Singing at Rotherham Minster
We are so lucky to have the wonderful Elliot come into school each week to lead our singing lessons. He plays the piano and teaches us songs which are linked […]
Category Archives: Chesnuts
Foundation PE
The Willow Tree Oscars
We made a video to enter into The Willow Tree Oscars and… WE WON! Chestnuts were awarded ‘Best Costume’ on Monday at the awards.
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 […]
PE- Foundation
Amazing week of PE in foundation. Children from FS2 continued their Sports Day preparations by practising a variety of events they could soon be taking part in during Sports Day. […]
Fruit Kebabs
We have been making fruit kebabs at after school club. We carefully cut the fruit and put it onto skewers. The best part was the chocolate… we melted chocolate and […]
Cherry Tree residents enjoy their Jubilee Afternoon Tea thanks to the commendable efforts of Roughwood children and staff
As the start of four days of festivities honouring the Queen commence, the residents at Cherry Trees care home enjoy an afternoon tea. As the country come together to mark […]
Year 5 and EYFS bring the Jubilee party to Cherry Trees
As we continue with our community and social innovation NEMESIS project, we return to Cherry Trees Care Home and bring the Jubilee celebrations to the residents! As we had a […]
Baking Club
The children in FS2 and Year 1 have had a Baaaa-rilliant time at Baking club!
The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs
Everyone has heard the story of the 3 Little Pigs, but have you heard the True Story? We have been using Talk for Writing to orally retell the story. Watch […]
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 […]
Foundation PE
Gross Motor Fun
We explored the adventure playground! The large adventure playground at Cannon Hall farm is made up of ‘unstable’ playground equipment like rope ladders and wobble bridges. Although they was a […]
Cannon Hall Farm
We have had a wonderful day in the sun at Cannon Hall Farm.
Singing in the Rain
The rain doesn’t stop us having fun in Reception!
Bug Hotels
Yesterday we visited the bug hotel near the school pond. We was inspired to make our own bug hotels to encourage minibeast into our gardens at home. We designed and […]
A BAA-rilliaint day in Chestnuts!
Despite the rain, we have had a BAA-rilliant day in Chestnuts. We have been decorating biscuits like sheep. We have been learning about how the sheep at Cannon Hall farm […]
Would a spider make a good pet?
We have been reading the text Aaaarrgghh Spider by Lydia Monks. The spider desperately wanted to be a pet. Do you think a spider would make a good pet? In […]
Searching for minibeasts in FS2
Today we explored the micro-habitats on our welly walk, looking for different minibeasts. Â We looked carefully in lots of different places and found worms, beetles, ants, woodlice and so many […]
Naughty Bus
We have been using the text, The Naughty Bus by Jan Oke as a stimulus for our learning. We made our own bus sticky pictures, thinking carefully about the shapes […]
Chinese New Year
We have had a wonderful afternoon in FS2 celebrating the Chinese New Year. We have been practising our painting and sticking skills whilst making New Year decorations. For snack today […]
Inside our mouth
Today we have been looking at the inside of our mouths and identifying our teeth, gums and tongue. We used marshmallows to create a mouth and talked about the importance […]
Chestnuts visit to the ICT Suite
Today we visited the ICT suite. We worked on the computers with our parter. We have been learning how to use the mouse to click and drag. We helped Postman […]
Foundation PE
Outdoor learning
We have had a wonderful afternoon in FS2 exploring our outdoor area. We’ve made sticky pictures out of autumn leaves, visited the farm shop and used the instruments to create […]
Fine Motor Carousel
This afternoon, we took part in a carousel of activities to develop our fine motor skills. Fine motor skills are those that involve a refined use of the small muscles […]
Baking Dog Biscuits
Today we baked dog biscuits as part of our nemesis project. We designed and made bags for them to go into and created posters to advertise them. We will be […]
Nemesis Project Launch
We had a special visitor in Chestnuts Class. Meet Will, our Academy therapy dog. Will joined us for the launch of our Nemesis project. We asked his owner lots of questions […]
Autumn Welly Walk
We have been searching for signs of Autumn on our Welly Walk. We noticed that the leaves are beginning to fall from the trees and are changing colours. We collected […]
Chocolate Sparklers
We used Talk for Writing to learn how to make Chocolate Sparklers. We used the instructions to help us gather the ingredients and resources and performed the actions to recall […]
Chestnuts Bonfire Party
We have been using the text Hovis the Hedgehog at Bonfire Night as a stimulus for our learning. We have been learning about Bonfire night and held our own bonfire […]
Bonfire Night is here again…
We have been learning a song to sing at our Bonfire Party. We learnt about rhythm and used the rhythm sticks whilst singing along.
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 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 […]
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 […]
Foundation PE
Singing with Pops
Pops taught us a Traditional African song. We began by singing it in a quiet voice and got louder and louder and LOUDER!
Foundation PE
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 […]
FS2 Christmas Nativity
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 […]
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. […]
What Makes Me a Me?
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 […]
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 […]
Foundation Welly Walks
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 […]
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 […]
Foundation has been Super!
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 […]
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?
Flying Superheroes
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 […]
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 FS2
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.
Chestnut’s Welly Walk
This morning we went on our first welly walk. We found lots of mysterious bones, a spooky skeleton and a book called ‘Funnybones’Â which we will be using as a stimulus […]
Our school would be better without…
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…
Yearly Awards
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 […]
Easter Egg Splats
Today children in Chestnuts had fun rolling their hard boiled eggs (although unfortunately many were not hard boiled 😊) . congratulations to our 2 winners!
Easter Egg Hunt
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 […]
Fun in the sun
This week in Chestnut Class children have been making the most of the warmer weather.
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 […]
Curious Kids Town
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 […]
Little Monkey
Stay and play session led by Wendy Leak, linked the the story Little Monkey. Â A fantastic turn out again, thank you to our parents again for your support.
Reading Together
What a fantastic turn out for our ‘reading together’ afternoon with parents.
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 […]
F2 in the ICT Suite
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.
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 […]
Beekeeping
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 […]
Minibeasts
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 […]
Bug Homes
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.
Zoo Lab
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, […]
EYFS Mathematics
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.
Road Safety Visit
This week children enjoyed learning about how to keep safe on the road.