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Category Archives: Chesnuts

Nemesis Project

Friday, 11th Decemberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

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 […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, Social Innovation, Year 5

FS2 Christmas Nativity

Wednesday, 9th Decemberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

Well done to all the children in the chestnuts class who took part in our Nativity today. You looked fantastic and worked so hard to learn your lines and the […]

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Chesnuts, Christmas, News and Events

Foundation

Wednesday, 4th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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. […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, News and Events

What Makes Me a Me?

Monday, 28th Septemberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

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 […]

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Chesnuts, Literacy, News and Events

Welcome Back

Thursday, 3rd Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, News and Events, Nurture, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Foundation Welly Walks

Wednesday, 24th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Outdoor learning

Willow Oaks Early Years

Tuesday, 23rd Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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. […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, News and Events

Sports Day 2020 #Virtual

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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. […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, News and Events, Sports, Well-being, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Sport Relief

Monday, 16th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, News and Events, Sports, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Foundation Nativity 2019

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, Christmas

Foundation has been Super!

Thursday, 21st Novemberby Mr Williams 1 Comment

Children in Foundation today have been using the green screen to do some of their filming for this year’s Willow Tree Film Festival entries. They have been using a backdrop […]

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Chesnuts, Computing, Literacy, News and Events

Wonderful Learning in Foundation

Monday, 14th Octoberby Mr Williams 1 Comment

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?

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Acorns, Chesnuts

Flying Superheroes

Friday, 4th Octoberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

We had an amazing P4C session this week discussing the concept of flying. The children listed things that could fly and we grouped these into two categories, wing and no […]

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Chesnuts, News and Events, Science

Colour mixing in the puddles

Friday, 4th Octoberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

In Chestnuts this week we have been exploring colour mixing. We learnt about Primary colours and mixed them together to make secondary colours.  

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Talk for Writing in FS2

Tuesday, 17th Septemberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

We have been reading the book ‘What Makes Me a Me?’ by Ben Faulks. We created a text map together and thought of actions to go with the text.

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Chesnuts, Literacy, News and Events

Chestnut’s Welly Walk

Monday, 16th Septemberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

This morning we went on our first welly walk. We found lots of mysterious bones, a spooky skeleton and a book called ‘Funnybones’ which we will be using as a stimulus […]

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Our school would be better without…

Friday, 12th Julyby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

In Chestnuts this week we have been discussing what our school would be better without and what our world would be better without. Take a look below…  

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Yearly Awards

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We have celebrated some magnificent achievements today and recognised some wonderful behaviours in children. Respect, Friendship and Excellence awards have been given out as well as Teacher Awards and our […]

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Chesnuts, News and Events, P4C & PSHCE, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Easter Egg Splats

Friday, 12th Aprilby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today children in Chestnuts had fun rolling their hard boiled eggs (although unfortunately many were not hard boiled 😊) . congratulations to our 2 winners!  

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Easter Egg Hunt

Sunday, 7th Aprilby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week children in Chestnut class, have taken part in an Easter egg hunt, this was followed by a surprise visit from the Easter Bunny, who kindly filled up the […]

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Fun in the sun

Friday, 22nd Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Chestnut Class children have been making the most of the warmer weather.

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Book in a box

Friday, 22nd Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, Family Learning, Literacy, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Curious Kids Town

Tuesday, 26th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today our F2 children are visiting Curious Kids Town in Sheffield. This visit is to support our topic, learning all about different occupations. Children are having a fantastic time being […]

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Little Monkey

Friday, 7th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

  Stay and play session led by Wendy Leak, linked the the story Little Monkey.  A fantastic turn out again, thank you to our parents again for your support.

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Reading Together

Wednesday, 5th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

What a fantastic turn out for our ‘reading together’ afternoon with parents.

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Christingle 2018

Tuesday, 4th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Acorns, Chesnuts, News and Events, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

F2 in the ICT Suite

Saturday, 1st Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Foundation have been learning about colours in the computer suite this week. They have been learning mouse and keyboard skills while creating some brilliant pictures.

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Chesnuts

Learning in Chestnuts

Saturday, 10th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Beekeeping

Tuesday, 16th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children in FS2 have had a lovely time this morning learning all about bees and beekeeping. They had the opportunity to learn about how wax is made and had a […]

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Chesnuts, Educational Visit, News and Events

Minibeasts

Saturday, 6th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Our foundation 2 children are now approaching their 6th week of full time education. We are so proud of the learning experiences children have had in this short time and […]

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Chesnuts, Science

Bug Homes

Saturday, 6th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

What a great turn out for our family learning session. Thank you to everyone who came to support us, we hope you had a fantastic time.      

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Chesnuts, Family Learning, Science

Zoo Lab

Saturday, 6th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week children had a visit from Zoo Lab. Children learnt many facts about a selection of animals, through an interactive and hands on session. Meet Sally Snail, Carla Cockroach, […]

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EYFS Mathematics

Friday, 20th Octoberby ropkc Leave a comment

This week children have enjoyed learning how to represent numbers. They have used playdough, written in sand and have worked on large paper, writing numbers and drawing round Numicon equipment.

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Chesnuts, Our learning

Road Safety Visit

Friday, 20th Octoberby ropkc Leave a comment

This week children enjoyed learning about how to keep safe on the road.

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Chesnuts, Our learning

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