Using and creating spreadsheets and data in Year 5
During our computing sessions in our ICT suite, the children in class 7 have been using excel this week to create spreadsheets and present key data about the characters from […]
Category Archives: Year 5
Dragon Eye Art in Y5/6 – Applying skills to create texture
This week, children in Year 5/6 have continued their learning of using different techniques to create pattern and texture and have applied this within their own sketchbooks when drawing a […]
Year 5 Football RUFC
Year 5/6 PE Netball
Year 5/6 started their new topic of Netball. The children develop a variety of passes such as, chest and shoulder pass. The children then progressed to passing and moving and […]
Dragon Eye Art – Creating Texture
Very proud of Class 8 today who have demonstrated their outstanding artistic skills by using ink to create texture. We considered the several ways a dragon eye could be interpreted […]
KS2 Easter Assembly
It was wonderful to invite parents into school today for the KS2 Easter Assembly. We were really proud of all the children for giving a wonderful performance to their parents. […]
Y5/6 Tudor Day – Part 2
This morning, we also had the exciting opportunity to try out a ‘Tudor banquet’ and taste foods that were popular of the time. The children experienced foods they liked and […]
Y5/6 Tudor Day – Part 1
What a tremendous day we have had in Class 7 and 8! We have truly brought the Tudor era ‘to life’ in our hall today, with children fully immersing themselves […]
Rotherham SUMDOG competition 2022 commences tomorrow!
Roughwood announce this weeks Rotherham SUMDOG competition of 2022 commences tomorrow morning from 8am… The children in class 1 to class 9 have the opportunity to compete against other children […]
Year 5/6 Girls Football- Rotherham School Games
Year 5 Fitness Session- Science Week
Children in Year 5 completed a fitness circuit as part of science week. The children completed a circuit of exercises and logged their repetitions on each station. The children showed […]
Boccia- South Yorkshire School Games
Science Week: Special Mentions
What a fantastic week we’ve had this week for British Science Week! Our Science Ambassadors have once again made us so proud, topping off the week with a wonderful demonstration […]
Y5 PE- Athletics
P4C in Year 5 – recycling and caring for animals and sea creatures
This week, children in Year 5 have focused on recycling and the effects of this on our school, at home, the wider community and the planet. During our P4C session, […]
Using drama to explore character thoughts and feelings
Year 5/6 have made a great start in their Literacy unit by using freeze frames within drama to explore our characters thoughts and feelings from our class book, Treason. We […]
P4C in Year 5/6 – Recycling
This week, children in Y5/6 have focused upon the topic of recycling and the effects of this on our school, at home, the wider community and the planet. During our […]
Year 5/6 Girls Football
Year 5 PE- Athletics
Y5/6 create digital ‘Word Clouds’ in Literacy
Upon our return to school this week, the children in Class 7 and 8 have been exploring narrative writing in our Literacy sessions. We will be writing our very own […]
Heart of Willow Tree Casting Day!
What an amazing day we’ve had today with Casting Innovations Ltd! Mr Brooks and his team were in school all day, working on the next stage of our Heart of […]
Year 5 & 6 Boccia- Rotherham School Games
Year 5 & 6 Tag Rugby
Year 5 and 5/6 apply their fluency within their maths learning on the maths platform ‘MyMaths’.
At Roughwood primary school, we have been using different online maths platforms to support us with our maths learning and problem solving skills. Within our maths learning, class 7 and […]
Science in Year 5 and 5/6
During our science lessons, class 7 and 8 have been learning about materials and their properties, and have recently learnt about making predictions between soluble and insoluble ingredients. Over the […]
Year 5 Tudor Art
In art this week we have been looking tone using a 2B pencil. Children have explored stippling, cross-hatching, hatching and shade. Take a look at the skills in our Tudor […]
Lunchtime Class Challenge Football
Year 5 & 6 Tag Rugby
In ICT, Class 7 and 8 learn about being safe online!
As part of their learning using digital literacy in ICT, the children in Year 5/6 learnt about what it means to be an ‘Internet Legend’. The children have learnt about […]
Year 5 begins ‘hot seating’ as we are introduced to the characters in the book…
As Year 5 begin their new topic learning about the Elizabethans and Tudors, we begin studying our new class text ‘Treason’ (by Berlie Doherty). The children carefully created questions to […]
Year 5 complete their script instructions within our computing lessons
During our learning on creating animations using scratch, we have been writing instructions on how to write a script to allow another user to create their own animation.
STEM Rocket Launch Challenge
What an amazing morning we’ve had today in Year 5. We launched our model rockets into space from the playground and watched them fall back to Earth … but did […]
Loops in Class 8
This week in class 8, we have been finishing off our animations by looking at the different types of loops (forever and repeat) we can use in our scripts to […]
Year 5/6 Football
Year 5 & 6 Football- Defending
Computing in class 7 and 8
In ICT, class 7 and 8 have been using ‘Scratch’ as part of their programming lessons to create a script to show the changes and different phases of the moon. […]
STEM Investigation In Classes 7 and 8
As we begin to learn about air resistance, the children in Class 7 and 8 design and build rockets using only one material to support the astronaut as they travel […]
STEM challenge – Mars Rovers with forces
This week at Roughwood Primary, children in Year 5 and 5/6 have been invited to take part in a fantastic STEM challenge – as we learn about forces, the children […]
K’nex space challenge
Children from Roughwood have taken part in a fantastic STEM challenge today. The challenge was to create an air-powered moon buggy that could go the distance. The designs had to […]
Year 5 & 6 Football
Year 5 Learnt About ‘Active Listening‘ in RP.
During our Restorative Practise learning sessions, we’ve been learning about active listening and we used freeze frames to show what positive active-listening looks like. We learnt how important open body […]
SUMDOG CONTEST BEGINS!
We have been entered into the SUMDOG maths contest across England, which begins today and ends on Friday 11th November. The children in class 1 to class 9 have the […]
Class 7 and 8 Visit Leicester Space Centre
Having visited Leicester Space Centre, the children in Year 5 and 6 experienced a range of space exploration learning activities. From entering space modules, to visiting the space tower, children […]
Class 8 Remote learning
Miss Sare has had the pleasure of teaching the wonderful Class 8 this week. It has been great to see children continuing to show their resilience and hard work during […]
Brass Lessons
Lunchtime Play
It has been great to see our Playground Friends supporting games outside this lunchtime. Sports leaders have also been busy running sports on the playground too.
Year 5/6 successfully complete astronaut training day
To start our topic, the children in class 7 and 8 were immersed into resilience challenges during their astronaut training day. The children wrote postcards and asked questions about the […]
Attendance Certificates
Well done to all our children with 100% attendance this year. We know that for some of the time this year school was closed, but for every day they could […]
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 […]
Year 5 explore habitats in and around the pond
In science, Year 5 explored different habitats before learning about metamorphosis in our next lesson. The children found a range of creatures and insects this afternoon that were located in […]
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 […]
Year 5 apply their maths learning in the ICT suite
Year 5 make use of an ‘away from the desk’ maths lesson (in our fabulous ICT suite)! In our maths lesson, children applied their learning in a range of different […]
Y5/6 Rounders
Using our maths and science within our Geography
In our Geography lessons, we’ve been analysing and comparing the changes in weather (temperature) and rainfall in who different places – South Yorkshire (specifically Sheffield) and the capital of Norway […]
Year 5 learn about growing plants from cuttings
In science, class 7 have been learning how to be green fingered! They have been learning about two different types of reproduction – sexual and asexual reproduction of plants and […]
Year 5 learn about angles
Geometry lessons in mathematics have begun in Upper Key Stage Two. During this weeks ‘away from the desk’ maths learning, learning was taken to the outdoor learning spaces. Our lessons […]
Mental Health Awareness week and the outdoor classroom at Roughwood Primary School.
As part of ‘Mental Awareness Week’, class 7 have immersed ourselves into the wilderness of outdoor spaces, as we complete our immersive reading within Roughwood’s outdoor learning classroom. As we […]
Y5 Sports Club
UKS2 PE Netball
From relative pronouns to relative clauses in Year 5…
Based on our class text ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, we have learnt about relative pronouns in our English session and used relative clauses to add detail to the main […]
Year 5 learn about texture and tone in art.
In our art lessons, we have learnt about using different sketching techniques including tone and texture. We have showed clear progression in both lessons from practising sketching technique, to beginning […]
Year 5/6 Netball
Cycle Skills
Year 5 accomplish so much in only three weeks!
We have written our own Easter play scripts, used numicon to represent decimals, played maths games and also discussed different forms of Transport in French! We’ve also been learning a […]
Year 5 Donate and show awareness towards Red Nose Day – Friday 19th March 2021
At Roughwood Primary, we support Comic Relief this Red Nose Day to help tackle important issues including homelessness, child poverty, domestic abuse, and mental health stigma, all of which have […]
After School Sports Club
ORACY Skills and Persuasion
Year 5 & 6 have been using their Oracy skills to creat a video to persuade people to embark on a three-year voyage around teh world with captain Cook. Children […]
Class 7 celebrate their love for reading during World Book Week 2021
From making our favourite characters out of fruit and vegetables, stitching out favourite book characters and finding out favourite places to read, what a week we’ve had! The children learning […]
Y5/6 PE
Year 5 begin their embroidery – Lockdown 2021
After making up the art packs for the year 5 children at home, the children in year 5 had their very first live lesson on embroidery from home. We learnt […]
Year 5 festive SUMDOG challenge
Class 7 have been incredibly resilient this week. As we approach the final stages of learning before our Christmas break, the children have logged onto ‘SUMDOG’ today to complete their […]
KS2 Christmas Poem 2020
A huge thank you to all the children and staff who took part in this year’s KS2 performance of “Twas The Night Before Christmas” which looks fantastic. Although we couldn’t […]
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 […]
KS2 Football
NEMESIS in Year 5 and Chestnuts
As part of our NEMESIS project this term, we’ve discussed helping others in our local community. Class 7 thought it would be a wonderful idea to have a penfriend and […]