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Category Archives: History

Meet the Author!

Monday, 20th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Literacy, News and Events, Reading, Year 4

WW2 Blackout Science Investigation

Tuesday, 14th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Science, Year 6

Y6 are evacuated to Kelham Island!

Tuesday, 14th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, Year 6

Explore Sheffield!

Featuredby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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!

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Educational Visit, Geography, History, News and Events, Reading, Year 4

Sharing our learning …

Monday, 13th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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, […]

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History, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4, Year 6

Our Visit To Manor Lodge

Tuesday, 28th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, News and Events, Oracy, Our learning, Seasonal, Year 5

Year 5 leave school for Manor Lodge!

Tuesday, 28th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Oracy, Year 5

Clay Pots in Class 5!

Monday, 27th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, History, News and Events, Year 4

Developing our Oracy skills through History

Monday, 27th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Literacy, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

Great Fire of London Workshop

Friday, 24th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, Science, Well-being, Year 2

Forged in Steel!

Thursday, 2nd Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, Geography, History, News and Events, Year 4

Class 6 Explore Trading and Importing Goods, During the Tudor Era…

Thursday, 2nd Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Geography, History, Our learning, Subjects, Year 5

Studying Holbein and Picasso in Year 5

Thursday, 19th Januaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, History, Year 5

Performance Poetry in Class 5

Wednesday, 14th Decemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, Computing, History, Literacy, Media & Films, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

Peg Doll Crafts in Class 5!

Monday, 5th Decemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, History, News and Events, Year 4

Taste Testing!

Thursday, 1st Decemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, News and Events, Year 4

Victorian Servants at Cannon Hall

Wednesday, 30th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, News and Events, Year 4

Extended Writing in Year 4

Thursday, 24th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

We are so proud of our Class 5 writers this week! Take a look at their wonderfully emotive, finished letters from Jim Jarvis

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History, Literacy, News and Events, Writing, Year 4

Movie Magic in Class 5!

Sunday, 13th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Computing, History, Literacy, News and Events, Year 4

Year 5’s Educational Visit Day at Leicester Space Centre

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, News and Events, Year 5

Year 5 Children Have a Fantastic Day of Learning at Leicester Space Centre

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, Our learning, Year 5

And we’re off… BLAST OFF to Leicester Space Centre!

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, Our learning, Year 5

Drama on the Green Screen

Featuredby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Computing, History, Literacy, Media & Films, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

Victorian Day!

Featuredby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, News and Events, Year 4

Pen & Ink Skill in Class 5

Wednesday, 5th Octoberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 … […]

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Art, History, Year 4

Class 1 Florence Nightingale Fact file

Thursday, 8th Septemberby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Year 1

A Day As A Viking

Thursday, 23rd Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, Year 5, Year 6

Press Printing in Year 4!

Tuesday, 24th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a fantastic afternoon of art we’ve had today! We created incredible press prints linked to our plague topic …

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Art, History, News and Events, Year 4

Story Spoons on the Green Screen!

Thursday, 19th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Computing, History, Literacy, Media & Films, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

Eye-Witness Interviews in Drama

Wednesday, 18th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Literacy, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

Eyam 2022

Featuredby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, Geography, History, News and Events, Residentials, Year 4

Iron Age Shields

Wednesday, 6th Aprilby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, History, News and Events, Year 4

A day in the stone age!

Friday, 1st Aprilby mrnhood Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, Year 3, Year 4

Class 6’s Bronze Age Settlement!

Thursday, 31st Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, Design & Technology, History, News and Events, Year 4

Stone Age Adventure!

Thursday, 24th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, News and Events, Year 3, Year 4

Class 3 Trip to Bolsover Castle

Thursday, 17th Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, Educational Visit, Geography, History, Year 2

Wattle & Daub Construction in DT

Friday, 11th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Design & Technology, History, News and Events, Year 3, Year 4

Class 2 pancake day!

Tuesday, 1st Marchby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Literacy, Year 1, Year 2

Class 2 Non-fiction talk for write

Wednesday, 2nd Februaryby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Literacy, Oracy, Year 1, Year 2

Key Stage 1 Knights and Princesses

Friday, 14th Januaryby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, Design & Technology, History, Year 1, Year 2

Year 3/4 become archaeologists!

Wednesday, 5th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Literacy, News and Events, Year 3, Year 4

Class 7 and 8 Visit Leicester Space Centre

Thursday, 4th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Educational Visit, History, Science, Year 5, Year 6

Year 5/6 successfully complete astronaut training day

Friday, 3rd Septemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Year 5

Y3S – Creating our own Victorian/Mathematical Monopoly game

Thursday, 24th Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Maths, Well-being, Year 3

Y3S creating our very own “Famous Victorians” Top Trump Cards

Wednesday, 23rd Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Design & Technology, History, Well-being, Year 3

Year 4 Eyam Drama

Thursday, 10th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Literacy, Philosophy for Children, Year 4

Y3S playing Victorian playground games

Thursday, 27th Mayby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Well-being, Year 3

Attempting William Morris designs in Y3S

Wednesday, 26th Mayby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, History, Year 3

Y3S – Researching William Morris

Monday, 10th Mayby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, Computing, History, Year 3

Star Reporters in Class 6!

Friday, 7th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Literacy, Reading, Year 4

Y3S – designing and making Victorian style Thaumatropes

Thursday, 6th Mayby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art, Design & Technology, History, Year 3

Comic Life on the iPads

Wednesday, 21st Aprilby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Computing, History, Year 3

Y6D Remote Learning – Women at War

Friday, 20th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Air Raid Evacuation Videos 2020

Thursday, 12th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, News and Events, Year 6

Remembrance Service

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

“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, […]

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History, News and Events, PSHCE, Well-being

Remote Learning

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Distance Learning, History, Year 6

Y3S – A Victorian themed Big Question Debate

Monday, 15th Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Distance Learning, History, Literacy, Year 3

Victorian Distanced Learning

Wednesday, 3rd Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Distance Learning, History, Year 3

Willow Tree VE Day Celebrations

Friday, 8th Mayby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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V E Day preparations

Thursday, 7th Mayby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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!

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Distance Learning, History, News and Events, Well-being

Class 9 Create Wartime Recipes

Friday, 1st Mayby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, News and Events, Our learning, Year 6

News Through Time

Friday, 24th Aprilby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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Year 3 – News Through the Ages

Friday, 3rd Aprilby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Y3 Steel Investigation Day at Kelham Island Museum

Featuredby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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! […]

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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

Terrific thaumatropes

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

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 […]

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Design & Technology, History, News and Events, Our learning, Year 5

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

Class 4 – Finding out about Steel

Thursday, 23rd Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Year 3

We Will Remember

Monday, 11th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, News and Events

Poppy Warrior

Tuesday, 24th Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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, […]

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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

Victorian dolls

Thursday, 16th Mayby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Victorian style handwriting

Tuesday, 14th Mayby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Year 3

The Great Fire of London

Friday, 10th Mayby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, News and Events, Year 1

The Great Fire of London

Featuredby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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 […]

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