Year 6 create news reports
This week in Year 6, we have been creating a news report to inform audiences about the disappearance of Cherry from our topic book, “The Giant’s Necklace”.
Category Archives: Year 6
Y6 Clay Rock Pool Workshop – Session 3
What a fantastic final session we have had with Mrs Lee today completing our ceramic rock pools. We were thrilled to see how our rock pools returned after being in […]
Class 7 – Golden Table Winners
Congratulations to Class 7 this week! Due to their kindness and respect shining through during lunch times, Class 7 won the most golden tokens and therefore are the golden table […]
NRICH Maths – Spiralling decimals in Y6
Children in Y6 have put their problem solving skills to the test when completing the spiralling decimals challenge from NRICH. We had to think logically of where we would place […]
Virtual talk about St Cuthbert with Reverend Skidmore
Year 6’s enjoyed meeting with Reverend Skidmore with Herringthorpe Junior School last week to learn all about the life of St Cuthbert. This will be valuable when visiting Northumberland next […]
Y6 Clay Rock Pool Workshop – Session 2
Another fantastic afternoon working on our clay rock pools with ceramics artist, Mrs Lee. Today, we have sculpted creatures that live in rock pools and used techniques such as scoring […]
Y6 Clay Rockpool Workshop – Session 1
This afternoon, our Y6 children have had the privilege of meeting and working together with ceramic artist Caroline Lee from CLEE Ceramics! Over the course of 3 sessions, Mrs Lee […]
Hokusai Artist Study in Y6
This afternoon, Y6 have learnt about the famous artist known as Hokusai and completed an artist study by analysing some of his famous artwork. We evaluated the work of Hokusai […]
Year 6 perform Poetry
This week in Year 6, we have been identifying features of a poem before creating a performance for the poems “The Sea” and “SeaFever”.
Year 6 learn Place Value
Today in Year 6, we have been enjoying the beautiful outdoor weather whilst learning place value. Children started by identifying the different place values from one’s up to ten thousand […]
Class 7 – Attendance Breakfast Winners
A HUGE well done to Class 7 for having the highest attendance during our 2 week transition. We celebrated this morning with a breakfast, some singing and some dancing.
Y6 create 3D lighthouses on Tinkercad
We have been using Tinkercad, a 3D modelling programme, to create our own 3D lighthouses. Children used their knowledge learnt in previous ICT sessions to navigate around their programme and […]
Seashell inspired art in Y6
Today, Y6 children have used shading and techniques such as cross hatching, stippling, finger blending and scribbling to create tone and texture when sketching their own seashell. We began by […]
Y6 Drama ‘Freeze Frames’ – Grace Darling
Year 6 have made a fantastic start to their new unit of writing today with some brilliant drama to enhance character thoughts and feelings. We used freeze frames to portray […]
Y6 Prom 2023
Year 6 children from Roughwood joined together for an unforgettable prom. It was a wonderful way to celebrate a tremendous journey here at Roughwood. The children had a wonderful time […]
Themed Art Workshop Visit!
Children have had the honour of working with skilled artist, Mandy Keating, who ran a multiple workshops to explore new visual art techniques! We created artwork linked to Rotherham and […]
Art Workshops With A Visiting Artist
Today has been a very exciting day where Year 3, Year 5 and Year 6 have worked with a highly skilled artist to create art work in conjunction with Rotherham’s […]
PC Newman in speaking with Year 5 and 6
Discussing how to make the right choices as we make the next move to our new classes or next school. As we might face challenges, the children have the opportunity […]
Y6 Leavers Performance
What a fantastic ‘I’m a Y6, get me out of here!’ performance from our Year 6 children! It was emotional from start to finish, with an opportunity for children to […]
Y6 ‘Make £5 grow’ enterprise fayre!
This afternoon, our Y6’s put their business ideas to the test at our enterprise fayre to celebrate the end of the Make £5 Grow project. Children have worked extremely hard […]
Big String & Big Blast
As part of the ‘Big Blast’ and ‘Big String’ concert, the children have performed in the Rotherham Music Service concert at Magna. The children performed with courage and confidence, and […]
Willow Tree Olympics
WTA Sports Cup – Boccia
Adventure Challenge
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 […]
Using logical reasoning to create, edit and debug a program in Year 6
This week in Year 6, we have been using logical reasoning skills we developed last week to create, edit and debug a calculator program on Scratch. Children had to first […]
Heart dissection in Year 6!
What a fantastic morning the children in year 6 have had! Following on from all the fantastic learning the children have done so far learning about the heart. Mr Hood […]
The Y6 Oracy and Reading Project returns!
This afternoon, our Y6 have welcomed back their mentors from Pontefract College as we explore oracy in our final module of ‘The Oracy and Reading’ project. We have worked alongside […]
Y6 Music – Clarinets
Our music learning continues this half term with the clarinet in preparation for our Big Blast concert at the end of June. Today, we have shown our skills off to […]
NFL Flag Football – Roughwood Giants
Story mapping in science – A journey of a red blood cell
Following on from our learning all about the heart, this week the children have been investigating the journey of a Red blood cell. To help support our understanding further, the […]
Class 7 create a webpage about the heart!
This week in ICT, we have been creating a webpage to inform audiences about the heart. The children have uploaded their logo’s that they created last lesson using Inkscape.
How to deal with a minor head injury – Year 6 presentations
During our PSHE lessons, Year 6 have learnt how to deal with a minor head injury and have produced short videos to inform other children of what to do if […]
Y6 Storytelling
Year 6 has been practising retelling stories using film and video editing. Children read the first part of our text Wonder!
Day 2 at Crowden – Maths residential
During our time at Crowden, children across Willow Tree Academy have taken part in a range of deeper thinking maths activities. At Roughwood Primary School, we value the importance of […]
Year 6 recreate the circulatory system through animation
As part of our new science topic for this term, year 6 have been learning all about the circulatory system. Linking our focus of an explanation text in literacy we […]
WTA Sports Cup – Year 6 Tag Rugby
Artist Study in Y6
This afternoon, the children in Year 6 have learnt about famous watercolour artist J.M.W Turner and completed an ‘artist study’ by analysing some of his most famous artwork. By studying […]
Y6 Exam Stress session – WMIM
With Me In Mind ran a practical and insightful session for our Y6’s this afternoon, focussing on upcoming exam stress and anxieties and gave us tips on how this can […]
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 […]
Year 6 go to Kelham island!
The children in year 6 visited Kelham Island Museum as part of their World War II topic learning. The children were able to fully immerse themselves as they dressed up […]
KS2 EASTER ASSEMBLY
It was wonderful to invite parents to school today for the KS2 Easter Assembly. We were really proud of all the children for giving a wonderful performance to their parents. […]
Willow Tree Sports Cup Year 5/6 Dodgeball
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 STEM: Spaghetti Bridges
Year 6 took part in a very tricky challenge this afternoon! As part of British Science Week, we challenged children to make connections by building spaghetti bridges … Children showed […]
Rotherham School Games Year 5/6 Football
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 […]
WW2 Blackout Science Investigation
During the Second World War, British residents had to cover their windows and doors at night with heavy blackout material in order to cover any glimmer of light coming from […]
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 […]
Y6 are evacuated to Kelham Island!
We have began our journey to Kelham Island this morning. We are excited to fully immerse ourselves in the fantastic WW2 workshops Kelham Island Museum have to offer. Let’s have […]
Y6 Evacuee Stitching
Our Year 6 children have made a wonderful start to their sewings, applying their prior knowledge of running stitches to their beautiful evacuee sketches. Our next step is to apply […]
Sharing our learning …
Last week, some children from Class 5 went to share their learning about the Women of Steel statue with Year 6. As the Year 6 topic is all about WWII, […]
WW2 Videos
Children in Class 7 have been creating videos using iMovie linked to their literacy learning about Air Raids. Children have used cutting and reordering skills as well as how to […]
UKS2 Children’s Mental Health Week Collaborative Art
Our fantastic children in Year 5 and 6 have used their collaboration skills to create a fantastic piece of artwork based on this years theme, ‘Let’s Get Connected.’ Our art […]
Y6 create bookmarks to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week
The children in Year 6 have designed and created their own bookmarks this afternoon to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week in school. We discussed the importance of our own mental […]
Breakfast club and Lunchtime Boccia
Year 5/6 Athletics Rotherham School Games
Nrich maths in Year 6
As part of our learning all about percentages, the children in Year 6 completed an investigation from NRICH. The investigation gave the children the task to complete questions based around […]
Y6 Art- Evacuee sketches
Following on from last week’s lesson, the children in Year 6 have been using their knowledge on proportions of the human to sketch their own evacuees. We have used pencil […]
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 […]
Creating our own extended metaphors in Y6!
Year 6 have been putting their knowledge of extended metaphors into practise in Literacy today. We analysed a video of a railway train, similar to the ones evacuees would travel […]
P4C in Y6 – World War 2
This afternoon, the children in Class 8 participated in a P4C discussion about WW2. First, we explored some pictures of evacuees and recorded our first thoughts down on a post-it […]
Y6 Art – Drawing proportions of the human body
Class 7 have demonstrated excellent art skills today as we explored how to draw the human body in proportion. We started off by using mathematical skills such as measuring skills […]
Year 5 & 6 PE -Netball
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 […]
Y6 Art – Drawing the human body in proportion
Year 6 have demonstrated excellent art skills this week as we have learnt how to draw the human body in proportion. We started by using mathematical skills such as measuring […]
Y6 use drama to explore thoughts and feelings
This week, we have started our new unit of Literacy. In preparation for our narrative writing, we have been learning about evacuees and the diverse range of experiences the children […]
SATS 2023 Parent meeting
Thank you to everyone who could join us for the SATS Y6 meeting. We hope that the information provided was useful. Please find below a copy of the SATS Meeting […]
Y6 begin learning German!
Class 8 have had a wonderful afternoon learning new German vocabulary. We are now able to talk to our peers in German using greetings to start our conversation! After practising […]
Roughwood Primary School Sport Leaders 22/23
Y6 Christmas party!
Year 6 children celebrated the end of term today in their Christmas party this afternoon. From dancing, playing musical statues, pass the parcel and indulging in their fantastic snack buffet, […]
Pen and ink lighthouses in Y6
In art, we have been learning pen and ink skills such as hatching, cross hatching and stippling to create tone and texture to our lighthouse art work. We began by […]
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 […]
KS2 panto rehearsals underway for the big performance on Monday
All children in KS2 have practised their pantomime performance (oh yes they have) in this mornings dress rehearsal of ‘Snow White.‘ All children have sang beautifully and all children with […]