Roughwood Masterchef
Cooking club is fully up and running now at Roughwood and what mini chefs we are becoming. Week 1 we made our very own fruit kebabs with melted chocolate. Each […]
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Class 6 Maths
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 […]
Class 6 this week!
In class 6 this week we have moved on with out literacy to looking at Instructions. Today we have looked at the features of instructions. We have also instructed Miss […]
Handwriter of the week!
In class 6 we are improving our presentation of handwriting every day! I have introduced a hand writer of the week award. The child who’s handwriting has improved each week […]
Dark Night Assembly
PC Paul and PC Helen 👮🏻♂️👮🏻♀️ have been in to speak to the children about staying safe during the darker nights. They spoke to the children about Halloween 🎃 about […]
Viking Animators!
As part of their topic, the children in Class 9 have been busy programming Viking raid animations. They have been creatively adapting Scratch software to design their own unique projects! […]
Crucial Crew
Today, the Year 6 children visited the Lifewise Centre to take part in a range of real-life scenarios related to personal safety. Throughout the day, they have learnt about such […]
Memories Exhibition
This afternoon, the children in class 8 invited their parents and family members into class to visit our memories exhibition, which was inspired by our class book ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’. […]
Lung Art
They have been a labour of love but they are finally complete. We created our art work using pen and ink. The attention to detail that the children have included […]
Sports Personality of the Year 2017
What a fantastic night we’ve had! Tonight we joined children from Greasbrough and Rockingham to celebrate our rising sports stars. As a staff, we are incredibly proud of all the […]
The Sun and Shadows
In Science this term, Class 8 are learning all about Space! In our most recent lesson, we looked at how the sun affects our shadows during the course of the […]
Big Blast 2017
Today our year 4 children were given to opportunity to showcase their trumpet skills by attending Big Blast at Magna. They accompanied children from other schools in playing songs such […]
Class 7 Investigates the Lungs
Over the past week we have been busy learning about our lungs. We have made model lungs and discussed how they work. As well as this we combined our maths […]
Keeping Fit Together!
Today class 5, 6 and 7 invited parents in to join us in sharing our REAL project. We have spent the summer term researching how the body works and how […]
The Digestive System. Part 2
Over the past few weeks, class 7 have developed our understanding of the digestive system. We carried out an hands on investigation to make faeces. This was an hilarious lesson […]
The Digestive System
Over the past few days, class 7 have been investigating the digestive system. We have been thinking about how food enters and exits our bodies. Did you know that our […]
Our Nurture Room
Our nurture room has been up and running since January. The staff and children have developed an empty classroom into a wonderful space for learning. During this term, the group […]
Poetry Week!
As this Thursday is National Poetry Day, Roughwood has decided to have a poetry week this week and to kick things off, we had a visit from our old friend, […]
All Awards!
Today saw Roughwood hold its Special Awards celebration assembly where our star pupils were given badges and certificates for various achievements. These included awards for friendship, for respect and for […]
Basic Skills Quality Mark
We are very proud to be able to say that we have been awarded the Basic Skills Quality Mark Accreditation. The award celebrates our dedication to promoting the basic skills […]
Goodbye and Thank You
We are really sad to say that today has been Miss King’s last day with us as she moves on next week to take up her new post in another […]
Walk On The Wild(flower) Side
After quite a few months of hard labour, our school pond and wildflower meadow are now complete. The results are spectacular and far better than we could have […]
Summer Afternoon In The Garden
A fabulous time was had by all yesterday at our Summer Fayre. Thank you to everyone who came and supported us, helping us raise a massive £375.
Success at The Roscars
This week saw yet another success for Roughwood, this time at the Roscars film competition held at Magna. It was a very glitzy affair indeed, hosted by ‘The Beast’ from […]
Playground Flash Mob!
During playtime this morning, a Flash Mob consisting of everyone in Key Stage 2 (including the staff) arrived to perform a dance and present a bouquet of flowers to Mrs […]
All The World’s A Stage
On Wednesday this week, our Y4 pupils took part in the Rotherham Shakespeare Festival 2016 performing their section of Macbeth in what was a fantastic and highly moving piece of […]
RotherVision Success
A few of our obviously very talented Y3 pupils joined with our partner schools yesterday to take part in the RotherVision competition, which is one of the events of this […]
Rebecca’s Steps To Success
We have been filled with pride this week as Rebecca Michie, one of year 6 pupils, took on the lead role of Annie in the musical of the same name, […]
Magical Marketplace
All things magical arrived at Roughwood this week, as the hall was transformed into a Magical Marketplace. Pupils, parents and staff mingled with witches, wizards and warlocks to trade their wares: […]
Kruschmeister Is Coming!
Terror and general all-round spookiness came to Roughwood today, as author Peter J Murray visited to unveil his latest spine-tingling book: “Kruschmeister.” Pupils from Key Stage 2 were gripped as […]
Easter Bonnet Parade
There were chickens, rabbits and eggs running all over the place at today’s Easter Bonnet Parade in the school hall. A massive thank you to everyone who took part and […]
World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March, our school had a fancy dress day where pupils and staff came as characters from some of their favourite books. We had […]