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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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’. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]