Meet the Author!
Class 4 and Class 5 had a surprise virtual visit from the author of our class books today! Theresa Tomlinson talked to us about her experiences as a writer and […]
Category Archives: History
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 […]
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 […]
Explore Sheffield!
What a fantastic day we’ve had today! We’ve been riding buses and tram-trains and exploring the big city of Sheffield, just like the characters from Forged in Steel!
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, […]
Our Visit To Manor Lodge
During todays visit to Manor Lodge linked to our learning about the Tudor, we have explored the ruins of a previous grand manor house. Throughout the day, the children have […]
Year 5 leave school for Manor Lodge!
The children who are not going on the residential to Stratford-upon-Avon have the opportunity to visit Manor Lodge. Within our learning about the Elizabethans and Tudors, the children travel to […]
Clay Pots in Class 5!
What a fantastic art lesson we had today in Class 5, creating our own crucible pots out of clay! We learned two new techniques for making the pot shape: pinching […]
Developing our Oracy skills through History
Children in Class 5 used their teamwork and oracy skills, this week in History… Children were given historical fact sheets about the Women of Steel statue in Sheffield, linked to […]
Great Fire of London Workshop
Today class 3 had a morning of fun learning more about the Great fire of London. We had a workshop outside with a company called Alfresco Learning. The first task […]
Forged in Steel!
What a fantastic day we’ve had today at Magna Science Adventure Centre! Classes 4 & 5 experienced a wonderful workshop, all about how steel is made, and then explored the […]
Class 6 Explore Trading and Importing Goods, During the Tudor Era…
The children in class 6 have developed their map work within our geography session to identify and locate different countries around the world and throughout Europe. Using atlases and then […]
Studying Holbein and Picasso in Year 5
As part of our artist study in art, class 6 have been studying the work of Hans Holbein and Pablo Picasso, alongside our learning about the monarchy in history and […]
Performance Poetry in Class 5
Class 5 have been working incredibly hard over the last couple of weeks, learning about and performing a poem called, ‘The Victorian Little Match Girl’. It’s based on the traditional […]
Peg Doll Crafts in Class 5!
What a wonderful afternoon we’ve had today in Class 5! The children followed step by step instructions on how to make traditional Victorian peg dolls, whilst using their own creative […]
Taste Testing!
This afternoon, Class 5 tasted the Victorian lemonade and sugar mice they’d made at Cannon Hall … Most of the children were pleasantly surprised! Some children weren’t so sure! What […]
Victorian Servants at Cannon Hall
What a fabulous day it’s been for Class 4 and Class 5 today! We visited Cannon Hall Museum and experienced life as a Victorian servant! Take a look at some […]
Extended Writing in Year 4
We are so proud of our Class 5 writers this week! Take a look at their wonderfully emotive, finished letters from Jim Jarvis
Movie Magic in Class 5!
Class 5 worked incredibly hard last week, to create their own films about Jim’s life in the Victorian workhouse. We are so proud of the finished videos! Children used iMovie […]
Year 5’s Educational Visit Day at Leicester Space Centre
During yesterdays visit to Leicester Space Centre, the children went back to the 1960s and experienced what it would be like to be a citizen witnessing the moon landing and […]
Year 5 Children Have a Fantastic Day of Learning at Leicester Space Centre
Having visited Leicester Space Centre, the children in Year 5 experienced a range of space exploration learning activities. From entering space capsules, flight modules, to visiting the space tower, the […]
And we’re off… BLAST OFF to Leicester Space Centre!
The children in Year 5 leave school nice and early to visit Leicester Space Centre. As part of our space topic, the children will be full immersed into ‘all things […]
Drama on the Green Screen
What a fantastic morning Class 5 had today in Drama! We have been thinking about Jim, a character from our class text, and his daily routine in a Victorian workhouse […]
Victorian Day!
What an amazing experience we’ve had today in Year 3 & 4! We all came to school dressed as Victorians and took part in a series of workshops to help […]
Pen & Ink Skill in Class 5
What a lovely afternoon we’ve had in Class 5 today, working on our pen & ink skills … We practised hatching, stippling, stumbling and wave techniques in our sketchbooks … […]
Class 1 Florence Nightingale Fact file
In History this week, Class 1 have been learning all about Florence Nightingale. We researched some fun facts and made them into fact file. We then used this to make […]
A Day As A Viking
Today, our Year 5/6 experienced a day in the life of a Viking at Locko Park. We met King Cnut and explored his empire and learnt various different skills, such […]
Press Printing in Year 4!
What a fantastic afternoon of art we’ve had today! We created incredible press prints linked to our plague topic …
Story Spoons on the Green Screen!
Year 4 took their drama learning to the next level today, using the story spoons to conduct their eye-witness interviews on the green screen! Take a look at their fantastic […]
Eye-Witness Interviews in Drama
Year 3 & 4 have become journalists this week, preparing for writing a newspaper report about the outbreak of plague in Eyam … In Drama today, children interviewed eye-witnesses for […]
Eyam 2022
What an amazing residential we’ve had this week with Year 3 & 4 children! For these children, it was their first ever residential and they were absolutely fantastic, asking so […]
Iron Age Shields
This week, we’ve been using our pen & ink skills to create the artwork for our Spring term topic folder covers … Look at all that detail! Children have used […]
A day in the stone age!
What a fantastic day Class 5 had at Creswell Crags! We went back in time to the Stone Age and experienced life in a cave, making a shelter, hunting and […]
Class 6’s Bronze Age Settlement!
What an amazing term it’s been for DT in Year 3 and 4! The children have been expertly crafting their roundhouses for weeks now … carefully measuring and sawing wooden […]
Stone Age Adventure!
What a fantastic day we’ve had today at Creswell Crags! We went back in time to the Stone Age and experienced life in a cave, making a shelter, hunting and […]
Class 3 Trip to Bolsover Castle
As part of our topic ‘Towers, Tunnels and Turrets’, class 3 visited Bolsover Castle. We had an amazing day exploring the castle and using our knowledge to discuss what we […]
Wattle & Daub Construction in DT
In Year 3 & 4, we’ve been learning about how houses were built in the Bronze Age, using wattle & daub (woven wood daubed with a mixture of clay, mud […]
Class 2 pancake day!
To begin our topic of instructions Class 2 have been looking at a pancake recipe. We learnt about the history of Shrove Tuesday and the importance of lent. Afterwards, we […]
Class 2 Non-fiction talk for write
This week class 2 have been learning about non-fiction texts and their features. We are going to be creating a non-chronological report about castles. Our talk for write is our […]
Key Stage 1 Knights and Princesses
To launch our topic of Towers, Tunnels and Turrets we have dressed up as people associated with castles. We designed and created our own shields and even made our own […]
Year 3/4 become archaeologists!
What an amazing start to a new term we’ve had in Lower Key Stage Two today! Year 3 and 4 became archaeologists, uncovering hidden treasures of the Stone Age, by […]
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 […]
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 […]
Y3S – Creating our own Victorian/Mathematical Monopoly game
Over the last few days, Class 4 have been working with their partner to create a Victorian inspired monopoly game which they will be playing once finished. They initially researched […]
Y3S creating our very own “Famous Victorians” Top Trump Cards
Class 4 created some wonderful top trump cards during their history lesson today. They were given 6 famous Victorians: Queen Victoria Prince Albert William Morris L.S Lowry Charles Dickens Dr […]
Year 4 Eyam Drama
On Monday, Class 6 recreated a significant event in our history topic – the village meeting, on the 24th of June 1666, where William Mompesson called for Eyam to quarantine […]
Y3S playing Victorian playground games
Today Class 4 used our outdoor environment to play some Victorian playground games. Children have done lots of learning around this and even wrote their own set of instructions for […]
Attempting William Morris designs in Y3S
Today Class 4 continued their learning about the famous Victorian artist, William Morris. We learnt about his personal life and how he had developed a keen interest in nature and […]
Y3S – Researching William Morris
Today Class 4 used chrome books to find out more information on William Morris for our artist study. During the summer term we will be using him as inspiration and […]
Star Reporters in Class 6!
Class 6 have been working so hard on their newspaper reports this week! The children have written using formal language and used their drama learning to include eye-witness accounts, with […]
Y3S – designing and making Victorian style Thaumatropes
Today Class 4 had a fabulous afternoon when we designed and then made our very own Thaumatropes. First children did lots of research on how to make them effective and […]
Comic Life on the iPads
Today Class 4 used an app called Comic life on the iPads to create a lovely informative piece about Queen Victoria. They discovered lots of facts such as when she […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Y3S – A Victorian themed Big Question Debate
As part of our Victorian topic, Miss Sare has decided to set up a big question debate. The question is, ‘Should Roughwood bring back the cane like the Victorians?’ Over […]
Victorian Distanced Learning
It has been great to see Class 4 continue their topic learning during distance learning. They have been super busy learning all about the Victorians, including all about the conditions […]
Willow Tree VE Day Celebrations
Staff across Willow Tree have been celebrating VE Day and we have put together this little video for you. We hope you have enjoyed your VE Day celebrations too. Please […]
V E Day preparations
Summer and Mason have been busy creating some beautiful bunting to commemorate V E Day tomorrow. It looks beautiful and must have taken hours! Well done!
Class 9 Create Wartime Recipes
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) day on 8th May, children in Class 9 have been researching, designing and making their very own wartime recipes. Below […]
News Through Time
Y3S have been working hard on creating a timeline of significant past events linking to the topic of learning for the last term. Each group of children researched a specific […]
Year 3 – News Through the Ages
Y3 Steel Investigation Day at Kelham Island Museum
Y3 children had a super amazing day at Kelham Island consolidating and expanding their knowledge of Steel. They learnt more about key people such as Henry Bessemer and Harry Brearley! […]
Researching significant people in the steel industry
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 […]
Terrific thaumatropes
As part of our learning about animation, we made our own examples of thaumatropes to understand how animation was created many years ago. Watch our videos at the end to […]
Creating a PowerPoint quiz in Y5
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 […]
Class 4 – Finding out about Steel
Today class 4 have used the chrome books to research our new topic steel. We discovered that many things are made from steel and why that material is chosen above […]
We Will Remember
Roughwood Primary School gathers to show respect to all the people who lost their lives and fought for us in WW1 and for all men and women who have given […]
Poppy Warrior
Peter J Murray introduced his brand new book to us, recently published on 11th September. If you would like a copy signing, please send your child with the money tomorrow, […]
Victorian toys and their price
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 […]
Victorian dolls
Today class 5 had a try at creating our very own Victorian wooden peg dolls. We began by researching other dolls from the victorian era and then thought carefully about […]
Victorian style handwriting
This week, part of class 5 really got into the spirit of our topic ‘The Victorians’. They used pen and ink and Victorian style paper to write their name using […]
The Great Fire of London
Class 2, 3 and 4 have had visitors today from The Drama Hut so we could learn more about The Great Fire of London. We spoke to Thomas Farriner and […]
The Great Fire of London
This week we started our new topic. We began by coming up with some questions about what we wanted to find out about The Great Fire of London. Some of […]