Y6 Leavers Performance
What a fantastic ‘I’m a Y6, get me out of here!’ performance from our Year 6 children! It was emotional from start to finish, with an opportunity for children to […]
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Y6 ‘Make £5 grow’ enterprise fayre!
This afternoon, our Y6’s put their business ideas to the test at our enterprise fayre to celebrate the end of the Make £5 Grow project. Children have worked extremely hard […]
The Y6 Oracy and Reading Project returns!
This afternoon, our Y6 have welcomed back their mentors from Pontefract College as we explore oracy in our final module of ‘The Oracy and Reading’ project. We have worked alongside […]
Y6 Music – Clarinets
Our music learning continues this half term with the clarinet in preparation for our Big Blast concert at the end of June. Today, we have shown our skills off to […]
How to deal with a minor head injury – Year 6 presentations
During our PSHE lessons, Year 6 have learnt how to deal with a minor head injury and have produced short videos to inform other children of what to do if […]
Artist Study in Y6
This afternoon, the children in Year 6 have learnt about famous watercolour artist J.M.W Turner and completed an ‘artist study’ by analysing some of his most famous artwork. By studying […]
Y6 Exam Stress session – WMIM
With Me In Mind ran a practical and insightful session for our Y6’s this afternoon, focussing on upcoming exam stress and anxieties and gave us tips on how this can […]
Virtual Artist Visit – Bob Barker
What a fantastic experience the children at Roughwood have encountered this afternoon! We have been lucky enough to virtually meet artist Bob Barker, learn about his life and even watch […]
WW2 Blackout Science Investigation
During the Second World War, British residents had to cover their windows and doors at night with heavy blackout material in order to cover any glimmer of light coming from […]
Y6 are evacuated to Kelham Island!
We have began our journey to Kelham Island this morning. We are excited to fully immerse ourselves in the fantastic WW2 workshops Kelham Island Museum have to offer. Let’s have […]
Y6 Evacuee Stitching
Our Year 6 children have made a wonderful start to their sewings, applying their prior knowledge of running stitches to their beautiful evacuee sketches. Our next step is to apply […]
UKS2 Children’s Mental Health Week Collaborative Art
Our fantastic children in Year 5 and 6 have used their collaboration skills to create a fantastic piece of artwork based on this years theme, ‘Let’s Get Connected.’ Our art […]
Y6 create bookmarks to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week
The children in Year 6 have designed and created their own bookmarks this afternoon to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week in school. We discussed the importance of our own mental […]
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 […]
Y6 Art – Drawing the human body in proportion
Year 6 have demonstrated excellent art skills this week as we have learnt how to draw the human body in proportion. We started by using mathematical skills such as measuring […]
Y6 begin learning German!
Class 8 have had a wonderful afternoon learning new German vocabulary. We are now able to talk to our peers in German using greetings to start our conversation! After practising […]
Y6 Christmas party!
Year 6 children celebrated the end of term today in their Christmas party this afternoon. From dancing, playing musical statues, pass the parcel and indulging in their fantastic snack buffet, […]
Pen and ink lighthouses in Y6
In art, we have been learning pen and ink skills such as hatching, cross hatching and stippling to create tone and texture to our lighthouse art work. We began by […]
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 […]
Y6 Music – Learning to play the clarinet
Our Year 6 children have had a wonderful afternoon learning how to play the clarinet. Mr Lewis has shown us how to effectively assemble a clarinet (which is quite a […]
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 […]
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, […]
Harvest Festival Artwork – Y6
Take a look at some of the excellent artwork we have produced in Class 8! We completed our artwork to present in the Harvest Festival assembly this week. Y6 thought […]
Y6 Maths – We are party planners!
Today we applied our mathematical skills of multiplication, addition and subtraction to plan a dream party sticking to a budget. Our Y6’s used their teamwork and reasoning skills exceptionally well!
The Widow’s Mite – R.E in Year 6
During our R.E session, Year 6 learnt about the core values of Christianity and fully immersed themselves into the story of the Widow’s Mite. The Widow’s Mite is a traditional […]
Y6’s expedition to Robin Hoods Bay
Today, our Year 6 pupils visited the picturesque Robin Hoods Bay. We had a fantastic day learning about the history of the town, sketching the headland, exploring rock pools and […]
Y6 visit Crucial Crew
Today, the Year 6 children have had the pleasure of visiting the Lifewise Centre to take part in a variety of different scenarios relating to personal safety. Throughout the day, […]
Y6 – School Council manifesto
Our fantastic Year 6 children have had an impressive first day of term. They have thought carefully about who will be appointed as our class’ School Council Representatives and have […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Dragon Eye Art in Y5/6 – Applying skills to create texture
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 […]
Analysing and identifying textures and patterns – Using pen and ink in Year 5 and 5/6
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 […]
Dragon Eye Art – Creating Texture
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 […]
A Royal Roughwood Tudor Banquet!
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 […]
Y5/6 MyMaths learning
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 […]
Y5/6 Tudor Day – Part 2
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 […]
Y5/6 Tudor Day – Part 1
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 […]
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 […]
P4C in Year 5/6 – Recycling
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 […]
Y5/6 create digital ‘Word Clouds’ in Literacy
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 […]
Children’s Mental Health Week – Y5/6 Reach for the Stars!
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 […]
Y5/6 Research about Tudor Life!
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 […]
Y5/6 Geography – Trading during Tudor Times
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 […]
Y5/6 Punctuation ‘Kahoot!’ quiz
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 […]
Using ‘Hot-seating’ to explore thoughts and feelings in Class 8
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 […]
Away from the desk maths in Y5/6
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 […]
Y5/6 STEM MODEL ROCKETS
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 […]
Y5/6 use our sketching skills to produce moon crater artwork!
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 […]
Remembrance Artwork in Y5/6
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. […]
Harvest Festival Art in Class 8
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 […]
Thought-provoking P4C in Y5/6
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 […]
Astronaut Training Day commences in Y5/6!
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 […]
Y6 Unique Discrimination session via Zoom
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 […]
Using drama to demonstrate different jobs in French
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 […]
P4C in Class 8 – ‘The Window’
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 […]
Using T4W in Class 8
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 […]
Attendance Winner Breakfast
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 […]
“Ecstatic about static electricity” – Science in Y6D
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. […]
Music in school, followed by instrumental lessons from home!
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 […]
Year 5 colour wheels
Class 7 and 8 produced some fantastic colour wheels at home to show their understanding of primary, secondary and tertiary colours
Y5/6 Space Buggies
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 […]
Internet Safety in Year 5/6
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.
Festive singing in Year 5/6
Class 7 and 8 learnt some festive songs (and an Imagine Dragons song!) complete with Makaton actions.
“I’m only one call away…”
Year 5/6 have been having sessions with Ms Roberts from Wingfield and have finished learning One Call Away.
Year 5/6 family learning session
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 […]
Place Value in Year 5
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.