A Day As A Viking
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 […]
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 […]
This week, children in Year 5/6 have continued their learning of using different techniques to create pattern and texture and have applied this within their own sketchbooks when drawing a […]
Class 7 and 8 experiment with patterns using ink to create textures and patterns. Our first stage was to identify different types of patterns and select the most relevant to […]
Very proud of Class 8 today who have demonstrated their outstanding artistic skills by using ink to create texture. We considered the several ways a dragon eye could be interpreted […]
Do you have a longing desire to go back in time to experience the wonders of a Tudor banquet? Luckily, the fantastic children in a Class 8 have the opportunity […]
Today, Class 8 used their ICT slot to access the Maths platform ‘MyMaths’ in order to apply their prior learning of fractions into some fun challenges! We also introduced decimals […]
This morning, we also had the exciting opportunity to try out a ‘Tudor banquet’ and taste foods that were popular of the time. The children experienced foods they liked and […]
What a tremendous day we have had in Class 7 and 8! We have truly brought the Tudor era ‘to life’ in our hall today, with children fully immersing themselves […]
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 […]
This week, children in Y5/6 have focused upon the topic of recycling and the effects of this on our school, at home, the wider community and the planet. During our […]
Upon our return to school this week, the children in Class 7 and 8 have been exploring narrative writing in our Literacy sessions. We will be writing our very own […]
As this week is ‘Children’s Mental Health Week’, the children in Y5/6 have been focusing on this years theme of ‘Growing Together’ by considering how they have grown and how […]
In our Literacy session, Y5/6 have continued researching all about Tudor life and then had the opportunity to share our findings! We have used our questioning and researching skills to […]
This afternoon, the children in Y5/6 have used atlas’ within our geography session to identify and locate different countries around the world that the UK traded with during the Tudor […]
Children in Y5/6 have been putting their knowledge of punctuation to the test today during our Kahoot! quiz. During our lesson, we added punctuation (such as commas, full stops and […]
During our Literacy session today, we used ‘hot-seating’ as a drama technique to explore thoughts and feelings of characters in our new class book ‘Treason’. At the beginning of the […]
Class 7 and 8 have been working on building their teamwork and communication skills in today’s Maths session. We have been applying our knowledge and understanding of prime numbers and […]
Class 7 and 8 have had an amazing morning designing and creating our very own model rockets! Our challenge was to design a rocket and module that will keep Mr […]
This afternoon, Class 8 have used their sketch books to build up a bank of art skills to help them in sketching and shading a moon with craters. We practised […]
In preparation for Remembrance Day on Thursday 11th November, Y5/6 children have been reflecting on the day that acknowledges the courage and sacrifice of those soldiers who served our country. […]
Class 8 have worked extremely hard on their magnificent ‘Harvest Wreaths’ artwork. We learnt the importance of celebrating the Harvest Festival as it gives us an opportunity to give to […]
Over the last week, the children in Y5/6 have been reflecting upon their experiences during the pandemic. We watched a video as stimulus to provoke our thinking skills and, from […]
Ready… set… BLAST OFF! Our brave ‘astronauts’ in Y5/6 have had a fantastic, fun-filled day during our Astronaut Training Day. There were certain skills and characteristics we needed to become […]
This afternoon, Class 8 and 9 had the pleasure of meeting with Mrs Foxley-Johnson via Zoom to learn about the different types of discrimination and the importance of equality. We […]
Class 8 have been developing their French speaking skills as we focus on ‘Les metiers’ (jobs) this half term. This week, we used the dramatical approach ‘freeze-frames’ to demonstrate the […]
In P4C this afternoon, Class 8 have had a lot of fun stimulating our thinking skills and developing our communication skills! We watched the stimuli ‘The Window’ by Jeannie Baker […]
Today, Class 8 have used their sequencing skills to arrange each step of the cycle of the heart. We have then used our ‘Talk 4 Writing’ skills to form actions […]
What a great start to our morning on the last day of term! The children in Class 8 have enjoyed our attendance winner breakfast this morning. A huge well done […]
What a brilliant first day back! The children in Class 8 have been exploring and observing the effects of static charges and learning about atoms and how they are formed. […]
With thanks to Rotherham Music Service, the children at Roughwood Primary School have been creating their own Christmas rhythms and practising them on djembes. As we’re not having external visitors […]
Class 7 and 8 produced some fantastic colour wheels at home to show their understanding of primary, secondary and tertiary colours
Class 7 and 8 once again wowed their teachers with their effort and creativity, and created some space buggies! They had to research them, create a plan and then find […]
A fantastic session with Ann Foxley-Johnson about staying safe on the apps we use. We have now created our own posters about using these apps.
Class 7 and 8 learnt some festive songs (and an Imagine Dragons song!) complete with Makaton actions.
Year 5/6 have been having sessions with Ms Roberts from Wingfield and have finished learning One Call Away.
Thank you to all families that attended the sessions with Rotherham CLC, who kindly came to do a “structures and materials” session with children and families from classes 7 and […]
We have started the Autumn term by looking at place value. Today we have completed some practical collaborative activities to consolidate our learning this week.