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, […]
Category Archives: Year 2
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 […]
Story openers in Class 3
Class 3 this week have produced some outstanding story openers. They have worked so hard on producing writing that shows the reader rather than telling the reader what has happened. […]
Class 3 begin their artist study
Today class 3 have started their artist study on the London based print maker Ellie Edwards. We began by looking at her work and evaluated some of her prints. We […]
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 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. 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 […]
Great Fire of London Workshop
Today class 3 had a morning of fun learning more about the Great fire of London. We had a workshop outside with a company called Alfresco Learning. The first task […]
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 […]
Finding Equal Groups
In maths this week we have moved on to multiplication. We began by looking at what equal groups means and whether we can create different equal groups using the same […]
Clay in Class 3
This week in art we have been creating clay houses. To start with we had to roll out our clay to the correct thickness before cutting out our houses. Once […]
Class 3 – Golden Table Winners
A massive congratulations to class 3 for winning their first Golden Table of the school year. What an amazing achievement – you are such a polite class and this has […]
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. […]
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 […]
NRICH Maths in Class 3
This week in maths we had a go at an NRICH investigation all around money. The problems we had to solve were around Ben having five coins in his pocket. […]
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 […]
Year 2 PE – Balls Skills
Year 2 continued their topic of Balls Skills focusing on dribbling with their feet. The children discussed the different parts of the foot they could use to dribble the ball. […]
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
In Class 3 this week we have been exploring the different patterns we can make in clay. To start off we had to roll out our clay in between two […]
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 […]
NRICH maths in Class 2
Maths Investigation in Class 3
In maths today we did a maths investigation called Chain of Changes. We had to create a pattern using 2D shapes. We could start with any shape but each time […]
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 […]
Absorbency Investigation in Class 3
Today in class 3 we have carried out an investigation to find out the absorbency of water in different materials. We tested materials such as felt, paper, wood and metal. […]
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 […]
ICT in Class 3
Today in ICT we have been designing and creating our very own Bee-Bot maps linked to our Nemesis project of road safety. We worked together to add roads and houses […]
Class 3’s Healthy Pizzas
This week we have made pizzas. After researching and designing our very own pizzas. We began by making the dough. Then we chopped our vegetables using the bridge and claw […]
PE – Invasion Games Year 2
Year 2 continued their topic of Invasion Games this week focusing on how to stop goals being scored. The children develop their defensive skills on how to prevent goals and […]
Class 3’s Healthy Pizza
Today we made pizza dough! After researching and designing our own healthy pizzas it’s was time to make our very own pizza dough. When we added all of the ingredients […]
Class 3’s Healthy Pizza
Today we made pizza dough! After researching and designing our own healthy pizzas it’s was time to make our very own pizza dough. When we added all of the ingredients […]
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 […]
ICT in Class 3
In ICT we have been learning how to programme a Beebot using an algorithm. We know that an algorithm is just a sequence of instructions. First, we looked at learning […]
Nemesis in Class 3
This week Class 3 have started their NEMESIS project all about road safety outside of our school grounds. We began our week learning about what road safety is and how […]
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
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
My Happy Minds in Class 3
Today in class 3 we have completed our fourth lesson of my happy minds. We learnt more about happy breathing and how we can use it when we are feeling […]
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 […]
Excellent writing in year 2
Over the last couple of weeks, Class 3 have been working on producing excellent writing. This doesn’t mean that it has to be perfect but it does mean that it […]
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. […]
Year 1 & 2 PE- Fundamentals
Class 3 – Future Aspirations
Today class 3 came to school dressed as a famous person. Children dressed as musicians, actors and sports people. We spoke about what being famous meant to us and the […]
Class 3 Representing Numbers
In maths today we were learning to represent numbers to 100 in different ways. We used different objects to represent the tens and the ones. Look at all the different […]
Class 2 Worry monster
To help our children with their worries each class has a worry monster. We had a group discussion of our worries and explained how we can write down our worries […]
Class 2 Comparing numbers
Class 2 combined maths with PE to help us learn how to compare numbers. We introduced the > and < signs with a catchy song. After, we went outside and […]
Class 3’s talk for write
In literacy today we looked at how we could edit and improve our writing. We added in adjectives and interesting vocabulary to make our setting description more exciting for the […]
Class 2 Talk 4 Write
This week class 2 have started learning about talk 4 write. We started the lesson by drawing pictures to represent words. We then progressed onto adding actions to our pictures. […]
Willow Vision
Children from all four schools came together on Friday to host our very own Willow Vision. Children sang songs in french and danced to French music. The afternoon was fantastic […]
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 […]
Singing Assembly … in French!
What an amazing singing assembly we had today! I don’t think we’ve ever had so many children, singing together like this, in French! A singing assembly first! Well done, everyone! […]
Class 3’s Trip to Cleethorpes
After a long journey because of traffic we finally made it to Cleethorpes. We had a walk along the beach and found a lovely spot to sit and have our […]