Class 6 investigate ‘changing solids’ in science
Within yesterdays learning, Year 5 have been learning about what happens to solids when mixed with liquids During our most recent science lessons, the children have planned their investigation and […]
Category Archives: Literacy
Working systematically with NRICH maths challenges in Class 6
As part of our reasoning and applying our knowledge within mastery maths sessions, the children in Year 5 have completed another investigative NRICH reasoning investigation using their systematic thinking and […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Excellent writing in Y3S
Y3S have worked incredibly hard to improve their publishing skills. The children have enjoyed writing their setting description based on a visit to Meadowhall which simulated a chapter from Meet […]
Excellent writing in Y3S
Y3S have worked incredibly hard to improve their publishing skills. The children have enjoyed writing their setting description based on a visit to Meadowhall which simulated a chapter from Meet […]
Excellent writing in Y3S
Y3S have worked incredibly hard to improve their publishing skills. The children have enjoyed writing their setting description based on a visit to Meadowhall which simulated a chapter from Meet […]
Freeze-Frames in Drama
Class 5 had a fantastic drama lesson this morning, acting out different scenarios linked to our new book, Meet me by the Steelmen. Take a look at our freeze-frames… Well […]
Drama in Y3S
Today Class 4 completed many different drama activities in relation to a setting from our new class text ”meet me by the steelmen”. The setting was Meadowhall. Children were given […]
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 […]
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 […]
Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion
Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]
Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion
Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]
Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion
Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]
Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion
Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]
Reading with expression and fluency in Y3S
These two children have worked incredibly hard on improving their fluency and intonation in their reading. Both children reflected on their autumn fluency video and thought their reading must have […]
Key stage 1 Road Safety Bands
Key stage 1 were amazed to see that their learning in NEMESIS and Literacy has resulted in a delivery from Brightkidz. We have received a pack of reflective bands to […]
Kahoot with Mr Hood
Children in Y6 have been learning about erosion and the Kahoot quiz was used to test our knowledge before our writing. Everyone loves a quiz!
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
Using iMovie for the 1st time in Y3S
Today Class 4 used the iMovie app for the first time ever to sequence and order some drama clips we had created using the green screen the previous day. The […]
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 […]
Exploring our immersive reading area – Y6
Our Year 6’s were able to fully immerse themselves in our class text ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ this morning, by referring to our reading area and finding clues whilst reading our class […]
Nemesis in Class 3
This week Class 3 have started their NEMESIS project all about road safety outside of our school grounds. We began our week learning about what road safety is and how […]
Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing
Our lucky Year 6 children are participating in a project exploring creative reading and writing with help from mentors from Pontefract College, working in partnership with Wingfield Academy. Each week, […]
Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing
Our lucky Year 6 children are participating in a project exploring creative reading and writing with help from mentors from Pontefract College, working in partnership with Wingfield Academy. Each week, […]
Nemesis in Class 2
This week Class 2 have started their NEMESIS project of road safety. We began our week learning about what road safety is and how we can be safe near roads. […]
Using iMovie to recount events in Literacy
Class 5 have had a fantastic morning in Literacy today, piecing together their green screen drama using iMovie! The children worked together in pairs to order events chronologically, and then […]
Peter Thorpe – in Year 5, we have blast off!
Peter Thorpe is known for his art work that features rockets and elements of space. This week, we have continued our learning all about space-themed abstract art. We focused on […]
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 […]
Class 1 fairy tale poetry
In Class 1 we have been learning all about Hans Christian Andersen and all of the fabulous fairy tales he wrote. We have written and performed some poetry about him […]
Panto Rehearsals 2022 Commence at Roughwood!
Oh yes they have! KS2 came together today at lunchtime to begin their rehearsals for (hopefully) a performance no one will forget of this years school panto… Snow White. This […]
‘Author of the week’ in Y3
Every week in Class 4, Miss Sare chooses a new member of the class to be this week’s author of the week. Their job is to take home and look […]
Poetry Basket
The children in Chestnuts Class have been busy learning Autumn poems from our Poetry Basket. Last week we learnt the poem ‘Autumn Leaves’. We performed it outside today on our […]
T4W In Class 4
Children are at the final stage of their narrative writing and are beginning to think about writing their story ending. To help us put ideas into sentences, we are starting […]
Improving Presentation in Class 5
Class 5 have been working especially hard on their presentation over the past few weeks, and we are already seeing a huge improvement! Take a look … Well done, Class […]
Making faces in nature
In Acorns and Little acorns this term we are asking the question what makes me,me? As part of this we went into the outdoor classroom on a joint welly walk […]
Florence’s Hospital T4W
In class 2 we have been learning about setting descriptions. We decided to describe the hospital Florence Nightingale visited in Germany. We focused on adding adjectives to describe and conjunctions […]
Virtual Visit from author Suzy Senior
Today children from key stage one and foundation stage were very lucky and to got to meet the author Suzy Senior. Suzy is a local author from Sheffield. We listened […]
Excellent writing in year 2
Over the last couple of weeks, Class 3 have been working on producing excellent writing. This doesn’t mean that it has to be perfect but it does mean that it […]
Excellent writing in Y3S
Over the last few weeks, Class 4 have been working on completing learning that is excellent. We have discussed that this doesn’t necessarily mean perfect but something which the children […]
Let’s make faces
In Little Acorns we have been using the text ‘Let’s make faces’ by Hanoch Piven as a stimulus for our learning. This week when we have been on our welly […]
Drama in Year 4
Class 5 had a fantastic morning today, acting in role to explore the character, Jim Jarvis … We thought carefully about our facial expressions and body language as we acted […]
Year 5 Astronaut Training Day
Today, the children in Year 5 competed a range of resilience challenges during their astronaut training day. The children wrote postcards and asked questions about the unknown about different planets […]
Class 3 – Future Aspirations
Today class 3 came to school dressed as a famous person. Children dressed as musicians, actors and sports people. We spoke about what being famous meant to us and the […]
Creating ‘synonym’ rolls in Y3
Today Class 4 looked at some vocabulary that we would have probably used in our character description and decided to make them even better! We used the iPads and thesaurus’ […]
Class 2 Comparing numbers
Class 2 combined maths with PE to help us learn how to compare numbers. We introduced the > and < signs with a catchy song. After, we went outside and […]
T4W in Year 6 – The Giants’ Necklace
At the beginning of transition, the children in Y6 were introduced to the short novel ‘A Giant’s Necklace’ by Michael Morpurgo, which follows a girl named Cherry who’s ambition is […]
P4C in Year 6
During our transition in Y6, we have begun to learn about plastic pollution and how this can damage our environment, especially our oceans. We were introduced to the “Place for […]
Class 3’s talk for write
In literacy today we looked at how we could edit and improve our writing. We added in adjectives and interesting vocabulary to make our setting description more exciting for the […]
Year 5 – Designing and measuring rockets using perimeter
During transition, the children in Year 5 have been using and applying their maths learning and deepening their thinking using perimeter. Using their prior knowledge of measurement, the children have […]
Y3S – Inputting and presenting data
Today Class 4 worked in pairs to input some primary data which we collected from each other and then presented it through a pie chart on Google sheets. The data […]
Class 2 Talk 4 Write
This week class 2 have started learning about talk 4 write. We started the lesson by drawing pictures to represent words. We then progressed onto adding actions to our pictures. […]
P4C – Something Else
We had a fantastic first P4C today in our class! We read our transition text, ‘Something Else’ as the stimulus, and generated lots of philosophical questions about the themes of […]
Class 7 begin their balanced arguments
Before transition to Year 6 begins, the children in Year 5 begin their balanced arguments by engaging in the debate, ‘Is social media a good thing? There were some extremely […]
Class 8 use their oracy skills to debate!
In our Literacy session today, Class 8 made a great start to their new unit of balanced arguments by engaging in the debate: “Is social media a good thing?” We […]
We’re off to … make a biscuit
In Little Acorns we have been reading the story ‘We’re off to see the wizard’ we have drawn our favourite characters. We then decorated biscuits to look like our favourite […]
A Disgusting Sandwich
In class 3 we have started a new unit of work on instructions. Our instructions are all based around a book called The Disgusting Sandwich. Today we started to plan […]
Who’s been eating my porridge?
In Little Acorns this week we have been using the story Goldilocks and the three bears as a stimulus for our learning. We have really enjoyed this story and learning […]
Filming in Class 4
Throughout this terms topic, year 3&4 have been learning about the outbreak of the plague in Eyam. To help us understand what that might have been like, we have interviewed […]
Class 2 Singing in French
Today class 2 have been learning how to tell the weather in french. We started with some word matching games and progressed onto singing a weather song in french. We […]
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 […]
The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs
Everyone has heard the story of the 3 Little Pigs, but have you heard the True Story? We have been using Talk for Writing to orally retell the story. Watch […]
Fairytale crafts
In Acorns and little acorns we have been learning about fairytales and the characters in the stories. We wanted to immerse ourselves into the stories so we created character masks. […]
Using and creating spreadsheets and data in Year 5
During our computing sessions in our ICT suite, the children in class 7 have been using excel this week to create spreadsheets and present key data about the characters from […]
Sharing stories in the sunshine
We’ve had a fantastic time sharing stories in the sunshine in Little Acorns today. We love to share stories and had a lovely time sharing some of our favourite books […]
T4W all about the Digestive system!
Class 5 have had lots of fun recently learning all about the Digestive System and today we used Talk For Writing to retell all the steps that take place. First, […]
Bolsover Castle Recount
Today in literacy we have started writing our recount for our visit to Bolsover castle. We have used talk for write to begin to learn our opening paragraph. We have […]
Class 2 Dinnertime Talk for Write
P4C in Year 5 – recycling and caring for animals and sea creatures
This week, children in Year 5 have focused on recycling and the effects of this on our school, at home, the wider community and the planet. During our P4C session, […]
Using drama to explore character thoughts and feelings
Year 5/6 have made a great start in their Literacy unit by using freeze frames within drama to explore our characters thoughts and feelings from our class book, Treason. We […]
Freeze Frames in Drama
Year 4 have been been working on their facial expressions and body language this morning in Drama, linked to their story writing in Literacy … Children split up into groups […]
World Book Day
Today we have been celebrating the 25th anniversary of World Book Day. Children and teachers dressed up as characters from their favourite book. The costumes were fantastic and very colourful.