff Christmas Video 2022!
Here it is! Our annual staff Christmas video … We hope you enjoy this year’s performance of Jingle Bell Rock! From all of us here at Roughwood, we wish you […]
Children in need
In Acorns and Little Acorns we had a fantastic day fundraising for children in need. We took part in some pudsey sticking and colouring activities and we even tried to […]
Making hedgehogs
In Acorns and Little acorns we have been making models out of clay for our Autumn display. We went on our welly walk outside and made some hedgehogs out of […]
Making faces in nature
In Acorns and Little acorns this term we are asking the question what makes me,me? As part of this we went into the outdoor classroom on a joint welly walk […]
New Starters Picnic
Welcome to all our new starters who joined us for our stay and play picnic. It was a wonderful afternoon and great turn out. We can’t wait to see you […]
Sundown Adventure
We have had an amazing day at Sundown Adventure. We have been exploring the story book village as part of our topic ‘What Makes a Happy Ending?’. We found Jack’s […]
Jubilee Celebrations
Children in Little Acorns and Acorns had a wonderful time yesterday at our Jubilee party. We invited our parents to celebrate with us. We had lots of fun showing our […]
Acorns Road Safety
Fairytale crafts
In Acorns and little acorns we have been learning about fairytales and the characters in the stories. We wanted to immerse ourselves into the stories so we created character masks. […]
EYFS Easter Egg Hunt
It was wonderful to see so many parents in school this morning for our Easter Egg hunt. We used a map to navigate our way around the Egg trail, scanning […]
KS1 & EYFS Easter Assembly
It was wonderful to invite parents into school today for the KS1 and EYFS Easter Assembly. This is the first time any of our children have performed for an audience […]
Music Bugs
Today we had a special visitor come to school. Emma from Music Bugs came to see Little Acorns and some of our parents. We had a lovely time singing and […]
A caterpillars wish
We have loved learning all about caterpillars in Little Acorns. We enjoyed exploring in our sensory tray and we were so excited to learn about the caterpillars cocoon – we […]
Valentines in Little Acorns
This week children in Little Acorns have created some Valentine’s Day cards using cutting and sticking skills to create a collage. We have also made some ladybirds (love bugs) using […]
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 […]
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 […]
The gingerbread man
In Acorns we have been learning about our topic book the gingerbread man. Last week the children designed how they wanted their gingerbread men to look this activity developed their […]
Our love of reading
In Acorns we love to explore our library in the school, taking a look at all of the different types of books as well as getting into character through role […]
Rhubarb in Little Acorns
Children in foundation have been making yummy treats from rhubarb! Everyone enjoyed tasting the new flavours.
Our new topic book in Acorns
This week we have been learning to re-tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Children have been using characters in the small world to tell the story. Children have […]
Nemesis Project
What an amazing turn out today at Cherry Trees! Thank you to all the Foundation and Year 5 parents who joined us to present the staff and residents with the […]
Acorns and Little Acorns Christmas Songs
The children in Acorns and Little Acorns had great fun today, singing and dancing along to the Christmas songs that they have been learning.
Foundation
This morning, Foundation have been extremely busy with there learning. What a wonderful environment and such creative activities. It’s wonderful to see children using ICT to support their learning too. […]
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 […]
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. […]
Sports Day 2020 #Virtual
What another wonderful Sports Day we had this year! It may have been different from what we are used to but nether the less, it was a truly magnificent experience. […]
Sport Relief
A fantastic week of sport was finished off by all classes from FS1 to Y6 completing the Sport Relief Mile. The children showed outstanding resilience to complete the course and […]
Foundation Nativity 2019
Children have performed a magnificent nativity for parents this week. Children knew all their lines and sang beautifully (as usual). Thank you to all the parents and carers who joined […]
“I’m not scared,” said the Gruffalo’s Child!
In Acorns, we had a wonderful time with Pop. He set up the outdoor area based on the book we have been reading, The Gruffalo’s Child. To start with, we […]
Anti-Bullying Week
We have enjoyed taking part in anti-bullying week. We started by reading Don’t Hog the Hedge. Hattie the Hedgehog was really kind and shared her hedge with her friends. We […]
Together Old and Young: Integrational Learning
This afternoon in Acorns, we have taken part in the first piece of our Nemesis project. Our goal for Nemesis is to create sustainable partnerships between different communities. We kick […]
STEM in Acorns
We used the song 5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate as our stimulus. As a class we discussed the different construction materials we have in our class. We decided […]
Oliver’s Fruit Salad
This week we have been reading Oliver’s Fruit Salad. In the story, Oliver doesn’t like fruit however, they go to the supermarket to buy lots of fruit and Grandpa suggests […]
Superhero Craft- Family Learning
Thank you to all the parents that engaged in our family learning session on Monday. It was a great event, which the children thoroughly enjoyed! We hope you enjoyed it too.
Words and Your Heart in Acorns
We read the story, it was hard to understand that words can change the way we feel. We used some role play to understand the different things we may say […]
Wonderful Learning in Foundation
Children have been so busy today in Foundation. The mud kitchen in looking very muddy and we have enjoyed learning with pumpkins. Would you like to try our soup?
Colour mixing in the puddles
In Chestnuts this week we have been exploring colour mixing. We learnt about Primary colours and mixed them together to make secondary colours.
Talk for Writing in Acorns
Over the last two weeks, we have been reading the story Funnybones. We decided to recite the start of the story and the children were excited to make their own […]
Funnybones in Acorns
This week in Acorns we have been reading the story Funnybones. We have enjoyed making ourselves into skeletons, looking at x-rays, using the Mr potato head to identify body parts […]
Learning About Emotions in Acorns
In Acorns this week, we have been talking about how we feel. We have come up with a simple way of finding out and tracking how everyone is feeling. We […]
Book in a box
The children and parents have spent the last 3 week’s creating a Book in a Box! Here are a few from each class and their winners. Acorns Chestnuts Class 2 […]
POP’s Outdoor Adventure
We had an AMAZING time with POP’s Outdoor Adventure Team. We went into the forest with the team on a stickman adventure. We searched the forest for stick man so […]
Christingle 2018
On Tuesday 4th December, Roughwood children presented a wonderful assemble to parents. There were some extremely confident children reading during the performance and the Christingles children have made lit up […]
We’re All Reading Wednesdays
In Foundation, we are inviting parent’s in every Wednesday to read with their children. F1 doors opened at 11.20am and 2.50pm this week for the first time. We had a […]
Children In Need Baking
In Acorns, we have enjoyed reading about Pudsey Bear, we decided it would be a good idea to bake our own biscuits to raise money. We had lots of fun […]
Friendship
In Acorns, we have been looking at friendship. We started by looking at who our friends are. We then chose one special friend and painted a portrait of them, using […]
Acorns Harvest Performance
For anyone who couldn’t attend the Harvest Festival, you can watch our performance below.
Exploring Pumpkins
This week in Acorns, we have enjoyed exploring pumpkins using all of our senses. We cut the top off and opened it up to see what was inside. “It’s like […]
Bees!
This week we have been learning all about bees. We enjoyed watching a video of how honey is made. After that made some honey sandwiches following simple instructions, we really […]
What a Busy Week!
On Tuesday, we took advantage of the windy weather in Foundation 1, we made kites and ribbon sticks for children to run and dance in the wind. We quickly learnt […]
The Birthday Bears
Yesterday we met 5 teddy bears. It was a very special day for them as it was their birthday’s. Only we had a problem, all the bears were different ages […]
Aaaarrgghh! Spider!
This week in Acorns, we have been reading Aaaarrgghh! Spider! We have taken part in lots of spider themed activities. We have made spiders using clay, counted spiders in the […]
Lots of Learning
In Foundation 1, we have taken part in a wide variety of learning this week. Our focus has been The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Through this, we have made our own […]
What a Wonderful Week!
We’ve had a great start to our first week in nursery. We’ve had lots of fun exploring the different resources in our new classroom and looking at the different things […]