Class 2 – Learning in the snow
Snow days can be a distraction when learning but in class 2 we have been using it to our advantage. We have been practising our addition and times table in […]
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Live French in Year 4!
What a fantastic first live French lesson today for Year 4! The children were absolutely amazing – joining in, following on with the actions and even learning a brand new […]
Descriptive Writing in Y4
Classes 5 & 6 have really wowed us this week with their descriptive writing about Stig from Stig of the Dump! They’ve been so creative with their language choices and […]
Y3S Spontaneous Snow Maths
As usual class 4 rose to the challenge and did such a fabulous job at creating their snow creatures and then accurately measuring them! Well done children! What a creative, […]
Miss Sare attempted her own Maths Challenge!
Miss Sare had a go at her own Maths challenge and loved it! Class 4 are excited to give it a go too! Keep checking the website to see their […]
Y3 SNOW CHALLENGE…
Y3’s have been set a spontaneous snow maths tasks seen as it’s snowing heavily. They have been learning all about length and height over the last few weeks so Miss […]
Arrays
Class 3 today in maths have been using arrays to solve multiplication questions. They were challenged to be as creative as possible with the arrays and they certainly succeeded.
How do we use the internet?
Class 3 have spent the afternoon thinking about how they use the internet and how they keep themselves safe whilst using it. As a class they have come up with […]
Y3 Fantastic Mr Fox Farmer Freeze Frames
Y3 were set the task to create some creative freeze frames of the farmers from our class text doing different things. They had to show: Bunce full up after eating […]
Class 6 love reading!
It’s been lovely to see so many photos of children reading at home this week – we had to share a few … Well done, Year 4! Keep it up!
Class 2’s talk 4 write!
Well done Class 2 for producing amazing literacy work this week at home. We have been planning and writing instructions on how to make our own potions. The children have […]
Y3S – PE Live was a success!
Year 3 loved continuing their PE lessons with Mr Tyas. They completed a short circuit and learnt all about pacing themselves, challenging themselves and reading and interpreting their own bodies […]
Drama in Y4G
Y4G have really gone above and beyond today, getting into character as Stig from their new class book! We thought it might not work remotely but these children have shown […]
Y3S Rock Investigation
Y3 have beyond impressed today. Almost 2/3 of the class accessed our live lessons and we’re aiming for 100%! The children then went on to complete a rock investigation and […]
Measuring and Converting in Y4G
Mrs Graham’s class have made a wonderful start to remote Maths learning today, recapping how to measure in cm and convert to mm. Take a look at their amazing outcomes […]
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 […]
Escape Room Challenge in Y6
Y6W had a fantastic afternoon of problem solving today with their escape room challenge! The children worked in teams of 4 to find and solve clues which would unlock the […]
Reversible and Irreversible Changes
Year 4 have had a wonderful afternoon today, predicting and observing whether changes to materials are reversible or irreversible. Fantastic teamwork and discussion – well done everyone!
Are you ready for a challenge, Y6W?!
We’re all set up and excited for our Escape Room Challenge in Science next week! Who will crack all of the codes? Which team will be the fastest? We can’t […]
KS2 Football
KS2 Hockey
KS1 Fitness
KS1 continued with their topic of fitness. The children really challenged themselves and showed great resilience during our circuit, which involved a lot of running and jumping.
Scratch mazes in year 4
Class 6 have been learning to create and code their own mazes in Scratch. They have been using coding blocks to guide Robin Hood through a forest!
Glockenspiel Easy E
In class 3 we have been beginning to play the glockenspiel. We listened to a piece of music and then began to look at the different notes. For the piece […]
Year 5 Rocket Launch!
What an amazing morning we’ve had today in Y5NS! We launched our model rockets into space from the playground and watched them fall back to Earth … but did […]
STEM Model Rockets
What an amazing day we’ve had today in Y5NS today, planning and building our very own model rockets! First, Mr Williams set us our challenge – to design a capsule […]
Virtual Maths Reasoning Christmas Quiz
To get into the festive spirit, Y3 had a Christmas themed maths quiz during their live session today. The children loved applying their division and multiplication learning! The children fed […]
KS2 Football
KS2 enjoyed being back outside for their PE lesson. After developing a greater understand of passing and moving off the ball, they participated in some small sided games. The children’s […]
Bus stop division teaching and learning with food – Y3 Distanced learning
Throughout the week Miss Sare has been holding daily live maths sessions and has been astounded by how quickly and fabulously Y3 have picked up the written method for division. […]
Data Loggers in Y6
Year 6 have had a very noisy afternoon in Science today, investigating voltage! Our research question was: how does increasing the voltage change the volume of a buzzer? The children […]
Freeze Frame Drama in Y6
Year 6 have made a wonderful start to their new unit of writing today, with some fantastic drama! They were thinking about how it would feel to experience a real […]
Diwali workshop with Balbir Singh
A dance company called Balbir Singh worked with Year 3/4 over Zoom to teach the children about Diwali and to teach them a dance to represent the story. We had […]
Y3 “Miss Sare” Pleaser Machine Designs
Y3 are beginning their new genre, explanation texts. This morning children were set a task of designing their own Miss Sare pleaser machine. They thought about what Miss Sare would […]
Y4 STEM Shelters
Year 4 have been doing lots of learning and research about shelters as part of our Survival/Robin Hood topic. Today we finally made our own models of shelters! The children […]
We are so lucky to have Mr Tyas hosting virtual PE lessons!
Y3 loved their PE lesson with Mr Tyas today. A fabulous Joe Wicks style session. Well done children!
Y5/6D Fractions – Maths Live Sessions
It is our second and final week remote learning in Class 8 and what a great experience we have had! Although we haven’t been able to see each other in […]
Healthy or unhealthy
During our final day of home learning today children have had to sort food from there cupboards into healthy and unhealthy. Some children even looked into the five different food […]
Where is God?
Class 3 today did some work about different religion and beliefs about God. Children had to discuss with their grown ups where they believed God was. After having this discussion […]
Science Assembly LIVE!
What a fantastic assembly today! Some of us joined in at home and some of us joined in at school but we were all joining in together and that’s what […]
Money, money, money!
Today class 3 had to select coins and notes to make the correct amount to pay for an item in a shop. They were fully immersed in their activity using […]
KS1 PE at home with Mr Tyas
Wow! Today we had over 30 key stage 1 pupils join in with Mr Tyas for his live PE lesson. It was great to see all the children being physically […]
Phonics Live Sessions
Well done to all the children in Chestnuts Class for a fantastic week of phonics learning. It has been lovely to see so many of you join in each day […]
Repeating Patterns
For our numeracy distance learning task, we have been continuing and creating simple repeating patterns.
Y6D Remote Learning – Women at War
Our first week of remote learning is over and I am truly amazed and impressed with Class 8 for their hard work and resilience that has been displayed over the […]
Be bright, be seen day
As part of our Road Safety Week this week we have been trying to promote road safety throughout the winter months. Children have dressed in their brightest and boldest colours […]
Y5 & 6 Live Fitness Session
All about South America
In literacy this week we began by researching all about South America. We found lots of interesting facts. Today we started creating our information booklet. We designed our front cover […]
Anti-bullying week in Year 1
This week is Anti- bullying week and we have been wearing our odd socks at home (as we are isolating) to celebrate individuality and to show that we are all […]
How far will your aeroplane travel?
Over the past two days class 3 have designed and made an aeroplane. There challenge was to create a plane that would fly 2 metres or more. They have worked […]
Learning all about South America
The children in class 3 have loved literacy today. They have been researching all about South America. They have found interesting facts, the languages that are spoken, countries in South […]
Y3 Distanced Learning
Over the last few days, Class 4 have been set the challenge of designing their own new and original shop that would be in Meadowhall. Yesterday they drew, thought of […]
KS1 PE
Phonics at home
Our live phonics session didn’t go as well as planned, but hopefully tomorrow will be better. Well done to all the children in Chestnuts Class who have had a go […]
Odd Socks Day in Chestnuts Class
This week is Anti-Bullying week and it began today with Odd Socks Day. A day where children are encouraged to where to odd socks to school (or at home, because […]
Roughwood Sport Leaders
Class 3 know how to stay safe when crossing the road
Being at home hasn’t stopped class 3 from creating some amazing videos to let others know how to cross the road safely. We read the story Super Cat’s Road Safety […]
Y3 Science Distanced Learning
Some lovely pieces of Science learning during distanced learning today! Well done – you have learnt lots about the human body and its organs.
Our first day learning from home
Today is the first day the KS1 bubble have spent at home. We had our first zoom meeting so that we all know what to expect on Monday and we […]
Children in Need Day
Children at Roughwood Primary School have dressed in spots today to support Children in Need. A big thank you to all parents and carers who made a donation!
Y3 STEM ROBOTS
Over the last few weeks, Y3 have been discussing the future of the steel industry and whether or not workers will be replaced with machine robots. We have done lots […]
Air Raid Evacuation Videos 2020
As part of the Year 6 topic (How Does War Change Lives) this term, the children have been busy creating WW2 air raid evacuation videos detailing what to do in […]
Remembrance Service
“On the 11th Hour on the 11th Day of the 11th Month, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM” We held our Remembrance service on the KS2 yard today, distanced from each other, […]
Harvest Festival 2020
Roughwood Primary school perform beautifully for the Harvest Festival. We are incredibly proud of all our Roughwood learners. Thank you to all parents and carers for donating this year. Unfortunately, […]
Year 3 Newspapers
Over the last few weeks, Y3 have been writing a newspaper recount all about the break-in at the bakery in our class text, Meet me by the Steelmen. Today we […]
Year 5 & 6 Hockey
Evacuee Art Y6
Children in Year 6 have been focusing on the proportions of the human boys while drawing evacuees. We have used pencil and markers to draw the outline and we are […]
Pastel Art Year 3
Year 3 have been creating tones and textures with pastels linked to our topic about steel. Our scrap metal art is looking fantastic.
Class 4 Drama
Class 4 have been using lots of drama techniques to help support them with their new writing genre a Newspaper Recount. Today we created some frieze frames to portray the […]
Remote Learning
Well done Class 9. Children who have been asked to isolate today left school at 1:15 pm and were ready for their first online lesson via Google Classroom at 2:30 […]
Remote teaching Music
Today has been our first music lesson via Zoom with Class 5. Children have been drumming as normal and the lesson was a great success. Well done for rising to […]
Year 5 Away from the desk maths
From using the White Rose schemes of work, here’s another example of where we have revisited previous learning at Roughwood and practised using previous methods to calculate. We definitely had […]
Zentangle leaves
Year 4 learnt a new art skill yesterday and practised zentangle patterns. We tried some in our sketchpads first and then went onto our leaf pictures. It took a lot […]
Super Hero PE Year 1
Year 1 had great fun being super hero’s in PE. They developed skills such as changing director and dodging.
Lovely published learning in Year 3
The children in Class 4 have done a fabulous job at achieving Miss Sare’s super high expectations. Their ‘Dear Diary’ pieces of writing looks beautiful in our Classroom and both […]
Drumming Year 4
Our children in Year 4 have been enjoying their drumming sessions this week and have started to learn the basics on the Djembe Drum. Children have been looking at listening […]