March 7, 2010
Year 2 Assembly - Parents!
We had a gift for all of the parents. We made a French painting (inspired by Claude Monet) and a bookmark. We also gave the parents a taste of France - a crepe (pancake) and cakes with home-made french flags.
All of them enjoyed our gift and the assembly went really well.
After the success of the assembly, we all said goodbye to parents and they congratulated us!
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Year 2 French Assembly!
The Year 2 performed their fabulous Year 2 French assembly last Thursday. It was super and all the parents enjoyed it.
The children were fantastic and remembered all their lines. The audience heard every word! Miss Allen thought it was so wonderful the children all received a prize afterwards! Even Mrs McKeown said she had learned new things about France! Well Done for all your hard work Year 2!
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February 23, 2010
CHANGE TO DRESS UP DAY!!!!
The dress up day has been changed during Book Week to Wednesday 10th March. Letters were sent out this Tuesday sharing this information. Remember, it's an Egyptian theme so you could come as an explorer, a pharaoh, Cleopatra or a mummy! Prizes for the best costumes.
Remember, it's also the fun afternoon on the same day so bring your money!!!
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February 16, 2010
Are you an Eco Hero?
We are an Eco School! We will shortly be asking pupils and staff to join our bid to win our Bronze, Silver and Green Flag Award. this will make us an Eco School. A Green Flag Award is an internationally recognised Award and we will win it!
Parents, let us know if you are interested in joining our Action Team!
You might be able to give us some tips on how to become more Eco Friendly. We already have a gardening club run by parents and staff. We have a rag bag bin so all your old clothes can go to be recycled. We are an amazing Bike-it! school and we can only get better!
Look out in the future for Eco Events and join with us in our journey to win the Green Flag!
Miss Allen
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The countdown begins for Book Week!!!
10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1
It's the week you've all looked forward to...
Book Week is Monday 8th - Friday 12th March!
The theme this year is 'Wrapped up in Reading' - an Egyptian theme...
Keep working on your parent/child competition entries and pass them to Miss Allen as soon as you can. There will be loads of competitions and activities to get involved in during the week:
*Every night from Mon - Thurs the Bookfair will be in the Junior Hall from 3.30pm!
*Wednesday is the Year 6 Enterprise Project where they run a sale in school ...bring your money as there will be loads of fab games, food and prizes as well as books to buy!
*Friday is the BIG competition day. All prizes will be given out on this day. This is also when you can get dressed up...Egyptian style!
(For other information about Book Week, please check the letters sent home before half term)
REMEMBER...Book Week is when we choose our Gold Writer in KS1 and KS2. It could be anyone, so work hard!
If anyone reads this entry and you find information about Ancient Egypt using the internet/researching in the library...Miss Allen will give you a Frogget!!!!!!!!!!!!! Roll on March 8th!
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February 14, 2010
Do you have the Frog Factor?
We have the Frog Factor! Our Frog shop is now up and running and Year 2 enjoyed visiting it last week. We spent the froggets we earned and bought some superb prizes...
Frog Factor is all about being our best self and sharing what we know...We always try to give of our best in lessons and on the yard!
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February 10, 2010
Ole!!!
How fantastic do we look!!!!
We are in preparation for Gateshead's Dance Festival where we will be performing our Spanish Extravaganza. We are so excited! We can't wait for all our costumes to arrive and then to perform for all our school friends and our families.
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Frogget Shop Opens for Business
Froggets are part of our FROG Factor. Frog stands for:
F = Feelings
R = Relationships
O = Ownership
G = Giving
We think about these important things every day in school.
Each day we can earn 8 Frogget points, if we work really hard. We can also get froggets for brilliant behaviour and good manners. At the end of the week we convert our points into Froggets. It's just like money! We have been saving them up over the last few weeks and now we have been able to spend what we have saved.
There was so much to choose from!!! Many of us chose bouncy balls, pencils and even cars. The more Froggets you have, the more you can buy.
Remember if we are absent from school, we lose 8 Frogget points for each day, so it's really important to have good attendance.
We are looking forward to our next visit to the Frogget Shop. What will we buy...?
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January 31, 2010
Tombola for Charity
Children from throughout school brought money into school for a Tombola. It was in aid of the charity Children North East who do some work with some of our pupils.
Thank you to everyone that took part.
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January 7, 2010
Good News !! School Will Be Open on Friday 8th January
School will be open on Friday 8th January as normal.
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Open Tomorrow
We are open as normal tomorrow. We look forward to seeing you at 9am.
Please ensure children have suitable clothing and footwear. It is advisable for all children to bring a spare pair of socks and shoes to change into when they arrive at school.
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January 6, 2010
SCHOOL CLOSURE - Thursday 7th January
Due to adverse weather and the forecast of further snow, school will also be closed on THURSDAY 7TH JANUARY for safety reasons.
Please continue to check website, local radio and Gateshead Council websites for further updates with regards to Friday 8th January.
Gateshead Council Website - click below.
http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Environment%20and%20Waste/severe-weather.aspx#schools
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December 27, 2009
Go X Factor Joe! Well Done...You Won!
Year 2 love X Factor so we decided to send a card to X Factor Joe. Everyone in the school signed it. His mam, Eileen took it to him before the final show. We are convinced that we boosted his confidence which helped him to win! Joe mam said "Thank you for all your support!"
GO JOE!!!!!!!!!!
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December 14, 2009
Congratulations - Model School!
Last week Roman Road was awarded Model School Status for Read Write Inc. This is a tremendous achievement for our children and staff.
Roman Road has been using the Read Write Inc phonics scheme from Reception to Year 4 over the last two years. Staff have worked tirelessly to ensure every child learns to read and FAST!
The progress all children have made has been incredible and over the last two years Roman Road has been visited by over 20 different schools, to see how to implement Read Write Inc.
All of our hard work was rewarded last week when we were awarded Model School Status. This is a tremendous achievement as we are the only Model school north of Bradford.
This means that other schools can continue to come and observe our teaching and learning as well as share our expertise.
Congratulations to all of the children who work so hard during these lessons and to the teachers who deliver an exciting, fast paced reading programme.
Yee Hah!!!
Click on the link below to learn more about Read Write Inc.
http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/rwi/
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December 10, 2009
INSET Day - Monday 4th January 2010
School will be closed on Monday 4th January for INSET day.
Children return to school on Tuesday 5th January.
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November 3, 2009
Roman Road at 50 - My Memories
The school is coming up to it's 50th birthday. As part of the celebrations, we are looking for past pupils to tell us about their favourite memories of the school. The easiest way to do this, is to add a comment to this article.
We are looking for responses from ex-pupils including those that have just left and those that have been left for some time !!! We would especially welcome any comments from ex members of staff.
Keep a watch on the site for the comments and also about future events to celebrate Roman Road at 50 !!
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July 9, 2009
NASA Lands !!
Our school went to Gateshead Stadium to see astronauts visiting the region. The 5 astronauts, who have been on the space shuttle 'Discovery' did a commentary to a video about their mission in space. After lunch they returned to answer questions. It was then time for photographs with the astronauts. A memorable, once in a lifetime experience.
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Robotics Champions
The robotics team had to complete a series of challenges and gain the most points to become champions. The first challenge was to programme the robot to follow a line and avoid a defender. The second challenge was to programme the robot to score a goal and celebrate. The third challenge was to programme the robot to dribble the ball around defenders. Extra points were gained if a goal was scored. Well done for completing all the challenges and scoring the most points.
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July 1, 2009
Huge Help Sees Roman Road Survive Flash Flood
At 3.35pm today, torrential rain caused flooding up to 3 inches in places through the office and the Key Stage Two hall.
Damage to the meeting room, the MSB and the lower classrooms was prevented by the excellent efforts of nearly forty people.
As well as teaching staff and assistants, there were office staff, cleaners, the caretaker, school helpers, children, school experience students and Gateshead MBC officers who all helped to stop the water and rescue equipment.
A group of parents also stayed back to help and were responsible for sweeping out water and saving alot of the costumes that are needed for the Oliver production.
Everyone at school is extremely grateful for the help in a situation which could have been much worse.
SCHOOL IS OPEN AS NORMAL ON THURSDAY. However all children will be required to keep out of the Key Stage 2 hall. Dinners will be served in other parts of the school.
The year 4 class assembly has been postponed until Friday 10th July. Oliver rehersals will take place in the Key Stage 1 hall. It is hoped that the stage and wiring for the show can be put back in place on Friday.
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May 31, 2009
Year 3’s Healthy Sandwich
In Year 3 we have been making some healthy sandwiches as part of the D&T curriculum.
We learnt the importance of food hygiene and preparation and developed a good awareness of health and safety and what type of sandwich contributes to a healthy diet. We have developed our making skills by learning to combine ingredients according to personal preference.
We all enjoyed making the sandwiches but had even more fun eating our sandwiches.
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Year 3 Find Changes!
In Year 3 this term our Geography topic is 'Changes in our local area'.
We talked about different types of changes that could take place and where we could find out more. We asked Mrs Pigott, who has lived on Leam Lane since she was a little girl to take us on a walk around the area and share with us the changes she has noticed over the years.
We found changes that had happened within a week! The first change was within our school, we had just had a new bike shed fitted. We also found another recent change just outside the school, a block of flats had been knocked down the week before we went on the walk!
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May 5, 2009
African Gumboot Dancing and Drumming in Year 5
Year 5 had a great day working with an African artist performing Gumboot dancing and drumming.
As part of a project with The Linking Network, Year 5 have been working with the children at Oakfield Junior School. They have visited The Shipley Art Gallery and worked with their link partners to produce joint pieces of art work to be displayed in both schools. Oakfield Year 5 children then visited Roman Road to work with their partners here in a fun filled day of African Arts. We worked with an artist to practise and perform some gumboot dancing and drumming workshops. They also made African mask designs to display in school. We will be visiting Oakfield Junior School soon to continue our link project.
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April 24, 2009
We've had an amazing visit from a BMX stunt team. They came to demonstrate their skills in front of a crowd of children, parents and staff as part of the school's prize for coming second in the country in the Bike It 'Around the World' project.
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April 23, 2009
BMX Stunts Arrive at Roman Road
After coming 2nd in the Round the World Virtual Bike Race, which included schools across England and Wales, part of our prize was to have some fantastic stunt riders at our school
Any parents or carers wishing to see Ben and Danny are to arrive on the Y5/6 yard for 10.15am on Friday 24th April.
We look forward to seeing you there.
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April 14, 2009
Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 3!
I hope you have all had a lovely break. It’s hard to believe that the final term is upon us already! This is always a busy time with lots of exciting and fun events and this year is no exception. Please read on to find out what Year 3 will be learning this term.
Literacy we will be continuing work using ‘RWI’. We will also be writing instructions, recounts, reports and letters in Literacy.
Every Friday in numeracy will be doing problem solving focusing on logic problems and finding all possibilities, this will help develop the children’s ideas and methods to solve practical problems.
Science will focus on magnets and springs so that the children begin to understand attract and repel, upward and downward forces.
P.E – Every Tuesday afternoon until the end of the summer term Year 3 will be going to the swimming baths for their first swimming lessons with the school. I am really looking forward to this. Also on a Wednesday afternoon a football coach will be coming into school to work with the class on their control skills. Could you please make sure the children have their P.E kit in school every Wednesday and Thursday and swimming kit every Tuesday?
In R.E the children will be learning more about The Person of Jesus. They will look at how Jesus is represented through art in different periods and places. They will also look at Saints focusing on St. Paul and St. Cuthbert.
Art / Design Technology we will be making sandwiches.
In PSHE we will be discussing Relationships and Changes.
History we will be starting work on Anglo Saxons. Hopefully we will go on a visit to Bede’s world where the children will have the opportunity to dress in habits and discover where the Anglo-Saxon monastic buildings were and look at the chancel's exterior features.
In Geography we will be investigating our local area.
Music the children will be exploring musical arrangements.
Homework will continue to be given out on Friday and should be returned on Wednesday.
A big thanks to you for the continuing support in ensuring homework is returned.
If you have any concerns or queries, please don’t hesitate to come and see me after school Miss Stubbs.
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April 13, 2009
Coming soon...
Oliver!
Oliver is coming to Roman Road ... that's the MUSICAL Oliver!
All of Roman Road's Concerts are brilliant because the children are brilliant and everyone works really hard to make them spectacular. This year we are going to perform our own version of the famous musical. It will be performed in the Junior Hall in the penultimate week of the Summer Term! Looking forward to seeing you there!
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April 9, 2009
Easter Egg Hunt
Children in Years 1, 2, 3 and MSB had a lovely surprise on the last day of term.
The Easter bunny had hidden little tokens all around the school field and yard. In return for these tokens were chocolate eggs. Miss Stubbs, Mrs Inkster, Mr Slane, Mrs Cairns and Miss Parkin helped us find them. Rayne managed to find one of the special tokens which got him an extra big egg. We all had great fun!! We hope you all have a lovely Easter.
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March 8, 2009
Year 3 - The Romans
In Year 3 this term we have been learning all about the Romans.
We learnt how Rome was created and re-enacted the Romulus and Remus story. We all enjoyed getting into character as you can see from the photos. We have also designed and made Roman catapults in Technology then had a competition of whose catapult would fire the furthest, which we all enjoyed. We are making Roman Helmets in Art but need a few more lessons before they are finished. We have loved learning new things for this topic. Photos to follow. Miss Stubbs
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March 4, 2009
Animation Club
Some of our Year 5 pupils have worked really hard over the last few weeks in preparation for an animation competition.
This will be held at Heworth Grange Comprehension School on March 19th 2009. They have worked closely with our Year 6 pupils who made it through to the finals last year. Keep up the hard work I know you will do really well. Miss Stubbs and Mr Bradshaw
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February 3, 2009
Education City
Across all year groups we use Education City to enhance our learning in English, Maths and Science. Have you heard your child talking about it and wondered what it was?
EducationCity.com is the most engaging learning and assessment resource for children and includes online Tests for Assessment learning and exam practice. It is ideal for children aged between 3 and 12 years old, as well as for older children with special educational needs (SEN).
It's educational games make learning fun for children at school and at home and help to improve their academic performance.
Want to know more, click on the link below for information, including how to get a free trial at home.
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January 8, 2009
Dance on Down
Dance Club will resume for Years 5 and 6 on Tuesday 13th January.
Children will be working on a dance which will be displayed at the Sage in Gateshead on 10th March 2009 during the Gateshead dance festival.
Dance club begins at 3.30pm and ends at 5pm. Tracksuit, trainers and a drink of water required.
Children who have requested to take part will be notified asap.
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December 18, 2008
Grand Draw results
Congratulations to the lucky winners of our first grand draw. 1st prize the £60 hamper went to Amy Turnbull's mum, 2nd prize the £40 hamper went to Joe Corbett's aunt, 3rd prize a bottle of Bacardi went to Mrs P Cairns, 4th prize a bottle of Vodka went to Mrs Mcdonald, 5th prize a bottle of wine went to mrs B Armstrong, 6th prize a tin of chocolates went to Mrs L Parker, 7th prize a bottle of wine went to Rita, 8th prize a bottle of babycham went to Mrs Ivy Davis and the last prize a bottle of babycham went to Audrey Boyes.
Thankyou for your support over the last year and have a wonderful Christmas.
Helping Hands at Roman Road Primary School
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December 15, 2008
Christmas Fair
Check all of the photographs in the gallery of our fair. We raised £375. An exellent time was had by all and a big thank you to all the people who donated and helped out on the day.
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December 10, 2008
Track Santa this Christmas Eve
Hello Roman Road Children. Santa has asked us to keep you updated with the countdown to Christmas, as well as being able to track his progress around the world on Christmas Eve. Click on the link below and NASA will help keep you updated and let you know when it's time to be heading for bed! Don't delay check it out.
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December 9, 2008
Christmas Fair
Helping Hands at Roman Road Primary School are holding a Christmas Fair on Friday 12th December from 2pm untill 4pm. There will be refreshments on sale along with festive food, tombola's, book and toy stall, guess our Reindeers name along with our Grand draw tickets to buy which are 50p each(drawn on Thursday 18th December after the whole school carol service). Santa is also paying us a visit so the children can see him at the fair.
Children can be picked up from their class from 2pm.
Mrs B Lacey
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December 4, 2008
Christmas Recipe
Come and join Dog and a host of other characters in Year 1 and 2's Chrsitmas extravaganza!
We will be performing a Christmas Recipe on Thursday 11th December at 1.30p.m. in the Key Stage 2 Hall.
Please note this will be video recorded and a DVD will be available to purchase in the New year.
Be there or you will miss a treat!
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Winter Wonderland
The magic of Christmas is fast approaching!
Year One have been using the topic of winter in their writing, art and ICT work over the last few weeks. We have even created our own Winter Wonderland in our classroom. So you can imagine how excited we have been today to see all of the snow.
This morning we decorated the Christmas tree and then just before lunch went outside to have our photos taken. It was beautiful and there was so much snow. We are very excited. This afternoon we are hoping to be able to play out just before hometime. Then it's off home and sledges out!!!
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November 29, 2008
Generation Green campaign
I have recently registered our school with the Generation Green campaign with British Gas. This allows us to go on to their website and mark our carbon print and colllect leaves which you can donate to the school and this will allow us to recieve prizes from windturbines, science equipment, pc integrated weather station to solar panels. so please log on to www.generationgreen.co.uk and get collecting leaves for us.
Mrs B Lacey
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Grand Christmas Draw
Helping Hands at Roman Road Primary has arranged to hold a Grand Christmas Draw. Tickets are now on sale from school, Mrs B Lacey and Mrs L Parker and are 50p each. The draw has 6 prizes. 1st prize £60 hamper, 2nd prize £40 hamper, 3rd prize a litre bottle of Bacardi, 4th prize a litre bottle of vodka, 5th prize a bottle of wine and 6th prize a tin of sweets. This will be drawn on Thursday 18th December after the school christmas carol service.
Mrs B Lacey
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Christmas Fair
Our next event is a Christmas Fair and is to be held on Friday 12th December 2pm untill 4pm.
Children can be picked from from their classroom from 2pm onwards.
There will be a tombola, book stall, toy stall and we have arranged for a visit from Santa. Santa is free to see for children who attend Roman Road Primary and a cost of 50p to children who don't attend. There will also be tea,coffee, juice, chocolate logs, sweet mince pies on sale as well as our grand xmas draw tickets.
Mrs B Lacey
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November 4, 2008
Year 3 - Salvation Army Visit
Year 3 - R.E. Communities in our local area
In R.E. we have been learning all about what a community is and what it’s like to be part of a community. We have spent a long time looking at different types of communities and what symbols are used to show people that they are a member of that community, such as a cross, school badge, football strip etc...
We then focused on one community the ‘Salvation Army’. The whole class thought this was the army and were shocked to see our visitor from the Salvation Army turn up in normal clothes rather than a camouflage uniform.
Year 3 really enjoyed the visit and asked lots of questions.
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October 17, 2008
Red Kites Rock!
Roman Road have been hitting the press lately. We are lucky enough to be the 100th school to adopt a Red Kite. We have been featured on teletext TV.
We have named our Red Kite - Centurion. All the classes will be able to see a photo of Centurion along with a pack of information all about Red Kites.
Year One were happy to show us the life size model of a Red Kite. We can't wait to be able to visit him.
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October 9, 2008
It's A Jungle in Key Stage One
We are really lucky to have a freelance artist working in our school on a Thursday.
Lynda Nelson an artist and book illustrator came into school a few weeks ago to talk to Key Stage One about brightening up their building. We looked at lots of different photos and themes and eventually decided on a jungle.
Over the next few weeks Lynda will be working in our school. We will try and update the website regularly so you can see how it progresses.
Check out our artists websitehttp://www.lynda-nelson.co.uk/
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Baptising Beth Ella
Year One visited St.Andrews Church yesterday to baptise their baby doll.
We had fantastic weather to walk to church yesterday. Mrs Inkster, Mrs cairns and Mrs Miller helped Year One celebrate the baptism of their baby doll Beth Ella. Year one have been learning all about new beginnings and belonging to the Christian church.
We watched a video of a baptism but we wanted to experience the real thing. Father Alan was kind enough to book us in for the real thing.
We chose our own vicar who was lucky enough to be dressed up for the occasion.
We all made promises to look after the baby and the parents and godparents went to the front of the church to make their promises to God.
The sign of the cross was made on Beth Ell’s head using some oil.
We then went to the back of the church where the font was located.
Father Alan showed us how to change Leam Lane tap water into holy water, by blessing it and making a cross in the water. A shell was then used to baptise the baby because a shell was used to baptise Jesus in the river Jordan. And so Beth Ella was given her name.
We then went back to the front of the church, where Ella’s parents were presented with a lighted candle from the vicar.
Then it was time for family and friends to have their photos taken with the special baby girl. First were the Godparents.
Next the doting Grandparents.
And finally the rest of the family who attended the special celebrations.
We said thank you to Father Alan and Mrs Inkster was able to press the button to ring the church bells. It was then back to school where we continued the celebrations with a party and enjoyed a lovely piece of christening cake.
Check out all of the photos from our visit in the gallery, Year One file.
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September 15, 2008
Netball Club
Miss Stubbs is setting up a netball club to run every Wednesday lunch time, starting 24th September.
This will start off for Year 6 girls only but if any Year 5 girls are interested, please come and see me. Looking forward to it!
Miss Stubbs
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Welcome to Year One - Information
For the school year 2008-2009, Year One will be taught by Mrs Inkster and supported by Mrs Cairns.
We have had great fun already in Year One with our fantastic new class.
Want to find out what we're learning about?
This half term our topics are:
Literacy - descriptions, phonic work, speaking and listening skills and story writing.
Numeracy - counting, recognising and ordering numbers, one more / less, 2D shapes
Science - sorting and naming materials
Geography - Recycling materials
Art and Design technology - sculptures using recyclable materials
Music - rythmns
P.E. - Gymnastics, using large apparatus
R.E. - belonging to groups and communities
P.S.H.E. - making our classroom a happy place to learn.
P.E. is on Mondays and Wednesdays
Reading books to be brought to school every day but they are changed on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Homework will be handed out on a Friday to be returned the following Wednesday.
High Frequency words are checked most Thursdays.
If you have any boxes, plastic bottles, egg cartons and kitchen rolls we would appreciate them being brought into school to help with our art recycling.
We hope this gives a little insight into what will be happening in Year One this half term. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to speak to Mrs Inkster or Mrs Cairns.
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July 4, 2008
North East Artsmark Celebration 2008
Yestrday, July 3rd 2008, two children from Key Stage 1 were proud to accept Roman Road's Silver Artsmark Award.
The celebration of Artsmark took place at Northern Stage in Newcastle and was attended by two Key Stage One children, Mrs Barnes and Mrs Inkster. The event was hosted by a comedian (who was very funny), presentations from schools who had achieved Gold and Silver Artsmark last year and finally over 80 schools who were there to collect their prestigious award.
We are extremely proud of our schools achievements and couldn't wait to collect our award and goody bag. This award shows that Roman Road is commited to providing our pupils with a range of creative experiences.
Many thanks to the two children who were extremely well behaved and thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon out of school. Congratulations to all pupils and staff who have worked extremely hard to achieve this award.
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June 30, 2008
Gateshead Athletics Festival 2008
We arrived at school on June 27th at 8.30am all kitted out and ready to go to Gateshead International Stadium, home of the 10th Schools Athletics festival. How did we do?
A selection of children from Year 3 -6 had taken part in trials across the month in school and were then chosen to represent Roman Road at the festival. We particpated in a huge number of events from sprints, skipping, relays, long jump, javelin, cricket ball throw and many more.
All of the children who participated were incredible! They had a fantastic team spirit and represented our school superbly both on and off the track.
We were able to secure a semi final place in all of our races: sprint, skipping and relays. With all of the children giving 100% effort. We went on to have three opportunities in the finals - Year 5/6 Boys skipping, Year 5/6 Boys 80m Sprint and finally the Year 5/6 Boys Relay.
David Kippen represented the school in all three events and was an amazing team captain. He was just pipped to a medal in the skipping. By the time the final race of the day approached we were all extremely nervous.
The relay started with a fantastic first leg by Josh Archibald who powered down the track, Liam McDonald had a great baton change and held our position well, Jamie McKeown roared down the track gaining ground all of the time and had a clean baton change to David Kippen who never gave up and was determined that our day would end with a medal.
It did! The boys brought home a silver medal for Roman Road. Fantastic!
By the end of the day Mr. Allsop was sunburnt, Mrs Inkster and Mrs Rushton had lost their voices and Mr Bradshaw was floating with delight at the results.
Congratulations to all of the children that took part you were amazing and a credit to our school.
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Key Stage One Sports Day
The children from nursery, reception and year one have the pleasure of inviting their families and friends to their Sports Day. It will take place on Thursday 3rd July 2008 at 9.30am.
The children are very excited at participating in this years sports day! They have all been practising really hard and are raring to go! If you have an hour free we would love to see you cheering us on in our races.
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June 23, 2008
Great Whithaugh Week Enjoyed by Year 6
Year 6 have just returned from an enjoyable week at Whithaugh Park.
You can see the first lot of photos in the gallery section of this site.
After beating a slow journey up to the site, the rainy weather and of course the midgies, year 6 took took part in lots of activities on the land (and under it), in the water and in the air with the famous parachute drop from the climbing tower.
Miss Allen didn't get lost on the orienteering - a first !!!
More children took part in activities than ever before and the year group were great at eating the excellent food served by Steve and his staff from Copshaw Kitchen in the village.
We even held our own disco in which the classic 'Don't Go Breaking my Heart' by Elton John and Kiki Dee was danced to by boy and girl partners. Look out for future photos to come - especially from the bride and groom competition.
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June 12, 2008
Line Dancing Festival
Children from Roman Road Primary School participated in Gateshead's Line Dancing Festival last night.
The children and parents thoroughly enjoyed the event, with everyone taking part and 'having a go', parents included! Children from Year 3, 4 and 5 represented the school and their behaviour was exceptional, they are a credit to our school.
We look forward to participating in next year with a view to having our own dance to present to the audience.
Many thanks to Miss Ternent, Miss Stubbs and Mrs Lacey for all their hard work in teaching the children the dances.
Photos to follow soon
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We Did It! - Artsmark Silver
We were delighted to be informed by letter last week that we had been successful in our award for Artsmark. All staff and children had worked hard towards achieving the Silver award but we have had to wait six months to see if we were successful.
Artsmark provides a benchmark for arts provision and encourages schools to consider the opportunities they offer in art, dance, drama and music. Artsmark Silver is the middle level of achievement a school can attain by completing all compulsory sections of the application form and the optional requirements for Silver. Each application goes through a rigorous five-step assessment process to ensure that the criteria for Artsmark have been met.
Schools evaluate provision against the benchmark to identify any areas for development and to highlight the school’s strengths in the arts.
Gaining an Artsmark at any level shows that our school is committed to the wider development of young people. The scheme increases the status of the work of teachers within school and increases awareness of continuing professional development opportunities in the arts for all teachers.
By offering public recognition of commitment to the arts by the school and its teachers, Artsmark raises the profile of the school and its arts provision in the local community. Mrs Barnes and Mrs Inkster who worked towards our achieving this award, will be attending a celebration and presentation in July, accompanied by two children from the school. We are extrememly proud of our acheivements in recognition of the hard work produced by the children and the staff.
Well done Roman Road!
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March 14, 2008
Year 5 Team Win Animation Heat
Our fantastic four of Adam, Nicole, Chloe & Joe worked as a brilliant team to win their heat of the animation competition at Heworth Grange.
The team were winners in a heat that included children from Brandling, St. John RC and Bill Quay.
The children had to construct a storyboard and make an animation using toys, a computer and a camera. They were marked on how they worked together as well as their artwork and the finished product.
A digital camcorder was their prize which will be used by the children in school. The children will attend the final in April.
More photos of the day can be seen in the gallery.
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November 18, 2007
School Qualifies For Gateshead Basketball Final
Eighteen boys and girls from Year 6 took part in a morning of basketball skills and matches at Heworth Grange School as part of the SSCo programme.
We won all of our matches and eight of the children will represent the Heworth cluster in the final which will be held on November 27th at Gateshead Stadium.
The competition at Heworth Grange was ran by the school's year 8 and 9 sports leaders who did a great job.
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November 16, 2007
We have been running a Triple P group
We have recently completed a Triple P program at Roman Road with some of the parentsfrom the local community. The program is designed to help parents to be more positive towards their children.The parents who attended the program were pleased with the results. One parent was particularly pleased and commented "I found a big difference in myself and my kids."
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November 8, 2007
Trinny Comes For A Visit
A special visitor came into class to see the children.
Trinny the Mongrel came in with Mrs McKeown.
Trinny is a 'hearing' dog. We all are used to seeing dogs being used to help blind people but it's a bit more unusual to have a visit from a hearing dog.
Hearing dogs help people that are deaf to respond to sounds like doorbells and smoke alarms. As with dogs for the blind, hearing dogs are also trained to a high standard.
The children enjoyed meeting Trinny and finding out about the job she does.
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September 28, 2007
Krafty Kids at Roman Road
This week at Roman Road we have had the privilege of working with Michelle from Krafty Kids, designing and making some fantastic plates.
We started by designing some plates with help from our parents and family. On Wednesday Michelle arrived with all the plates, pens, aprons and much more. We were then shown how to use the pens to draw our designs onto our plates. The final results were fantastic!
We collected our plates on Thursday evening and took them home to cook in the oven. This sets the paint and varnish on the plates. That night, many of us had our tea from a personalised, individual plate. And to top it all off we learnt fantastic new skills and had great fun.
Photos to come soon.
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September 13, 2007
Prefabs are no more!!!!!
The Prefab classrooms are being demolished to make more room for playtimes and lunchtimes.
A JCB has been in action tearing through the buildings this week.
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September 12, 2007
School Newsletter
The newsletter that went out to parents and carers on the 7th September can be found by clicking on this link:
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June 20, 2007
Year 5/6 Are Enjoying Whithaugh Park !!!
We have been doing loads of enjoyable activities such as kayaking, abseiling and rafting.We are having a fab time !!!!
By Zoe and Ryan
All the children are enjoying their week. Lots of things have happened including Miss Allen getting lost in the orienteering (3rd year running) and our rafts collapsing.
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June 4, 2007
Aladdin Is On Its Way !
Children from year 6 with some from year 5 have been very busy preparing their performance of Aladdin. It will be held at Heworth Grange Comprehensive School on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th June starting at 7pm (doors open 6pm)
Tickets can be bought from the Junior School Hall on Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th June at 3.30pm. They are priced at £1 for children attending our school and £2 for other people.
Can you afford to miss the excitement ?
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May 8, 2007
ALADDIN - Year 6 Production
At present Year 6 are working hard towards their end of year performance. We are extremely lucky to have been chosen to present our musical at the local Arts College, Heworth Grange Comprehensive. Our school will be the first to perform Aladdin and we are all very excited -because Heworth have a real theatre. This will be the first time we will have access to lighting, pyrotechnics and extensive sound equipment.
Rehearsals take place at least four times a week and include dancing, singing and acting. Miss Allen and Mrs Inkster say that by the end of this production they will either be grey or running away to join the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The cast consists of mostly Year 6 pupils with the chorus being helped out by Year 5. It is set to be our most fantastic production EVER! The main characters include
Aladdin - Bradley Botcherby
Jasmine - Melissa Stokoe
Jafar - Ryan Batey
Iago - Harry Thompson
Sultan - Danny Gore
Narrator 1 - Amber Smith
Narrator 2 - Ryan Edgar
Narrator 3 - Rachel Payne
Narrator 4 - Josh Archibald
Narrator 5 - Danielle Parker
Razoul - James McRoy
Tickets will be on sale at Roman Road School Office from 1st June 2007. Performances are Wednesday 13th June and Thursday 14th June at 7pm.
Tickets cost £2 for adults and non-pupils,
£1 for pupils, children
Free - under 5
Looking forward to seeing you in Our Whole New World!
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May 1, 2007
Stunning Year 4 Football Performance
The school year four team consisting of Josh T, Joe D, Callum Q, Joe H, Adam W, Celine D, Ross B and Liam M.won through to the next round of the Durham County schools year 3/4 competition after three wins in the group stage at Colegate Primary School.
The scores and scorers were as follows:
Colegate Green 0 Colegate Red 2
Roman Road 5 (Liam 2, Joe H. 2 & Ross) Falla Park 0
Colegate Green 0 Roman Road 2 (Joe H & Ross)
Falla Park 0 Colegate Red 0
Colegate Green 1 Falla Park 0
Colegate Red 0 Roman Road 2 (Adam & Joe H)
Well done to all of our players and we look forward to the next round at St. Mary's (Sunderland) next week.
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March 2, 2007
Bookweek is Coming
Book Week is the week beginning 5th March ! Many exciting things are going to be happening at Roman Road, which have mainly been organised by the Year 6 class as their enterprise project. We are having 2 competitions for prizes - making a bookmark and producing a piece of work about a book. The best pieces of work produced in each Key Stage will receive a gold reader award! The bookfair is in school all week and we are having a mammoth sponsored readathon. Our sponsored event last year raised a massive £1200 for the school! WOW! On the Friday of Bookweek, we are all dressing up as characters from books - even the teachers! We are also enjoying a fun afternoon in the hall with lots of books to buy and games to play. We are going to have a FAB time!
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December 1, 2006
Sting Attack!!!
At the start of September, a small wasp attack went a little bit wrong & four year four people with one teacher were stung. The three dinner ladies took the children on to a different yard to play on so they didn’t get hurt.
After the children had lunch, a wasp exterminator came in to get rid of the wasps and the nest. When the exterminator left, everyone was nice and calm and the wasps were gone.
by Taylor Johnston
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November 13, 2006
Busy Parents Evening for the Staff
Lots of parents turned up to find out about their child's targets tonight. Year 6 staff were especially busy as the parents found out what to expect in the run up to SATS.
It was great to see so many parents in school and we hope this will continue at our Spring target meeting.
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November 6, 2006
Easier address for the School Website
Our site now has a .org web address and is therefore easier to remember.
The staff have user names and passwords so they can upload to the site.
There is also a user name and password for each of the Key Stage 2 year groups so look out for constant updates to the site.
We aim to keep everyone aware of what is going on in OUR and YOUR school.
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October 3, 2006
Year 6 ICT team start on the website
Year 6 have started their new website, they are working together as a team, to make sure it goes well. We have all got a strong friendship, and we shall enjoy ourselves.
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June 29, 2006
The new building
Roman Road is soon to have a new classroom.
It is going to be a year 2 classroom. So far it has all the walls built and all the widows.When they started it was just a pach of grass. They started by putting the foundations down. They are now putting the floor down and building the pillars so the roof doesn't cave in. There is also a car park behind it for the teachers.
Article and photos by Ryan and Liam.
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February 14, 2006
ICT gets a BT boost
The school has been awarded £1000 by BT to develop speaking and listening by parents and their children while working with ICT.
The money is being spent on two machines with the idea of parents / carers being able to come into school with their children and use them. Some uses could be:
* Find some information from an encyclopedia;
* Surf the net;
* Look at our website;
* Make a computer birthday card.
We hope to see parents come into school and have the chance to use some of our ever expanding facilities.
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