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Category Archives: Computing

Scratch mazes in year 4

Wednesday, 9th Decemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

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!

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Computing, Year 4

Google Internet Legend Assembly

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We have been extremely lucky today to have a personalised assembly delivered by Google. We were also joined by our Rotherham MP, Sarah Champion! Our children really enjoyed the assembly […]

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Computing, News and Events, Online Safety, Well-being

Monster Biography

Wednesday, 16th Septemberby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

Last week in year 1 our classroom was invaded by monsters from around the world. We have been learning all about these monsters and used talk for write to help […]

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Computing, Literacy, Media & Films, News and Events

Y5 moon phases animations

Wednesday, 15th Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Year 5 we have been learning about the phases of the moon and created animations to show this. We used paper first and then created an animation using a […]

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Computing, Science, Year 5

Willow Tree Film Festival

Wednesday, 8th Julyby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This year’s Willow Tree Film Festival has been a truly amazing event even though it has been done remotely. Roughwood has still managed to do extremely well in all categories […]

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Computing, Media & Films

Class 6 Outlaw Animation

Tuesday, 12th Mayby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Before the school closure, classes throughout school were creating animations as part of ICT. Here is Class 6’s based on their topic book, Outlaw. The animation includes key scenes from […]

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Computing, Media & Films, News and Events, Year 4

Internet Safety Competition Winners Announced!

Tuesday, 5th Mayby Mr Williams Leave a comment

A few weeks ago, we launched an ICT competition across school that challenged students to create a video that informed others of the dangers of fake information on the internet. […]

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Computing, Media & Films, News and Events, Online Safety, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Roughwood Primary Internet Safety Competition

Thursday, 23rd Aprilby Mr Williams Leave a comment

To promote internet safety, we are challenging students to create an engaging and creative video to advise audiences on the dangers of fake information on the internet. Further details on […]

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Computing, Media & Films, News and Events, Online Safety, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

WWII Child Evacuee Animation

Thursday, 23rd Aprilby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Last term, class 9 began creating an evacuee video as part of an animation project. The project involved researching why children were evacuated and how, creating storyboards, characters (sprites) and […]

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Computing, Media & Films, News and Events, Year 6

Class 8 Excel in Computing

Wednesday, 11th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Computing, class 8 have been using Microsoft Excel to record results of their favourite dragons from “How to Train Your Dragon” by creating tables and pie-charts. The […]

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Computing, News and Events, Year 5

Y5 Excel!

Tuesday, 10th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Computing, Year 5 have been using Microsoft Excel to record results of their favourite dragons from “How to Train Your Dragon” by creating tables and pie-charts. The […]

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Computing, News and Events, Year 5

Year 5 & 6 Science and Media Museum

Featuredby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

We’ve learnt about how sound travels, and we’ve found out that we watch 4 days of adverts per year! That’s a lot of Television! From the Wonderlab, to the Gaming […]

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Computing, Design & Technology, Educational Visit, News and Events, Year 5

Y3D Green Screen

Thursday, 27th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 5 have been continuing our Roscars project this week! We are really excited for our entry this year as we look back through the decades at the significant happenings […]

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Computing, News and Events

Going Bananas in Programming

Wednesday, 26th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week, the children have been busy creating foil Direction pads to control their sprites within the maze during Computer club. The children have also been experimenting with Bananas to […]

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Computing, News and Events

Year 6 Animations: Sprites and Backdrops

Tuesday, 25th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today, Year 6 (Class 9) have been designing and drawing sprites and backdrops for their animations. The animations cover World War II child evacuations and the Christmas Truce that occurred […]

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Computing, Media & Films, News and Events, Year 6

Internet safety

Tuesday, 11th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Ann Foxly Johnson is in school today supporting our classes with internet safety week. Children are learning about keeping safe online and how to be responsible digital citizens.

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Computing, Online Safety

Y5M – Animation

Monday, 10th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

As part of our ICT curriculum, Class 7 have been using ‘I Can Animate’ and ‘iMovie’ to create and edit a short story for the topic of this half term […]

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Computing, Media & Films, Year 5

Programming Left and Right

Wednesday, 5th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week we have looked at programming a sprite to move left and right navigating obstacles. Children will then use a controller to control the program.

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Computing

Researching significant people in the steel industry

Wednesday, 5th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 have been researching all about Harry Brearley and Henry Bessemer. They used the iPads to research key information such as dates, early life and significant to the steel […]

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Computing, History, Literacy, Year 3

Creating a PowerPoint quiz in Y5

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been researching Dreamworks Animation, linking to our class text of How to Train Your Dragon. We are now creating our own quizzes and learning how to add effects […]

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Computing, History, News and Events, Our learning, Year 5

Digital Media

Thursday, 30th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children in school have been creating scripts and bringing them to life as part of our digital media learning this term. What brilliant special effects, we can’t wait for the […]

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Computing, Literacy, Media & Films, Year 2, Year 5

Programming Games

Wednesday, 29th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We are the game makers of tomorrow in the programming club with Mr Clarke. Children have been creating their own maze game and controlling the characters with controllers.

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Computing

Green Screen Fun

Friday, 24th Januaryby misshsingleton Leave a comment

We have been using the Green Screen in ICT with Mr Clarke. In Friday’s session, we are going to be using the Green Screen to perform ‘The Tiger Who Came […]

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Computing, News and Events

Online Safety Videos

Thursday, 23rd Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Here are some of the fantastic videos created by Year 6 to show what can happen if you do not act responsibly online.  Children have written their own scripts and […]

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Computing, Literacy, News and Events, Online Safety, Year 6

Fur, Feathers and Skin

Friday, 20th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Our Year 2 children have been creating videos about their topic Fur, Feathers and Skin. This is just one of the videos from a small group talking about Giraffes to […]

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Computing, News and Events, Year 2

Y3 create animated sprites in Scratch

Thursday, 19th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In class 4 today, the children have been creating a maze game, starting with an animated sprite. The children have drawn their own Pac Man styled sprites which they then […]

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Computing, Year 3

The Willow Tree Warriors first meeting!

Friday, 13th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today, The Willow Tree Warriors had their first meeting together. They began by viewing their Willow Tree Warrior pictures that are inspired by Interland (an online internet safety experience) before […]

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Year 5/6 creates maze game in Scratch!

Wednesday, 11th Decemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Year 5/6 have been creating their own maze games in ICT today. They had to create their own Pac-man inspired sprite and a stage with walls before creating their scripts […]

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Computing, News and Events, Year 5

Year 3D Creating Animations

Friday, 29th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 3D have been using the Chromebooks this week to create animations on Scratch.

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Computing, News and Events

Foundation has been Super!

Thursday, 21st Novemberby Mr Williams 1 Comment

Children in Foundation today have been using the green screen to do some of their filming for this year’s Willow Tree Film Festival entries. They have been using a backdrop […]

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Chesnuts, Computing, Literacy, News and Events

Programming Robots

Wednesday, 13th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

It has been our last club this week and children have been programming their robots to follow a line drawn on the floor. We didn’t quite get there but we […]

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Computing, Design & Technology

Green Screen Poetry

Featuredby Mr Williams

We have recently installed a green screen in school and we were so excited to try it we put this together. We hope you like Year 6 reading some of […]

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Computing, Literacy, News and Events, Year 6

Y3S using scratch in ICT

Thursday, 7th Novemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 have been working with Mr Clarke to create a video animation using the software Scratch. As you can see they have used fantastic team work and resilience despite […]

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Computing, Year 3

Building and testing robots

Wednesday, 23rd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In Computing Club we have been busy building robots and using a Crumble motherboard we have started to program them. We are using our knowledge of coding and algorithms to […]

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Computing, Design & Technology

Using technology to support our learning

Tuesday, 15th Octoberby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

We are thrilled to use Chrome Books for our research lesson. This will help us greatly as we write our non-chronological reports.

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Computing, News and Events, Year 6

Class 4 using their oracy skills to give instructions

Wednesday, 25th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

To support us with our instructional writing this week, class 4 decided to give each other oral instructions. One partner had an image of a finished model and the other […]

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Computing, Literacy, Year 3

Victorian toys and their price

Tuesday, 21st Mayby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 5 used the computers to research the names and prices of different Victorian toys. We then discussed the value of money and just how much it has changed […]

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Computing, History, Year 3

Year 5 animation sets

Featuredby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

We could not be more proud of the children in Year 5 at Roughwood Primary School this week. They have used the iPads to begin creating their animations in groups. […]

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iPad Fun!

Monday, 4th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In Foundation 1 we have enjoyed learning how to use the iPads. We have had lots of fun playing different games we have been learning how to count and match […]

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Children in Year 5 research the history of Lego, in our new ICT suite

Monday, 14th Januaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Do you know what date the Lego company was founded?

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Computing, News and Events

Using our digital technology to educate others

Thursday, 10th Januaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Today we have been using ICT to create educational resources to help people to keep a positive digital footprint. These will look great on display.

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Computing, News and Events

Merry Christmas – Snow is Falling

Tuesday, 18th Decemberby Mr Williams 1 Comment

Staff and children have created a magical video this week to celebrate the countdown to Christmas and teh snow which has been falling on Roughwood. There has been lots of […]

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Computing, News and Events, Our learning

Class 6 Maths

Tuesday, 4th Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We have been taking advantage of our new ICT suite today by using Purple Mash to create bar charts from tables with information in. We will be using these bar […]

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Computing, Uncategorized, Year 3, Year 4

Homework Club

Monday, 3rd Decemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children are busy catching up on home learning in the ICT suite. My Maths to learn about perimeter, TimesTables Rock Stars to help with our mental skills and SumDog.

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Computing, News and Events

CodeBug

Thursday, 1st Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We worked with Mr Harrison and learnt how to code using code bug 

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Computing, Year 3

Programming and Coding in Class 6

Thursday, 28th Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Our topic this term is all about farming, linked to our book Fantastic Mr Fox. In our Geography lessons, we are learning about maps and directions (pictures to follow soon!) […]

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