Tudor pastel art
In Year 5 we have started our large pastel pictures, looking at Tudor patterns. We have only just started these but, as I’m sure you will agree, Class 7 have […]
Category Archives: Year 5
Investigating materials and their properties
Year 5’s science topic this half term is materials and their properties. We have started the topic by looking at a variety of materials, thinking of ways we can describe […]
Place Value in Year 5
We have started the Autumn term by looking at place value. Today we have completed some practical collaborative activities to consolidate our learning this week.
PowerPoint skills in Year 5
This week we have created PowerPoints about Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare. We learnt how to add animations and transitions to our PowerPoints too.
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 […]
Balbir Performance at Magna
Children from Roughwood have been working hard on a dance routine in order to receive their Arts Award Discover certificates. Today, children visited Magna to perform their dances in front […]
Balbir Dance
Children have had a special visitor today in school. Children in Years 5, 3 and 2 were able to watch a professional dancer to support their performances with Balbir. Children […]
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 […]
Young Voices 2019
Wow! What an amazing evening we all had. Our talented pupils attended the Young Voices concert held at the Motor Point Arena last night (8th January) and became part of […]
Snow White – KS2 Panto
This year, KS2 have worked hard to produce a performance no one will forget. Children from Year 3 to Year 6 made up the cast and gave two outstanding performances. […]
Year 5 Perform at Rotherham Minster
Year 5 took part in a concert for parents and the public at the Rotherham Minster. It was the first time many of our children had been inside the Minster […]
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 […]
Writing in Y5
Great writing this morning in Y5. Children have been writing their own play scripts based on the performance we are currently working on in school. The performance will be in […]
Dark Night Assembly
PC Paul and PC Helen 👮🏻♂️👮🏻♀️ have been in to speak to the children about staying safe during the darker nights. They spoke to the children about Halloween 🎃 about […]
Year 5 Tudor House designs
Some collaboration with Y5 cross sectional Tudor designs. Did you know that glass was extremely expensive? Designs included steep roofs and wooden beams.
Harry Potter Sleep over
On Friday 2nd February, the magic of ‘Hogwarts’ came to Roughwood Primary School. The children had all received their acceptance letters by owl before Christmas. This was the much-anticipated night […]
Memories Exhibition
This afternoon, the children in class 8 invited their parents and family members into class to visit our memories exhibition, which was inspired by our class book ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’. […]
The Sun and Shadows
In Science this term, Class 8 are learning all about Space! In our most recent lesson, we looked at how the sun affects our shadows during the course of the […]
Looking Forward…
We’re already thinking about the coming term in the new year and thought you might like to see the fabulous novels we are going to be studying. Y1&2 – James […]
Out an About!
Many of our pupils in Year 5 and 6 are recovering from their recent residential visits. Year 6 spent four nights in Northumberland and had visits to Bamburgh Castle, Lindisfarne […]
Magical Marketplace
All things magical arrived at Roughwood this week, as the hall was transformed into a Magical Marketplace. Pupils, parents and staff mingled with witches, wizards and warlocks to trade their wares: […]