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Category Archives: Reading

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

Explore Sheffield!

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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

World Book Day 2023

Featuredby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today we have been celebrating World Book Day. Children and teachers dressed up as characters from their favourite book. The costumes were fantastic and very colourful.

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Creating our own extended metaphors in Y6!

Wednesday, 25th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

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 […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Reading, Writing, Year 6

Reading with expression and fluency in Y3S

Monday, 5th Decemberby Leave a comment

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 […]

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Oracy, Reading

Exploring our immersive reading area – Y6

Friday, 11th Novemberby Leave a comment

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 […]

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Reading, Year 6

Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Leave a comment

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, […]

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Reading, Writing, Year 6

Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Leave a comment

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, […]

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Reading, Writing, Year 6

T4W In Class 4

Thursday, 29th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Reading, Writing

Virtual Visit from author Suzy Senior

Friday, 23rd Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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 […]

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We’re off to … make a biscuit

Friday, 24th Juneby jodie712 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Who’s been eating my porridge?

Friday, 10th Juneby jodie712 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Little Acorns, Reading

Fairytale crafts

Friday, 13th Mayby jodie712 Leave a comment

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. […]

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Acorns, Art, Little Acorns, Reading

Using and creating spreadsheets and data in Year 5

Thursday, 12th Mayby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Computing, Oracy, Reading, Year 5

Sharing stories in the sunshine

Friday, 29th Aprilby jodie712 Leave a comment

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 […]

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World Book Day

Thursday, 3rd Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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.

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Author Visit: Peter J Murray

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We’re really proud and pleased to have welcomed Peter J Murray back into school to talk to children about his books. All of the books in the Mokee Joe series […]

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Mental Health Awareness week and the outdoor classroom at Roughwood Primary School.

Thursday, 13th Mayby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

As part of ‘Mental Awareness Week’, class 7 have immersed ourselves into the wilderness of outdoor spaces, as we complete our immersive reading within Roughwood’s outdoor learning classroom. As we […]

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Our learning, Reading, Year 5

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

Nature Crowns

Friday, 7th Mayby misshsingleton Leave a comment

‘So here is a very fine crown, to go with the sandals and gown of the KINDEST giant in town’. Today we finished reading our class text. At the end […]

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Our love of reading

Friday, 7th Mayby Miss Burgin Leave a comment

In Acorns we love to explore our library in the school, taking a look at all of the different types of books as well as getting into character through role […]

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Acorns, Reading

The Smartest Giant in Town

Tuesday, 4th Mayby misshsingleton Leave a comment

Despite the weather, we have had the most wonderful afternoon with Pops Outdoor Adventures. Pops created us a fun filled afternoon based around our class text, The Smartest Giant in […]

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Circulatory system STEM in Class 9

Wednesday, 21st Aprilby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Today, we created a reconstruction of the way the human heart pumps in our STEM session. We found that only by using steady, rhythmic beat, we were able to pump […]

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Class 2 – Learning in the snow

Friday, 15th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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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Distance Learning, Maths, Reading, Year 1, Year 2

Class 6 love reading!

Friday, 8th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

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!

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News and Events, Reading, Year 4

Phonics Live Sessions

Friday, 20th Novemberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

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 […]

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Phonics at home

Tuesday, 17th Novemberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

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 […]

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Maintaining our love of reading

Thursday, 4th Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Miss Sare is so proud that class 4 are continuing to work on their target of being fully fluent readers. It’s been great to hear from parents that children are […]

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Reading at home

Thursday, 30th Aprilby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Reading at home

Saturday, 25th Aprilby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

The children were challenged to read in unusual places during lockdown and they certainly rose to the challenge. There has been quite a lot of reading in cupboards, some reading […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Reading, Year 6

Angel working hard at home!

Monday, 30th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Reading at home

Friday, 27th Marchby Miss Sare Leave a comment

I love that Class 4 have continued to keep up their hard work throughout our school from home period. Class 4 have always enjoyed reading and as you can see […]

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Distance Learning, Literacy, Reading, Year 3

Reading at Roughwood

Friday, 6th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children throughout school have been reading books by their favourite authors to celebrate World Book Day this week. Here are a few video clips of children reading aloud.

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Media & Films, News and Events, Reading, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

World book day

Friday, 6th Marchby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

Class 2 enjoyed reading in their pyjamas with a cup of hot chocolate this afternoon to celebrate world book day.

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DEAR – Drop everything and read!

Friday, 6th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Literacy, News and Events, Reading, Well-being, Year 4

Bedtime books at breakfast!

Friday, 6th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 6 enjoyed reading in their pyjamas this morning, to celebrate World Book Day. I hope that they will develop a lifetime love of reading.

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Literacy, News and Events, Reading, Well-being, Year 4

Plotting shed mystery

Monday, 3rd Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 and 5 made a shocking discovery, someone or thing had appeared to destroy our beloved plotting shed. After thorough investigation we decided to conduct our Big Write […]

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Reading, Year 3

The Gruffalo

Friday, 8th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson.    

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Literacy, News and Events, Reading, Year 1

More from The Explorer!

Friday, 8th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Thank you to Keagan, Ella and Lexi-Jai for sharing a short section from our novel. Fantastic reading.

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Story telling – Roughwood Readers

Friday, 8th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Ameera reading 📖 her favourite bit from our class novel. Well done!

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There are some real characters in Class 7!

Friday, 8th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 7 posing as characters from their favourite stories to celebrate Book Week!

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News and Events, Reading

Class 5 celebrate World Book Day

Friday, 8th Marchby Miss Sare Leave a comment

STOP everything and read in Class 5! Miss Sare even had time to enjoy a non fiction book!  

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News and Events, Reading, Year 3

Ring a bell at Random and Read!

Tuesday, 5th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

An impromptu reading session 10 mins before break – what a lovely surprise for Book Week! Remember to dress up as your favorite book character on Friday!

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Literacy, News and Events, Reading, Year 4

Phonics Fun

Tuesday, 12th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children in Class 2’s Phonics Club have enjoyed using the outdoor environment to support their phonics learning. We used chalks and climbed the tyres, writing and reading words that included […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Reading, Year 1

Phonics Workshop

Wednesday, 30th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children from Class 2 were joined by their parents in learning all about Phonics. We looked at the different ways in which you can support your children with their learning […]

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Family Learning, News and Events, Reading, Year 1

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