KS1 Multiply Session
This week we hosted our second multiply session. We focussed on multiplication and division. At the start of the session we showed parents and carers the strategies we teach in […]
Category Archives: Year 1
Dancing literacy in KS1
In Key Stage 1, we have started our topic of narrative. To immerse the children in literacy we used dance to imagine what it would be like to walk down […]
KS1 Multiply Session
This morning we hosted our first multiply session of the year. Parents were invited into school to learn about how we teach addition and subtraction in year one and two. […]
Assembly with Swapna Haddow
Today Class 1 was lucky enough to join a virtual assembly with the author Swapna Haddow who wrote a story called My Dad is a Grizzly Bear. She read her […]
Assembly with Swapna Haddow
Today Class 1 was lucky enough to join a virtual assembly with the author Swapna Haddow who wrote a story called My Dad is a Grizzly Bear. She read her […]
Year 1 PE – Invasion Games
Fantastic first two weeks of PE in Year 1. The children were introduced to what an Invasion Game is and then looked and dribbling with their feet. The children gained […]
T4W in Class 1
This week class 1 have been reading the book Meerkat Mail. In this story a meerkat called Sunny leaves home to see his family and friends. He writes postcards back […]
Escape room in class 2
Today class 2 have tried a comparing numbers escape room. The questions used a variety of pictorial and numerical concepts in which the children had to compare the amounts. We […]
Outdoors maths in Class 1
In class 1 we have introduced the greater than and less than symbols. We decided to play a throwing game in which we would count the amount of bean bags […]
Music in Class 1
Today was our first glockenspiel lesson with Mr Kinman. He introduced his two puppets and used them to teach the children pitch. We then got to play the pulse on […]
Drama Class 1
In Class 1 we have introduced a new books called Meerkat Mail. Our objective for the lesson was to predict what will happen in the story. We separated into groups […]
Our last singing session with Elliott
This week Roughwood has had to say goodbye to Elliott from the Rotherham Minster. For the past few years he has been helping with singing assemblies for Year 6 and […]
Our last singing session with Elliott
This week Roughwood has had to say goodbye to Elliott from the Rotherham Minster. For the past few years he has been helping with singing assemblies for Year 6 and […]
Roughwood Primary School – Tri Golf
A superb event at Herringthorpe Junior School where some children from Year 1-4 competed in a Tri Golf festival. The children were faced with a variety of chipping and putting […]
Class 1 Counting game!
In class 1 we have started our place value maths topic. To help the children with their counting we played a throwing game in which the children would count how […]
John Carr’s 300th Anniversary
This week Class 2 have been learning about the Architect John Carr who designed Wentworth Woodhouse. Our mission was to design our own middle section of the stables using inspiration […]
Digital literacy Class 2
In Class 2 we have been publishing our information texts by using google docs for the first time. We have used a template to make our writing engaging to the […]
Digital literacy Class 2
In Class 2 we have been publishing our information texts by using google docs for the first time. We have used a template to make our writing engaging to the […]
Digital literacy Class 2
In Class 2 we have been publishing our information texts by using google docs for the first time. We have used a template to make our writing engaging to the […]
Digital literacy Class 2
In Class 2 we have been publishing our information texts by using google docs for the first time. We have used a template to make our writing engaging to the […]
Digital literacy Class 2
In Class 2 we have been publishing our information texts by using google docs for the first time. We have used a template to make our writing engaging to the […]
Picture This! 2023
Take a look at our outstanding Picture This exhibition at Gullivers Valley in Sheffield. This year, our particular focus was on the theme ‘Light.’ Across our school, we have thought […]
French weather report
In class 2 we have been learning how to tell the weather in french. We used our knowledge of weather to create a french weather report. We focused on sunny, […]
Mental Health Week #Free Your Mind Nature Trail
This dinner time Scarlett, one of our With Me in Mind Ambassadors completed the #Free Your Mind Nature Trail with some of our KS1 children. Scarlett explained that nature, the […]
Board games club KS1 & Chestnuts
In board games club we have been unleashing our competitive sides with some exciting group games. We tested our memory in a memory game, our precision in the ‘Humpty Dumpty […]
Outdoor literacy in class 2
In Literacy class 2 have been thinking about the setting of our new piece of narrative. The story focuses on a child who lived in a forest and helps the […]
Class 2- Non-unit fractions
This week class 2 have been learning about fractions. We have been finishing fractions of shapes and quantities. To further our learning we have been finding the value of non-unit […]
Raffle Winners
Thank you to the office for putting together an amazing selection of class and school raffles! The winners were drawn in assembly by adults in school. The money raised will […]
Class 2 NRICH maths
In maths we continued our fraction learning by completing an NRICH challenge. We started with a 4 cubes and had to times them by 2,3 and 4 to find multiples. […]
Class 2 DT wagons
Our DT topic for this term has been wagons. We researched their use during the Great Fire of London and decided to make our own. They had to have an […]
KS1 Easter Service
It was wonderful to invite parents to school today for the KS1 and EYFS Easter Assembly. We are super proud of the children for their achievements today. Â Thank you to […]
KS1 and Chestnuts at Rotherham Minster
On Thursday evening, KS1 and Chestnuts had the privilege of performing at the Spring concert at the Rotherham Minster. We performed 2 solo songs and then joined in for the […]
Virtual Artist Visit – Bob Barker
What a fantastic experience the children at Roughwood have encountered this afternoon! We have been lucky enough to virtually meet artist Bob Barker, learn about his life and even watch […]
Wingfield’s Science Teachers visit Roughwood
Wow! What a fantastic visit we had today from Miss Owen and Miss Williams from Wingfield Academy! We learnt all about light and how we see different colours. We made […]
Science Week Workshops!
Wow! What an incredible time we’ve had this week at our Science Ambassador workshops! As part of British Science Week, our Science Ambassadors have led workshops with all classes across […]
Key Stage 1 PE – Target Games
Key Stage 1 Football
Science Week Assembly
What a fantastic assembly we had today! This afternoon, Mrs Graham and the Science Ambassadors shared some experiments linked with this year’s British Science Week Theme, ‘Connections’… We got lots […]
Holi 2023
To celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi, today KS1 dressed up in bright colours and took part in a colour dash. They threw lots of different coloured paints at Miss […]
KS1 Multiply Session
Parent and carers in key stage one were invited into school for another of our ‘multiply’ maths sessions. During the session, parents and carers developed their strategies for numeracy. We […]
Class 2 Great Fire of London Workshop
This week we had a special workshop with ALFRESCO learning about the Great Fire of London. We started the workshop by casting our minds back to how houses were built […]
Sketching Club
For our final session of sketching club we brought together all of the skills we had previously been taught. We sketched a fruit bowl using a variety of techniques such […]
Self gratitude bookmarks
To aid our learning during children’s mental health we have made self gratitude bookmarks. We thought about our positive character strengths and wrote these down on our bookmarks. We then […]
KS1 WMIM worry monsters workshop
In KS1 today we were lucky enough to have another workshop with WMIM. Today we created our own worry monsters using craft materials that we can take home and use. […]
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 […]
SUMDOG competition starts today and the TT rockstar competition continues for the second week…
Today is the start of the weekly SUMDOG competition. Certificates are available, so please encourage all children to enter. This competition is on for a week only. The results are […]
Class 2 and 3’s Local Walk
Today class 2 and 3 went for a walk around our local area to look at human and physical features. We noticed that there was a lot more human features […]
NRICH maths in Class 1
In Class 1 today we had a go at an ENRIH maths investigation. We were working with our partners to do this and were given di. We had to roll […]
Year 1 PE – Ball Skills
WHOLE SCHOOL SPECIAL MENTIONS ASSEMBLY – WEEK 3
As we reflect on what has been fabulous week of achievements across school, the children at Roughwood have been showcasing their achievements, using their oracy to discuss what learning has […]
Clay skills in Class 2
This week class 2 have been practising our artistic skills using clay. We learnt how to roll the clay to a specific thickness using dowel. We then created patterns on […]
Class 1 number bonds
As part of our addition learning in maths, class 1 have been using ladybugs to find all of the different number bonds for numbers within 10. We worked systematically to […]
NRICH maths in Class 2
KS1 PE – Ball Skills
Year 2 children developed their rolling skills. Children. The children started by rolling the ball towards a target which then progressed to rolling through a variety of gates around the […]
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 […]
Key stage 1 Road Safety Bands
Key stage 1 were amazed to see that their learning in NEMESIS and Literacy has resulted in a delivery from Brightkidz. We have received a pack of reflective bands to […]
PE – Invasion Games Year 1
Class 2’s Healthy Pizzas
Today we made pizzas! After researching and designing pizzas we created our own healthy pizzas. We mixed ingredients to make our own dough. We then chopped up our vegetables using […]
Special Mentions Assembly in Autumn Term 2 at Roughwood Primary School
The children at Roughwood Primary School have been showcasing their achievements and high quality outcomes in our weekly special mentions assembly. In todays assembly, there was a variety of learning […]
Nemesis in Class 2
This week Class 2 have started their NEMESIS project of road safety. We began our week learning about what road safety is and how we can be safe near roads. […]
PE – Year 1/2 Invasion Games
Class 1 fairy tale poetry
In Class 1 we have been learning all about Hans Christian Andersen and all of the fabulous fairy tales he wrote. We have written and performed some poetry about him […]
White Rose Maths Competition – ‘Barvember’ in November
Barvember 2022 is here! Throughout this month, White Rose Maths have issued their yearly challenge, which has been running for the last five years called ‘barvember’. Each day in November, […]
Class 2 Golden Table
Due to their amazing behaviour last week during lunch times Class 2 won the golden table. We had a selection of fruit, bread and juices to celebrate our achievement. We […]
KS1 baking club
Our after school cooking and baking club has been amazing in Key Stage 1. We have been learning about a variety of cooking skills e.g. chopping, mixing and peeling. This […]
Year 1 & 2 PE – Fundamentals
Year 1 & 2 PE – Fundamentals
Year 1 & 2 PE Fundamentals
Florence’s Hospital T4W
In class 2 we have been learning about setting descriptions. We decided to describe the hospital Florence Nightingale visited in Germany. We focused on adding adjectives to describe and conjunctions […]
Virtual Visit from author Suzy Senior
Today children from key stage one and foundation stage were very lucky and to got to meet the author Suzy Senior. Suzy is a local author from Sheffield. We listened […]
Book Club
The children in Chestnuts and Class 1 had a wonderful time at Book Club. We read The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and used the text as a stimulus for our […]
Year 1&2 PE – Fundamentals
Whole School Special Mentions Assembly, before the Bank Holiday
As we reflect on what has been a momentous week with the sudden death of our reigning monarch, we come together to reflect. The children at Roughwood have been showcasing […]
Class 2 Maths escape room
Today class 2 challenged themselves in an escape room game. The children had to answer questions on comparing which provided them with letters to form a secret password to escape. […]
Class 1 Sketching Skills
In Class 1 we have been practicing our sketching skills in art. We used these skills to sketch a picture of the Queen to celebrate her life and leadership.