June 14, 2011
Have you spotted the Garden Buddies?
Year 3 have designed and made ‘Garden Buddies’ for our school grounds. As part of our creative curriculum theme about spring time, we used recycled tins, plastic bottles and a lot of hard work to create the little characters to watch over our school gardens.
See if you can spot them around school!
What do you think of them?
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May 1, 2011
Eco Success!
We have recently had a whole school Eco Week which was a brilliant success! All children took part in Eco activities across the week and the school theme was 'Waste Not, Want Not!'
'Waste Not, Want Not' incorporated recycling, waste, water and energy which are all themes within the Eco Award. After receiving our Bronze and Silver Eco Awards last year, we are striving towards our Green Flag which we will hopefully receive in the Summer Term. Everyone rose to the challenge this year and included Eco issues within their Creative Curricular Themes. But in Eco Week we had a fantastic time. This is a list of activities we enjoyed:
*making recycled musical instuments
*making wind turbines
*making shelters using recycled canvas
*setting up recycling of paper towels
*making quality items from recycled items to sell on a stall to raise money for our orphanage/polar bears
*making bottle top flower garden decorations
*research about polar bears/reducing, reusing, recycling
*making a water filter
*pie charts and data handling about recycling and water usage in the home
*Cooking with leftovers alongside nick, our resident chef!
*Biking to school
*Making Eco eggs from recycled materials for a competition
*Washing cars with recycled water
*Picking up litter
*Weaving with plastic bags
*Using cans to make garden buddies
*Thinking about a life without energy
*Making collage patchwork quilts
*Alan's visit to classes to talk about Eco Issues
We finished the week with Green Day. We dressed up in green and went to a green breakfast in the Junior Hall. We ate green food and watched a video about our Indian orphanage. four people from Living Waters Church in South Shields have now visited the orphanage and handed over the £500 raised by Roman Road so far. It bought uniforms for the children and was greatly appreciated by the Tsunami orphans.
At the breakfast, Year 2's Recycling Retail raised £56.20 which will go towards supporting our orphanage and polar bears!
Well done to everyone for your unwavering support!!
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April 26, 2011
Eco week.
The whole school had great fun during Eco week, working in class and with various visitors to school. Year 5 enjoyed making a delicious curry from leftover Sunday dinner with Nick from Cooking 4 Life. They found out lots of fascinating facts from Alan about how much they can help the environment by cycling to school, in stead of travelling in a car. Big-Eyed Ben had his eye on the whole school, but did not catch a single class with lights left on!
We also...
...did a lot of work in class. We set up recycling bins to recycle paper towels, as we felt that a lot of paper gets wasted in this way. Year 5 have taken responsibility for emptying these boxes into the big blue recycling bins. We also researched the threat to polar bears by global warming, and wrote persuasive texts to try to show people the danger that the polar bears are in. We produced some great recycled art work, using only materials which were being thrown away at our homes; and also some posters to remind people how they can help to protect the environment. All in all it was a really busy, and very enjoyable week.
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January 16, 2011
Year 3 Help Out !
Year 3 helped Mrs Barnes deliver an assembly in the form of a quiz about different elements of Hindu life. Each child held up an answer while the rest of the key stage answered questions by finding the correct answer.
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January 15, 2011
Indian Breakfast
A BIG thank you to staff, children, parents and visitors who raised £250 for our Indian orphanage yesterday (Friday 14th January). The day was a massive success!
Visitors included parents, who came for their second authentic Indian breakfast which included paranthas (pancakes) and mango jam, fruit and scrambled egg.
An artist worked with children from Year 1 to Year 6 making rangoli patterns. These are Indian floor patterns used as a welcome to Hindu gods in the Indian Culture.
Mrs Robson, our Eco Governor visited for the day and worked with the artist as well as visiting all classes!
Foundation Stage children had another visit from Sheila from Miss Allen's church who told an Indian story and painted faces and hands with tigers and mendhi patterns.
Sheila also led a whole school assembly and used balloon modelling to tell the Christian story of Creation and perform a magic trick to tell us that God loves us all equally. We saw pictures of the Indian orphans whose parents were the victims of the 2004 tsunami.
The £250 raised will be taken to India in February by 4 members of Miss Allen's church and it will be used to buy school supplies. Money raised by Living Waters Church will go towards the building fund for Pastor Emmanuel's secondary school in Malakapatnam in India!
Thank you again for your generosity!
Miss Allen
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It's our planet! Mission:Eco Heroes!
Year 2 are learning how to be Eco Heroes this Term. Here are some of the exciting things we will be learning...
To research…
…how rainforests/jungles have positive affect on environment and how they are adversely affected by people
…challenges facing India (litter and hygiene)
…current environmental issues
…what to recycle and how best to do it
…the school’s beliefs about Eco Friendly issues
…what they do as a family to recycle or to be more Eco Friendly
..alternative forms of power (solar, wind)
…how our school can be more Eco Friendly
…human and physical aspects of rainforest
…where in the world are rainforests/jungles
To talk…
…to discuss what they have found out
…to find short and long term solutions to problems
…to show an understanding of world issues
…to plan, develop and evaluate work
…to negotiate, plan and perform
To read and write…
…a report on ways to be Eco Friendly/’Cats’
…explanation how to make organic ‘jungle’ cakes
…diary of a jungle animal
…a narrative about what will happen in the world if we don’t take better care (‘Rainforest’ by Helen Cowcher)
…a poster to encourage recycling
…an explanation about the water cycle
…questions to find out more about the jungle
…instructions on how to plant a seed
…green poetry
…letter to wwf to sponsor a tiger
To calculate…
…find the weight of recycled materials
…collection and display of data showing recycled materials (use of excel)
..2D Shape based around sorting recycled shapes
…solutions to number and data problems based around the theme
…measuring lengths of plants and comparing
…problems involving change
To make/produce
…an allotment for growing own produce to sell to community
…a jungle magnetic game (ICT for background)
…jungle animal painting (style of Andy Warhol)
…a moving butterfly toy
…a short film based upon Eco theme
…symmetrical recycled masks
…Recycled robots
…jungle masks (Family challenge – made from recycled materials)
…an allotment
…tiger hand puppets
…experiments and investigations based around plants/healthy eating
To perform…
…dance or music made from recycled instruments (Stomp & Vegetable Orchestra)
…a song about Eco theme
…a rap using our school Eco Code
Other…
PE
Science – Electricity, Materials, and their Properties. Theme of SC2 (Life Processes and Living things) to be incorporated where possible into theme.
RE – Jewish Hannukkah and Christian beliefs
Numeracy/ICT – 2D and 3D shapes. Use of Logo Programme
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December 4, 2010
Polar Bottles
Don't forget to bring in your coppers to fill your Polar Bottle this Winter time!
We support the Svalbard Polar Bears who are being affected by Climate Change!
Have a look on our map in the Junior Hall to see who else we support around the world!!
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November 10, 2010
Big - Eyed Ben's got his eye on you.
There was a special visitor in the KS2 assembly today. Big Eyed Ben came to tell all of the children that he had his eye on them.
The children in Year 5 have been carrying out an energy survey for the last few weeks. They have been checking whether lights and computer screens have been left on in the classrooms when they were not needed.
Following our survey, we decided that we needed to find a way to remind people to "switch off". In business teams we came up with advertising slogans and characters to promote our campaign. Each group pitched their idea to the rest of the class, and we voted for Big - Eyed Ben as our favourite character with his catchy slogan, "I've got my eye on you!".
Ben is going to keep a lookout around school, and every time he finds a light left on he is going to leave his special calling card, to let you know that you have been wasting electricity. We have also designed some labels to put near the light switches to serve as an extra reminder.
So remember Ben has got his (enormous) eye on you!
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October 26, 2010
Year 2 have Green fingers!
Miss Allen was very pleased that Year 2 are brilliant gardeners because she kills any plant within her classroom. The potatoes the children dug up were fabulous. KEEP BRINGING IN THE GARDENING VOUCHERS!
We even found a visitor to the ladybird house!!
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Mission: H20
Year 2 are learning all about WATER in the Autumn Term
To research…
*Materials…floating and sinking & Electricity
*Famous figures associated with the sea and sea travel
*Creatures and plants living in or near the sea
*What sort of shops/businesses do you find at the seaside? What is sold? How far away form the seaside do we live?…look at maps of coastline
*Water Aid and how important it's work is
To talk…
*Water, beach and sun safety…life guards/using sun screen
*Stories about the seaside/pirates
*What is a tongue twister?
*What is the ‘Water Cycle’
*The geography of the seaside…physical and human features & the effect of the sea on the land
To read and write…
*Character studies…
*Instructions how to build a sandcastle
*Report/Leaflet…The seaside/Under the sea (creatures and their habitats)/Human & Man-made features
*Postcards…from the children/from a fantasy or historical character.
*Sea poems – write & analyse
*Narratives about seaside adventures
*Tongue twisters
*Diary of a sea creature
*Story of ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’
*Christian & Jewish Bible stories linked to sea/water…
To calculate…
*The solutions to problems based on capacity
*The solutions to number problems based around a sea shore theme (4 operations)
*Data Handling
To make/produce...
*Sculptures…sandcastles
*Seascapes…using printing and painting techniques and various mediums
*Magnetic Sea Game …using shoe boxes
*Boats and test materials for their waterproofing and buoyancy.
*Observational drawings & paintings…shells/waves/reflection paintings
*A working lighthouse (Electricity)
To perform…
*Songs and rounds about the sea and sea shanties
*Their own tongue twisters
*Dance based upon movements of the sea/sea creature
*Musical class composition based upon building of a ship
*Role play…pirates/mermaid market
Discrete
*PE : Gymnstics – Apparatus; Cricket Skills; Hoola Hooping; Dance
*Numeracy…Place Value
*RE… Christianity
Who is God?, Prayer, The Creation story, Harvest, The Christmas Story.
*PSHE & C…New beginnings & ‘Getting on and falling out’
Making friends, school and class rules, dealing with conflict.
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Eco Code Winner!!!
Read on to discover our FANTASTIC Eco Code...
Don't take a bath, have a shower -
Turn off the lights to save power.
Eat an apple orange or a pear,
As long as it's healthy, we don't care.
Plant a seed, grow a tree
Eat homegrown vegetables just like me!
Walk to school...it's not that far
Respect the environment - leave the car!
Put all your rubbish in the bin
A litter free environment is 'the done thing'
Respect your school and its grounds
By being ECO FRIENDLY, you'll come on in leaps and bounds
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GOING FOR GREEN!!
Our Eco Week and Green Day in June raised awareness about Global Issues. We gained our Bronze and Silver Flag. Help us GO FOR GREEN this year! We want our Green Flag Award and you can help us by being as Eco Friendly as possible. Read on to find out how you've helped so far...
Eco Week was a massive success.
The winner of the prize draw for parent eco questionnaires was
Paula Dafter. Well done! Thank you for all returned questionnaires.
Polar Bottles from classes: Money raised so far is in excess of £200 which means we should be able to support the Svalbard polar bears for at least another 2 years.
Thank you for donations for the Indian Orphanage. I will be contacting Pastor Emmanuel and sending letters and Art work from the children. The Indian breakfast and Green Day raised £205 which has been sent to them along with £500 raised by Living Waters’ Church for their building fund.
Our work during Eco Week this year has enabled us to win our Bronze and Silver Flag Awards.
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Meet the Eco Staff Council
Thank you for all your support so far with making RRPS a GREEN school! This is our Staff Eco Council! We are working together to gain our Green Flag Award this year! After successfully achieving Bronze and Silver last year, Roman Road Primary School is on a mission to win our Green Flag Award for being Eco Friendly. Every class has two Eco Eagles, who keep an eye out for litter and electricity wastage.
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Governor joins Eco Council
Meet our Eco Governor Representative! Mrs Robson really enjoyed the Indian Breakfast and has enjoyed looking at our Eco Impact Portfolio. She has met with the Eco Council and at present is helping to choose new recycling bins to go on school grounds. We all look forward to working with you this year as we Go For Green!
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Pastor Emmanuel says "Thank you!"
Pastor Emmanuel from our Indian Orphanage has sent a thank you email for the massive £205 raised during Eco Week for our orphanage/school. It was sent over the summer holidays, along with £500 from Living Waters Church. Pastor Dave and Siman from LWC in South Shields are going to visit the orphanage in February.
The Indian Breakfast was a real success. Thank you to everyone who made it possible! We ate Indian fruit (mango, apple, strawberries and grapes). These treats would be reserved for rich indians. We also cooked and ate parantas (Indian pancakes) with mago jam or scrambled eggs. Yum Yum! Parents, Staff and children all enjoyed the experience and a DVD of our Indian children played in the background.
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Anyone for Polar Bottles?
As part of our Eco Week challenge, we raised money for the Svalbard Polar Bears. We raised over £200 altogether and every class received a certificate to put in their portfolio. this amazing amount raised means we can support the polar bears for another 2 years.WOW!
A few coppers goes a long way to support the polar bears, who are being affected by global warming! Send in all the coppers you can!
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All about India in Eco Week!
During the summer term 2010 as part of Eco Week, we took part in a creative curriculum theme about India. this was mainly to raise everyone's awareness of the problems faced by the country and the religious beliefs of the people. Sheila, Bethan and Nim (from Miss Allen's church) came to tell us about an Indian Orphanage we could support together.
Sheila left us with a selection of Indian desserts which were very sweet. We learned that the children in the orphanage in Machilipatnam did not have sweets like this. Most of them were orphans due to the Tsunami of 2005. Pastor Emmanuel (the principal of the school) is a Christian who has asked us to raise money for these children so a secondary school can be built. We learned that the only clean water they receive is between 6am and 7 am
Mrs Banergee taught us how to wear a sari. She taught us about the differences between schools in India compared to England.
Nick the chef came to work with Year 1 and 2 to make a biriyani. It was YUMMY!
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October 16, 2010
Recycling area in Reception.
Our recycling area is now up and running in the Reception area. If you have any old batteries or printer cartridges, or any old spectacles, please bring them into school and put them in the recycling boxes outside Mrs Redhead's room.
We are very grateful for all the support that we have already received, and urge you all to help us with our class clallenge to increase recycling and help to protect the environment.
Recycling boxes for milk bottle tops are situated in each classroom. Look out for some black recycling boxes which will be arriving in the toilet areas very soon so that we can recycle paper towels!
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October 11, 2010
Joining a global challenge.
Roman Road has joined the 10:10 initiative as part of our Sustainable School theme.
10:10 unites individuals and organisations around one goal: cutting our emissions by 10% in 2010.
Year 5 are looking at ways in which the school can save energy. We have already started cutting our energy use . We have monitors to check the screens are turned off in the ICT suite; we are increasing the recycling done by the school;and we are monitoring the school's use of electricity. Do you have any suggestions to help us meet our energy saving target?
Why not join in the 10:10 challenge yourself. Visit http://www.1010uk.org/ to see what you can do to help.
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October 6, 2010
The Adventures of Super Toilet
Year Two came into Year One this afternoon to tell us all about Water. We then learned about the importance of water for keeping us healthy. We watched a fantastic comic clip all about it.
The Adventures of Super Toilet is a fun, but important, reminder to kids everywhere of the importance of clean toilets, safe drinking water and good hygiene...
Want to watch it - click on the link below. It will definitely make you laugh but also teach you some important facts.
http://www.wateraid.org/uk/learn_zone/other_resources/7214.asp
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September 30, 2010
Can you help us?
The Year 5 classroom has been a hive of actvity this week.
As part of our Sustainable School topic, we have researched ways to increase the recycling done by our school. We have been making collection boxes for various items to be put around school and in the Reception area.
We are collecting old spectacles which are being sent by Vision Aid to people in India who do not have access to eye care. We are collecting used batteries and printer cartridges to recycle. We are collecting milkbottle tops which are to raise money for an electric wheelchair for a young disabled boy who lives in Newcastle. If you have any of these items please send them into school with your child, and they can put them in the collection boxes, which should be ready by next week.
We would be delighted if you could help us.
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September 9, 2010
Wellies - Please!
Every Friday afternoon this half term, Year 1 and Year 2 will have the chance to develop their gardening skills. In order that your children are not returned looking like mud monsters, could you please send them to school with a pair of wellies or an old pair of shoes, in a plastic bag.
As we strive towards our Green Flag as an ECO school we are sure these life skills will prove to be very useful. Who knows, you may even get the chance to taste some lovely home grown vegetables.
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June 9, 2010
DIG DEEP FOR OMAR
As usual, the children, parents and carers of Roman Road do not let us down with their fundraising efforts. We are pleased to announce that we have raised £276 for Omar, a 9 year old boy who lives in Senegal.
With the help of Action Aid, we are now his proud sponsors and await our opportunity to write to him and send him small gifts. Many, many thanks on his behalf. We are sure he will appreciate it, more than we will ever know. (Photo to follow soon).
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May 23, 2010
Are you an Eco Eagle?
Get ready to launch into ECO WEEK!!
Week beginning 7th June 2010!
Get ready to launch straight into…
ECO WEEK
when you return after the half term holidays!
During the week beginning 7th June 2010, we will be learning how to become Eco Eagles!
Roman Road Primary School is embarking upon a journey to achieve our Green Flag Award. This is an internationally recognised award. During this year’s Eco Week, we will be launching Eco Themes in a BIG way and will hopefully achieve our Bronze and Silver Flags during the week.
As a school, we are already looking for ways to be more Eco friendly:
*Our School Council are also our Eco Council and Staff members include Mrs Lacey, Mrs Phillips, Mr Bradshaw and Miss Allen.
*Teachers are including ‘Green themes’ in their Creative Curriculum.
*We are brilliant at ‘Bike-it’
*Our garden club has been up and running for a while and the vegetables grown are very tasty!
*We have our Healthy School Award!
In order to improve further, we need to review the 9 Topics of the Eco Award:
Energy
Litter
Waste & Recycling
Water
Transport
Healthy Living
Biodiversity
School Grounds
Global Perspectives
The Theme of Eco Week this time is…
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Our particular focuses will be:
India & Global Warming.
Aims of ECO WEEK :
*To create an understanding about Indian culture
*To make links and raise money for an Indian orphanage in Malakapatnam
*To raise whole school awareness of Climate change issues
*To sponsor a polar bear
*To devise a school Eco Code
Indian Orphange Information:
It’s a Christian school based in the middle of a Hindu community. The children are mainly orphans due to the Tsunami hit on December 26th 2004. The children are of the lowest caste system (or ‘untouchables’) and without education would end up living in the worst possible conditions. We want to help them build a school and keep in touch with them to find out about life in India.
Events during the week:
The children will be taking part in loads of activities during the week which will raise their awareness about Indian life and Climate change. An Indian expert will be talking to the children, a drama company will be visiting to tell an Indian story and a visitor will be doing art work with the children.
On Friday 11th June we are having a Green Day.
This is a national event and children can get dressed up all in green.
Please bring £1 and all the money raised will be sent to the Indian Orphanage.
If you would like to donate more it will be greatly appreciated.
How PARENTS/GUARDIANS can get involved:
*Encourage your child to bike-it to school during the week and bring your own bikes as well!
*Each class will be given a ‘polar bottle’ through the week. Any spare coppers you have, please send them into school and we use the money collected across the year to sponsor a polar bear.
*You are invited with your children to an Indian breakfast on Friday 11th June at 8am in the Junior Hall. The event is free, but if you would like to bring a donation for the orphanage/polar bear, there will be a collecting box available.
KEEP A LOOK OUT ON THE WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT ECO WEEK!
Thank you for all your support...why don't you begin looking for ways in which YOU can become more eco friendly?
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April 27, 2010
Linking to Ghana
As part of our forthcoming work on Africa, we will be soon linking with the country of Ghana.
Very soon children will be exchanging information about what life is like in the two countries.
As part of this, the school is now linked to the Pa Pa Paa website.
This site, which is partly ran by Comic Relief, sends out webcasts from a school in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Children from the Great Fammis School talk about their life in the village. As part of the link up, we are able to e-mail questions which will be answered in the webcast.
The school was built using money from Fairtrade. Fairtrade believes that farming families should get a fair amount of money for what they produce. Cocoa beans for chocolate is the major produce of the area. Lots of the families of the children at the school are tomato farmers.
Year 3 & 4 are focussing on Fairtrade but we will be looking for questions to ask the school from everyone !!
Pa Pa Paa :
Can you use the site to find out what Pa Pa Paa means in the Ghanaian language of Twi?
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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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