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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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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March 25, 2008

Celebrating success in Literacy!

We love reading and spelling!

All of the infants in Roman road are working on reading and spelling their 300 key words. We learn them as part of our homework. It is very tricky, but our teachers have made it easier for us by splitting the words into groups. We have Copper, Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards.

Every time we achieve and award, we receive a certificate in whole school celebration assembly on Friday.

We all love achieving our awards...they are FAB!!!

by Miss Allen

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Book Week

The children throughly enjoyed dressing up as under the sea characters. I really enjoyed being a mermaid for the day! We had lots of fun writing poems, completing wordsearches and taking part in a colouring in competition judged by Miss Parkin. On the Friday the children had even more fun with the Fab Food Fun House!

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January 23, 2008

Read Write Inc

Across Key Stage One and Year 3 we are using a great new reading and writing scheme.

Every day we are reading and writing with our partners and teaching sticks.

We start the day by learning a new phoneme - this is the sound made by a letter or group of letters.

We then move onto our speed sounds - this is practising reading every phoneme we have learnt so far at speed.

Then we work out the green words with our partner - these are the words that can be blended.

Red words follow - these are words that have grotty graphemes and can't be sounded out.

Next we read the book using a teaching stick to point to the words. We help each other lots.

Finally we concentrate on using the phonemes and our knowledge of the book to complete writing tasks.

All of our teachers are so impressed with our progress and we show our achievements with lots of celebrations. Some of our celebratios are King Kong, marshmallow clap, L'oreal, Elvis, lorry driver and many more. Why not ask for a demonstration we would love to show you and share our success?

To find out more aout Read Write Inc click on the link below.
www.readwriteinc.com/page12.html

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November 22, 2007

Children Make Bike-It Dusties

Children from year 3 have been busy making dustcaps for their bikes.
James from Bike-It, the project linked to our school to make bike riding safer, showed the children how to make them using clay.

This is one of many activities in the Bike-It project.

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November 21, 2007

Year 3 Activity

We enjoyed learning about relationships. We painted special pictures of us and how we get on with each other. We used pastels, paint and coloured pencils.

by Luke Hall, Shaun McIntyre and Lauren Johnson

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November 2, 2007

Poetry

Poetry Poetry Poetry!

We have been looking at shape poems this week in literacy. We have been looking at the impact of the presentation and picking out rhyming and non rhyming words. Next week we will be writing our own monster shape poems!

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Art Presentation

Presentation on pattern

On Thursday 1st November the children listenend to an art presentation by Pippa Bell from the National Gallery. The presentation was all about pattern. She showed the children different paintings and asked them to look for the patterns within the painting. She couldn't believe how enthusiastic the children were and how many great ideas they had. The presentation lasted just over an hour and the children gained many good ideas for future art work.

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Roman lady Visit

On Monday 15th October year 3 enjoyed a visit from a Roman lady.

The Roman lady dressed the children up and talked about life during Roman times. This included clothes, food, homes and jobs. The children throughly enjoyed asking questions and finding out about Roman life. She handed round lots of artefacts for the children to touch and discuss.

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February 13, 2006

French!!

Bonjour! In Year 3 we have been learning lots of French! Learning a MFL is now part of the KS1 and KS2 curriculum. We have learnt lots of French songs including, "Bonjour!" "Six au lit" and "C'est Moi!" Everyone is really enjoying learning a new language. We also experienced a delicious french breakfast which consisted of baguette, croissants and pain au chocolat! Everyone is becoming much more confident and all of the children are learning new vocabulary each day!

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